Avery Shaw Series by Amanda M. Lee

4.47 · 188 ratings
  • Who, What, Where, When, Die (Avery Shaw #1)
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    Who, What, Where, When, Die (Avery Shaw #1)

    Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2011

    Avery Shaw is having a bad week. First, she had to cover a story on a barricaded gunman who likes to dance naked in his window. Second, she's receiving death threats with her morning newspaper. Lastly, and most importantly, her mom keeps vetoing her outfit choices. It's all in a day's work for this hardworking, if easily distracted, reporter... more

  • If It Bleeds, It Leads (Avery Shaw #2)
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    If It Bleeds, It Leads (Avery Shaw #2)

    Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2012

    Local news reporter Avery Shaw’s week is going from bad to worse.It’s bad enough there’s a dead body in the parking lot of the paper, but when the investigation into the death leads to drugs – and a tie to her own family – things continue to spiral downward.If she could focus on that, though, it would just be another normal week... more

  • Buried Leads (Avery Shaw #3)
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    Buried Leads (Avery Shaw #3)

    Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2013

    Journalists are supposed to report the news, not be it. For Avery Shaw, though, that's easier said than done.Avery has spent the last month on her boss' list -- you know the one -- and she can't figure out a way to get off it. When a missing persons case involving a wealthy mother in the northern suburbs surfaces, Avery figures the best way to get back in his good graces is break the story of the year.There's just a few problems standing in her way... more

  • Shot Off the Presses (Avery Shaw #4)
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    Shot Off the Presses (Avery Shaw #4)

    Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2014

    Life should be good for Avery Shaw. She's got a hunky new boyfriend in local pawnshop owner (and sometime private detective) Elliot Kane, her cousin Lexie swears she'll be moving out of her house one day "real soon" and her family has been relatively quiet for a whole week. That's practically perfection in Avery's world. Then, what appears to be a random freeway shooting resulting in the death of a young mother, causes upheaval on just about every front... more

  • The Preditorial Page (Avery Shaw #5)
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    The Preditorial Page (Avery Shaw #5)

    Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2014

    Is speed-dating okay when you're in a relationship? It is when you're looking for a killer, especially in Avery Shaw's world. A naked body has been discovered in the nearby Clinton River, and while Sheriff Jake Farrell is keeping his cards close to his vest, Avery has another avenue of Eliot. It doesn't hurt that the medial examiner seems to have a crush on her -- and verbal diarrhea -- and she keeps stumbling on information that propels her ahead of the pack... more

  • Misquoted & Demoted (Avery Shaw #6)
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    Misquoted & Demoted (Avery Shaw #6)

    Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2015

    Avery Shaw’s life is a mess – and that’s putting it mildly. County Commissioner Tad Ludington is on the warpath, and his complaints haven’t fallen on deaf ears. The new publisher is watching the staff – and Avery is of particular interest. As punishment, he’s decided to bust her down to sports – and no one is happy about it. The sports editor hates her, and the rest of the staff is struggling to tolerate her... more

  • Misprints & Mistakes (Avery Shaw #8)
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    Misprints & Mistakes (Avery Shaw #8)

    Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2016

    Avery Shaw is in a funny spot. Her best friend is pregnant, her cousin’s girlfriend is up to something and her boyfriend has serious issues on the brain. When teenager Sierra Jackson goes missing, Avery is in a unique position to scoop everyone. The girl’s fighting family is more concerned with a messy divorce and pointing fingers than helping find Sierra, so Avery becomes obsessed with discovering her whereabouts on her own... more

  • Bylines & Skylines (Avery Shaw #9)
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    Bylines & Skylines (Avery Shaw #9)

    Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2016

    Life is changing for Avery Shaw. She’s searching for a house with her boyfriend Eliot so they can officially move in together. She’s been gifted special passes to Macomb County’s comic book convention – and she couldn’t be more excited. She’s also been put in charge of her most hated enemy at work, and the power is going straight to her head. When Eliot lets Avery visit the convention center early, the duo stumble across a dead body and Avery’s happy week is thrown into turmoil... more

  • Off the Record (Avery Shaw #10)
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    Off the Record (Avery Shaw #10)

    Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2017

    Camping is supposed to be a peaceful and relaxing time … unless you’re Avery Shaw, of course. No, when you’re Macomb County’s most intrepid reporter, camping is akin to murder … or a very slow and painful death by disease-carrying bugs. That’s what Avery thinks as she takes a well-earned vacation with her boyfriend Eliot Kane. When the duo stumbles across a body at a local festival, Eliot has to force Avery to ease up on the suspicion and embrace the vacation decadence... more

  • Extra! Extra! Dead All About It (Avery Shaw #12)
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    Extra! Extra! Dead All About It (Avery Shaw #12)

    Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2018

    The primary election is almost here and Avery Shaw is in her glory. Her boss has unleashed her on the leading candidates - including two of whom she downright loathes - and Macomb County's leading reporter (and pot-stirrer extraordinaire) is about to turn the election on its ear.She just needs to find a story first.When her nemesis Tad Lancaster loses a volunteer, Avery sniffs out a bigger story… or at least she thinks she does... more

  • Oracles & Obituaries (Avery Shaw #15)
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    Oracles & Obituaries (Avery Shaw #15)

    Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2019

    Halloween is Avery Shaw's favorite time of year. What's not to love? Slasher movies, hot chocolate and corn mazes. She's addicted to them all.During a visit to one of those mazes, she runs across several men trying to kidnap a teenage girl. In true Avery fashion, she intervenes... resulting in a severe injury. While she's on the mend, she starts tracking information on a group of people working in the area.Avery can't decide if she's on to something or imagining things... more

  • Yesterday's News (Avery Shaw #13-15)
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    Yesterday's News (Avery Shaw #13-15)

    Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings · published 2019

    Winner takes all? That’s not just a motto but a lifestyle for Avery Shaw. She wants to win at all costs. Of course, she wants to help others, too. That comes second to winning but it’s often a byproduct. Avery is a reporter about town, and there’s no story she won’t doggedly pursue … especially if she can scoop every other news reporter in the Detroit area and claim the glory for herself... more

  • Mayhem & Mistletoe (Avery Shaw #17)
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    Mayhem & Mistletoe (Avery Shaw #17)

    Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2020

    Avery Shaw has the world at her fingertips … and a pile of dead Santas near the railroad tracks. Interestingly, she’s more focused on the Santas than her personal life, but only because she’s been warned that a proposal is imminent from her live-in love Eliot Kane and she needs to look somewhere else – anywhere else will do – rather than accept what he’s trying to offer.Avery never pictured herself married but it appears it might be happening … no matter how she tries to dodge and weave... more

  • Weddings & Whodunits (Avery Shaw #18)
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    Weddings & Whodunits (Avery Shaw #18)

    Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2021

    Avery Shaw never saw marriage on the menu – and when she did, she avoided it like liver and onions – but it appears her life is about to change. She simply can’t decide if it’s for better or worse.With matrimony barreling down on her, she needs a distraction, and she gets it in the form of a warning... more

  • Hard Hitting & Misleading (Avery Shaw #19)
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    Hard Hitting & Misleading (Avery Shaw #19)

    Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2021

    Avery Shaw is back from her honeymoon and on the prowl for a story. She wants to prove that marriage has softened her – nothing ever could – and the way she’s going to do that is by rocking the news world with something monumental.Then a body drops in her neighborhood, only blocks away from her house, and the hunt is on.The victim is divorced, having an affair with a married co-worker, and generally unlikable... more

  • Banner Headlines & Late Deadlines (Avery Shaw #24)
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    Banner Headlines & Late Deadlines (Avery Shaw #24)

    Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2024

    Avery Shaw is about to visit the sort of place she hates. Meditation? Blech. Manifestation? Double blech. It does sort of look like a village set in the trees, though, and you know what that means.Avery is back on the case.Full blurb coming soon!

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