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Rose Gardner Books in Order

Denise Grover Swank has written 14 books featuring Rose Gardner, published between 2011 and 2016. The first book is Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes (2011) and the newest is Sins of the Father (2016). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
14
Published
2011–2016
Confirmed
14 of 14 titles
Pages on record
3,789 in 13 of 14 books
Reading time
63–95 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,789 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 13 of 14 titles with a page count on record.

See all 14 books in order Printable Rose Gardner checklist

Rose Gardner is the woman sleuth of Denise Grover Swank's mystery series, and her visions of the future set the plots moving. Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes (2011) opens the run and the numbered titles track her age: Twenty-Nine and a Half Reasons (2012), Thirty and a Half Excuses (2013), Thirty-One and a Half Regrets (2014), Thirty-Two and a Half Complications (2014) and Thirty-Three and a Half Shenanigans (2014). Novellas including Falling to Pieces (2013), Picking Up the Pieces (2014) and Ripple of Secrets (2015) fill the gaps. Sisters, missing persons and jury duty recur across 14 books dated 2011 to 2016, at a median 352 pages.

How many Rose Gardner books are there?

Rose Gardner appears in 14 books, released between 2011 and 2016.

Rose Gardner Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 14 Rose Gardner 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 Twenty-Nine and a Half Reasons by Denise Grover Swank, book 2 of the Rose Gardner Mystery series (2012)
  2. Cover of Thirty and a Half Excuses by Denise Grover Swank, book 3 of the Rose Gardner Mystery series (2013)
  3. Cover of Falling to Pieces by Denise Grover Swank, book 4 of the Rose Gardner Mystery series (2013)
  4. Cover of Thirty-One and a Half Regrets by Denise Grover Swank, book 5 of the Rose Gardner Mystery series (2014)
  5. Cover of Picking Up the Pieces by Denise Grover Swank, book 7 of the Rose Gardner Mystery series (2014)
  6. Cover of Thirty-Three and a Half Shenanigans by Denise Grover Swank, book 8 of the Rose Gardner Mystery series (2014)
  7. Cover of Thirty-Four and a Half Predicaments by Denise Grover Swank, book 11 of the Rose Gardner Mystery series (2015)
  8. Cover of Thirty-Six and a Half Motives by Denise Grover Swank, book 13 of the Rose Gardner Mystery series (2016)
  9. Cover of Sins of the Father by Denise Grover Swank, book 14 of the Rose Gardner Mystery series (2016)
  1. 1
    Twenty-Eight and a Half WishesRose Gardner Mystery #12011 · confirmed 3/4
    2011–
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  2. 2
    Twenty-Nine and a Half ReasonsRose Gardner Mystery #22012 · 284 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2012284
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  3. 3
    Thirty and a Half ExcusesRose Gardner Mystery #32013 · 352 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2013352
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  4. 4
    Falling to PiecesRose Gardner Mystery #42013 · 138 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2013138
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  5. 5
    Thirty-One and a Half RegretsRose Gardner Mystery #52014 · 358 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2014358
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  6. 6
    Thirty-Two and a Half ComplicationsRose Gardner Mystery #62014 · 374 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2014374
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  7. 7
    Picking Up the PiecesRose Gardner Mystery #72014 · 157 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2014157
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  8. 8
    Thirty-Three and a Half ShenanigansRose Gardner Mystery #82014 · 378 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2014378
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  9. 9
    Rose and Helena Save ChristmasRose Gardner Mystery #92014 · 180 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2014180
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  10. 10
    Ripple of SecretsRose Gardner Mystery #102015 · 162 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2015162
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  11. 11
    Thirty-Four and a Half PredicamentsRose Gardner Mystery #112015 · 372 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2015372
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  12. 12
    Thirty-Five and a Half ConspiraciesRose Gardner Mystery #122015 · 472 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2015472
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  13. 13
    Thirty-Six and a Half MotivesRose Gardner Mystery #132016 · 428 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2016428
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  14. 14
    Sins of the FatherRose Gardner Mystery #142016 · 134 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2016134
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Do you have to read Rose Gardner books in order?

You should read the Rose Gardner books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Rose Gardner book also stands alone.

Where to start with Rose Gardner

Start with Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes (2011), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Rose Gardner book?

Sins of the Father (2016) is the newest Rose Gardner book released so far.

Is there a new Rose Gardner book coming?

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

Rose Gardner at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Rose Gardner title on record dates from 2016, 10 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Rose Gardner books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
3,789 pages across the 13 of 14 books with a recorded length, a median of 352 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Rose Gardner books, 14 of 14, were published in the 2010s.

What the Rose Gardner books are about

7 of the 14 Rose Gardner books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: man-woman relationships is tagged on 5 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Denise Grover Swank

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.