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Patricia Skalka Books in Order

Patricia Skalka has written 7 books, published between 2014 and 2022. The first book is Death Stalks Door County (2014) and the newest is Death Casts a Shadow (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
7
Published
2014–2022
Pages on record
1,166 in 5 of 7 books
Reading time
19–29 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,166 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 7 titles with a page count on record.

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Dave Cubiak anchors Patricia Skalka's mystery series, 7 books published between 2014 and 2022. Death Stalks Door County (2014) opens the run and every later title keeps the same pattern, through to Death Casts a Shadow (2022). Wisconsin, sheriffs and murder investigation fill the subject tags. Skalka has published nothing since 2022.

How many Patricia Skalka books are there?

Patricia Skalka has 7 books, released between 2014 and 2022.

Patricia Skalka Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 7 Patricia Skalka 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. Cover of Death Rides the Ferry by Patricia Skalka, book 4 of the Dave Cubiak series (2018)
  2. Cover of Death by the Bay by Patricia Skalka, book 5 of the Dave Cubiak series (2019)
  3. Cover of Death Casts a Shadow by Patricia Skalka, book 7 of the Dave Cubiak series (2022)
  1. 1
    Death Stalks Door CountyDave Cubiak #12014 · 246 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014246
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  2. 2
    Death at Gills RockDave Cubiak #22015 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015240
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  3. 3
    Death in Cold WaterDave Cubiak #32016 · 242 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016242
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  4. 4
    Death Rides the FerryDave Cubiak #42018 · 230 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018230
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    Death by the BayDave Cubiak #52019 · 208 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019208
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    Death Washes AshoreDave Cubiak #62021 · confirmed 2/4
    2021–
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  7. 7
    Death Casts a ShadowDave Cubiak #72022 · confirmed 2/4
    2022–
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Patricia Skalka 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.

Dave Cubiak in order

7 books
  1. 1. Death Stalks Door County
  2. 2. Death at Gills Rock
  3. 3. Death in Cold Water
  4. 4. Death Rides the Ferry
  5. 5. Death by the Bay
  6. 6. Death Washes Ashore
  7. 7. Death Casts a Shadow

Do you have to read Patricia Skalka books in order?

You only need to read Patricia Skalka books in order within the Dave Cubiak series, which holds 7 of the 7 Patricia Skalka books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Patricia Skalka

Start with Death Stalks Door County (2014), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Patricia Skalka book?

Death Casts a Shadow (2022) is the newest Patricia Skalka book released so far.

Is there a new Patricia Skalka book coming?

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

Patricia Skalka at a glance

Paused
No new Patricia Skalka title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Patricia Skalka books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
1,166 pages across the 5 of 7 books with a recorded length, a median of 240 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Patricia Skalka books, 5 of 7, were published in the 2010s.

What the Patricia Skalka books are about

All 7 Patricia Skalka books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: wisconsin is tagged on 5 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.