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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2001
  • Latest Book:
    August 2018
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Full Series List in Order

Baxter

1 - Tested by Fire (Oct-2001)
2 - Day of Reckoning (Apr-2002)
3 - Vital Signs (Oct-2002)
4 - High Stakes (Apr-2003)
5 - A Fine Line (Oct-2003)
6 - Poor Mrs. Rigsby (Jun-2004)

Ozark Mountains

1 - Not by Sight (May-2013)
2 - Only by Death (Oct-2014)
3 - A Treacherous Mix (Aug-2018)

Phantom Hollow

Ever Present Danger (Mar-2007)
Never Look Back (Oct-2007)
The Grand Scheme (Apr-2008)

A Seaport Suspense Novel

A Shred of Evidence (Mar-2005)
Eye of the Beholder (Sep-2005)
All Things Hidden (Mar-2006)
Not By Chance (Aug-2006)

Secrets of Roux River Bayou

1 - False Pretenses (Mar-2011)
2 - Dangerous Mercy (Oct-2011)
3 - Relentless Pursuit (May-2012)

Sophie Trace

1 - The Real Enemy (Mar-2009)
2 - The Last Word (Oct-2009)
3 - The Right Call (Mar-2010)

Book List in Order: 22 titles



  • When a bizarre houseboat explosion rocks the close-knit community of Baxter, firefighters, friends, and neighbors stand powerless as the McConnells' blazing hull sinks to the bottom of Heron Lake. Grief turns to outrage as new evidence proves there w...



  • One man's hatred sets off a community crisis in a chilling page-turning read that is also startlingly inspirational. Textile magnate G. R. Logan lays off a thirty-year employee who dies weeks later, and the man's son means to make Logan pay. In her s...



  • Furious that his girlfriend chose to bring twin babies to term, Dennis walks out of Jennifer's life. And now the Centers for Disease Control have quarantined Jennifer, along with 200 others who attended the reception for a missionary couple bearing a...



  • Eighteen-year-old Angie Marks, tattooed and pierced, shows up in the small town of Baxter without a place to stay. When eccentric millionaire Patrick Bailey hires her to be his housekeeper, and then when Angie risks her own safety to help Mr. Bailey ...



  • Baxter residents fear upheaval when a regional tire plant announces it's coming to Baxter. Rumor says mayor Charlie Kirby's signature on the deal was influenced by an affair with the tire company's corporate attorney - who dies suddenly after the agr...



  • CNA Sally Cox is about as happy to be at Walnut Hills Nursing Center as the patients are. But it’s work or starve, now that her husband has found a younger companion. Sally’s new crowd skews toward the elderly -- ninety-year-old Elsie Rigsby, for...



  • The first book in the Seaport Suspense seriesEllen Jones, first introduced in the Baxter series, is enjoying a leisurely lunch at a Seaport restaurant when she overhears a private conversation at the table next to her -- and disturbing accusations in...



  • Things Aren’t Always How They Appear! Guy Jones is about to burst his buttons. He just won the biggest case of his career and is being hailed by his law partners. But his wife, Ellen, is consumed with her quirky, needy friends and misses his victo...



  • The Past Is Back Ellen Jones’s hands are full after she begrudgingly brings her aging father to Seaport. Lawrence’s memory is failing -- though he can’t seem to forget what he’s been holding against Ellen for the past forty years. But when h...






  • In Search of Significance Thirty-year-old Brandon Jones arrives at his parents' doorstep burned out, jobless, and now fianceee-less. Ellen and Guy can provide a place for him to stay only until he figures out what to do with his life. When he takes a...



  • Confess...or Forever Live the Lie? Ivy Griffith is a murderer. At least, she might as well be since she made a pact with Pete Barton and the others to cover it all up. Now, after ten years of numbing her guilt with drugs, she's finally coming clean.....



  • Forgiveness is one thing, but who really forgets?Ivy Griffith has been released from jail after serving time for covering up the strangulation death of a high school classmate ten years earlier. She’s paid her debt to society. Kicked her drug habit...



  • Envy is a deadly poison. Faith is the antidote.Things couldn’t be better for Rue Kessler. He just married the mother of his eight-year-old son, Montana, and finally has the family he’s always dreamed of. Not only that, his father-in-law hired him...



  • A FRESH START ... A CLOSED HEART... A DANGEROUS MYSTERY... Brill Jessup just became the first female police chief in Sophie Trace, Tennessee, and is riding on the credentials of a stellar eighteen-year career on the Memphis police force. She may be ...



  • When Vanessa Jessup returns home from her sophomore year of college, her mother, Police Chief Brill Jessup, is stunned to see that she's pregnant by one of her professors. Brill is glad Vanessa rejected the father's abortion ultimatum, but hurt that ...



  • With information that could solve a series of murders but endangers the girl he loves, a college boy grapples with what to do -- and whom to trust. Ethan Langley is home for the summer, eager to renew his friendship with Vanessa Jessup and her inf...



  • Zoe Broussard loves the life she and her husband Pierce have built in her beloved Louisiana hometown--especially their popular brasserie Zoe Bs, to which folks drive all the way from Lafayette for lunch or dinner. It seems like heaven. But it's about...



  • When elderly Adele Woodmore moves to Les Barbes to be near the Broussards, she wants nothing more than a comfortable, quiet life. Employing men from Father Vince's halfway house for the homeless to do odd jobs, she takes an interest in their lives an...



  • Rich with the Cajun flavors of south Louisiana, this final book in the Secrets of Roux River Bayou Series is a story of what it means to find true peace in an uncertain world. Sax Landry left home at seventeen to escape his father’s abuse, leav...






  • Her Sister Couldn’t Be Alive … Could She? It had to be Riley Jo. She was certain. . .wasn’t she? But when Abby Cummings tells her mother she thought she saw her sister at the store, her mother quickly dismisses the idea. After all, Riley Jo...



  • Is Liam Berne a loving son -- or a murderer? The second book in the Ozark Mountain Trilogy, ONLY BY DEATH is a thought-provoking suspense story of a man who loses everything and learns he must die to find life. After much agonizing, Liam Berne tak...



  • When twenty-four-year-old Hawk Cummings wakes up by Beaver Lake at sunset, all he remembers is a dream about a spider that spewed venom. Then he realizes that Kennedy -- the young woman he broke every vow to have an affair with -- is gone. He rushes ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kathy Herman has published 22 books.

Kathy Herman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Treacherous Mix, was published in August 2018.

The first book by Kathy Herman, Tested by Fire, was published in October 2001.

Yes. Kathy Herman has 6 series.