The Moonhaven Mysteries run to ten books plus three box sets. Every one of them resolves its own case, so you will not be left hanging if you start in the middle — but Sam's relationship with the town, with Ezra and with what her grandmother was actually doing develops steadily across the series, and several threads planted in book one do not pay off until much later. If you have the choice, start at the beginning.
The reading order
Book 1Death at Moonhaven Light
Published February 26, 2026
The lawyer said her grandmother died peacefully in her sleep. The bed upstairs was made, and nobody had died in it.
Book 2Murder at Moonhaven Light
Published March 12, 2026
A healer drowned in 1692. A grandmother who didn't die of old age. And a journal that seems to know it is being read.
Book 3Secrets at Saltwick
Published March 29, 2026
A librarian at the foot of the bluffs. A cave that sings beneath the cliffs. And a working lantern beside the body.
Book 4Murder at Stoneharbor
Published April 9, 2026
A quarry town on the New Hampshire border. A chamber of nine granite pillars. Two sets of footprints going in, and only one coming out.
Book 5Murder at Cairn Cove
Published April 15, 2026
A boat found drifting south on a night the current ran north. A cave that opens only at low tide. And something standing at the waterline, watching.
Book 6Murder at Tidefall
Published April 22, 2026
A dam engineer walked out onto a frozen ledge a little after four in the morning and went into the river. The report blamed the weather. The dam has been knocking ever since.
Book 7Shadows at Greyfell
Published April 28, 2026
A young man wrote Heard the rock. Going to listen. and walked out into a frozen February field. At dawn the dog found him eighty meters from the barn. The cold had done the work. The cold had not brought him out there.
Book 8Death at Harrow Point
Published May 13, 2026
At 2:12 on a Saturday afternoon in February, a woman who isn’t from Rockland calls the police: the archivist is down in the basement. At 3:15, Margaret Wills is alive at the post office, mailing something. By evening she is dead in her…
Book 9Murder in the Old Wood
Published June 4, 2026
Hollis Trant walked his pier for nearly forty years. On the morning of April twenty-second the harbormaster found him at the end of it, and the county called it a fall.
Book 10The Last Light at Moonhaven
Published June 7, 2026
The man who started the war is in a federal cell in Virginia. His hired hand has been behind bars since May. So who is still paying to cut the welds on the Maine coast?
Book 11A Christmas Murder at Moonhaven Light
Published October 18, 2026
A week before Christmas, a dealer in old letters comes to Moonhaven with a secret from 1898 — and by morning he's dead at the bottom of a frozen back staircase.
Box sets
If you would rather read several at once, the box sets collect the series in blocks and work out cheaper than the individual titles:
Does the order matter?
For the mysteries themselves, no — each is self-contained and fairly clued. For everything else, yes. The long arc concerns what happened beneath the lighthouse in 1923 and which families spent a century making sure nobody found it, and that story is told in sequence. Reading in order also means the recurring cast arrives in the right order, which matters more than it sounds in a series this size.
Common questions
Do I have to read The Moonhaven Mysteries in order?
No. Every book resolves its own case or storyline. But the characters, the town and several long-running threads develop across the series, so reading in order gives you the fuller picture.
How many books are in the series?
There are 11 books plus 3 box sets.
Where should I start?
Start with Death at Moonhaven Light. It introduces the setting and the main cast.
Are the books available on Kindle Unlimited?
Yes — the titles in this series are enrolled in Kindle Unlimited, so they are included with a KU subscription.
Start at the beginning
Death at Moonhaven Light is the first book — and the first chapter is free to read right here, no purchase needed.