Valerie V.M. Burns Books in Order
Valerie V.M. Burns has written 19 books, published between 2017 and 2025. The first book is The Plot Is Murder (2017) and the newest is The Next Deadly Chapter (2025). Publication order is the reading order below. 10 of the 19 books listed here are in the Mystery Bookshop series, which has its own page: Mystery Bookshop books in order.
- Books
- 19
- Published
- 2017–2025
- Pages on record
- 2,110 in 9 of 19 books
Valerie V.M. Burns has 19 catalogued books, from The Plot Is Murder (2017) to The Next Deadly Chapter (2025), with cozy, amateur-sleuth and women-sleuth mysteries among the subject tags. The author page lists the Dog Club Mystery and RJ Franklin Mystery series, along with a set of V.M. Burns short stories and novellas. Bookstores, retirees, real estate agents and police procedurals appear among the subjects. In the Dog House (2018) and Bookmarked for Murder (2019) are two further titles.
How many Valerie V.M. Burns books are there?
Valerie V.M. Burns has 19 books, released between 2017 and 2025. They include 3 separate series.
Valerie V.M. Burns Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 19 Valerie V.M. Burns 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.
- 120172482/4
- 22018–2/4
- 320182362/4
- 420182562/4
- 520182562/4
- 620191442/4
- 72019–2/4
- 82019–2/4
- 920192562/4
- 1020192562/4
- 1120201862/4
- 122020–2/4
- 132020–2/4
- 142021–2/4
- 152021–2/4
- 162021–2/4
- 172022–2/4
- 182023–2/4
- 1920252722/4
Valerie V.M. Burns series in order
The series linked below has its own reading-order page.
- Mystery Bookshop books in order 11 books
Valerie V.M. Burns 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.
Dog Club Mystery in order
5 booksRJ Franklin Mystery in order
3 booksV.M. Burns Short Stories/Novellas
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Do you have to read Valerie V.M. Burns books in order?
You only need to read Valerie V.M. Burns books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Valerie V.M. Burns
Start with The Plot Is Murder (2017), the first Mystery Bookshop book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.
What is the newest Valerie V.M. Burns book?
The Next Deadly Chapter (2025) is the newest Valerie V.M. Burns book released so far.
Is there a new Valerie V.M. Burns book coming?
No next Valerie V.M. Burns book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Valerie V.M. Burns at a glance
- Still publishing
- Valerie V.M. Burns published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Valerie V.M. Burns books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 2,110 pages across the 9 of 19 books with a recorded length, a median of 256 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Valerie V.M. Burns books, 10 of 19, were published in the 2010s.
What the Valerie V.M. Burns books are about
13 of the 19 Valerie V.M. Burns 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 5 of 13. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Mystery & detective 5 of 13 books
- American literature 3 of 13 books
- Cozy mystery 3 of 13 books
- Mystery & detective, women sleuths 3 of 13 books
- Investigation 2 of 13 books
- Murder 2 of 13 books
- Mystery & detective, amateur sleuth 2 of 13 books
- Mystery & detective, police procedural 2 of 13 books