There are 3 books in the Lawson series. The newest book is The Utter Catastrophe which came out in 2021.

1
The Awful Mess

Book cover of The Awful Mess
All she wants is peace and quiet. What she gets is a giant scandal.

After her husband finally gets someone pregnant and it isn’t her, editor Mary Bellamy starts over in tiny, affordable Lawson, New Hampshire in 2003 just as the dot.com bubble is bursting.

Newly-divorced, Mary assumes her infertility…
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The Complete Disaster

Book cover of The Complete Disaster
A family's uncomfortable secret. A good cop's tragic mistake. And a small town facing fractures that could drive it apart, or knit it back together.

Six years after the events of THE AWFUL MESS, tensions run high in Lawson, New Hampshire, when a Somali Bantu refugee family moves in. Can…

3
The Utter Catastrophe

Book cover of The Utter Catastrophe
Can love beat heroin?

It's the summer of 2016, the opioid crisis is hitting New Hampshire hard, and tiny Lawson is not exempt. New Chief of Police Winslow Jennings is already being challenged by it when the epidemic strikes shockingly close to home.

But the Jennings have it easy compared…