Order of Elaine Viets Books
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
| Brain Storm | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fire and Ashes | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ice Blonde | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Star is Dead | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Death Grip | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Life Without Parole | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Late for His Own Funeral | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Scarlet Death | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Florida Beach Mystery Books
| Sex and Death on the Beach | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Francesca Vierling Mystery Books
| Backstab | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rubout | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Pink Flamingo Murders | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Doc in the Box | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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
| Red Meat | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sex and Bingo | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Wedding Knife | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| After the Fall | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dog Eat Dog | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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
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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Elaine: I have just finished heading LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE. What a great mystery. Keep the books coming!!!