Connecticut book series in reading order

by Laurien Berenson

by Parnell Hall

Luanne Rice, born 25 September 1955, is an American novelist whose books frequently turn to nature, the sea, love and family. The catalogue lists 42 Rice titles, from Angels All Over Town (1985) to Until Midnight (2026), including Crazy in Love, Firefly Beach, The Lemon Orchard and Beach Girls. Subjects on file include sisters, mothers and daughters, Connecticut, suspense and missing persons. Series include Hubbard's Point/Black Hall, Newport, Rhode Island and Detective Conor Reid, and Rice's work has been translated into 26 languages.

Melanie Travis, a dog owner and private investigator in Connecticut, leads Laurien Berenson's mystery series. Berenson's catalogue holds 51 books, opening in 1984 with titles published as Laurien Blair and reaching Peg and Rose Deck the Halls (2026). The Senior Sleuths Mysteries are a second line. Dogs, murder and women sleuths recur as subjects.

Justin Scott is an American novelist who has also published as Paul Garrison and J. S. Blazer. Subjects name Ben Abbott, private investigators and Connecticut, and the Ben Abbott Mysteries are the one series recorded against the name. Isaac Bell appears in the subjects too, on a stretch of the listing where Clive Cussler shares the credit, 5 titles in all. The catalogue holds 31 books dated between 1973 and 2024, taking in The Shipkiller (1978), Normandie Triangle (1981), A Pride of Royals (1983) and Rampage (1986). Historical mystery, serial murders and treasure-trove are also recorded subjects.

Nora Roberts

279 books• 37 series

Nora Roberts, born Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950, is an American writer of romance under that name. As J. D. Robb, Roberts writes police procedurals with science-fiction elements, and has also published as Jill March and, in the UK, as Sarah Hardesty. This listing carries 280 Roberts books, opening with Irish Thoroughbred (1981); The Missing is scheduled for 2027. Series on the page include the In Death Universe, the MacGregors, Night Tales, the Calhoun Women, the Chesapeake Bay Saga, Irish Hearts and the O'Hurleys.

Mary Higgins Clark

62 books• 8 series

Mary Higgins Clark, born Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins, was an American suspense novelist who lived from December 24, 1927 to January 31, 2020. Where Are the Children? (1975) was the debut suspense novel, and by 2015 that book was in its 75th printing. Each of Clark's 51 books was a bestseller in the United States and in European countries. The catalogue starts with Aspire to the Heavens / Mount Vernon Love Story (1968) and reaches It Had to Be You (2024). Alvirah and Willy are recurring characters, and Under Suspicion is a Clark series. Clark worked as a secretary, a copy editor and for one year a Pan-American Airlines flight attendant, and short stories supplemented the family income.

Quilting, sisters and female friendship run through the fiction of Marie Bostwick. Fields of Gold (2005) is her earliest catalogued novel, and the Cobbled Court Quilts series, set in Connecticut, is her best known strand, with the Dillon, Oklahoma and Too Much, Texas books alongside it. Bostwick's 18 titles reach The Book Club for Troublesome Women in 2025.

Parnell Hall (October 31, 1944 to December 15, 2020) was an American mystery writer, known for the Puzzle Lady and Stanley Hastings series. Hall also wrote the screenplay for the 1984 film C.H.U.D. The Puzzle Lady stories carried crosswords made with Manny Nosowsky and sudoku made with Will Shortz. Writing as J.P. Hailey, Hall produced the Steve Winslow series, and co-wrote Smooth Operator with Stuart Woods. Malice Domestic gave Hall a Lifetime Achievement award in 2019. The catalogue lists 57 books, from Detective (1987) to The Dead Client (2020). Cora Felton, crossword puzzle makers and New York private investigators appear in the subject tags.

Jane Green is an English novelist, born in 1968, who lives in the United States. By 2014 Green's books had sold more than 10 million copies worldwide and been translated into 31 languages, and Green has been called one of the first chick lit writers. The catalogue lists 32 books from Straight Talking (1997) and Jemima J (1998) to The Many Private Lives of Missy Cooke (2026). Subjects include single women, female friendship, dating, family secrets and London.

22 catalogued books stand under Stewart O'Nan's name, opening with In the Walled City (1993) and reaching Evensong (2025). O'Nan is an American novelist, born in 1961, whose subjects are family life, marriage, widowhood and American history across the 20th century, the Second World War included. Settings run to New York State and Connecticut. The Emily Maxwell novels form the one continuing sequence in the catalogue.

Rebecca Raisin writes contemporary romance, and Christmas stories and bakers turn up among the subjects. The 28 catalogued books start with Christmas at the Gingerbread Café (2013) and run to The Little Porto Book Club (2026), with The Way Back to You due in 2027. Series listed are Gingerbread Cafe, At Cedarwood Lodge, Little Paris Collection and Travelling Shops. Other titles include The Bookshop on the Corner, Secrets at Maple Syrup Farm and The Little Bookshop on the Seine.

Kieran Scott, born 11 March 1974, is an American author who also publishes as Kate Brian. Under the Kate Brian name come chick lit books such as The Princess and the Pauper, The Virginity Club, Sweet 16, Fake Boyfriend and the Private series. Books under Scott's own name include She's So Dead to Us, Brunettes Strike Back, Geek Magnet and I Was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader, a YALSA Teens Top Ten nominee. The catalogue subjects include boarding schools, high schools, cliques and teenage girls, and the listing runs from 1998 to 2026.

Laura Van Wormer is an American novelist born in 1955. The catalogue lists 16 books from 1985 to 2009, opening with Dallas: The Official Biography of the Ewings (1985) and Knots Landing (1986). Titles include Riverside Drive (1988), West End (1989) and Jury Duty (1996). Van Wormer's series are Sally Harrington and Alexandra Chronicles. Subjects on the listing cover women journalists, television personalities, New York and Connecticut. Riverside Park (2009) is the newest entry.