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Start with A Dog with Two Tales and continue through all 16 books in the listed reading order.
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Book 1 by Ellen Riggs • Published 2020
Big city HR executive Ivy thinks she knows how her life will go, until she meets an abused sheepdog in desperate need of rescue. Saving Keats drags her into real danger and shows her a possible future far from corpora...
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A Bought The Farm Mystery reading order
Ends with Deerly Departed
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Book 1:A Dog with Two Tales
Ellen Riggs • 2020
Big city HR executive Ivy thinks she knows how her life will go, until she meets an abused sheepdog in desperate need of rescue. Saving Keats drags her into real danger and shows her a possible future far from corpora...
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Book 2:Dogcatcher in the Rye
Ellen Riggs • 2020
Eager to turn her new hobby farm into a country inn, Ivy is horrified when Keats finds a body in her rye field and her high school sweetheart, now police chief, pegs her as a suspect. Clearing her name means digging i...
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Book 3:Dark Side of the Moo
Ellen Riggs • 2020
Trying to repair her inn’s reputation, Ivy hosts a corporate retreat for former colleagues, only to discover a guest dead in the cow barn. With the herd unfairly blamed, she and Keats must find the real killer hiding...
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Book 4:A Streak of Bad Cluck
Ellen Riggs • 2020
A bridge club of elderly ladies should be an easy booking, but their visit ends in tragedy when one guest takes her final flight. As foxes prowl and someone stalks the farm, Ivy and Keats scramble to solve a case full...
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Book 5:Till the Cat Lady Sings
Ellen Riggs • 2020
Keats hates the idea of a feline partner, yet a pushy ginger cat insists on joining Ivy’s latest investigation. When a spiteful cat sitter targets Ivy and a client dies in the family’s new salon, every paw is needed t...
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Book 6:Alpaca Lies
Ellen Riggs • 2020
Runaway Farm’s star attraction is Alvina, a dancing alpaca who loves waltzing with handsome men. When a ballroom troupe arrives in town and their famous instructor ends up dead, Alvina becomes the prime suspect and Iv...
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Book 7:Twas the Bite Before Christmas
Ellen Riggs • 2020
Right before Christmas, a grieving, loudmouthed donkey demands room at the inn and refuses to stop singing the blues. His arrival coincides with a holiday murder, forcing Ivy, Keats and friends to decode his message b...
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Book 8:Swine and Punishment
Ellen Riggs • 2020
Wilma the escape artist sow has been voted most likely to kill among the farm’s animals, so when another body turns up, she takes the blame. As a reality show invades Clover Grove, Ivy and Keats wade through mud and m...
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Book 9:Don't Rock the Goat
Ellen Riggs • 2021
Spring brings a trio of pregnant rescue goats to Runaway Farm and an unwelcome blast from Ivy’s past. When another murder shakes Clover Grove, an ornery pickpocket goat joins the crime solving crew as Ivy fights to st...
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Book 10:Swan with the Wind
Ellen Riggs • 2021
Jilly’s long estranged grandmother calls from a retirement community, accused of a suspicious death that neighbors blame on a vicious swan. Ivy, Keats and Percy hit the road to help, only to find family drama, secrets...
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Book 11:How to Get a Neigh with Murder
Ellen Riggs • 2021
Tiny but determined, Clippers the miniature horse is training as a service animal when a deathbed confession and a new murder collide. Ivy, Bocelli the singing donkey and Keats trot into trouble to honor an old promis...
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Book 12:Tweet Revenge
Ellen Riggs • 2022
When a mysterious songbird keeps visiting Runaway Farm, Ivy and Jilly follow its trail to a stash of old love letters and a fresh crime. As Jilly’s wedding nears, long buried secrets in Clover Grove turn dangerously p...
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Book 13:For Love or Bunny
Ellen Riggs • 2022
Jilly’s orchard wedding is days away when a ravenous rabbit colony overruns the cemetery and a gardening expert ends up dead. With the mayor threatening to cancel the ceremony, Ivy and Keats must unmask a killer befor...
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Book 14:Between a Squawk and a Hard Place
Ellen Riggs • 2022
Ivy finally meets Runaway Farm’s original owner, animal benefactor Hannah Pemberton, only to find trouble close behind. When a new visit to nearby Thistledown turns deadly, Ivy and Keats are caught between old loyalti...
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Book 15:Double Dog Dare
Ellen Riggs • 2022
Keats’s breeder tracks Ivy down with heartbreaking news, and the search for the dog’s missing sister pulls them into a dangerous dognapping case. To save the kidnapped collie, Ivy and her team must untangle a crime th...
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Book 16:Deerly Departed
Ellen Riggs • 2022
A holiday theme park called Clausville invites Ivy to help with a reindeer in crisis, then Santa himself is accused of murder. With a beloved attraction at risk, Ivy, Keats and a troubled reindeer race to clear his na...
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A Bought The Farm Mystery FAQ
What is the best order to read the A Bought The Farm Mystery series?
The recommended reading order is the numbered order shown on this page, starting with A Dog with Two Tales.
How many books are in the A Bought The Farm Mystery series?
There are 16 books currently listed in the A Bought The Farm Mystery series on GurusReads.
Where should I start with the A Bought The Farm Mystery series?
New readers should start with A Dog with Two Tales, the first book in the reading order.
Is the A Bought The Farm Mystery series complete?
Based on the publication years we have, the series appears likely complete and spans releases from 2020 to 2022.