Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Murder Pit | 2014 | Jeff Shelby | Buy |
| 2 | Last Resort | 2014 | Jeff Shelby | Buy |
| 3 | Alibi High | 2014 | Jeff Shelby | Buy |
| 4 | Foul Play | 2015 | Jeff Shelby | Buy |
| 5 | You’ve Got Blackmail | 2015 | Jeff Shelby | Buy |
| 6 | Assisted Murder | 2016 | Jeff Shelby | Buy |
| 7 | Death At The Diner | 2016 | Jeff Shelby | Buy |
| 8 | School of Murder | 2017 | Jeff Shelby | Buy |
| 9 | Dead in the Water | 2018 | Jeff Shelby | Buy |
| 10 | Wreck The Halls | 2018 | Jeff Shelby | Buy |
| 11 | Dead in the Dorm | 2020 | Jeff Shelby | Buy |
Jeff Shelby’s A Moose River Mystery series is an eleven-book run that started with The Murder Pit in 2014 and continued through Dead in the Dorm in 2020. The first three books all came out in 2014, which set a fast early pace. Shelby then kept up a steady one-to-two-books-per-year schedule through the rest of the series, with the most active stretch in 2016-2018.
The titles have a playful quality to them, with entries like You’ve Got Blackmail, Wreck The Halls, and Foul Play suggesting a lighter tone within the mystery genre. This kind of cozy-adjacent mystery series, set in a small town with recurring characters, is built for readers who like to settle into a long run. Shelby also writes the related A Rainy Day Mystery series, so fans of his style have even more to explore.