Nita Prose Books in Order
Nita Prose has written 7 books, published between 2022 and 2025. The first book is The Maid (2022) and the newest is The Maid's Secret (2025). Publication order is the reading order below. 4 of the 7 books listed here are in the Maid series, which has its own page: Maid books in order.
- Books
- 7
- Published
- 2022–2025
- Confirmed
- 6 of 7 titles
- Pages on record
- 628 in 2 of 7 books
Nita Prose is the pen name of Nita Pronovost, a Canadian author and book editor. The Maid (2022) opens the catalogue and won the Anthony, Barry, Macavity, Ned Kelly and Goodreads Choice awards. Seven books are listed through The Maid's Secret (2025), including The Mystery Guest (2023) and The Mistletoe Mystery (2024), and Maid is the series on the listing. Prose started out writing for literary magazines, then worked as an editor at HarperCollins Canada, Doubleday and Simon & Schuster Canada, rising to vice president and editorial director, and ghost wrote celebrity memoirs. Cozy mystery and crime are among the subjects.
How many Nita Prose books are there?
Nita Prose has 7 books, released between 2022 and 2025. 4 of them belong to the Maid series.
Nita Prose Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 7 Nita Prose 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.
- 120223043/4
- 22023–3/4
- 32023–4/4
- 4The Guest2024 · confirmed 1/42024–1/4
- 52024–3/4
- 62024–3/4
- 720253243/4
Nita Prose series in order
The series linked below has its own reading-order page.
- Maid books in order 4 books
Nita Prose 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.
Busybodies Collection
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Obsession Collection
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Standalone books
1 book1 Nita Prose title here is not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Nita Prose books in order?
You only need to read Nita Prose books in order within the Maid series, which holds 4 of the 7 Nita Prose books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
What order should you read Nita Prose books in?
Read them in publication order, starting with The Maid (2022), the first Maid book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.
What is the newest Nita Prose book?
The Maid's Secret (2025) is the newest Nita Prose book released so far.
Is there a new Nita Prose book coming?
No next Nita Prose book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Awards Nita Prose has won
Wikidata records 1 award for Nita Prose. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Anthony Award for Best First Novel2023Wonfor The Maid
Nita Prose at a glance
- Still publishing
- Nita Prose published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Nita Prose books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 628 pages across the 2 of 7 books with a recorded length, a median of 314 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Nita Prose books, 7 of 7, were published in the 2020s.
- Corroboration
- 1 of the 7 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and 6 in at least three.
What the Nita Prose books are about
3 of the 7 Nita Prose books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: mystery & detective is tagged on 3 of 3. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Mystery & detective 3 of 3 books
- Mystery Thriller 3 of 3 books
- Series:Molly-the-Maid 3 of 3 books
- Thrillers 3 of 3 books
- Contemporary 2 of 3 books
- Cozy mystery 2 of 3 books
- Crime 1 of 3 books
- English literature 1 of 3 books
- Romance 1 of 3 books