Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reckless | 1989 | Amanda Roberts | Buy |
| 2 | Body and Soul | 1989 | Amanda Roberts | Buy |
| 3 | Stolen Moments | 1990 | Amanda Roberts | Buy |
| 4 | Ties That Bind | 1991 | Amanda Roberts | Buy |
| 5 | Bank on It | 1993 | Amanda Roberts | Buy |
| 6 | Hide and Seek | 1993 | Amanda Roberts | Buy |
| 7 | Wages of Sin | 1994 | Amanda Roberts | Buy |
| 8 | Deadly Obsession | 1995 | Amanda Roberts | Buy |
| 9 | White Lightning | 1995 | Amanda Roberts | Buy |
Written by Sherryl Woods, the Amanda Roberts Mystery series pairs investigative journalism with romantic suspense across nine novels. Amanda Roberts works for a small weekly newspaper in Gwinnett County, Georgia, where her knack for asking the wrong questions tends to put her in dangerous situations. Joe Donelli, a former New York City cop, enters her life in the first book and stays through the entire series as both investigative partner and love interest.
The series opens with Reckless (1989), in which a famous chef’s mysterious death brings Amanda and Joe together for the first time. Over the next six years, Amanda investigates everything from a serial killer terrorizing Atlanta joggers (Hide and Seek) to the supposed suicide of a senator’s aide in Washington, D.C. (Wages of Sin). Their personal relationship develops through breakups, reunions, and a wedding disrupted by a car bomb in Ties That Bind. The final book, White Lightning (1995), sends Amanda digging into a decades-old bootlegging case at the request of an Atlanta society matriarch.