Jenny Adams Books In Order

Publication Order of A Deadly Twenties Mystery Books

Jenny Adams is an American published author.

She is someone who has always had an overactive imagination and turned that to her advantage. Jenny always had a love of books and stories and was able to channel that into her career working as a librarian and eventually became an author who was nominated for awards, such as an Agatha Award.

Jenny has degrees in Medieval Studies and Library Science from Ohio State University and Drexel University, respectively. She has also studied fiction while at Johns Hopkins University. She is also an alumna of the 2019 YA Novel Intensive by Blue Stoop. Jenny is also an alumna of the 2021 Tin House YA Workshop and served as a mentor in the 2021 PitchWars.

She can frequently be found curled up holding a mug of tea, working on novels intended for teens and adults. Her work spans different genres and categories but always has a tendency to delve into themes of belonging and family, while also featuring girls and women who are stronger and braver than they even know.

Jenny belongs to the writing groups Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and the Historical Novel Society. Previously, she has belonged to the groups RWA, SCBWI, and the ALA. Her book A Deadly Endeavor was a 2025 Agatha Award Nominee in the category of Best First Mystery.

Jenny Adams has a family and they reside together in northern Virginia.

A Deadly Endeavor is the first book in the Deadly Twenties Mystery series by Jenny Adams. If you love a good historical mystery series, be sure to check out this first in the series and see what you think!

In the city of Philadelphia during the Jazz Age, a serial killer is on the loose. The year is 1921, and Edie Shippen has come home after recovering from influenza for years in the state of California. When she does so, she is shocked to find out the news that her sweetheart from childhood is engaged. He’s not just engaged to anyone, either– his beloved betrothed is none other than her twin sister.

Edie may not be with him anymore, but she still is heartbroken by the news. She is now adrift and so vows that she is at last going to start living her life again as a woman in the modern world. If anyone gets in her way, that’s just going to be too bad.

The one thing that she did not anticipate was that young women were going to start leaving the city. Well, not leaving exactly. Disappearing. As they all start disappearing, the independence that she has just found starts to feel very dangerous.

Gilbert Lawless came home from the Great War, but even though he was physically back, it was clear to everyone that he had become a shell of who he used to be. He is able to bide his time hiding in the officer of the Coroner of Philadelphia. He just keeps to himself and does his best at that, until a series of corpses enter into the morgue.

Then he finds out that his sister Lizzie has gone missing, and it is the last straw. Gilbert puts his career at risk simply to just ask for help from the person that he knows Lizzie seemed to trust. That would be Edie Shippen, her employer.

Scared that the worst has happened, Edie and Gilbert do all that they can to look for clues. It becomes apparent to them eventually that Lizzie going missing might just have a connection to the deaths that are disrupting the city of Brotherly Love.

There is nothing stopping the killer from striking again. It’s just a matter of time before the killer comes out of the woodwork and claims another victim. Set in the Roaring Twenties, this is a puzzle wrapped up in a mystery that will have readers eagerly turning the pages to get to the end to find out what happens. Grab a copy of this book for yourself to discover how this story concludes!

A Poisonous Silence is the second book in the Deadly Twenties Mystery series by Jenny Adams. If you liked the first book in this series or are just a big fan of historical mystery stories, check out this story and keep the adventure going.

Private investigator Edie Shippen is quickly on the case once it comes to light that a film star has been poisoned in Philadelphia during the Prohibition era. It’s a mystery that she is perfectly happy to take on and yet another case that she has the potential to put to rest for her client.

Edie is happy to start her new career off working as a private investigator. Despite the fact that she has not managed to book a client yet, it is still something that she is really excited about. She knows that if she just hangs in there, some clients will come to her and she’ll finally have a case.

Then Edie runs into a friend from a long time ago, Ava Sylvester. Edie is thrilled to have run into the film actress and is happy that they’ll have chance to start their relationship up again. But when Ava’s new husband Duncan and her co-star suddenly tragically passes away, it appears that Ava is the prime suspect as all the signs point to her having done it.

Edie suddenly finds that she has a case to take on after all. It’s both personal and professional for her because she is doing everything that she can to try and prove that her friend is innocent and clear her name in the process.

Meanwhile, Gilbert Lawless has found a peaceful life for himself as the assistant to a coroner. He doesn’t want to have to put his position in danger by getting involved with Edie, so he stays away at first. However, the body count is only going higher and Gil finds that he is increasingly part of Edie’s investigation taking place on the most famous film studio in Philadelphia, a setting where it seems like everyone is hiding something.

The cameras keep on rolling, and now Gil and Edie have to catch a killer before they’re the next victims. With everything on the line, can Edie succeed? Find out by getting a copy of A Poisonous Silence!