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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2000
  • Latest Book:
    March 2016
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Full Series List in Order

A Belle Palmer Mystery

1 - Northern Winters Are Murder (Sep-2000)
2 - Blackflies Are Murder (May-2002)
3 - Bush Poodles Are Murder (Oct-2003)
4 - Murder, Eh? (Apr-2006)
5 - Memories Are Murder (Sep-2007)

A Holly Martin Mystery

1 - And on the Surface Die (Oct-2008)
2 - She Felt No Pain (Jan-2010)
3 - Twilight Is Not Good for Maidens (Jun-2013)

Book List in Order: 13 titles



  • Another freezing winter descends in seeming peace upon the Northern Ontario lake where realtor Belle Palmer lives genteelly with her dog, tropical fishes and classic film collection. But the snow-laden tranquillity is tragically disturbed when a good...



  • In the sequel to Northern Winters Are Murder, it’s now high summer in Northern Ontario, where everyone is bear bait, even the bears. Gunshots chase Belle Palmer from her quiet forest paths. Then, on her remote lakeside road, the savage and unexplai...



  • In the third Belle Palmer mystery, Belle takes her friend and employee on a snowshoe trek. Miriam MacDonald brings her spoiled mini-poodle, a gift from investment broker boyfriend, who promises huge returns on her life savings. Later that week, Miria...



  • Life at Copper University in Michigan's Upper Peninsula has been good for Professor of Victorian literature Maddie Temple, but the school year is about to get off to a deadly start. Maddie's first day of school is marred by the death of a student who...



  • Northern Ontario realtor Belle Palmer is showing the lakefront mansion of a prominent businesswoman when she discovers the lady strangled in her bathtub. Could this third break-and-enter death reveal a serial killer at large in the Nickel Capital? Th...



  • Belle Palmers old high-school boyfriend rents a property on her road. Zoologist Gary Myers is studying the behaviour of elk in the wilderness., but soon he is found drowned. Did he fall and hit his head, or did a more sinister event occur? Meanwhile,...



  • In this new series by the acclaimed author of the Belle Palmer mysteries, RCMP Corporal Holly Martin takes charge of her first post, a detachment in tiny Fossil Bay on the wild south coast of Vancouver Island. Drunk drivers, speeders and the occasion...



  • In the rugged, red-rock desert of southeastern Utah, reporter Terry Hart and her aunt travel in their RV to explore the Escalante-Grand Staircase National Monument, a 1.7 million acre wilderness. Following a historic Mormon road to the Colorado, they...



  • The verdant lushness of Vancouver Island is not without its dangers… Summer on Vancouver Island gets off to a rocky start with the discovery of the body of a homeless man. RCMP Corporal Holly Martin notices drug paraphernalia nearby, and the autops...






  • Cowboy drifter Rick Cooper is on the run in the California desert when he meets Gladys Ryan, an eccentric widow who offers him a ride in her classic 1970 Mustang. Before long she convinces him to accompany her to Northern Ontario to help refurbish he...



  • When Sandra Sinclair, recently widowed and the mother of twelve-year-old Jane, meets wealthy lawyer Joe Gillette, he wins her over with his kind and conscientious attitude. Falling in love faster than she ever thought possible, Sandra agrees to marry...



  • Holly Martin must find a dangerous sexual offender before he strikes again. Corporal Holly Martin’s small RCMP detachment on Vancouver Island is rocked by a midnight attack on a woman camping alone at picturesque French Beach. Then Holly’s consta...



  • A young Vancouver Island police officer’s 1894 investigation into the death of a prostitute once painted by his artist mother draws him into a morass of personal and professional complexities as he searches for the truth of her death … and life. ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lou Allin has published 13 books.

Lou Allin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Woman Who Did, was published in March 2016.

The first book by Lou Allin, Northern Winters Are Murder, was published in September 2000.

Yes. Lou Allin has 2 series.