Paula Daly Books in Order

Paula Daly has written 6 books, published between 2013 and 2019. The first book is Just What Kind of Mother Are You? (2013) and the newest is Clear My Name (2019). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
6
Published
2013–2019
Total pages
2,016 across 6 books
Reading time
34–50 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,016 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute.

Paula Daly writes domestic suspense. Six standalone novels make up the catalogue: Just What Kind of Mother Are You? (2013), Keep Your Friends Close (2014), The Mistake I Made (2015), The Trophy Child (2017), Open Your Eyes (2018) and Clear My Name (2019). Marriage, adultery, secrets, teenage girls and missing children supply the material, and no new title has appeared since 2019.

How many Paula Daly books are there?

Paula Daly has 6 books, released between 2013 and 2019.

Paula Daly Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 6 Paula Daly 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
    Just What Kind of Mother Are You?Paula Standalone Novels #12013 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013320
  2. 2
    Keep Your Friends ClosePaula Standalone Novels #22014 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014336
  3. 3
    The Mistake I MadePaula Standalone Novels #32015 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015352
  4. 4
    The Trophy ChildPaula Standalone Novels #42017 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017352
  5. 5
    Open Your EyesPaula Standalone Novels #52018 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018352
  6. 6
    Clear My NamePaula Standalone Novels #62019 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019304

Paula Daly 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.

Paula Standalone Novels

6 books

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

Do you have to read Paula Daly books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 6 Paula Daly books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Paula Daly

Start with Just What Kind of Mother Are You? (2013), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Paula Daly book?

Clear My Name (2019) is the newest Paula Daly book released so far.

Is there a new Paula Daly book coming?

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

Paula Daly at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Paula Daly title on record dates from 2019, 7 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Paula Daly books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
2,016 pages across all 6 books with a recorded length, a median of 344 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Paula Daly books, 6 of 6, were published in the 2010s.

What the Paula Daly books are about

All 6 Paula Daly books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: thrillers is tagged on 5 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.