| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Cactus Club Killings | 1999 | Nathan Walpow | Buy |
| 2 | Death of an Orchid Lover | 2000 | Nathan Walpow | Buy |
| 3 | One Last Hit | 2003 | Nathan Walpow | Buy |
| 4 | The Manipulated | 2005 | Nathan Walpow | Buy |
The Joe Portugal Mystery series follows a Los Angeles actor and plant enthusiast who keeps stumbling into murder. Starting with “The Cactus Club Killings,” where a fellow cactus collector turns up dead, Joe’s hobby becomes his investigative edge across four books.
There are four books in the Joe Portugal Mystery series, published between 1999 and 2005.
The first book in the Joe Portugal Mystery series is The Cactus Club Killings, published in 1999.
Joe Portugal is a struggling actor in Los Angeles with a passion for growing cacti and succulents. When murder strikes his plant club in “The Cactus Club Killings” (1999), he becomes an unlikely detective. The series follows him through four mysteries where his botanical interests keep intersecting with crime.
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