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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1999
  • Latest Book:
    June 2016
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Full Series List in Order

A Celebration Bay Mystery

1 - Foul Play at the Fair (Sep-2012)
1.5 - Cold Turkey (Aug-2013)
2 - Silent Knife (Sep-2013)
3 - Independence Slay (Jun-2014)
3.5 - Trawling for Trouble (Jul-2015)
4 - Trick or Deceit (Sep-2015)

A Katie McDonald Mystery

1 - The Sudoku Murder (May-2007)
2 - Sudden Death Sudoku (Sep-2008)
3 - Serial Killer Sudoku (Aug-2009)

A Lindy Haggerty Mystery

1 - Backstage Murder (Oct-1999)
2 - High Seas Murder (Aug-2000)
3 - Midsummer Murder (Aug-2001)
4 - Halloween Murder (Sep-2002)
5 - A Merry Little Murder (Oct-2003)

A Newport Gilded Age Mystery

1 - A Gilded Grave (Aug-2015)
2 - A Golden Cage (Jun-2016)

Book List in Order: 19 titles



  • Helping a friend out with a favor, Lindy Haggerty agrees to put her dance shoes back on to rescue a troubled show. But Lindy has no idea just how doomed the production is until the backstage tantrums, demands, and threats turn a simple pas de deux in...




  • Former dancer Lindy Haggerty delighted readers in her first outing, Backstage Murder. Now, the intrepid sleuth is at it again, trying to keep the Jeremy Ashe Dance Company afloat on a Caribbean cruise, while a murderer plots to turn this Love Boat in...



  • During a ten-day performing arts Caribbean cruise, hoofer-turned-sleuth Lindy Haggerty faces the dual challenges of trying to keep the Jeremy Ashe Dance Company afloat while finding the killer responsible for the murder of Enoch Grayson, a much-despi...



  • When she's invited to teach at the elegant Easton Arts Retreat's 50th anniversary celebration, Lindy Haggerty happily accepts. After all, this prestigious institution is set in bucolic upstate New York in a gigantic mansion and is practically synonym...



  • Former dancer Lindy Haggerty has pirouetted her way through a few cases of murder and mayhem. Now, she's about to tackle the performance of a lifetime, as the director of an amateur production in a small-town Halloween carnival that's turning into a ...



  • This Christmas, former dancer Lindy Haggerty leaves her toe shoes behind to hit the glitzy International Ballroom Competition in Atlantic City, where it takes two to tango--but only one to kill... Lindy and company barely have time to unpack befor...



  • Lights...Camera...Murder! Behind the velvet ropes and closed curtains, buried in the back lots, you'll find the darker side of the spotlight. It's where stars are created overnight, and burn out just cis quickly. Where deals are made to be broken,...



  • Professor P.T. Avondale is found murdered at his desk at the Avondale Puzzle Museum. Katie McDonald, master puzzle-solver, has returned home to save her childhood mentor's museum from being auctioned off when she learns of the Professor's death. Now ...






  • It's February in the small town of Granville, New Hampshire, and Katie McDonald, math geek and curator of the Avondale Puzzle Museum, is up to her ears in snow and the First Annual Avondale Sudoku Challenge. What began as a small event, geared toward...



  • In this new installment of the popular, puzzle-based series, Kate has settled into her new life running the Avondale Puzzle Museum in Granville, New Hampshire. The locals have begun to accept her presence -- until a serial killer from Boston starts m...



  • Every day is a holiday in Celebration Bay...but unfortunately death doesn’t take a holiday. As more and more tourists flock to Celebration Bay, New York, to enjoy their seasonal festivals, the town is in need of a professional coordinator. Enter...



  • This Thanksgiving in Celebration Bay, it’s murder with all the trimmings… Event coordinator Liv Montgomery is not only in charge of this year’s Turkey Trot in Celebration Bay, she’s participating as one of the runners. But not long after ...



  • Celebration Bay is full of yuletide cheer -- but it’s hard to remain festive when someone’s out to slay Santa. It’s Liv Montgomery’s first Christmas out of Manhattan and in Celebration Bay. They’ve got a tree to rival Rockefeller Cen...



  • On the Fourth of July, Old Glory is flying high in Celebration Bay--until someone raises a red flag... With Independence Day fast approaching, Liv Montgomery is swamped coordinating one of the town's biggest festivals. In addition to the traditio...



  • Intrepid event planner Liv Montgomery discovers something fishy going on beneath her small town’s deceptively calm surface in this Celebration Bay novella.Liv Montgomery knew that asking Celebration Bay’s newspaper owner-slash-ne’er-do-well Cha...



  • In 1895, the height of the Gilded Age, the social elite spend their summers in Newport, Rhode Island. Within the walls of their fabulous “cottages,” competition for superiority is ruthless … and so are the players. During her first Newport ...



  • The author of Independence Slay invites readers back to Celebration Bay for Halloween festivities with more tricks than treats… This October in Celebration Bay, you can’t swing a black cat without hitting a haunted house. There are three final...



  • The author of A Gilded Grave returns to Newport, Rhode Island, at the close of the nineteenth century, where headstrong heiress Deanna Randolph must solve another murder among the social elite. With her mother in Europe, Deanna is staying with the...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Shelley Freydont has published 19 books.

Shelley Freydont does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Golden Cage, was published in June 2016.

The first book by Shelley Freydont, Backstage Murder, was published in October 1999.

Yes. Shelley Freydont has 4 series.