Below is the complete list of Steve Higgs’ Blue Moon Investigations books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Blue Moon Investigations Books
- A Typo, a Werewolf, and Two Dopey Dachshunds (2019)
Published in 2019, A Typo, a Werewolf, and Two Dopey Dachshunds is listed as book #12 in the Blue Moon Investigations series. 
Publication Order of Blue Moon Investigations: Boston Books
with Justin Herzog
Publication Order of Blue Moon Investigations: Sacramento Books
with Alex Gates
About Blue Moon Investigations
Steve Higgs’s Blue Moon Investigations series is a humorous paranormal mystery sequence built around an irresistible contradiction: its original investigator specializes in supernatural cases while being convinced that supernatural creatures do not exist. Beginning with Paranormal Nonsense, the series follows Tempest Michaels as supposed vampires, ghosts, werewolves, demons, and other impossible threats bring clients to his door. What he expects to expose as fraud or misunderstanding repeatedly develops into murder, conspiracy, and genuine danger.
Tempest is not introduced as a lifelong detective. He leaves a conventional career and establishes Blue Moon Investigations, discovering that an unexpectedly large number of people want someone to investigate problems they believe have paranormal causes. His skepticism becomes the agency’s defining characteristic. Rather than accepting that a monster is responsible, he looks for the human explanation hidden behind the legend.
Paranormal Nonsense establishes this approach and the comic tone surrounding it. Tempest encounters claims that would seem more appropriate for a supernatural hunter than an ordinary private investigator, but he treats them as mysteries requiring evidence. The gap between what witnesses insist they have seen and what Tempest believes is possible provides both humor and suspense.
The series quickly expands beyond a simple succession of spoof paranormal cases. Tempest’s investigations involve murders, disappearances, fraud, dangerous criminals, and people willing to exploit fear for their own purposes. A supposedly supernatural threat can be useful camouflage: if witnesses believe a ghost, vampire, or mythical creature is responsible, they may overlook the very human person benefiting from the confusion.
Amanda Harper becomes one of the most important figures in the Blue Moon world. Her development broadens the investigative side of the series and helps it grow beyond Tempest as a single central sleuth. As the books progress, Blue Moon increasingly feels like an investigative universe populated by recurring colleagues, friends, police contacts, clients, and adversaries rather than simply a collection of Tempest’s individual adventures.
Another major source of personality comes from the dogs associated with the characters. Higgs frequently uses canine companions for comedy and disruption, but they also become recognizable members of the recurring cast. This combination of murder investigations, friendship, animals, and absurd situations keeps the books considerably lighter than their supernatural-sounding titles might suggest.
The Kent setting is important to the original sequence. English towns, villages, countryside, historic buildings, and local legends give Higgs a constant supply of environments where stories about hauntings and unexplained creatures can plausibly develop. Familiar places become comic versions of gothic settings once frightened witnesses begin describing what they think they encountered.
Higgs also plays deliberately with expectations created by paranormal fiction. A case may appear to contain all the evidence necessary for a supernatural explanation, yet Tempest continues looking for inconsistencies. The recurring question is not merely whether monsters exist but whether believing in them prevents people from noticing a more immediate danger.
As the series develops, however, the boundary between skepticism and the impossible becomes increasingly playful. Tempest’s insistence on rational explanations is repeatedly tested, and Higgs uses that tension as a running joke as well as a source of mystery. The reader is encouraged to question evidence alongside the investigators rather than assume every strange event will fit neatly into one category.
The Blue Moon concept eventually became large enough to support spin-offs beyond the original British setting. Separate branches such as Blue Moon Appalachia, Blue Moon Australia, Blue Moon Boston, and Blue Moon Sacramento transplant the basic investigative idea to new characters, locations, folklore, and supposedly paranormal cases. These are related series rather than necessary installments in the main Blue Moon Investigations reading order.
Within the original sequence, publication order is strongly recommended. Many individual mysteries have their own resolutions, but the characters, relationships, agency, and larger story develop substantially across the books. Later installments assume familiarity with people and events established earlier, so treating the novels as completely interchangeable standalones loses much of the continuing character development.
Blue Moon Investigations ultimately works because Higgs treats its supernatural premise as a source of both comedy and legitimate mystery. Tempest may begin a case expecting to expose another piece of paranormal nonsense, but proving that a vampire or ghost is not responsible does not identify the murderer standing behind the story. The real investigation begins when the impossible explanation falls apart—and someone still has to account for what happened.