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Nancy Bush Books In Order

Colony Books In Publication Order

  1. Wicked Game (With: Lisa Jackson) (2009)
  2. Unseen (2009)
  3. Blind Spot (2010)
  4. Wicked Lies (With: Lisa Jackson) (2011)
  5. Something Wicked (With: Lisa Jackson) (2013)
  6. Wicked Ways (With: Lisa Jackson) (2014)

Danner Quartet Books In Publication Order

  1. Lady Sundown (1989)
  2. Jesse’s Renegade (1991)
  3. Scandal’s Darling (1993)
  4. Miracle Jones (2011)

Danner Quartet Books In Chronological Order

  1. Miracle Jones (2011)
  2. Jesse’s Renegade (1991)
  3. Scandal’s Darling (1993)
  4. Lady Sundown (1989)

Jane Kelly Books In Publication Order

  1. Candy Apple Red (2005)
  2. Electric Blue (2006)
  3. Ultra Violet (2007)

Nowhere / Rafferty Family Books In Publication Order

  1. Nowhere to Run (2012)
  2. Nowhere to Hide (2012)
  3. Nowhere Safe (2013)
  4. You Can’t Escape (2015)
  5. The Killing Game (2016)

River Glen Books In Publication Order

  1. The Babysitter (2020)
  2. The Gossip (2021)

Summer Lovin’ Books In Publication Order

  1. Summertime Blues (1987)
  2. Imaginary Lover (1988)

Wyoming Books In Publication Order

  1. Sinister (2013)
  2. Ominous (2017)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Dare to Love (1982)
  2. Bittersweet 16 (1983)
  3. Lover or Deceiver (1984)
  4. Saturday’s Child (As: Natalie Bishop) (1984)
  5. Stolen Thunder (As: Natalie Bishop) (1985)
  6. Trial by Fire (As: Natalie Bishop) (1985)
  7. String of Pearls (As: Natalie Bishop) (1985)
  8. Silver Thaw (As: Natalie Bishop) (1986)
  9. Diamond in the Sky (As: Natalie Bishop) (1986)
  10. Just a Kiss Away (As: Natalie Bishop) (1986)
  11. The Princess and the Pauper (As: Natalie Bishop) (1989)
  12. Danner’s Lady (1990)
  13. Dear Diary (As: Natalie Bishop) (1990)
  14. Downright Dangerous (As: Natalie Bishop) (1991)
  15. Romancing Rachel (As: Natalie Bishop) (1991)
  16. Man She Married (As: Natalie Bishop) (1992)
  17. A Love Like Romeo and Juliet (As: Natalie Bishop) (1993)
  18. The Princess of Coldwater Flats (As: Natalie Bishop) (1994)
  19. Tangled (As: Nancy Kelly) (1994)
  20. Valentine’s Child (As: Natalie Bishop) (1997)
  21. If You Believe / No Turning Back (As: Nancy Kelly) (1997)
  22. Ginny Blue’s Boyfriends (As: Nancy Kelly) (2005)
  23. Hush (2011)
  24. I’ll Find You (2014)
  25. Dangerous Behavior (2017)
  26. One Last Breath (With: Lisa Jackson) (2018)
  27. Jealousy (2018)
  28. Bad Things (2019)
  29. Last Girl Standing (With: Lisa Jackson) (2020)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. When the Snow Falls (2014)

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Nancy Bush Books Overview

Wicked Game (With: Lisa Jackson)

Twenty years ago, wild child Jessie Brentwood vanished from St. Elizabeth’s high school. Most in Jessie’s tight circle of friends believed she simply ran away. Few suspected that Jessie was hiding a shocking secret – one that brought her into the crosshairs of a vicious killer…
Two decades pass before a body is unearthed on school grounds and Jessie’s old friends reunite to talk. Most are sure that the body is Jessie’s, that the mystery of what happened to her has finally been solved. But soon, Jessie’s friends each begin to die in horrible, freak accidents that defy explanation…
Becca Sutcliff has been haunted for years by unsettling visions of Jessie, certain her friend met with a grisly end. Now the latest deaths have her rattled. Becca can sense that an evil force is shadowing her too, waiting for just the right moment to strike. She feels like she’s going crazy. Is it all a coincidence – or has Jessie’s killer finally returned to finish what was started all those years ago?

Unseen

She woke up with no memories…
She wakes up in a hospital room…
bruised…
bloody…
confused. She knows her name is Gemma La Porte but that’s all. She doesn’t remember smashing her car. She doesn’t remember anything from the last three days. But a policeman, Deputy Will Tanninger, is waiting for answers and wants to know if she’s responsible for a fatal hit and run…
But remembering her past could kill her…
Hoping to restore her shattered memory, Gemma has no choice but to put her trust in Will. But if it turns out she’s guilty of murder, he has no choice but to arrest her. Torn by her growing feelings for Will, and haunted by her shadowy past, Gemma is determined to learn the truth. But, in this case, the darkest truths are unknowable and the deadliest enemies are Unseen…

Blind Spot

She woke up with no memories…
She wakes up in a hospital room…
bruised…
bloody…
confused. She knows her name is Gemma La Porte but that’s all. She doesn’t remember smashing her car. She doesn’t remember anything from the last three days. But a policeman, Deputy Will Tanninger, is waiting for answers and wants to know if she’s responsible for a fatal hit and run…
But remembering her past could kill her…
Hoping to restore her shattered memory, Gemma has no choice but to put her trust in Will. But if it turns out she’s guilty of murder, he has no choice but to arrest her. Torn by her growing feelings for Will, and haunted by her shadowy past, Gemma is determined to learn the truth. But, in this case, the darkest truths are unknowable and the deadliest enemies are unseen…

Wicked Lies (With: Lisa Jackson)

For two years, Justice Turnbull has paced his room at Halo Valley Security Hospital, planning to escape. Justice has a mission one that began with a vicious murder two decades ago. Laura Adderley didn’t plan to get pregnant by her soon to be ex husband, though she’ll do anything to protect her baby. But now reporter Harrison Frost is asking questions about the mysterious group of women who live at Siren Song lodge. Harrison hasn’t figured out Laura’s connection to the story yet. But Justice knows. And he is coming…
All her life, Laura has been able to sense approaching evil. But that won’t stop a psychopath bent on destroying her. Justice has been unleashed, and this time, there will be no place safe to hide.

Candy Apple Red

Jane Kelly is through with following men anywhere. Last time she did, she left Southern California for the dubious charms of Lake Chinook, Oregon, where she’s traded in bartending for the much more glamorous trade of process serving. Well, she can tell herself it’s glamorous, anyway. And the boyfriend, of course, is long gone. She’s not making any lifetime commitments, but when Portland divorce attorney Marta Cornell calls with a P.I. job, the money involved sounds like the answer to her dwindling bank account until she learns Tess Bradbury wants her to investigate the disappearance of Bobby Reynolds. Four years ago, without warning, Bobby murdered his young family and promptly vanished. No one disputed that he’d slaughtered his own flesh and blood except Tim Murphy, his best friend and Jane’s ex, the one guy she’s never quite gotten over. The murders had driven a wedge between him and Jane, and finally drove him right out of town. Now he’s on his way back, to attend a Lake Chinook Historical Society benefit that Cotton Reynolds, Bobby’s father, is hosting. It looks like Jane’s going to be following men around again this time with a tape recorder and a camera.

Electric Blue

Some days are just weird city. Take today. Jane Kelly, thirty something ex bartender and current process server, is dutifully putting in slave labour hours working for Dwayne Durbin, local ‘information specialist’ i.e., private investigator, and on the road to becoming a P.I. herself. Next thing she knows, she’s socializing with eccentric rich people who have a penchant for going crazy and/or dying in spectacularly mysterious ways. A little back story…
Jane’s usual motto in life is never trust anyone too handsome. But she’s willing to make an exception when Jasper ‘Jazz’ Purcell, son of Lake Chinook’s wealthiest and most famously eccentric family, comes to ask for her help. Sexy, loaded, and charming, the guy’s a real catch. It seems the Purcell matriarch, Orchid, is in her eighties and losing her marbles. And since she controls the family fortune, that could be a bad thing. What Jazz needs is somebody from the outside to convince his grandmother to give up control. Somebody neutral, somebody…
with a dog. Orchid likes dogs. And that’s how Jane and her pug, The Binkster, end up at Estate Creep O Rama, babysitting a dotty old lady, surrounded by a clan so hostile they make ‘Survivor’ look like a hug fest. From what Jane can tell, the Purcell family all want Orchid’s money; they all hate each other but not as much as they hate Jane; and they’re all hiding some pretty big secrets. And when Orchid turns up in a pool of blood on Jane’s watch, the free for all has just begun. Diving into the Purcell family history leads Jane on some hair raising twists and turns through mental illness, greed, deception, betrayal, and lies including, but not limited to several mysterious deaths, two car accidents, a depressed guy who paints knives, one creepy playhouse, a family member packed off to an asylum, illegitimate birth, and a flamboyant prodigal daughter with great legs and her sights set on Dwayne, who seems only too happy to play along. And when Jane finds the second body, it seems weird city is about to get even weirder…
and a lot more deadly…

Ultra Violet

For process server turned private investigator, Jane Kelly, weddings are murder. Usually that’s a metaphor, but for newly minted P.I. Jane Kelly, it’s fast becoming an all too accurate nightmare. Roland Hatchmere, plastic surgery magnate, has been found murdered just before his daughter’s society wedding. The weapon is a wedding gift: a heavy, silver serving tray. The prime suspect is Roland’s ex wife 2: Violet ‘Ultraviolet’ Purcell, she of the eccentric bordering on insane Purcell clan. Violet insists that she’s completely innocent. After all, Roland was her absolute favorite ex husband. And she was nowhere NEAR him at the time of the murder. Well, okay, technically she did meet him for a little pre nup, bedroom t te t te just before. And they did have a huge fight. And she did hit him with the tray. But just once. Honest. So could Jane just hurry up and prove her innocence? Sure. That should be easy. Let’s just file this one under ’12 Kinds of Crazy.’ But when Jane’s boss, the temporarily sidelined Dwayne, is convinced Violet’s telling the truth, well, there’s nothing for Jane to do but take her lovable, misfit pug, Binky, and sniff out a few clues. Everywhere Jane and The Binkster look, there’s a suspect odder than the last, including two grown, very troubled kids, an ex wife strung out on Botox and a current wife who’s a cross between Donna Reed and a sex kitten all of them eager to blame Roland’s death on Violet. It doesn’t help that Violet’s story keeps changing faster than a celebrity’s hair extensions. To make matters worse, Dwayne’s convalescence is turning him into Jimmy Stewart in ‘Rear Window,’ complete with binoculars, and he’s convinced there is something very bad going down in the private houses across Lakewood Bay, something that needs Jane and Binky’s close attention. Faster than she can say, ‘I took criminology courses for this?’, Jane is up to her eyeballs in lies, secrets, Extreme Botox, New Wave bands, truck stop coffee kiosks don’t ask, very good scones, Junior League, wedding bandits, high school sociopaths, Plastic Pet Cemetery don’t ask, part II, a budding attraction to her boss, the Millionaire’s Club, and someone who would kill to keep the past buried. The deeper Jane digs, the less she wants to know. Every truth leads her deeper into danger, and soon, Jane wonders if her first official case might also be her last…
and if the client she’s been asked to clear just might be the coldest black widow of all…

Ginny Blue’s Boyfriends (As: Nancy Kelly)

LA film production manager Ginny Blue has had quite a few exes, that is. And the latest one Nate the Nearly Normal was next on her list to dump, until she walked into the apartment they shared to find him moving out. The nerve! As if something were wrong with her…
which Ginny secretly suspects might be the case. Dave the Devout, Hairy Larry, and Mr Famous Actor weren’t exactly high points in the annals of modern romance. Her therapist calls her ‘frightfully well adjusted,’ but Ginny’s pretty sure she has everyone fooled. After all, every relationship she’d ever had has ended in bruised feelings and too much post break up chocolate, if not disaster. But when Ginny decides to revisit the erstwhile boyfriend archives in an attempt to figure out where she went wrong on the way to finding Mr Right, she discovers that the past has already planted a foot firmly in her present, in the form of the one guy she could never truly put behind her. Is he the man of her dreams? A knight in shining Armani? Or destined to become the Ex File to end them all?

Hush

In the summer before their senior year, Coby Rendell and her friends take a beach trip together. Around a campfire on a foggy June night, Coby, Rhiannon, Yvette and the others share their darkest secrets, before a tragic accident shatters the bond between them…
Twelve years later Coby attends a birthday party reunion that ends in horror when Yvette’s sister’s lifeless body is discovered in a hot tub. Soon others in the original group of tale tellers begin meeting similar fates unfortunate ‘accidents’ shrinking their numbers one by one…
Conflicted by her growing feelings for Danner Lockwood, the investigating detective, Coby races to unravel a mystery buried in the past. But someone is watching her every move someone prepared to kill again and again to protect a shocking truth…

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