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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2005
  • Latest Book:
    September 2020
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Full Series List in Order

An Elle Harrison Thriller

1 - The Trouble With Charlie (Feb-2013)
2 - Elective Procedures (Jul-2014)
3 - Child's Play (Jan-2017)

A Harper Jennings Mystery

1 - Summer Session (Aug-2011)
2 - Behind the Walls (Dec-2019)
3 - Winter Break (Jan-2013)
4 - Outside Eden (Jul-2013)

Zoe Hayes

1 - The Nanny Murders (May-2005)
2 - The River Killings (Oct-2006)
3 - The Deadly Neighbors (Dec-2007)
4 - The Borrowed and Blue Murders (Sep-2008)

Book List in Order: 13 titles



  • SHE NEVER REALIZED JUST HOW PERFECT... Single parenthood is challenging enough for Zoe Hayes, raising a young daughter in Queen Village, a Philadelphia suburb whose homes--like its residents--have seen better days. Then comes the blustery afternoon ...



  • Continuing the page-turning suspense of The Nanny Murders, Merry Jones's sequel, The River Killings, weaves a taut, fast-paced tale in the estimable tradition of Mary Higgins Clark. Heroine Zoe Hayes, a divorced art therapist with a six-year-old adop...



  • A taut suspense novel, The Deadly Neighbors is the third in the series featuring art therapist Zoe Hayes. Neighbors are shocked when a woman's body is discovered in the kitchen of Zoe's estranged father, Walter. In fact, they suspect Walter of killin...



  • Merry Jones's avid readers raved about The Deadly Neighbors, her third fast-paced thriller featuring art therapist Zoe Hayes. Now the inimitable Zoe is back to save her marriage--and her life. In the final days before Zoe's wedding to Detective Ni...



  • Harper Jennings is an Iraqi war veteran with PTSD. Now a teaching assistant at Cornell, her life is rosy until, carrying out repairs on their home, her husband Hank falls off the roof. The accident damages his brain and brings back terrible war memor...



  • When Harper Jennings' staunchest rival at Cornell's archaeology department turns up on her doorstep, babbling about seeing a Pre-Columbian shape-shifter, Harper doesn't know what to think. But she can spot a great opportunity -- Zina won a coveted ...



  • Pregnant Harper sees danger everywhere in the chilling third Harper Jennings mystery, but can she keep herself and her baby safe when no one believes her? Surely Harper Jennings can survive a visit from her mother and her new boyfriend while Hank’s...



  • Elle finds the body of her soon-to-be-ex husband, Charlie on her sofa, stabbed to death with her kitchen knife. Elle's close friends stand by her through the difficult funeral, but Elle alone must face the loss of the man she'd loved. Except that the...



  • July, Israel. Iraqi war vet and archaeology graduate Harper Jennings doesn’t believe in the evil eye. So when Hagit--the woman assigned to show her and Chloe, Harper’s fourteen-month-old baby, around Tel Aviv--drags the pair of them into a market...







  • A tortured child returns to the school that failed himSince her husband's murder two years earlier, life hasn't been easy for Elle Harrison. Now, at the start of a new school year, the second grade teacher is determined to move on. She's selling her ...



  • Nora Warren hides her dark side well because she's had years of practice. The wife of a lawyer and mother of two girls, she slides under everyone’s radar, never revealing what she really is -- a murderer. At least, she feels like one. Nora’s plag...



  • Vanessa isn't her real name. Nobody knows what it is or where she came from. All they know is that the Woman in the Cupboard was found at the scene of a grisly double murder. And that she doesn't speak. Detective Mo Sterling and her partner, D'Angelo...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Merry Jones has published 13 books.

Merry Jones does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Woman in the Cupboard, was published in September 2020.

The first book by Merry Jones, The Nanny Murders, was published in May 2005.

Yes. Merry Jones has 3 series.