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Margaret Mayhew Books in Order

Margaret Mayhew has written 27 books, published between 1976 and 2020. The first book is The Master of Aysgarth (1976) and the newest is The Lifeline (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
27
Published
1976–2020
Pages on record
7,187 in 21 of 27 books
Reading time
120–180 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 7,187 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 21 of 27 titles with a page count on record.

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Margaret Mayhew writes historical fiction and romance, with the Second World War as her main period: Bluebirds (1993) follows four women in wartime, and The Crew (1997) and the Royal Air Force supply further material. The Village Mysteries series turns to crime in English village settings. Mayhew was born in London within the sound of Bow Bell, and her earliest memories are of the German Blitz; her father was a pioneering heart surgeon at Guy's Hospital and her mother was French. Educated at Malvern Girls' College and in Lausanne, Mayhew began writing in her mid-thirties and published The Master of Aysgarth in 1976. The catalogue holds 27 titles through 2020.

How many Margaret Mayhew books are there?

Margaret Mayhew has 27 books, released between 1976 and 2020. 6 of them belong to the Village Mysteries series.

Margaret Mayhew Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 27 Margaret Mayhew 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 Master of Aysgarth by Margaret Mayhew (1976)
  2. Cover of Bluebirds. The Heartbreaking and Triumph Story of Four Women in Wartime by Margaret Mayhew (1993)
  3. Cover of Bluebirds by Margaret Mayhew (1993)
  4. Cover of The Crew by Margaret Mayhew (1997)
  5. Cover of Old Soldiers Never Die by Margaret Mayhew, book 1 of the Village Mysteries series (1999)
  6. Cover of The Little Ship by Margaret Mayhew (1999)
  7. Cover of Our Yanks by Margaret Mayhew (2001)
  8. Cover of The Pathfinder by Margaret Mayhew (2002)
  9. Cover of Those in Peril by Margaret Mayhew (2003)
  10. Cover of I'll Be Seeing You by Margaret Mayhew (2004)
  11. Cover of Rosebuds by Margaret Mayhew (2004)
  12. Cover of A Foreign Field by Margaret Mayhew (2005)
  13. Cover of Quadrille by Margaret Mayhew (2005)
  14. Cover of The Boat Girls by Margaret Mayhew (2007)
  15. Cover of Three Silent Things by Margaret Mayhew, book 2 of the Village Mysteries series (2008)
  16. Cover of The Last Wolf by Margaret Mayhew (2011)
  17. Cover of Dry Bones by Margaret Mayhew, book 3 of the Village Mysteries series (2012)
  18. Cover of The Lifeline by Margaret Mayhew, book 6 of the Village Mysteries series (2020)
  1. 1
    The Master of Aysgarth1976 · 180 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1976180
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  2. 2
    Three Black Cormorants1976 · 190 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1976190
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  3. 3
    The Cry of the Owl1977 · confirmed 2/4
    1977–
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  4. 4
    The Railway King1979 · 297 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1979297
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  5. 5
    The Owlers1979 · confirmed 2/4
    1979–
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  6. 6
    The Flame and the Furnace1982 · 432 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1982432
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  7. 7
    Regency Charade1986 · confirmed 2/4
    1986–
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  8. 8
    Bluebirds. The Heartbreaking and Triumph Story of Four Women in Wartime1993 · 702 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1993702
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  9. 9
    Bluebirds1993 · 709 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1993709
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  10. 10
    The Crew1997 · 411 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1997411
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  11. 11
    Old Soldiers Never DieVillage Mysteries #11999 · 224 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1999224
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  12. 12
    The Little Ship1999 · 419 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1999419
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  13. 13
    Our Yanks2001 · 414 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2001414
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  14. 14
    The Pathfinder2002 · 389 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002389
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  15. 15
    Those in Peril2003 · 389 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003389
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  16. 16
    I'll Be Seeing You2004 · 419 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004419
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  17. 17
    Rosebuds2004 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004352
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  18. 18
    A Foreign Field2005 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005320
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  19. 19
    Quadrille2005 · 184 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005184
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  20. 20
    The Boat Girls2007 · 432 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007432
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  21. 21
    Three Silent ThingsVillage Mysteries #22008 · confirmed 2/4
    2008–
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  22. 22
    The Other Side Of Paradise2009 · confirmed 2/4
    2009–
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  23. 23
    The Last Wolf2011 · 212 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011212
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  24. 24
    Dry BonesVillage Mysteries #32012 · 160 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2012160
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  25. 26
    Bitter PoisonVillage Mysteries #52016 · 160 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016160
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  26. 27
    The LifelineVillage Mysteries #62020 · 192 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020192
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Margaret Mayhew 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.

Village Mysteries in order

6 books
  1. 1. Old Soldiers Never Die
  2. 2. Three Silent Things
  3. 3. Dry Bones
  4. 4. The Seventh Link
  5. 5. Bitter Poison
  6. 6. The Lifeline

Standalone books

21 books

21 Margaret Mayhew titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Margaret Mayhew books in order?

You only need to read Margaret Mayhew books in order within the Village Mysteries series, which holds 6 of the 27 Margaret Mayhew books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Margaret Mayhew

Start with The Master of Aysgarth (1976), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Margaret Mayhew book?

The Lifeline (2020) is the newest Margaret Mayhew book released so far.

Is there a new Margaret Mayhew book coming?

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

Margaret Mayhew at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Margaret Mayhew title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Margaret Mayhew books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
7,187 pages across the 21 of 27 books with a recorded length, a median of 352 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Margaret Mayhew books, 10 of 27, were published in the 2000s.

What the Margaret Mayhew books are about

21 of the 27 Margaret Mayhew books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: world war, 1939-1945 is tagged on 10 of 21. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.