Shelby Nichols Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Carrots | 2011 | Buy |
| Fast Money | 2011 | Buy |
| Lie or Die | 2012 | Buy |
| Secrets That Kill | 2013 | Buy |
| Trapped By Revenge | 2013 | Buy |
| Deep In Death | 2014 | Buy |
| Crossing Danger | 2015 | Buy |
| Devious Minds | 2016 | Buy |
| Hidden Deception | 2016 | Buy |
| Laced In Lies | 2017 | Buy |
| Devil in a Black Suit | 2018 | Buy |
| Deadly Escape | 2018 | Buy |
| A Midsummer Night’s Murder | 2018 | Buy |
| Marked for Murder | 2019 | Buy |
| Ghostly Serenade | 2020 | Buy |
| Dying Wishes | 2020 | Buy |
| High Stakes Crime | 2021 | Buy |
| License to Steal | 2022 | Buy |
| Ties That Bind | 2022 | Buy |
| Grave Duty | 2023 | Buy |
| Presumed Dead | 2024 | Buy |
| Poisoned Truth | 2025 | Buy |
The Shelby Nichols series follows an ordinary suburban wife and mother whose life takes an unexpected turn after a near-death experience leaves her able to hear other people’s thoughts. What starts as a personal oddity quickly becomes a liability when she starts picking up things she wasn’t meant to know, and dangerous people start noticing her unusual knack for being in the right place at the wrong time.
The series has a light, fast-moving quality that keeps readers coming back through more than twenty books. Shelby herself is the main appeal: she’s funny, genuinely surprised by the situations she ends up in, and consistently trying to balance her ordinary family life against the increasingly extraordinary circumstances that her ability drops her into. The books mix humor with actual danger in a way that gives the cozy mystery format some real stakes.
With twenty-two books published between 2011 and 2025, the series has built a loyal readership that appreciates the consistency of tone and character across a long run. Readers who enjoy Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum books often find the same rhythms here: recurring characters, escalating complications, and a protagonist who is likable precisely because she doesn’t always have the situation under control.