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Jess Montgomery Books in Order

Jess Montgomery has written 5 books, published between 2019 and 2022. The first book is The Widows (2019) and the newest is The Echoes (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
5
Published
2019–2022
Pages on record
944 in 3 of 5 books
Reading time
16–24 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 944 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 3 of 5 titles with a page count on record.

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Jess Montgomery writes historical mysteries set in Ohio, with women sleuths doing the investigating. Kinship is Montgomery's one named series. Five catalogued books run from The Widows (2019) through The Hollows (2020), Downriver and The Stills (both 2021) to The Echoes (2022). No new Montgomery title has been recorded since 2022.

How many Jess Montgomery books are there?

Jess Montgomery has 5 books, released between 2019 and 2022. 4 of them belong to the Kinship series.

Jess Montgomery Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 5 Jess Montgomery 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. Cover of The Widows by Jess Montgomery, book 1 of the Kinship series (2019)
  2. Cover of The Hollows by Jess Montgomery, book 2 of the Kinship series (2020)
  3. Cover of The Stills by Jess Montgomery, book 3 of the Kinship series (2021)
  4. Cover of The Echoes by Jess Montgomery, book 4 of the Kinship series (2022)
  1. 1
    The WidowsKinship #12019 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019336
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  2. 2
    The HollowsKinship #22020 · confirmed 1/4
    2020–
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  3. 3
    Downriver2021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021–
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  4. 4
    The StillsKinship #32021 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2021320
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  5. 5
    The EchoesKinship #42022 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2022288
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Jess Montgomery 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.

Kinship in order

4 books
  1. 1. The Widows
  2. 2. The Hollows
  3. 3. The Stills
  4. 4. The Echoes

Standalone books

1 book

1 Jess Montgomery title here is not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Jess Montgomery books in order?

You only need to read Jess Montgomery books in order within the Kinship series, which holds 4 of the 5 Jess Montgomery books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Jess Montgomery

Start with The Widows (2019), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Jess Montgomery book?

The Echoes (2022) is the newest Jess Montgomery book released so far.

Is there a new Jess Montgomery book coming?

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

Jess Montgomery at a glance

Paused
No new Jess Montgomery title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Jess Montgomery books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
944 pages across the 3 of 5 books with a recorded length, a median of 320 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Jess Montgomery books, 4 of 5, were published in the 2020s.

What the Jess Montgomery books are about

3 of the 5 Jess Montgomery books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: american literature is tagged on 2 of 3. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.