Saundra McKee

Author Information
Saundra McKee's Latest Book

Newest Release

  • Bibliography:
    44 Books
  • First Book:
    April 2011
  • Latest Book:
    November 2014
  • Author Rating:
  • Share:

Book List in Order: 44 titles

  • A Final Solitude Death: An Amish Country Murder Mystery

    Murder once again rocks the quiet Amish village of Solitude as the community tries to come to grips with the controversy over deep well gas drilling. Some residents are becoming wealthy, while others fear dire environmental consequences. The body...

  • Rats: Murder in a Mining Town

    Rats is set in a western Pennsylvania coal mining community in the early 1920s. The story is a murder mystery that also gives insights into life in the 1920s, especially in a mining town. Billy Hart is the main character. Billy gets caught up in t...

  • School Reform Can Be Murder

    Connie Wilson, an attractive and brilliant college professor with a mysterious past, is found murdered in her isolated cottage. Close colleague and amateur sleuth, Lucy Crawford, is determined to bring Connie's killer to justice. Lucy follows a tr...

  • The Snowbird Murders

    Vacationing senior citizens are mysteriously disappearing from beautiful southern Florida. Snowbirds, newly retired teachers and part-time Sanibel residents, Jenny Crane and Janet Dobson, are determined to find out what evil and most sinister forc...

  • Solitude Death: An Amish Country Murder Mystery

    The murder mystery takes place in 1990 in the peaceful western Pennsylvania community of Solitude. Members of the Amish community have received anonymous threats, their barns have been burned down, and their horse drawn buggies have been attacked...

  • Solitude Slaying: An Amish Country Murder Mystery

    In 1990, Dana Blades, retired history professor, and her childhood Amish friend, Fannie Byler, solved the murder of the local Amish schoolteacher. It is now over ten years later and the two women find themselves embroiled in a series of fires, exp...

  • Murder, From Creepy to Bizarre: Short Stories

    Four creepy to bizarre stories of murder are set in western Pennsylvania. In "Murder on the Altar," a young minister is found bludgeoned to death on the altar of his church. In "Nazi Treasures: Murder at the Lighthouse," a hunt...

  • A Solitude Christmas Miracle -5th in Series-Amish Country Murder Mysteries

    The Holidays are quickly approaching in the peaceful village of Solitude in western Pennsylvania. Amish country is rocked by the critical shooting of a beloved citizen on the first day of buck season. Dana and her Amish friend, Fannie are determin...

  • Solitude Justice: An Amish Country Murder Mystery-4th in Amish Country Murder Mysteries Series

    In the aftermath of a national outcry surrounding the trial of a mother found not guilty of killing her small child, an infant's skeleton is discovered in a garbage bag in Big Bass Creek in the peaceful Amish community of Solitude. Retired history...



  • Intrepid: The Mining Town Murders

    Retired college president Ellie O'Shay returns as a lay minister to the mining town where her grandfather Shamus O'Shay was once a fearless lawman. Soon Ellie finds herself embroiled in trying to solve the horrific murders of her predece...

  • Lucky the Plucky Rescue Dog

    When Lucky is returned to the animal shelter, she is detemined to find her way back to her family. Lonely and sad, Lucky finds herself lost and homeless. She comes across a new family that holds the key to the little dog's happiness. Half of...

  • The Punjab/Pumpkin Patch Deaths

    Professor Montana Dickerson is distraught and determined to seek justice when the body of one of her favorite students, an exchange student teacher from Great Britain, is discovered in a pumpkin patch near the western Pennsylvania Whitfield Univer...

  • A Solitude Disappearance

    In this sixth in the Amish Country Murder Mystery Series, Dana Blades gets called home to Solitude from an extended Florida vacation. The telephone call comes from Elizabeth, the daughter-in-law of Dana's dear Amish friend Fannie Byler. Fanni...

  • The Lottery Ticket

    Terry McManus has always felt lucky and special, but lately her life was coming apart. She'd lost her beloved husband of many years under devastating circumstances, and then she blew her chance to win a million dollars in the lottery and beco...

  • Death at a Solitude Sawmill

    The body of a woman with a severed head is found at an Amish sawmill near Solitude. The victim is a Florida widow who had designs on Dana's beloved husband, Larry. A jealous Dana becomes the focus of the police inquiry into the murder. Fannie...

  • Death in the Solitude Underground

    A tunnel believed to be a station on the Underground Railroad is discovered with a mysterious skeleton near the peaceful Amish village of Solitude. Shortly after, a dear friend of sleuths Dana Blades and Fannie Byler is found brutally murdered in...

  • Death at a Solitude Wedding

    It's wedding season in the Amish community of Solitude, but along with wedding bells in the air, there's the blast of rifle shells. The wedding party is devastated first by the mysterious disappearance of one of its members, only to be f...

  • Death in a Solitude Time Capsule

    In the 13th of the Amish Country Murder Mystery Series, a grisly discovery is made when a 100 year old time capsule at Dana's church is opened. The next day the minister of the church is found dead. Solitude's amateur sleuths, Fannie, Da...

  • Death Over A Solitude Election

    In this the 14th in the Amish Country Murder Mystery Series, Dana's husband is running for the state legislature. A fellow citizen who tries to blackmail Larry with some ugly skeletons from his past is found dead. Dana along with Fannie and S...



  • A Solitude Assassin

    An international assassin is found dead near the peaceful village of Solitude. Two FBI agents inform amateur sleuths Dana and Fannie that the assassin had mapes to their homes, photos of and information about them. The women assume the danger has...

  • A Solitude Hollywood Death

    Everybody seems to be thrilled when a Hollywood screenwriter comes to Solitude to gather information that will result in a fictionalized film based on the crime solving successes of Fannie, Dana and Sharon. The stylish author's visit is cut s...

  • Death at a Solitude Nuclear Waste Dump

    The issue of cleaning up a nuclear waste dump is causing quite a stir in the Solitude area. Dana is surprised to learn that a cousin of Fannie's, who left the Amish worked at a nuclear fuel processing plant, suddenly disappeared in the 1970s....

  • A Solitude Hit and Run

    An Amish couple is killed when their buggy is demolished by a hit and run driver. The couple leave behind five children who are taken in by Fannie's granddaughter and her new husband. In their search to discover who was driving the vehicle, F...

  • Deaths of the Solitude Missionaries

    Two Mormon missionaries go missing near the peaceful community of Solitude, PA. Amateur sleuths Dana and Fannie stumble onto the bodies of the young men and begin to uncover secrets and set off a chain of events that on one could have predicted....

  • A Solitude Holiday Skeleton

    In the 18th in the Amish Country Murder Mystery Series, Dana is scouring South America for any signs of her only brother Phil who has escaped from prison. At the same time, a tremendous hurricane creates havoc in the Northeast. In trying to repair...

  • A Solitude Reappearance

    Dana's past comes back to haunt her when several mysterious emails arrive from her first husband who she thought died in a plane crash in Vietnam in 1972. In addition, two men in black are watching her house and following her movements. Dana,...

  • Not Just Another School Year

    A variety of opinion pieces on a variety of subjects in a variety of formats. Lakeside conversations refers to a group of people who for over thirty years have spent many a night sitting around a lakeside cottage and debating their ideas on a wide ar...

  • Solitude Separations

    The daughter that Dana gave up for adoption comes back into her life seeking help in finding the killer of the man she loved. When a young Amish man from Solitude meets a similar fate, Dana and her Amish friend Fannie fear the deaths are connected...

  • The Solitude Kidnappings

    Dana's world is turned upside down when two that she loves most are kidnapped and the ransom demands are nearly two million dollars. Dana's dear friends Fannie and Sharon, try to help her keep it together while also seeking answers to wh...



  • The Sea Shell Murder

    Four lonely and troubled people meet while seeking solace on beautiful Sanibel Island, Florida. They're initially drawn together by their love of shelling on some of the world's finest shelling beaches. Their calm is shattered when one o...

  • A Solitude Shadow

    When the body of an animal lover and relative of Fannie's is found in the snow near the den of Punxsutawney Phil, Solitude's three sleuths suspect foul play. Their investigation takes many twists and turns as they confront some of their...

  • Death of a Solitude African

    An African college student spending the summer in Solitude disappears under mysterious circumstances. When authorities conclude that no foul play was involved, local sleuths, Dana, Fannie and Sharon, are invited to take a closer look. Their invest...

  • Escape from Solitude

    It's almost Halloween and the three Solitude sleuths are hiding out at Conneaut Lake, a Pennsylvania resort witht the charm of days gone by. As they attempt to fit in and also thwart the plans of two dangerous fugitives vowing to kill them, t...

  • A Solitude Noel

    The holidays are in full swing in the western Pennsylvania village of Solitude. Then a beloved member of the community dies suddenly and unexpectedly during a sleigh ride to a festively decorated covered bridge. Suspicions and fear abound as the p...

  • A Holiday Dog Park Death

    It is two weeks before Christmas in Greenbanks, PA. The joy of the season comes to an abrupt halt when beloved legislator, Angus Harvey, is found dead at the local dog park. Terry Drake, owner of two rescue dogs, former teacher and part owner of &...

  • A Springtime Death at the Riverfront Dog Park

    On a warm March morning in Greenbanks, PA, Terry Drake and her two beloved rescue dogs are anxious to get to the Riverfront Dog Park and enjoy the beautiful day. The day turns ominous when they discover a crushed body on the ground beneath a tower...

  • A Summer Wedding Death at the Riverfront Dog Park

    It's a beautiful July in Greenbanks, PA, and Ellen and her friends are looking forward to her wedding at the Riverfront Dog Park. Joy turns to devastation when Ellen's body is found early one morning at the park just days before her upco...

  • A Halloween Death at the Riverfront Dog Park

    It's Halloween in Greenbanks, PA, and it's all fun and games until an attractive, young and popular member of the community is found brutally murdered at the Riverfront Dog Park. Sasquatch, along with an escapee from a mental institution...

  • A Confusing Drowning at the Riverfront Dog Park

    The body of a young man is found in the pond at the Riverfront Dog Park. The murder is caught on camera, but there's confusion as to whom the victim is. Due to the poor lighting and and camera angle, the perp could be any of a number of suspe...



  • A Curious Kidnapping at the Riverfront Dog Park

    It has been over a year since a series of mysterious deaths drove pets and their owners from the beautiful Riverfront Dog Park in Greenbanks, PA. Just as the outlook appears to improve, the former wife of Sheriff Tom Hodges (Terry's old love)...

  • Death of a Solitude Gypsy

    Fannie and Dana are at odds when a Gypsy fortune teller sets up shop in the tranquil western Pennsylvania village of Solitude. When the fortune teller's husband is killed by an Amish buggy, the sleuths join forces to uncover the shocking trut...

  • A Year of Mysterious Deaths at the Riverfront Dog Park

    This book bundles the first four volumes of the Riverfront Dog Park Series for one low price. Over the course of a year, the once peaceful dog park in beautiful Greenbanks, PA, has been the scene of four mysterious deaths. Terry Drake, part owner...

  • Death of a Solitude Elk

    A young handsome but slightly quirky Amish man disappears while searching the woods around Solitude, PA for valuable ginseng roots in late September. The discovery of his horribly mutilated body raises many questions with the authorities and local...

  • A Pickleball Death in the Time of COVID

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy

    When a group of lady pickleball players try to work off the stress of a pandemic by playing a few matches, they discover the body of a dear friend in a pool of blood near the courts. With law enforcement overwhelmed by the pandemic, the senior women ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Saundra McKee has published 44 books.

Saundra McKee does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Death of a Solitude Elk, was published in November 2014.

The first book by Saundra McKee, A Final Solitude Death: An Amish Country Murder Mystery, was published in April 2011.

No. Saundra McKee does not write books in series.
Top Authors in Amish
No ads, please...

$20 / year

FictionDB Premium Membership

Subscribe