Joanne Pence Books in Order

Joanne Pence has written 58 books, published between 1987 and 2025. The first book is Dangerous Journey (1987) and the newest is Deadly Ever After (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books: 58
Published: 1987–2025
Pages on record: 6,471 in 23 of 58 books

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Joanne Pence writes culinary mysteries. The amateur sleuth is Angie Amalfi, an underemployed food writer and gourmet chef in San Francisco, and Amalfi's romance with homicide inspector Paavo Smith runs alongside the cases; the flavour is humorous, screwball adventure. Born Joanne Lopez in San Francisco, Pence attended the University of California, Berkeley and managed operations analysis at the Social Security administration from 1970 to 1998. The catalogue lists 58 titles, opening with Dangerous Journey (1987) and Something's Cooking (1993) and reaching Deadly Ever After in 2025. Series include Cook and Inspector Mysteries, Inspector Rebecca Mayfield Mystery, Angie & Friends Food & Spirits Mysteries and Donnelly Cabin Inn.

How many Joanne Pence books are there?

Joanne Pence has 58 books, released between 1987 and 2025. They include 6 series and 7 titles listed outside any series.

Joanne Pence series and characters in order

The character linked below has its own reading-order page.

Angie Amalfi books in order 15 books

Joanne Pence books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. A group whose heading is a link has its own reading-order page; the other groups have no page of their own on this site.

Angie Amalfi books in order

14 books by Joanne Pence

1. Something's Cooking
2. Too Many Cooks
3. Cooking Up Trouble
4. Cooking Most Deadly
5. Cook's Night Out
6. Cooks Overboard
7. A Cook in Time
8. To Catch a Cook
9. Bell, Cook, and Candle
10. If Cooks Could Kill
11. Two Cooks A-Killing
12. Courting Disaster
and 2 more in the table above

Cook and Inspector Mysteries in order

11 books

3. Death on a Silver Platter
4. A Quiche Before Dying
5. The Marinara Murders
6. Close Encounters of the Deadly Kind
7. Death by Devil's Food
8. Blind Date's Bitter End
9. The Taverna Affair
10. The Music Box Mystery
11. Truffles to Die For
12. Salsa and Secrets
13. Deadly Ever After

Inspector Rebecca Mayfield Mystery in order

10 books

1. The Thirteenth Santa
2. One O'Clock Hustle
3. Two O'Clock Heist
4. Three O'Clock Seance
5. Four O'Clock Sizzle
6. Five O'Clock Twist
7. Six O'Clock Silence
8. Seven O'Clock Target
9. Eight O'Clock Split
10. Nine O'Clock Retreat

Ancient Secrets in order

5 books

1. Ancient Echoes
2. Ancient Shadows
3. Ancient Illusions
4. Ancient Deceptions
5. Ancient Passages

Angie & Friends Food & Spirits Mysteries in order

5 books

1. Cooking Spirits
2. Cook's Curious Christmas
3. Cook's Big Day
4. Add a Pinch of Murder
5. Murder by Devil's Food

Donnelly Cabin Inn in order

4 books

2. This Can't be Love
3. Sentimental Journey
4. A Certain Smile
5. Time After Time

Angie Amalfi Non-Fiction

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Cabin of Mystery in order

1 book

1. If I Loved You [Large Print]

Standalone books

7 books

7 Joanne Pence titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Joanne Pence books in order?

You only need to read Joanne Pence books in order within each series: the books listed here span 6 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Joanne Pence

Start with Something's Cooking (1993), the first Angie Amalfi book. The earliest catalogued title overall is Dangerous Journey (1987).

What is the newest Joanne Pence book?

Deadly Ever After (2025) is the newest Joanne Pence book released so far.

Is there a new Joanne Pence book coming?

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

Joanne Pence at a glance

Still publishing: Joanne Pence published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace: Joanne Pence books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length: 6,471 pages across the 23 of 58 books with a recorded length, a median of 292 pages each.
Busiest decade: Most Joanne Pence books, 21 of 58, were published in the 2020s.

What the Joanne Pence books are about

14 of the 58 Joanne Pence books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: angie amalfi (fictitious character) is tagged on 11 of 14. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

Angie Amalfi (Fictitious character) 11 of 14 books
Amalfi, angie (fictitious character) 10 of 14 books
Mystery & detective, women sleuths 9 of 14 books
California 7 of 14 books
Cooking 5 of 14 books
Journalists 5 of 14 books
San Francisco (Calif.) 5 of 14 books
Women cooks 3 of 14 books
Women journalists 3 of 14 books
Mystery & detective 2 of 14 books