Janet Finsilver Books in Order

Janet Finsilver has written 6 books, published between 2015 and 2020. The first book is Murder at Redwood Cove (2015) and the newest is Murder in the Wine Country (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
6
Published
2015–2020
Pages on record
936 in 5 of 6 books
Reading time
16–23 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 936 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 6 titles with a page count on record.

Kelly Jackson is the amateur sleuth in Janet Finsilver's cozy mysteries, set in California. Each of the 6 books opens its title with the same word: Murder at Redwood Cove (2015), Murder at the Mansion (2016), Murder at the Fortune Teller's Table (2017), Murder at the Mushroom Festival (2018), Murder at the Marina (2019) and Murder in the Wine Country (2020). Nothing has followed since 2020.

How many Janet Finsilver books are there?

Janet Finsilver has 6 books, released between 2015 and 2020.

Janet Finsilver Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 6 Janet Finsilver books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. 1
    Murder at Redwood CoveA Kelly Jackson Mystery #12015 · 198 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015198
  2. 2
    Murder at the MansionA Kelly Jackson Mystery #22016 · 190 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016190
  3. 3
    Murder at the Fortune Teller's TableA Kelly Jackson Mystery #32017 · 190 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017190
  4. 4
    Murder at the Mushroom FestivalA Kelly Jackson Mystery #42018 · confirmed 1/4
    2018
  5. 5
    Murder at the MarinaA Kelly Jackson Mystery #52019 · 180 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019180
  6. 6
    Murder in the Wine CountryA Kelly Jackson Mystery #62020 · 178 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020178

Janet Finsilver books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Do you have to read Janet Finsilver books in order?

You only need to read Janet Finsilver books in order within the A Kelly Jackson Mystery series, which holds 6 of the 6 Janet Finsilver books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Janet Finsilver

Start with Murder at Redwood Cove (2015), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Janet Finsilver book?

Murder in the Wine Country (2020) is the newest Janet Finsilver book released so far.

Is there a new Janet Finsilver book coming?

No next Janet Finsilver book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Janet Finsilver at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Janet Finsilver title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Janet Finsilver books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
936 pages across the 5 of 6 books with a recorded length, a median of 190 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Janet Finsilver books, 5 of 6, were published in the 2010s.

What the Janet Finsilver books are about

All 6 Janet Finsilver books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: mystery & detective is tagged on 2 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.