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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2000
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Lew Ferris Mystery

1 - Wolf Hollow (Jan-2022)
2 - Hidden in the Pines (Jan-2023)
3 - At the Edge of the Woods (Apr-2024)

A Loon Lake Fishing Mystery

1 - Dead Angler (Apr-2000)
2 - Dead Creek (Nov-2000)
3 - Dead Water (Jun-2001)
4 - Dead Frenzy (Feb-2003)
5 - Dead Hot Mama (Mar-2004)
6 - Dead Jitterbug (Apr-2005)
7 - Dead Boogie (Mar-2006)
8 - Dead Madonna (Apr-2007)
9 - Dead Hot Shot (Jun-2008)
10 - Dead Renegade (Nov-2009)
11 - Dead Deceiver (Feb-2011)
12 - Dead Tease (Mar-2012)
13 - Dead Insider (Jun-2013)
14 - Dead Lil' Hustler (Jun-2014)
15 - Dead Rapunzel (Jun-2015)
16 - Dead Loudmouth (Jun-2016)
17 - Dead Spider (May-2017)
18 - Dead Firefly (Jun-2018)
19 - Dead Bull Dawg (Jun-2018)

Book List in Order: 22 titles



  • Loon Lake, Wisconsin's newly appointed Chief of Police, Lewellyn Ferris, is quite a woman. A single woman with an incredibly demanding career, Lew is a tough-as-nails crime fighter. She's also ally fishing wonder. And she's about to get an opportunit...



  • In Wisconsin's Northwoods, fishing is a way of life--and when the muskies are biting, life couldn't be better. But when Doc Osborne catches more than he bargained for, he winds up in the middle of a murder mystery that just keeps getting weirder... ...



  • The folks in Loon Lake, Wisconsin, appreciate the abilities of Police Chief Lew Ferris--not only as a law enforcer, but as a fly-fishing expert. And Lew appreciates her unofficial deputy--retired dentist Paul Osborne. And when a double murder disr...



  • For fishing pals (or are they more than just pals?) Doc Osborne and Police Chief Lew Ferris, Loon Lake, Wisconsin is usually a great place to soak in some solitude. But lately, the town has been teeming with tourists. And Doc is spending less time ca...



  • When temperatures drop in Loon Lake, Wisconsin, the lakes freeze over, tourists pack their bags and head home, and retired dentist Doc Osborne prepares for a much-needed respite. But this season, just as the weather gets colder, things heat up, as Po...



  • With the murder of a well-known advice columnist, Police Chief Lewellyn Ferris has her hands full with all the potential suspects.Everyone knows the name Hope McDonald--and not just the couple thousand folks in Loon Lake. Her advice column is syndica...



  • Even though experienced angler Doc Osborne knows there are plenty of fish in the sea, in Loon Lake, Wisconsin, only police chief Lew Ferris qualifies as his catch of the day. But just as the summer is heating up, the town gets turned upside down by t...



  • The bucolic Wisconsin fishing-resort town of Loon Lake awakens one morning to a double homicide. Party girl DeeDee Kurlander is found dead beneath an affluent tourist's houseboat. Across town, a prominent widow lies savagely murdered in her elegant l...



  • Thanksgiving morning in Loon Lake, Wisconsin, is interrupted by the discovery of wealthy resident Nolan Reece, found floating by her dock just hours after a posh engagement party for her daughter. Chief of police Lewellyn Ferris, shorthanded without ...






  • As Lew investigates, uncanny coincidences accumulate like snow on the frozen, deadly surface of Loon Lake...It's late January and Loon Lake is hosting an International Ice Fishing Festival. Police Chief Lewellyn Ferris and her limited team are busy w...



  • It's late January in Loon Lake and bodies abound: a woman on snowshoes has been discovered wedged under a wooden bridge on a cross-country ski trail. A day later, Police Chief Lewellyn Ferris interviews a couple who alleges that the wife, a former nu...



  • A hot August afternoon and Midwest Clinic CEO John McNeil has been working late. Working on his latest conquest, that is. Jen Williams is twenty-six, in charge of graphics for the hospital's PR division -- and quite attractive in a healthy, athletic ...



  • In the midst of a catastrophic August rainstorm, a grisly discovery shatters the serenity of a summer evening in northern Wisconsin. Moving quickly to prevent a panic among tourists, Loon Lake Police Chief Lewellyn Ferris enlists the forensic and int...



  • It's mid-July in Loon Lake, and Police Chief Lewellyn Ferris has her hands full with the discovery of the skeletal remains of a missing bank executive and the murder of graduate student. To complicate matters, both victims were discovered on a hidden...



  • A Los Angeles Times Page-Turner "...populated with sympathetic, well-drawn characters... ouston also delivers beautiful descriptions of the bucolic setting, along with plenty of sharply rendered fly-fishing scenes." --BooklistIt's the dead of winter ...



  • It's a bright summer morning in Loon Lake when Police Chief Lewellyn Ferris is called to the scene of a horrific accident that occurred in the dead of night at a local gentleman's club. The club is owned by one of the victims, a member of the private...



  • In the next installment of the Loon Lake Mystery series, Lewellyn Ferris and Doc Osborne must solve a murder that shatters the picturesque Wisconsin lake town community at the height of summer.On a lovely Sunday afternoon in late June, the annual Loo...



  • Murder, She Wrote meets Fargo in the Northwoods of Wisconsin in the nineteenth “gripping, atmospheric, and smart” (T. Jefferson Parker, New York Times bestselling author) installment of the Loon Lake series. When the bodies of a wealthy Chicago i...



  • Murder She Wrote meets Fargo in the eighteenth installment of Victoria Houston’s “engaging” (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine) and critically acclaimed mystery series set in the northwoods of Wisconsin."My wife and Gordon Maxwell tried to ki...






  • Murder stalks the Wisconsin northwoods in a gripping novel from the author of the acclaimed Loon Lake mysteries.It's mid-May in the tiny northwoods Wisconsin town of Loon Lake, and the fish are biting. Walleye's not the only thing on the hook. There ...



  • Sheriff Lew Ferris knows how to land a sweet brook trout -- but canshe catch a cold-blooded killer in the thrilling second installment in the Lew Ferris mysteries.It’s Lew Ferris’s first day as the newly-elected Sheriff of McBride County, and alr...



  • Someone is murdering pickleball players in Loon Lake and Sheriff Ferris is on the hunt for their killer in Victoria Houston’s third nail-biting Lew Ferris mystery, perfect for fans of Marc Cameron and Nevada Barr.When a local pickleball player is s...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Victoria Houston has published 22 books.

The next book by Victoria Houston, At the Edge of the Woods, will be published in April 2024.

The first book by Victoria Houston, Dead Angler, was published in April 2000.

Yes. Victoria Houston has 2 series.