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Ronald H. Balson Books in Order

Ronald H. Balson has written 10 books, published between 2010 and 2025. The first book is Once We Were Brothers (2010) and the newest is The Righteous (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
10
Published
2010–2025
Confirmed
10 of 10 titles
Pages on record
2,504 in 7 of 10 books
Reading time
42–63 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,504 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 10 titles with a page count on record.

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The Holocaust and its long aftermath are Ronald H. Balson's subject. Liam Taggart, a private investigator, and Catherine Lockhart, a lawyer, work the cases across most of the catalogue, from Once We Were Brothers (2010) through Saving Sophie, Karolina's Twins, The Girl from Berlin and Eli's Promise. Poland, wartime atrocity and survivors' claims supply the material. Ten titles reach The Righteous (2025).

How many Ronald H. Balson books are there?

Ronald H. Balson has 10 books, released between 2010 and 2025. 6 of them belong to the Liam Taggart & Catherine Lockhart series.

Ronald H. Balson Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 10 Ronald H. Balson 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 Once We Were Brothers by Ronald H. Balson, book 1 of the Liam Taggart & Catherine Lockhart series (2010)
  2. Cover of Karolina's Twins by Ronald H. Balson, book 3 of the Liam Taggart & Catherine Lockhart series (2016)
  3. Cover of The Trust by Ronald H. Balson, book 4 of the Liam Taggart & Catherine Lockhart series (2017)
  4. Cover of Eli's Promise by Ronald H. Balson, book 1 of the Ronald H. Balson Standalone Novels series (2020)
  5. Cover of Defending Britta Stein by Ronald H. Balson, book 6 of the Liam Taggart & Catherine Lockhart series (2021)
  6. Cover of An Affair of Spies by Ronald H. Balson, book 2 of the Ronald H. Balson Standalone Novels series (2022)
  1. 1
    Once We Were BrothersLiam Taggart & Catherine Lockhart #12010 · confirmed 3/4
    2010–
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  2. 2
    Saving SophieLiam Taggart & Catherine Lockhart #22015 · 448 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2015448
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  3. 3
    Karolina's TwinsLiam Taggart & Catherine Lockhart #32016 · 320 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2016320
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  4. 4
    The TrustLiam Taggart & Catherine Lockhart #42017 · 356 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2017356
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  5. 5
    The Girl from BerlinLiam Taggart & Catherine Lockhart #52018 · 372 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2018372
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  6. 6
    Eli's PromiseRonald H. Balson Standalone Novels #12020 · 352 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2020352
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    Defending Britta SteinLiam Taggart & Catherine Lockhart #62021 · 352 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2021352
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    An Affair of SpiesRonald H. Balson Standalone Novels #22022 · 304 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2022304
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    A Place to HideRonald H. Balson Standalone Novels #32024 · confirmed 3/4
    2024–
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  10. 10
    The RighteousRonald H. Balson Standalone Novels #42025 · confirmed 3/4
    2025–
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Ronald H. Balson 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.

Liam Taggart & Catherine Lockhart in order

6 books
  1. 1. Once We Were Brothers
  2. 2. Saving Sophie
  3. 3. Karolina's Twins
  4. 4. The Trust
  5. 5. The Girl from Berlin
  6. 6. Defending Britta Stein

Ronald H. Balson Standalone Novels

4 books

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

Do you have to read Ronald H. Balson books in order?

You only need to read Ronald H. Balson books in order within the Liam Taggart & Catherine Lockhart series, which holds 6 of the 10 Ronald H. Balson books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Ronald H. Balson

Start with Once We Were Brothers (2010), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Ronald H. Balson book?

The Righteous (2025) is the newest Ronald H. Balson book released so far.

Is there a new Ronald H. Balson book coming?

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

Ronald H. Balson at a glance

Still publishing
Ronald H. Balson published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Ronald H. Balson books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
2,504 pages across the 7 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 352 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Ronald H. Balson books, 5 of 10, were published in the 2020s.

What the Ronald H. Balson books are about

7 of the 10 Ronald H. Balson books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: holocaust survivors is tagged on 3 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.