Patricia H. Rushford

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  • Bibliography:
    33 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1986
  • Latest Book:
    February 2012
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Full Series List in Order

An Angel Delaney Mystery

1 - Deadly Aim (Feb-2004)
2 - Dying to Kill (Oct-2004)
3 - As Good as Dead (Sep-2005)

A Helen Bradley Mystery

1 - Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep (1997)
2 - Red Sky in Mourning (Nov-1997)
3 - A Haunting Refrain (Dec-1998)
4 - When Shadows Fall (Jun-2000)

A Jennie McGrady Mystery

1 - Too Many Secrets (Nov-1993)
2 - Silent Witness (Nov-1993)
3 - Pursued (Mar-1994)
4 - Deceived (Nov-1994)
5 - Without a Trace (May-1995)
6 - Dying to Win (Sep-1995)
7 - Betrayed (Mar-1996)
8 - In Too Deep (Sep-1996)
9 - Over the Edge (Jun-1997)
10 - From the Ashes (Sep-1997)
11 - Desperate Measures (Jun-1998)
12 - Abandoned (Mar-1999)
13 - Forgotten (Jul-2000)
14 - Stranded (May-2001)
15 - Grave Matters (Mar-2002)

Max & Me

1 - Trouble with Max (Jun-2007)
2 - Danger at Lakeside Farm (Jun-2007)
3 - Secrets of Ghost Island (Jun-2007)

Multi-Author Series List

Portraits

Morningsong (Mar-1998)

When I Fall in Love

Strangers in the Night (Sep-2011)

Book List in Order: 33 titles

  • Kristen's Choice

    When an injury forces her to give up the serious gymnastic training that has filled her life, sixteen-year-old Kristen concentrates on becoming one of the popular crowd at school, even though their habits go against her Christian upbringing....

  • Silent Witness

    A Jennie McGrady Mystery - 2

    Jennie McGrady thinks her vacation is doomed when a bomb threat delays her flight to the dolphin research lab in Florida. But then she meets Sarah, a girl who desperately needs her help to solve a two-year-old murder, and Jennie's detective instincts...

  • Too Many Secrets

    A Jennie McGrady Mystery - 1

    Jeannie McGrady loves to read mysteries, drive her mom's Mustang, and think about Ryan Johnson. Her summer seems perfect until her grandmother disappears with a million dollars in stolen diamonds. Helen McGrady's job as a freelance writer for travel...

  • Pursued

    A Jennie McGrady Mystery - 3

    Allison Beaumont is beautiful, popular, wealthy, and she’s just been crowned the Rose Festival Princess. But when dead roses begin arriving on her doorstep and threatening phone calls follow, Allison realizes she's paying a high price for her thron...

  • Deceived

    A Jennie McGrady Mystery - 4

    Jennie McCrady’s search for her missing father lands her in a lot of hot water, and now she's got to get out of Portland -- fast. To Jennie's relief, her grandmother's response is a Caribbean cruise, where tropical breezes and endless beaches await...

  • Without a Trace

    A Jennie McGrady Mystery - 5

    Jennie McGrady's whirlwind life revolves around one guy: her adorable five-year-old brother Nick. But when he and a playmate disappear one evening, Jennie's world crashes at her feet. Panic-stricken and racing against time, Jennie begins a frantic jo...

  • Dying to Win

    A Jennie McGrady Mystery - 6

    Jennie McGrady is quickly gaining a reputation as an amateur sleuth, and it isn't going unnoticed by the local media. But the glamour of publicity is getting old, and Jennie would love to disappear into the crowd -- especially when a plea from Courtn...

  • Betrayed

    A Jennie McGrady Mystery - 7

    Jennie McGrady is anxious to fly to Montana after her uncle, a full-blooded Indian and the owner of Dancing Waters Ranch, is injured by a bomb explosion meant to kill. Jennie is determined to solve the crime, but her instincts tell her she’s not in...

  • In Too Deep

    A Jennie McGrady Mystery - 8

    Jennie McGrady's summer has just settled back into a comfortable lull when her chemistry professor turns up dead from a drug overdose. A suicide note seems to close the case, but Jennie smells foul play in the lab. The challenge is convincing the pol...



  • Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

    A Helen Bradley Mystery - 1

  • Over the Edge

    A Jennie McGrady Mystery - 9

    Jennie McGrady plans to spend the last weeks of summer relaxing and hanging out with her boyfriend in her grandmother's coastal hometown. But she barely arrives before learning that the mayor's teenage daughter has been murdered. Jennie's reluctant t...

  • From the Ashes

    A Jennie McGrady Mystery - 10

    Jennie McGrady''s enthusiasm for the new school year isextinguished when the culturally diverse Trinity Center, home to her church andschool, is destroyed by fire. Rumors abound that a racist organization isbehind the tragedy, but Jennie is more c...

  • Red Sky in Mourning

    A Helen Bradley Mystery - 2

    When Helen Bradley arrives at a quaint coastal village to complete a regional travel guide, she learns that the woman who started the project was killed in an accident which may have been staged to cover some illegal activity in this supposedly tranq...

  • Morningsong

    Portraits

    Shanna O'Brian's life falls apart when she loses her mother and the man who fashioned her country music career, and when she returns to the town of Morningsong, her distress is heightened when she is confronted by the husband who left her six years e...

  • Desperate Measures

    A Jennie McGrady Mystery - 11

    Jennie visits a fur farm and is excited to see that Scott Chambers, an old friend and animal activist, has taken a job at the same farm, but when mink are released from a neighboring farm, Jennie fears Scott is behind it...

  • A Haunting Refrain

    A Helen Bradley Mystery - 3

    Summoned to her eccentric uncle's secluded island resort, Helen Bradley learns of attempts on his life and finds herself sorting through multiple suspects including family members and the island's legendary ghost...

  • Abandoned

    A Jennie McGrady Mystery - 12

    Jennie McGrady barely has time to do her homework, much less read the school newspaper. But when an article announces that her classmate Annie Phillips was a trash-can baby, Jennie takes notice. Who would publish such horrible news? And in the wake o...

  • When Shadows Fall

    A Helen Bradley Mystery - 4

    The disappearance of her second husband and the suspicious deaths of two mayors in her town spurs Helen Bradley into action, especially when one of her best friends is implicated in one of the deaths....

  • Forgotten

    A Jennie McGrady Mystery - 13

    Jennie McGrady is looking forward to a day spent hiking in the mountains with her friends. She's arranged to meet them at the trailhead but arrives a few minutes early and takes the opportunity to enjoy the solitude and cool mountain air. But lurking...



  • Stranded

    A Jennie McGrady Mystery - 14

    When their plane crashes after a flying lesson with her grandmother, Jennie seeks help at a commune which may not be as innocent as it seems, where she finds that God can use even the most difficult circumstances to work His will....

  • Grave Matters

    A Jennie McGrady Mystery - 15

    Jennie McGrady is on the vacation of a lifetime -- an extended trip to Ireland with Gram. And when the opportunity to stay in a castle arises, Jennie is ecstatic. For some reason, though, Gram doesn't share Jennie's enthusiasm. Then, just before thei...

  • Sins Of The Mother

    Popularity and fame have created a glimmering facade in Shanna O'Brian's world, but when the spotlight fades, even her success fails to penetrate the darkness of reality. Faced with the heartrending loss of her mother and the man who fashioned her co...

  • Deadly Aim

    An Angel Delaney Mystery - 1

    Patricia Rushford kicks off a thrilling new crime series set in the cozy coastal hamlet of Sunset Cove, Oregon. Featuring determined police officer Angel Delaney, the first episode is sure to have armchair sleuths turning the pages as fast as they ca...

  • Dying to Kill

    An Angel Delaney Mystery - 2

    Even though Angel Delaney is on leave from the police force, she finds herself playing detective in the middle of a multiple murder investigation. Shunning the advice of local law enforcement and her almost-boyfriend, Callen, Angel becomes a private ...

  • As Good as Dead

    An Angel Delaney Mystery - 3

    Reeling from her father's death, Angel Delaney is overcome with emotion. While her family gathers to pay their last respects, she can't help but think of her missing brother, Luke. As a private investigator, she has often thought of trying to find hi...

  • Danger at Lakeside Farm

    Max & Me - 2

    Following her stepparents' arrest, Max lived with Jessie for a while. Then she moved in with an elderly neighbor, Amelia, on her farm by the lake. Soon strange things start happening: Amelia's tires are slashed and there is a break-in at the hou...

  • Secrets of Ghost Island

    Max & Me - 3

    Max and Jessie get involved in a new adventure involving a trio of recently-orphaned children, who set up camp on nearby Ghost Island trying to escape deportation back to Mexico. In the meantime, a series of burglaries in town has police concerned...

  • Trouble with Max

    Max & Me - 1

    Jessie and her best friend, Max, do everything together. Jessie tries to keep Max out of trouble, which is not easy since her friend is wild and adventurous. Soon Jessie begins to notice things Max has tried to keep hidden: like that her steppar...

  • Chasing the Wind

    When Dr. Drew Hamilton, the beloved surgeon who saved Anabelle Scott’s daughter’s life more than ten years ago, has a heart attack, much of the staff at Hope Haven Hospital is visibly shaken. But he is so stubbornly assured of his own prognosis a...



  • Strangers in Their Midst

    The economic downturn has finally affected Copper Mill. Kate has seen evidence of it in small ways, but it’s not until she learns that there is an entire group of homeless people living in Ash Grove Campground that she realizes she has to do someth...

  • Measure of Faith

    James Bell can’t wait to tell his wife Fern about the surprise he’s been planning: major renovations for a master bedroom on the ground floor of their house, so the stairs will be one less challenge Fern has to face with her multiple sclerosis. H...

  • Strangers in the Night

    When I Fall in Love

    All Abbie Campbell wants is to protect her daughter... and stay out of jail. But the handsome stranger with Frank Sinatra eyes seems determined to change everything. Abbie Campbell has been running from the law for two years. A visit from Jake...

  • With Open Arms

    With Candace and Heath’s wedding fast approaching, Anabelle Scott decides to make a beautiful double-ring quilt as their gift. Planning and buying fabric serves as a good distraction from meddling in the lives of her children -- particularly in her...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Patricia H. Rushford has published 33 books.

Patricia H. Rushford does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, With Open Arms, was published in February 2012.

The first book by Patricia H. Rushford, Kristen's Choice, was published in January 1986.

Yes. Patricia H. Rushford has 5 series.
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