Readers often ask in what order to read my books. Stand-alone books with characters appearing only in that volume include Brennan’s Odyssey, Building Fence, The Captured, Stray Murder, The Edge of Society, and Strait Arrow.

Both collections of short stories contain one story with characters from another series. The second story in Redemption on the High Plains: A Collection of Short Stories features Bartholomew Stondt, DVM, of Whispering Pines, Wyoming, and is the prequel to Big Claus. Zane Rowan is introduced in Cross in the Crosshairs, appears in the final short story in the collection Tepid Death, and is sprinkled through a number of other titles.

The two main series revolve around Shiloh Bennett, DVM, and Sheriff Jim Russet.

Shiloh lives in fictitious Tyler County, Kansas. Her story begins in Doctor of Veterinary Murder and continues in Pathologically Shy, Someone Else’s Rain, and Foster’s Story. Keep Your Enemies Closer falls among those books (my apologies, but they aren’t quite in chronological order!). Next come Convergent Trails, not Quite Forgotten, White Horse, Black Horse, and Mrs. Garrity.

Jim Russet is in Pullen County, Kansas, and appears in The Jim Russet Trilogy, Luck of the Scot, and Poetic Murder (which crosses over to include Tyler County characters).

Mike Sands is introduced in A Good Dead and is prominent in Poetic Murder.