Bill Loehfelm Books in Order

Bill Loehfelm has written 8 books, published between 2003 and 2017. The first book is Heroes & Villains - Osama bin Laden (2003) and the newest is The Devil's Muse / Can the Devil Catch Fire? (2017). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
8
Published
2003–2017
Total pages
2,318 across 8 books
Reading time
39–58 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,318 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute.

Bill Loehfelm's eight catalogued books fall into three groups the listing names: the Maureen Coughlin series, standalone novels, and non-fiction. Policewomen, women sleuths, crime and murder head the recorded subjects, with New Orleans and New York as settings. Heroes & Villains - Osama bin Laden (2003) is the earliest title and The Devil's Muse / Can the Devil Catch Fire? (2017) the most recent. All eight books carry a page count, 2,318 pages in total at a median of 314.

How many Bill Loehfelm books are there?

Bill Loehfelm has 8 books, released between 2003 and 2017. 5 of them belong to the Maureen Coughlin series.

Bill Loehfelm Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 8 Bill Loehfelm books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. 1
    Heroes & Villains - Osama bin LadenBill Loehfelm Non-Fiction #12003 · 112 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003112
  2. 2
    The Devil She KnowsMaureen Coughlin #12006 · 322 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006322
  3. 3
    Fresh KillsBill Loehfelm Standalone Novels #12008 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008352
  4. 4
    BloodrootBill Loehfelm Standalone Novels #22009 · 368 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009368
  5. 5
    The Devil in Her WayMaureen Coughlin #22011 · 276 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011276
  6. 6
    Doing the Devil's WorkMaureen Coughlin #32014 · 308 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014308
  7. 7
    Let the Devil OutMaureen Coughlin #42016 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016320
  8. 8
    The Devil's Muse / Can the Devil Catch Fire?Maureen Coughlin #52017 · 260 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017260

Bill Loehfelm books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Maureen Coughlin in order

5 books
  1. 1. The Devil She Knows
  2. 2. The Devil in Her Way
  3. 3. Doing the Devil's Work
  4. 4. Let the Devil Out
  5. 5. The Devil's Muse / Can the Devil Catch Fire?

Bill Loehfelm Standalone Novels

2 books

2 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Bill Loehfelm Non-Fiction

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Do you have to read Bill Loehfelm books in order?

You only need to read Bill Loehfelm books in order within the Maureen Coughlin series, which holds 5 of the 8 Bill Loehfelm books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Bill Loehfelm

Start with Heroes & Villains - Osama bin Laden (2003), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Bill Loehfelm book?

The Devil's Muse / Can the Devil Catch Fire? (2017) is the newest Bill Loehfelm book released so far.

Is there a new Bill Loehfelm book coming?

No next Bill Loehfelm book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Bill Loehfelm at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Bill Loehfelm title on record dates from 2017, 9 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Bill Loehfelm books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
2,318 pages across all 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 314 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Bill Loehfelm books, 4 of 8, were published in the 2010s.

What the Bill Loehfelm books are about

All 8 Bill Loehfelm books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: suspense is tagged on 5 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.