Victoria Houston Books in Order
Victoria Houston has written 30 books, published between 1985 and 2026. The first book is Alone After School (1985) and the newest is The Wolves Are Watching (2026). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 30
- Published
- 1985–2026
- Confirmed
- 17 of 30 titles
- Pages on record
- 5,479 in 23 of 30 books
- Reading time
- 91–137 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,479 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 23 of 30 titles with a page count on record.
Fly fishing and murder meet in Victoria Houston's Loon Lake mysteries, set in Wisconsin around the police officer Lew Ferris and Doc Osbourne. Dead Angler (2000) opens that series, followed by Dead Creek and Dead Water. Houston's catalogue holds 30 books, the earliest of them non-fiction from the 1980s, and reaches The Wolves Are Watching in 2026.
Doc Osborne, a retired dentist, and Police Chief Lewellyn Ferris investigate murders together in this series.
How many Victoria Houston books are there?
Victoria Houston has 30 books, released between 1985 and 2026. They include 2 series and 7 titles listed outside any series.
Victoria Houston Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 30 Victoria Houston 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.
- 1Alone After School1985 · 200 pages · confirmed 2/419852002/4
- 2Self-Care for Kids1985 · 200 pages · confirmed 2/419852002/4
- 3Loving a Younger Man1989 · 286 pages · confirmed 2/419892862/4
- 4Making It Work1990 · 309 pages · confirmed 2/419903092/4
- 5My Health History1991 · 147 pages · confirmed 2/419911472/4
- 620002653/4
- 720002833/4
- 820012793/4
- 9Restore Yourself2001 · 224 pages · confirmed 2/420012242/4
- 10Michelle and Me2002 · 176 pages · confirmed 2/420021762/4
- 1120032943/4
- 1220042913/4
- 1320052592/4
- 1420062123/4
- 1520073002/4
- 1620082723/4
- 172009–3/4
- 1820102433/4
- 192012–3/4
- 2020132063/4
- 212014–3/4
- 2220152083/4
- 2320162063/4
- 2420172033/4
- 2520182083/4
- 2620192083/4
- 272022–2/4
- 292024–2/4
- 302026–2/4
Victoria Houston characters in order
The character linked below has its own reading-order page.
Victoria Houston 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.
Loon Lake Mystery in order
19 books- 1. Dead Angler
- 2. Dead Creek
- 3. Dead Water
- 4. Dead Frenzy
- 5. Dead Hot Mama
- 6. Dead Jitterbug
- 7. Dead Boogie
- 8. Dead Madonna
- 9. Dead Hot Shot
- 10. Dead Renegade
- 11. Dead Deceiver
- 12. Dead Tease
- and 7 more in the table above
Lew Ferris in order
4 booksStandalone books
7 books7 Victoria Houston titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Victoria Houston books in order?
You only need to read Victoria Houston books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Victoria Houston
Start with Dead Angler (2000), the first Loon Lake Fishing Mysteries book. The earliest catalogued title overall is Alone After School (1985).
What is the newest Victoria Houston book?
The Wolves Are Watching (2026) is the newest Victoria Houston book released so far.
Is there a new Victoria Houston book coming?
No next Victoria Houston book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Victoria Houston at a glance
- Still publishing
- Victoria Houston published a book as recently as 2026.
- Release pace
- Victoria Houston books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 5,479 pages across the 23 of 30 books with a recorded length, a median of 224 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Victoria Houston books, 12 of 30, were published in the 2000s.
What the Victoria Houston books are about
25 of the 30 Victoria Houston books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: lewellyn ferris (fictitious character) is tagged on 13 of 25. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Lewellyn Ferris (Fictitious character) 13 of 25 books
- Doc Osbourne (Fictitious character) 12 of 25 books
- Policewomen 10 of 25 books
- Wisconsin 8 of 25 books
- Mystery & detective, women sleuths 7 of 25 books
- Fly fishing 6 of 25 books
- Murder 6 of 25 books
- Mystery & detective 5 of 25 books
- Crime 4 of 25 books
- Investigation 4 of 25 books
- Police 4 of 25 books
- Mystery & detective, police procedural 3 of 25 books
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