Carole

A contributing writer here, Carole is in charge of comicbooktreasury.com, our sister website dedicated to comic book reading orders. She likes reading Fantasy books, classical literature, and non-fiction about how Victorians died (but also lived), Her favorite authors are Terry Pratchett, Jane Austen, Kurt Vonnegut, and Robin Hobb.

Roshani Chokshi Books in Order (The Star-Touched Queen, The Gilded Wolves, Pandava Quintet)

Carole
June 27, 2022May 17, 2023

All of Roshani Chokshi’s Books in Order!

Who is Roshani Chokshi?

Roshani Chokshi is a fantasy young adult and middle-grade author whose novels have been translated into more than two dozen languages. She studied law at the University of Georgia but dropped out after having sold her first novel in order to pursue writing as a career.

She is behind two young adult series, The Star-Touched Queen and The Gilded Wolves, and also wrote the Pandava Quintet, a five-part-book series for middle-grade kids, as part of the “Rick Riordan Presents” publishing imprint. Her novels have been translated into more than two dozen languages.

Chokshi lives with her husband and their cat in Georgia.

Sarah Graves Books in Order (Death By Chocolate, Home Repair is Homicide, Lizzie Snow)

Carole
June 25, 2022May 17, 2023

All of Sarah Graves’ Books in Order!

Who is Sarah Graves?

Born in 1951, Sarah Graves is the pen name of Cozy mystery writer Mary Squibb. She published her first book, The Dead Cat Bounce, the first in the Home Repair is Homicide Mystery Series, in 1997.

The series follows Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree, and her friend Ellie White, as the two women become amateur sleuths, as the quaint seaside town of Eastport, Maine reveals itself to be quite deadly.

She published a short series featuring ex-detective Lizzie Snow, who moved from Boston to remote Bearkill, Maine, before launching her third series, Death by Chocolate, a spin-off from the Home Repair is Homicide Mystery Series featuring Jake and Ellie as the two best friends are now owners of a chocolate-themed bakery but still resolve crimes.

Peter Swanson Books in Order (Nine Lives, Henry Kimball)

Carole
June 24, 2022May 17, 2023

All of Peter Swanson’s Books in Order!

Who is Peter Swanson?

Born in May 1968, Peter Swanson is an American writer of psychological suspense novels. He studied and graduated in Creative Writing, Education, and Literature from Trinity College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Emerson College.

Now a Sunday Times and New York Times best-selling author, Peter Swanson first published poems, stories, and reviews in several journals such as The Atlantic, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Epoch, Measure, Notre Dame Review, Slant Magazine, and more.

He wrote for ten years before finding an agent, leading to the publication of his first novel in 2014, The Girl with a Clock for a Heart.

His books have been translated into over 30 languages.

V.C. Andrews Books in Order (Flowers in the Attic, Ruby, Audrina, Heaven…)

Carole
June 22, 2022May 30, 2023
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All of V.C. Andrews’ Books in Order!

Who is V.C. Andrews?

Born Cleo Virginia Andrews (June 6, 1923 – December 19, 1986), V.C. Andrews was an American author mixing gothic horror with family saga who made her name with Flowers in the Attic, published in 1979, and which became an instant success. After that, she published a new novel each year until her death. She wrote under the names: Virginia Andrews, V. Andrews, Virginia C. Andrews & V.C. Endrius.

Flowers in the Attic wasn’t V.C. Andrews’s first book as she wrote the science-fiction novel Gods of Green Mountain before, but the story was unpublished during her lifetime (it was released in e-book in 2004).

V.C. Andrews wrote stories revolving around family secrets and forbidden love, rags-to-riches stories filled with incestuous relationships, rapes, false pregnancies, Wicked grandmothers, rags-to-riches stories, twins, and much more.

After her death from breast cancer in 1986, her family hired a ghostwriter, Andrew Neiderman, to finish the manuscripts she had started, Garden of Shadows and Fallen Hearts. As it has been argued successfully that Virginia Andrews’s name was a valuable commercial asset, Andrew Neiderman has since then continued to write books under her name. So take into account that most of the books published after 1986 have been written by Neiderman.

Mark Billingham Books in Order (Thorne, Rabbit Hole, The Murder Book)

Carole
June 20, 2022May 12, 2023

All of Mark Billingham’s Books in Order!

Who is Mark Billingham?

Mark Billingham is a British novelist who grew up in Birmingham and graduated with a degree in drama. He first worked as an actor and had minor roles in TV episodes of different shows after moving to London in the mid-1980s.

Disenchanted with acting following a series of uninspiring roles, he decided to pursue a career in comedy and he became Gary, one of the guards of the King’s castle, and the Sheriff’s henchman in the comedy Maid Marian and Her Merry Men, which lasted four seasons. He also participated in the writing process during the last season of the show. Then, Billingham turned his attention to writing comedy scripts for television, as well as continuing to act and appear in front of the camera at various points.

A self-confessed fan of crime fiction, he finally published his first novel, Sleepyhead, in 2001, also the first with his DI Tom Thorne. Since he continued to write novels at a steady pace and saw his work being adapted for television, beginning with a Thorne adaptation in 2010 with David Morrisey in the lead. His novel In The Dark has also been adapted as a miniseries by BBC in 2017.

Sara Shepard Books in Order (Pretty Little Liars, Lying Game, Perfectionists)

Carole
June 19, 2022May 28, 2023

All of Sara Shepard’s Books in Order!

Who is Sara Shepard?

Sarah Shepard is an American author of young adult and mystery fiction, famous for the Pretty Little Liars and The Lying Game series, both of them which have been adapted for television.

Shepard grew up in Pennsylvania and graduated with a B.S. degree from New York University and an MFA in Creative writing from Brooklyn College. She first worked at Time, Inc. Custom Publishing and produced lifestyle magazines for corporate clients before ghostwriting as a freelancer in 2002.

She began writing her own books in 2005 and found success quickly with Pretty Little Liars, the first novel from the series of the same name. She initially planned to end the series after the eighth book, but she was inspired to continue due to the popularity of the TV series, adding eight additional books to the series. She published another series, The Lying Game, between 2010 and 2013, but didn’t find the same success with her book Heiresses in 2014. She also published some stand-alone books, some of them being adult-fiction stories.

Andrea Penrose Books in Order (Lady Arianna Hadley, Wrexford & Sloane)

Carole
June 17, 2022May 12, 2023

All of Andrea Penrose’s Books in Order!

Who is Andrea Penrose?

Andrea Penrose is an American author of historical mysteries set in Regency England. She began writing at age five, specifically western stories illustrated with drawings of horses and cowboys. She moved on to the Regency period after reading Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.

She has been fascinated by this time since then. She majored in art and history at Yale and went to get an MFA in Graphic design at the Yale School of Art.

She first published romance novels under the names Andra Pickens and Cara Elliot (listing of books below!), before turning her attention toward mystery historical novels set in Regency England under the name Andrea Penrose with two series, the Lady Arianna Hadley Mystery and Wrexford & Sloane Mystery.

The Coffeehouse Mystery Series Books in Order: How to read Cleo Coyle’s series?

Carole
June 15, 2022May 17, 2023

Coffee and crime are brewing.

What is The Coffeehouse Mystery Series about?

The Coffeehouse Mystery Series is a cozy mystery series written by Cleo Coyle, the pen name American mystery writers Alice Alfonsi and her husband Marc Cerasini.

The series is set in and around the Village Blend, a fictional coffeehouse in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Clare Cosi is the manager of this landmark coffeehouse, a divorcee with one adult daughter who has the little habit of getting mixed up in murder.

Cleo Coyle Books in Order (Coffeehouse Mysteries, The Haunted Bookshop series)

Carole
June 13, 2022May 26, 2023

All of Cleo Coyle’s Books in Order!

Who is Cleo Coyle?

Cleo Coyle is not one but two persons, as it is the pen name for American mystery writers Alice Alfonsi and her husband Marc Cerasini. Both of them are from an Italian family and grew up in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Alice Alfonsi worked as a journalist and book author. Marc Cerasini worked as a magazine editor, literary critic, and fiction and nonfiction author.

Together, they co-author two cozy mystery series, with the Coffeehouse Mysteries the most famous of the two. They also write The Haunted Bookshop Mystery Series, originally under the pen name Alice Kimberly before publishing it under Cleo Coyle.

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