Elaine Viets
Elaine Viets is an American author of cozy mystery novels. She writes the Dead-End Job and Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper series. Elaine is also a journalist in her hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, where she was a regular columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for 25 years. After moving to Washington D.C. and writing a syndicated columnist, she switched from the newspaper business to become a novelist with her Francesca Vierling series. Elaine has been married for over thirty years to author/actor Don Crinklaw and is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime.

Elaine Viets became a published novelist in 1997 with the novel Back Stab. Below is a list of Elaine Viets’ books in order of when they were originally released:

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Publication Order of Death Investigator Angela Richman Books

Publication Order of Francesca Vierling Mystery Books

Publication Order of Dead-End Job Mystery Books

Shop Till You Drop(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Murder Between the Covers(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dying to Call You(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Killer Blonde(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Just Murdered(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Murder Unleashed(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Murder with Reservations(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Clubbed to Death(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Killer Cuts(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Half-Price Homicide(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pumped for Murder(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Final Sail(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Board Stiff(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Catnapped!(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Checked Out(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Art of Murder(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Josie Marcus: Mystery Shopper Books

Dying in Style(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
High Heels are Murder(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Accessory to Murder(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Murder with All the Trimmings(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Fashion Hound Murders(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
An Uplifting Murder(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Death on a Platter(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Murder is a Piece of Cake(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fixing to Die(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Dog Gone Murder(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Urban Affairs(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Deal with the Devil(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Viets Guide to Sex, Travel and Anything Else That Will Sell This Book(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
St. Louis(1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How to Commit Monogamy(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

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Notes: The story Killer Blonde also appears in Drop-Dead Blonde. Drop-Dead Blonde also contains stories by Victoria Laurie, Nancy Martin and Denise Swanson. The Mystery Megapack: 25 Modern and Classic Mystery Stories also contains stories by Nora Charles, Toni L.P. Kelner, C. Ellett Logan, Johnston McCulley, Darrell Schweitzer, Marcia Talley and Art Taylor.

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Elaine Viets Synopsis: Backstab by Elaine Viets is the first novel in her Francesca Vierling series. The series covers the newspaper business and someone who is killing off the reads of the St. Louis City Gazette newspaper, and the newspaper can’t stand to lose the circulation. Francesca Vierling is a columnist for the paper and is losing her readership, and so she is taking these killings very personally. She goes on a search for a the killer on the streets of St. Louis, even visiting the Miss Gender Bender Pageant.

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One Response to “Order of Elaine Viets Books”

  1. Barbara Biondo: 3 years ago

    Elaine: I have just finished heading LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE. What a great mystery. Keep the books coming!!!

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