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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2011
  • Latest Book:
    August 2022
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Full Series List in Order

A Book Magic Mystery

0.5 - The Secret on Rum Runner's Lane (Nov-2020)
1 - Murder in Devil's Cove (Sep-2020)
2 - Murder at Sea Captain's Inn (Jul-2021)
3 - Murder Through an Open Door (Jan-2022)
4 - Murder and an Irish Curse (Aug-2022)

A Legends Novel

1 - Silent Echoes (Mar-2020)
2 - Silent Obsession (Mar-2020)

A Magical Dressmaking Mystery

1 - Pleating for Mercy (Aug-2011)
2 - A Fitting End (Feb-2012)
3 - Deadly Patterns (Oct-2012)
4 - A Custom-Fit Crime (Jul-2013)
5 - A Killing Notion (Apr-2014)
6 - A Seamless Murder (Jan-2015)

A Spellbound Novel

1 - Storiebook Charm (Mar-2020)

A Trouble in Tumbleweed Mystery

1 - The Trouble with Hope and Glory (Aug-2022)

Book List in Order: 16 titles



  • All the Cassidy women possess special gifts. Harlow Jane Cassidy's is creating beautiful dresses. But she's about to discover secrets in her own family and another gift-one that can reach beyond the grave.... When her great-grandmother passes away...



  • Former Manhattan fashion designer Harlow Jane Cassidy has a gift for creating beautiful dresses. But when Harlow becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation, she'll need more than her sewing skills to unravel the mystery.... Business is bo...



  • Bliss, Texas, is gearing up for its annual Winter Wonderland festival, but when a mysterious Scrooge ends the merriment with murder, it’ll take more than a ghost from Christmas past to set things right. Designing a holiday fashion show set in th...



  • After a year of hard work in her Texas hometown, Harlow Jane Cassidy's dreams are finally within reach--if she can just get it all done in time... Harlow's designs will be featured in a big magazine spread, but she only has a few days to finalize ...



  • Harlow Jane Cassidy is swamped with homecoming couture requests. If only she didn't have to help solve a murder, she might get the gowns off the dress forms.... Harlow is doing everything she can to expand her dressmaking business, Buttons & Bows...



  • With a needle and thread, Harlow Jane Cassidy is capable of magic. Her neighbors in Bliss, Texas, on the other hand, are capable of murder.... Any garment Harlow stitches together has the power to grant the deepest desire of whomever wears it. So ...



  • Something deadly waits in the shadows...On a Texas night twelve years ago, Vic Vargas kissed Delaney West so deeply that she almost came apart. Later that same night, evil crept into Delaney's room as she slept – and everything in their world ...



  • Johanna Rios is a woman whose past has come back to haunt her.The ghost of la Llorona is said to haunt the riverbanks, always searching for her drowned child. She also haunts high school teacher Johanna Rios, whose own mother believed so deeply in th...



  • From National Bestselling author Melissa Bourbon comes a small town magical story with a heart-stopping hero, a sigh-worthy romance, beautiful writing, and characters that jump off the page. Get ready to be charmed by Storie and Reid, and watch out f...






  • ...a deftly crafted and impressively original novel by an author with a genuine flair for originality...certain to be an unusual, immediate and enduringly popular addition to community library Mystery/Suspense collections... Midwest Book Review*Cradl...



  • The Lane women are bibliomancers, but Cassie sees her divination not as a gift, but as a curse--one from which she desperately wants to escape. It turns out, though, that running from her fate isn't as easy as she thought it would be. When a woman go...



  • Generation after generation of Lane women die in childbirth, while the sea claims the men.Pippin Lane Hawthorne's grand opening of Sea Captain's Inn is tainted when a scholar studying the Lost Colony of Roanoke is brutally murdered. Like the black cr...



  • Filled with quirky characters and atmospheric descriptions of the quaint town of Devil's Cove, Bourbon hits all the right notes for a cozy: amateur sleuthing, several possible suspects, bookstores, and a touch of romance. Elena Taylor, AuthorTo stop...



  • Hailed as impressively original by Midwest Book Review, the Book Magic Mysteries celebrate the magic in books. In this enchanting new story, Pippin Lane Hawthorne hopes her gift of bibliomancy will be enough to finally stop the curse that has plagued...



  • Hope and Glory McIntyre are about as different as sisters can be. Glory is the quintessential Texas beauty queen, while Hope wants nothing more than to dismantle Tumbleweed's beauty queen scene with the mighty stroke of her journalist pen. Glory's dr...



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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Melissa Bourbon has published 16 books.

Melissa Bourbon does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Murder and an Irish Curse, was published in August 2022.

The first book by Melissa Bourbon, Pleating for Mercy, was published in August 2011.

Yes. Melissa Bourbon has 5 series.