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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2010
  • Latest Book:
    December 2019
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Full Series List in Order

A Cal Hodges Mystery

1 - The Search for Hanson Sted (Jan-2012)
2 - Deathbed Confession (Dec-2013)
3 - River Cruise Murders (Sep-2015)

A City of Brunswik Mystery

1 - Audition for Murder (May-2014)
2 - Littlemayor (Aug-2014)
3 - Panic Parade (May-2016)

A Dr. Adam Karl Mystery

1 - The Baba Yaga (Apr-2011)
2 - The Bogeyman (Aug-2013)

North Shore Mysteries

1 - Fatal Sisters (Sep-2010)
2 - Screams and Bleeds (Aug-2011)

A Vanek Mystery

1 - Screams and Bleeds (Aug-2011)
2 - Think Fast, Detective Vanek (Mar-2013)
3 - See Here, Detective Vanek (Nov-2015)

Book List in Order: 20 titles



  • The first in the North Shore Mysteries series: When her husband's mistress, Megan Spevak, is murdered, Ashleigh Simon must flee her pleasant suburban life and take Megan's place in the city or be murdered herself. A good plan until Megan's brother, T...



  • The first book in the Myth-steries series, mysteries with a touch of the strange. A young doctor, Adam Karl, who has perceptual problems, and his “seeing eye woman,” Kayko Brasen, are asked by a Chicago Police Detective, Michael Dunne, to get te...



  • The second in the North Shore series. When an aspiring actress from a Chicago suburb becomes the suspect in a murder, Police Detective Vanek must risk his life and the lives of his family to prove she is innocent....




  • Cal Hodges, an investigator for a law firm, is asked to confirm the death of a missing heir, so his relatives can inherit. Invited to a weekend at their estate, he and his fiancé, lawyer, Merle Grayson, don’t find evidence of the heir’s death. ...



  • The second in the Kate Wehring Mystery series. Murder at her family’s carnival business launches reporter Kate Wehring on a ride with as many twists and turns as the Whip-Ass, the carnival’s roller coaster, as Kate and Hal unpeel, step by step, a...



  • The first in the Kate Wehring Mystery series. Four bodies are found newly asphyxiated in a suburban park. Each has been missing and presumed dead for up to two years, and relatives have already been convicted for their murders. Reporter Kate Wehring ...



  • In the sequel to “Screams and Bleeds,” Detective Vanek must find out who murdered his partner, Jessup, while capturing the terrorists who are trying to intimidate the new Chicago mayor, Angela Marchete. And what about marrying Debra? Emily Rasm...



  • Tweets certain to stop any conversation, and generate a good laugh, from the author of the Kate Wehring Mysteries, the Vanek Mysteries, the Cal Hodges Mysteries, and the Dr. Adam Karl Mysteries.Two other #Conversationstoppers collections are also ava...






  • In this sequel to the critically acclaimed mystery, “The Baba Yaga”, Dr. Adam Karl, neurologist and autistic heir to a major crime syndicate, must twist himself into what he fears most, becoming a ruthless killer, to save his fiancé Kayko Brasen...



  • Investigator Cal Hodges and his lawyer wife, the very pregnant Merle, return in a sequel to "The Search for Hanson Sted," to investigate the murder of prominent industrialist and inventor, Alexander Frost. During a family memorial weekend for the inv...



  • By popular demand, Detective Berringer and his wife, reporter Becky Frangelmore, have their own mystery/adventure, as, independent of each other, they compete to discover who murdered the director of the Park District’s summer play. Both are tempte...



  • The second in the City of Brunswik Mystery series. Tiny but feisty Mayor Maggie Wellington finds her life and political career threatened when a developer of a shopping mall goes missing and an alderman dies in an arson. Returning is reporter Becky...



  • Something is killing star athletes. A possibly pregnant Kate and Tommy investigate when a death hits too close to home, which is, in this case, the carnival. To find out the cause, Kate must risk everything and everyone. Ex-husband Eric, the FBI agen...



  • Cal Hodges, chief investigator for a Chicago law firm, and his attorney wife, Merle, must find a stolen diamond-encrusted 15th century stickpin, which has already caused one murder and may cause several more unless the thief is captured. On anything ...



  • Had Detective Vanek made a mistake and the killer was still killing? Vanek accepts the challenge of protecting the family of a murder victim, while being distracted by arson, embezzlement, and death. Moreover, would the marriage of his partner, Vej...



  • A float at the Brunswik Labor Day parade is hit by a car and candidates for Mayor to replace Maggie P. Wellington go flying. Even with a death and injuries, the election campaigns continue. All candidates are in danger. Becky and Berry are on the...



  • In the first of a new series, Isaiah Socrates Blut, forensic accountant, is over his head on his latest audit. Summoned by Frances, the 98 year old patriarch of the Mason family, to find which of her relatives is scheming to take her fortune, Blut d...



  • Mina Reilly, a social worker at a hospital is entrusted by a dying woman with the sacred duty to save her grandchild. When the child's mother is found dead, months after her husband was convicted of her murder by circumstantial evidence, Mina steps i...






  • New singing sensation Asterix, a wheelchair-bound teen, disappears just before recording her debut album. Also gone is Moonblood, her television mentor, an award-winning country-western singer, scheduled by the record company to produce what could ge...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Leon Shure has published 20 books.

Leon Shure does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Slaying Song Tonight, was published in December 2019.

The first book by Leon Shure, Fatal Sisters, was published in September 2010.

Yes. Leon Shure has 5 series.