Rhys Bowen Books In Order
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Evans Above | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Evan Help Us | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Evanly Choirs | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Evan and Elle | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Evan Can Wait | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Evans to Betsy | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Evan Only Knows | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Evan's Gate | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Evan Blessed | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Evanly Bodies | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Friends Books
Starring Tess and Ali | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Boy Trouble for Tess and Ali | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tess and Ali and the Teeny Bikini | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tess and Ali, Going on Fifteen | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Full House: Club Stephanie Books
Flamingo Revenge | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fun, Sun, and Flamingoes | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Heartbreak Cafe Books
No Experience Required | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Just Desserts | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Main Attraction | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Catch of the Day | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
At Your Service | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Love to Go | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Her Royal Spyness Books
Her Royal Spyness | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Royal Pain | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Royal Flush | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Royal Blood | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Naughty in Nice | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Masked Ball at Broxley Manor | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Twelve Clues of Christmas | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Heirs and Graces | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Queen of Hearts | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Malice at the Palace | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crowned and Dangerous | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Love and Death Among the Cheetahs | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Mrs. Summers | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Peril in Paris | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Proof of the Pudding | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Love Stories Books
Sharing Sam | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Boy Next Door | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Who Do You Love? | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What We Did Last Summer | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Trust Me | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kiss and Tell | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
While You Were Gone | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Torn Apart | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
How Do I Tell? | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Justin & Nicole | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jake & Christy | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Molly Murphy Books
Murphy's Law | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death of Riley | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
For the Love of Mike | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In Like Flynn | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Oh Danny Boy | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In Dublin's Fair City | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tell Me, Pretty Maiden | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In a Gilded Cage | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Illusion | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bless the Bride | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Amersham Rubies | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hush Now, Don't You Cry | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Face in the Mirror | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Family Way | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Through the Window | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
City of Darkness and Light | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Edge of Dreams | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Away in a Manger | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Time of Fog and Fire | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ghost of Christmas Past | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wild Irish Rose | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All That Is Hidden | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In Sunshine or in Shadow | (2024) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Amersham Rubies is a prequel novella to the series. |
Publication Order of NBC Great Escapes Books
The Secrets of Lake Success | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Trade Winds | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of On Our Own Books
The Graduates | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Trouble with Toni | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Out of Love | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Old Friends, New Friends | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Growing Pains | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best Friends Forever | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Senior Year Books
Homecoming Dance | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
New Year's Eve | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night of the Prom | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Graduation Day | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Sister, Sister Books
Cool in School | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
You Read My Mind | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
One Crazy Christmas | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Homegirl on the Range | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
He's All That | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Summer Daze | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Star Quality | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All Rapped Up | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Sugar and Spice Books
Flip Side | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Two Girls, One Boy | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Trading Places | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Dance | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dear Cousin | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nothing in Common | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tug of War | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Surf's Up | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Double Take | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Make Me a Star | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Big Sister | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Out in the Cold | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blind Date | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
It's My Turn | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Home Sweet Home | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dream Come True | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Campus Cousins | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Roadtrip | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
One Step Too Far | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Having a Ball | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of TGIF Books
Sleepover Madness | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Four's a Crowd | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Forever Friday | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Toe-Shoe Trouble | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Secret Valentine | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Boyfriend Club Books
Ginger's First Kiss | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Roni's Dream Boy | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Karen's Perfect Match | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Queen Justine | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ginger's New Crush | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Roni's Two-Boy Trouble | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
No More Boys | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Karen's Lessons in Love | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Roni's Sweet Fifteen | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Justine's Baby-Sitting Nightmare | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Boyfriend Wars | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dear Karen | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Red Dragon Academy Books
Publication Order of True Love Books
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Tommy Loves Tina | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Winner Take All | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wanted: Date for Saturday Night | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Write Every Day | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Madam Sarah | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Summer Heat | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fool's Gold | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Phantom Love | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
On My Own | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Amazing Grace | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Apartment | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sutcliffe Diamonds | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Getting Personal | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The King and I | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Love Potion | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In Farleigh Field | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tuscan Child | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What Child Is This | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Victory Garden | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Above the Bay of Angels | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Venice Sketchbook | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Where the Sky Begins | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Paris Assignment | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Seal of the Confessional | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doppelganger | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Voodoo | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Please Watch Your Step | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Picture Books
Peter Penny's Dance | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Benjamin's Balloon | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Septimus Bean and His Amazing Machine | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Magic Growing Powder | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Helpful Hattie | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Billy and Ben | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Tgif! Books
Publication Order of Cozy Case Files Mystery Sampler Books
Cozy Case Files Volume 1 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cozy Case Files Volume 2 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cozy Case Files Volume 3 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cozy Case Files Volume 4 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cozy Case Files Volume 5 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cozy Case Files Volume 6 | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cozy Case Files Volume 7 | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cozy Case Files Volume 8 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cozy Case Files Volume 9 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cozy Case Files Volume 10 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cozy Case Files Volume 11 | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cozy Case Files Volume 12 | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cozy Case Files Volume 13 | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cozy Case Files Volume 14 | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cozy Case Files Volume 15 | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cozy Case Files Volume 16 | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cozy Case Files Volume 17 | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cozy Case Files, Volume 18 | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cozy Case Files, Volume 20 | (2024) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthology series.If author is listed on a book then this author wrote a story within that book. |
Publication Order of Caroline Canfield Mysteries Books
Tiger's Palette | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sketches with Wolves | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Sweet Dreams Books
The Popularity Plan | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Problem with Love | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
It Must Be Magic | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Popularity Summer | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Popularity Summer | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Forbidden Love | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dear Amanda | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
California Girl | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Love Match | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ten-Boy Summer | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Daydreamer | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dial L for Love | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Love in the Fast Lane | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Language of Love | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kiss Me, Creep | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ghost of a Chance | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Exchange of Hearts | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lovebirds | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Two of Us | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ten-Speed Summer | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Follow That Boy | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Questions of Love | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
101 Ways to Meet Mr. Right | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Great Boy Chase | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
If You Love Me | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Secret Love | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Heartbreak Hill | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Taking the Lead | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Never Say Goodbye | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stand By for Love | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Dream Guy | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dream Date | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Puppy Love | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Down with Love! | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wrong-Way Romance | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Opposites Attract | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Too Good to Be True | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
That Certain Feeling | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cinderella Game | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Partners in Love | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Love to Spare | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Secret Heart | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Don't Bet On Love | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deep in My Heart | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blame It on Love | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dreamboat | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Unholy Orders | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood on Their Hands | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 5 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Merry Band of Murderers | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sherlock Holmes: The American Years | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mysterious Writers: The Many Facets of Mystery Writing | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Malice Domestic 11 | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Silent Night, Deadly Night | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Private Investigations: Mystery Writers on the Secrets, Riddles, and Wonders in Their Lives | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shattering Glass | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nothing Good Happens After Midnight | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Promophobia: Taking the Mystery Out of Promoting Crime Fiction | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cozy Case Files Volume 17 | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rhys Bowen is a New York Times Bestselling Author who has written many top selling series including Constable Evans, the Molly Murphy Mysteries, and the Royal Spyness series. She has been nominated for an Edgar Best Novel Award, the highest mystery book award, for her Constable Evans series book “Evan’s Gate” and won for the Agatha Best Novel Award. Her second book in the series, “Evan Help Us”, was subsequently nominated for a Barry Award. She has also written several short stories and won an Anthony. Rhys Bowen is listed in the “Who’s Who In America” under Janet Quin-Harkin, her married name. She is also an ex-chapter president of the group the Mystery Writers Of America. Her books have received favorable reviews world wide.
Rhys Bowen was born in the town of Bath, England. Her family was half English and half Welsh. She studied at London University and eventually started a career at the BBC as a drama studio manager. She was working on a dull play and decided to write one herself, marching into the office of the head of BBC drama at 22 and giving him the script. Two days later, he called her in and said that BBC was going to produce the play. Rhys went on to move to Australia and work for Australian Broadcasting. She then met her future husband, also a Brit. Rhys moved again and settled in San Francisco, California, and has lived their ever since. Rhys raised four children there with her husband.
Rhys also began writing children’s book as Janet Quin-Harkin and her first picture book won several awards. More picture books came after, and her agent asked her to write a book for young adults. Her first book was a big hit. Rhys was selling half a million copies by the time she was writing her third book. More young adult novels came until Rhys felt she was done with the genre, and turned to writing mysteries. Rhys loves to read books with a strong sense of time and place and set the Constable Evans series in North Wales near the mountains, where she had spent many vacations in her childhood. It was visiting Ellis Island that made Rhys start thinking and inspired her to come up with the spunky Irish lass Molly Murphy. Her first book, “Murphy’s Law”, won an Agatha Best Novel award as well as three others. Other books in the series have won great reviews and “Hush Now, Don’t You Cry” immediately made the New York Times bestseller list.
Rhys created a second heroine named Lady Georgiana as part of the Her Royal Spyness series. Georgiana is distantly an heir to the British throne but broke and trying to make her way through The Great Depression. The series was a bestseller that was nominated for multiple awards. “Naught In Nice” was nominated for a Bruce Alexander, Agatha, and RT Reviews award. In 2012 it won for Best Historical Mystery in the Agatha Awards. Rhys drew from her life in England to write the series. When not writing, Rhys likes to hike, paint, sing, play the Celtic Harp, travel, and spoil her grandchildren.
Murphy’s Law
The first book in the Molly Murphy series features mart and curious Irish lass named Molly Murphy. Her mother constantly said that Molly would end up in trouble. So when Molly commits a murder defending herself from the low down son of a landowner’s advances, she has to leave Ireland in order to avoid going to the gallows and take off for the new, exciting and scary world of America. She meets people on the ship such as a mother with two children and a loud brute named O’Malley, whom she gets into an argument with. Molly at last makes it to America and begins to relax when she sees the Statue of Liberty. When a murder goes down on Ellis Island with the man Molly was seen by witnesses arguing with, she becomes a prime suspect in committing the crime.
Molly Murphy arrives in New York and sees the promise of freedom and the Statue of Liberty and begins to rest easier. But when a murder is committed on Ellis Island with the man she was seen arguing with, Molly becomes one of the top suspects for the crime. Molly is determined to find the true culprit for the crime by hitting the streets of New York, scouring through the Lower East Side and roads of Hell’s Kitchen and clear her name. She also has a potential ally in the handsome policeman who is assigned to the case who thinks that Molly may be innocent. But Molly has to clear her name and investigate herself and free herself from blame before the past comes back to haunt her. Armed with her wits, her smarts and tenacity are the only tools that Molly with which to clear her name. Will she find who the killer is before she’s accused and tried for the crime? Driven, likable, curious and driven, Molly is a fun character who is set in a very real time and place, constantly running into danger, but feisty and smart enough to get herself out of it.
Death Of Riley
The second book in the Molly Murphy series begins with Molly trying to forget the bad memories of her past. There’s the murder of the unwelcome son back in Ireland and now there’s been the brutal homicide of O’Malley back on Ellis Island. It seems like trouble and death are following Molly wherever she goes. Now she’s free to start her new life in the New World and thinks that this might be the right time for her to strike out on her own and start doing detective work helping families in Europe who wish to find family members in America. Molly just might be able to use her talents to make some money and put food on the table. She thinks she just might find handsome detective Daniel Sullivan and get some advice.
Molly ends up finding a mentor in Paddy Riley, a tough P.I. but she comes to work one day and finds everything has changed. Before she knows it, Molly is taking to the streets of New York to find out what happened. Working through the bars and lounges of the literary scene, Molly’s world is getting bigger than ever. With her passionate determination, Molly is locked on cracking the case and dispensing justice to the killer.
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Is Masked Ball at Broxley Hall available as a printed book? And are the short stories “the Amersham Rubies, The Face in the Mirror and through the Window” in print? I can’t find a way to order them through anyone.
Looks like ebook versions only.