Vickie Britton

Vickie lives in Kansas, however, she spent a lot of years in Laramie, Wyoming, where she has set some of her fiction. Both Vickie and her sister are drawn to old mining towns, out-of-the-way places, and vast range lands where the history and legends of the past continue to live on. Inspired by the rugged mountains in Colorado and Wyoming, they find the lonely, high country region to be a perfect setting for their “High Country Mystery” series which stars Jeff McQuede, a Wyoming sheriff. “Murder in Black and White” is the first novel in the “High Country Mystery” series and was released in the year 2011.

The best place to start is the Ardis Cole series, the earliest of Vickie Britton's multi-book series: it opens with The Curse of Senmut (2000) and runs to 8 books across 2000–2018, ending with Consider Me Dead (2018). Vickie Britton's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Vickie Britton has 60 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1989 and 2024. 30 of them belong to 6 named series — the largest being the High Country Mysteries series with 14 books — and 30 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Vickie Britton's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Ardis Cole (2000–2018, 8 books), Luck Of The Draw Western (2008–2009, 3 books) and Kate Jepp Mysteries (2008, 1 book), plus 3 more.

This guide splits Vickie Britton's 60 books into 6 named series and 30 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: High Country Mysteries (14 books, 2011–2024); Ardis Cole (8 books, 2000–2018); Luck Of The Draw Western (3 books, 2008–2009); Jeff McQuede Mysteries (2 books, 2016–2017); Pre-Columbian Treasure (2 books, 2011–2012), plus 1 further series.