Book 1

Sarah Deane takes a break from graduate school-and dreary mid-March Boston-and heads for sunny Southern Texas to join her boyfriend, Philip Lentz, on a birdwatching expedition. — Philip's rare sighting of a pair of hook-billed kites gets things off to a great start. But when he ends up strangled by his binocular straps, the rest of the birders are both suspects and sitting ducks.

Is the killer a member of the Hamburg Bird Club? Major "Big" Foster, who claims he also saw the kites? Or the pair of spinsters who run Cactus Wren Tours? When precocious thirteen-year-old Jeff Goldsmith disappears, Sarah teams up with Dr. Alex McKenzie for a crash course in detecting, to track down the killer before someone else becomes the next victim.


Book 2

The Down East Murders

by J S Borthwick

Published 1 January 1985

Book 3

The Student Body

by J S Borthwick

Published 1 October 1986

The campus of Maine's Bowmouth College looks like a picture postcard of New England-snow-covered lawns, students in colorful ski parkas, icicles dangling on the ivied halls. Sarah Deane-English Fellow with an honorary degree in sleuthing-expects to spend a quiet term here taking some graduate courses and doing a little teaching.

But then Sarah finds that someone's organized an advanced course in murder. The first lesson comes when a woman student is found frozen into a prize-winning snow sculpture during Carnival weekend. The second is served up with a cozy cup of poisoned cocoa. And when the clues point straight to an English department already rife with rivalries, Sarah realizes that a little learning can be a very dangerous thing...


Book 4

Bodies of Water

by J S Borthwick

Published 1 January 1990

Book 5

Dude on Arrival

by J S Borthwick

Published 1 January 1992

Book 6

The Bridled Groom

by J S Borthwick

Published 1 March 1994

Book 7

Dolly is Dead

by J S Borthwick

Published 1 August 1995

Book 8

The Garden Plot

by J S Borthwick

Published 1 April 1997

Book 9

My Body Lies over the Ocean

by J S Borthwick

Published 1 February 1999

Book 10

Coup de Grace

by J S Borthwick

Published 19 February 2000

Book 11

Murder in the Rough

by J S Borthwick

Published 12 March 2002

Book 12

Intensive Scare Unit

by J S Borthwick

Published 19 February 2004

Book 13

Foiled Again

by J S Borthwick

Published 6 February 2007