Jerusha Jones: 25 books

Jericho McElroy can reflexively nail the make year of a classic Chevy just by the size of its vestigial tailfins, pinpoint the best locations to stash drugs inside a Honda Civic's door panels, winch anything out of any ditch anywhere, and find the perfect match for the crown molding in his old Craftsman...

The middle of nowhere is often on the way from here to there. A thoroughfare, if you will. Nothing wrong with that. Usually the people who live in the unassuming, odd-name towns along a bustling interstate highway are happy for the trade, the small influx of income, and they tolerate the gas-hog...

Meredith Morehouse, curator of the eclectic Imogene Museum, stumbles upon the remnants of a stolen shipment of scary-looking wood figurines. Are they smuggled national treasures or clever fakes? While Meredith is sucked into the secret federal probe of the fishy figurines and their importer,...

When asked to research old documents for a local family, Meredith Morehouse, curator of the eclectic Imogene Museum, jumps at the chance. As if she didn't already have enough to do. She's trying to hire a new gift shop manager while also keeping tabs on Rupert Hagg, the museum director who...

Sockeye County has a lot of nooks and crannies. Combine a vast expanse of mostly wilderness with a sparse and fiercely independent populace, and—naturally—the sheriff's department is stretched thin. Which makes it a terrific place to commit a murder. And hide the evidence. In theory. Except...

When Meredith Morehouse, curator of the eclectic Imogene Museum, finds an empty ornate frame, the still-life painting hurriedly sheared from its moorings, she and Sheriff Marge Stettler scramble to identify the intruder. Not because his taste in art is questionable, but because the thief's...

When Meredith Morehouse and her fisherman friend, George, narrowly miss death via explosion, Meredith's curiosity instinct kicks in. The explosion could've been accidental…but Meredith is about to take the witness stand in Sockeye County's trial of the decade. And George's earlier...

After weeks of fire danger warnings and several wildfire flare-ups, the residents of Sockeye County, Washington are on edge. When a fire threatens the Imogene Museum, curator Meredith Morehouse realizes the frequency and increasing size of the conflagrations aren't as random as they first appeared. Meredith...

That soft, timid knock late at night. A hoarse mayday in the dark. When you live in Marten's Marina, your doorstep is an international shipping lane. So when a half-drowned refugee washes ashore, Eva Fairchild-Malloy and her neighbors scramble to the rescue. Their castaway is fleeing—from...

Eva Malloy and her partner in cooking, Willow Ratliff, are taking their supper club venture to the next level—by foraging for their own wild foods. What they didn't expect to find was a dead body, facedown in a marsh. It's enough to turn anyone's stomach. But when Eva and her police detective...

Sockeye County sits smack dab in the middle of the scenic Columbia River Gorge. It's a land full of history and natural resources. And criminals, apparently. Or at least the criminally negligent. When a mining truck loses its brakes and crashes down an embankment into the river along...