Steve Demaree

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2008
  • Latest Book:
    January 2020
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Full Series List in Order

Aylesford Place

1 - Pink Flamingoed (May-2008)
2 - Neighborhood Hi Jinx (May-2008)
3 - Croquet, Anyone? (May-2010)
4 - Scavenger Hunt (Sep-2015)

A Dekker Cozy Mystery

1 - 52 Steps to Murder (Apr-2013)
2 - Murder in the Winter (Apr-2013)
3 - Murder in the Library (May-2013)
4 - Murder at Breakfast (May-2010)
5 - Murder at the High School Reunion (Nov-2013)
6 - Murder at the Art & Craft Fair (Nov-2013)
7 - Murder in Gatlinburg (Jul-2014)
8 - Murder at the Book Fair (Oct-2014)
9 - Murder on a Blind Date (Apr-2015)
10 - A Body on the Porch (Apr-2016)
11 - Two Bodies in the Backyard (Aug-2016)
12 - A Body under the Christmas Tree (Mar-2017)
13 - Murder on Halloween (Sep-2017)

Off The Beaten Path

1 - Murder in the Dark (Apr-2013)
2 - Murder Among Friends (Sep-2013)
3 - A Bridge to Murder (Apr-2013)
4 - A Smoky Mountain Mystery (Apr-2014)

Book List in Order: 26 titles

  • Neighborhood Hi Jinx

    Aylesford Place - 2

    In the second book in the Aylesford Place series, new neighbors join those who already live on the street, and new escapades await those Aylesford Place residents over the course of another year, including a different fundraiser and different ways to...

  • Pink Flamingoed

    Aylesford Place - 1

    An author inherits his grandparents home and plans to move in, hibernate for the winter, and write his next bestseller. But five minutes after he arrives, some of his neighbors ring his doorbell and his life is never the same game. It is much better....

  • Croquet, Anyone?

    Aylesford Place - 3

    The third installment in the Aylesford Place series brings more laugh-out-loud moments, some serious times, a look back at some of the memorable times from the past, new neighbors, and a new activity for the street's residents to participate in, an a...

  • Murder at Breakfast

    A Dekker Cozy Mystery - 4

    A homicide detective receives a call that a woman has been found dead in her apartment in an apartment building for well-to-do elderly people. It turns out she had been poisoned, but it remains to be seen as to where, when, and how the poison was adm...

  • 52 Steps to Murder

    A Dekker Cozy Mystery - 1

    Two homicide detectives, who detest exercise in any form, get to a crime scene only to find they have to climb fifty-two steps to get to the house's front porch, and a few more steps to get to where the victim is found. Over the next several days the...

  • A Bridge to Murder

    Off The Beaten Path - 3

    Out in the country, a few miles from the city, sits an upscale neighborhood, seven homes of 15,000 square feet or more, surrounded by a ten-foot wall. Thick foliage keep most people from knowing the residential palaces exist. Still, even with a full-...

  • Murder in the Dark

    Off The Beaten Path - 1

    Twelve people of diverse occupations and lifestyles receive an invitation to a free survivor weekend at a large remote inn. They are told to bring anything they might need to survive the weekend. The invitation promises them nice gifts, including an ...

  • Murder in the Winter

    A Dekker Cozy Mystery - 2

    After a heavy snowstorm, as a detective is clearing snow from his car, he finds a note someone has left him. The person who left it claims he is going to commit murder over the weekend at a remote inn and there is no way the detective and his partner...

  • Murder in the Library

    A Dekker Cozy Mystery - 3

    In the third book in the Lt. Dekker/Sgt. Murdock series, a man is found dead inside the locked library of his home. Surveillance cameras show that no one other than the deceased entered the library, and yet the man has been shot with a poisoned dart....



  • Murder Among Friends

    Off The Beaten Path - 2

    A young woman disappears from her home in North Carolina. The only evidence that something may be wrong is a photo of thirteen young people is held in place on the table by a kitchen knife. A short time later, a young woman in Kentucky is murdered, a...

  • Murder at the Art & Craft Fair

    A Dekker Cozy Mystery - 6

    When a homicide detective in a medium-size town is coerced into attending and art and craft fair, he has no idea that what he finds there will keep him working for several days, but then he never expected to find a dead body in such a large crowd of ...

  • Murder at the High School Reunion

    A Dekker Cozy Mystery - 5

    In the fifth book in this series, Lt. Dekker gets an advance warning that he might be investigating a couple of murders when two people turn up missing after a high school reunion. When those bodies do indeed turn up, the lieutenant and his sergeant ...

  • A Smoky Mountain Mystery

    Off The Beaten Path - 4

    A woman finally convinces her wealthy husband that they should take a vacation. He is not an outdoorsman and works long hours, so she is surprised when he chooses a chalet in the Smoky Mountains outside of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. All is fine the first...

  • Murder in Gatlinburg

    A Dekker Cozy Mystery - 7

    When two homicide detectives retire, they are given a week at a resort in Gatlinburg, Tennessee as a retirement gift. The two, who have never been on vacation are to become a part of a bus tour group. But when they arrive at their destination, one pe...

  • Murder at the Book Fair

    A Dekker Cozy Mystery - 8

    Two recently-retired detectives, with a love for reading mysteries, find out about a large book fair and head off to check it out. When they return home, each carrying an armload of books, they learn that someone they met at the book fair is dead. Th...

  • Murder on a Blind Date

    A Dekker Cozy Mystery - 9

    When it is learned that several murder victims died after being on blind dates through the same dating service, a retired detective is asked to help solve the case. Doing so is hard for him because he has a jealous girlfriend, and the department has ...

  • Scavenger Hunt

    Aylesford Place - 4

    In the fourth installment in the Aylesford Place series the street's residents continue to be blessed and to be a blessing to others. They experience a different fund raiser, find new holidays to celebrate, and everyone on the street even goes on vac...

  • A Body on the Porch

    A Dekker Cozy Mystery - 10

    While a retired detective on vacation is standing in front of a popular breakfast place in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, he encounters a weasel of a man who is only there because one of his neighbors is paying for his vacation. The detective makes a mistake...

  • Two Bodies in the Backyard

    A Dekker Cozy Mystery - 11

    When someone deposits two bodies in a retired detective's backyard in the middle of the night, he has to go to work again to find out who is responsible and why his backyard was chosen. A lot of hilarious events happen in this whodunit before the det...



  • A Body under the Christmas Tree

    A Dekker Cozy Mystery - 12

    A retired detective is getting ready to go up into his attic to retrieve the Christmas tree that he had been decorating for the last eighteen years. Before he could do that, his partner from homicide, also retired, called him to see if he was willing...

  • Murder on Halloween

    A Dekker Cozy Mystery - 13

    A retired detective thinks that all he will have to do on Halloween is hand out candy to trick-or-treaters. Everything goes well until all the children in costume come and go, and then the phone calls begin. One of them comes from his former Chief of...

  • A Valentine Murder

    In this delightful combination of a whodunit mixed with humor, a woman, who has been celebrating her birthday and Valentine's Day, is rushed to the hospital complaining of stomach pains and nausea. She grabs the doctor and tells him she has been pois...

  • A Body on April Fool's Day

    Cy Dekker is ready to enjoy a nice breakfast at the Blue Moon diner with his good friend Lou Murdock on April Fool’s Day when a dead body gets in the way. When they find out the man was not murdered, they get to enjoy breakfast together anyway, but...

  • A Body in the Woods

    Cy has a new friend, he of the four-legged variety. On the morning of the winter's first snowstorm, Cy's new friend finds a body in the woods. When an autopsy reveals that the man was murdered, Cy and Lou, sometimes accompanied by Cy's new friend, go...

  • Stories from the Heart

    Over fifty very short inspirational stories. Some may cause some readers to shed tears of joy. Others may put a smile onthe reader's face. Many are designed to make the reader think about what they have read....

  • A Puzzling Murder

    A murder has been committed. Clues found by constructing a jigsaw puzzle and delving through a large number of library books let Cy and Lou know where they can find the body and who the murderer is. Sort of. The victim can be found in one of about se...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Steve Demaree has published 26 books.

Steve Demaree does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Puzzling Murder, was published in January 2020.

The first book by Steve Demaree, Pink Flamingoed, was published in May 2008.

Yes. Steve Demaree has 3 series.
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