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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1978
  • Latest Book:
    July 2005
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Full Series List in Order

A Mystery With Marian Larch

1 - The Renewable Virgin (Apr-1985)
2 - He Huffed and He Puffed (Jan-1989)
3 - Good King Sauerkraut (Oct-1989)
4 - You Have the Right to Remain Silent (Mar-1992)
5 - The Apostrophe Thief (Jul-1993)
6 - Fare Play (Apr-1995)
7 - Full Frontal Murder (Sep-1997)

An Opera Mystery

1 - A Cadenza for Caruso (Jul-1984)
2 - Prima Donna at Large (Aug-1985)
3 - A Chorus of Detectives (Jun-1987)

Multi-Author Series List

Star Trek

The Three-Minute Universe (Aug-1988)

Star Trek: The Original Series

41 - The Three-Minute Universe (Aug-1988)

Book List in Order: 30 titles



  • In the 21st century, young girls recieve sex education training via time travel into the minds and bodies of women who lived in previous centuries. Youngsters relive great moments in history, and adults safely experience real-life segments of the ...




  • WAR WORLD Lodon-Kamaria, a planet in a perpetual state of war. No one in the Federation of United Worlds knew what the Lodonites and Kamarians were fighting about, nor, in the normal course of events, would anyone have cared. But this was a world ...



  • Two strangers in a strange land - one an stubborn, self-professed queen, the other her newly arrived assistant - make their way around their world, a planet completely covered in jungle rot. How long will it be before the jungle claims one - or bo...



  • A human lie detector sets off in search of a revolution There are 1,500 hand grenades in Alabama’s Styx River, and none of them work. Rebels are attacking UN peacekeeping forces in Burma and Honduras, but just when the battle gets started, they fin...



  • Suffering from amnesia, a young pharmaceutical executive discovers she’s the victim of a hypnotist Megan Phillips wakes up on the fourteenth hole. Her clothes are grass-stained, her back is aching, and the last two days are a total blank. She’s n...



  • THE FRENCHWOMAN She belonged to one man, yet loved another Like all Frenchwoman, fierceley passionate Juliette Delahousse knew the arts of love. Exiled to England by her jealous stepmother, betrothed to a cold stranger, she yearned for the one man ...



  • History’s greatest tenor hunts a killer at the Metropolitan Opera in this “hilarious” and “thoroughly delightful” mystery from a Shamus Award nominee (Publishers Weekly). Giacomo Puccini has always been a flirt. When he isn’t writing...



  • When a television writer is murdered, three women join forces to find his killer After years churning out schlock for television, Rudy Benedict is afraid his job will kill him if he doesn’t leave Hollywood soon. He’s wrong. He’ll make it all th...






  • A headstrong young soprano must solve a murder to save her friend The Metropolitan Opera has no time for illness. So when its principal baritone succumbs to a head cold on the eve of Carmen, house diva Geraldine Farrar doesn’t hesitate to recommend...



  • Pluto is a hired assassin whose modus operandi is to research situations where murder-for-hire would be to someone's advantage, execute the victim, then approach the benefitting "client" with an invoice for one hundred thousand dollars...



  • When their unforgiving lender is murdered, a group of young jewelry associates jumps to a variety of deadly conclusions When the partners of Ellandy Jewels accepted a loan to keep their store afloat, they had no idea that Vincent Farwell would make t...



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    Other than a critic, who''d kill a Broadway play? Playwright Abigail James has long been fascinated by ""revenge tragedies,"" those theatrical classics about getting even. But all of a sudden, she''s living in one: The set of her latest Broadway ...



  • The stars of the Metropolitan Opera search for a crazed killer who plans to bring the company down. They find the tenor dangling from a water pipe, hanging by his own suspenders. His corpse is still warm. Naturally, the opera’s manager doesn’t st...



  • An unscrupulous antiques dealer asks a murderous favor of an old friend In the city of Pittsburgh, Amos Speer is the king of antiques, and as heir apparent to his international empire, Earl Sommers is his prince. But Sommers is keen-eyed, ruthless, a...



  • The Sackers. In all Captain James T. Kirk's travels, he has never found a race more universally shunned and abhorred. Their mere appearance causes most Federation members to become violently ill. Now the Sackers have performed a deed whose brutali...



  • Wealthy financier A.J. Strode was as ruthless as he was dirty, acquiring and discarding both wives and companies with equal aplomb. Now he wants to sink his teeth into a company called the House of Glass. He needs this company - and will stop at noth...



  • A clumsy robotics researcher scrambles to cover up a double homicide Despite his name, King Sarcowicz is hardly regal. A rumpled scientist, he spends every waking minute in his lab, tinkering with the robots he thinks will make human soldiers obsolet...



  • IMMEDIATE FAMILY ONLY The Deckers are dying grisly deaths. First there was fifteen-year-old Theo, kidnapped and murdered four years ago. Next came Bobby, then Ike and Lynn. All teenagers. All killed in bizarre "accidents." The latest victim is Ray...






  • NOBODY'S TALKING Down the mean streets of Manhattan's Alphabet City, Marian Larch discovers that even a cop's tough emotional hide can be riddled by the area's violent, twisted crime. Another murder is added to her caseload, and it's a beauty: fou...



  • CHARLOTTE MACLEOD ruffles feathers on Beacon Hill...BARBARA PAUL visits with a fatally clumsy clan...D.R. MEREDITH tells a murderer to go fly a kite...AUDREY PETERSON pursues a shadowy gentleman caller...VALERIE FRANKEL tracks a catnapper in Brooklyn...



  • BREAK A LEG New York City Police Sergeant Marian Larch is on the verge of resigning from the force after a big case leaves her jaded, frustrated and boiling mad at the system. During a cooling-off period at another precinct, she comes to the ai...



  • CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS WITH FAMILY AND FELINES

    In these nineteen original tail-twitching tales of mystery, cats from Maine coon to Scottish fold, tabby to Siamese, white Persian to calico crack all manner of holiday capers. Arbor Day reminds a...



  • HAZARDOUS AT THE TOP Newly promoted to lieutenant in the NYPD, Marian Larch must take everything that comes with the job: prestige, pay, problems...and diabolical murder. The first victim is an elderly gentleman shot on a crowded bus, silently ...





  • NO QUARTER Four-year-old Bobby Galloway is a trophy, victim in a vicious child-custody battle made all the more savage due to the enormous wealth involved. The case moves from disturbing to deadly with a string of coldly casual murders. On a pe...



  • Nineteen of today's finest mystery writers--including Anne Perry, P. M. Carlson, John Lutz, Judith Kelman, Gillian Roberts, and Sarah Shankman--offer an entertaining selection of original mystery stories centered around America's First Ladies. Origin...




  • CLEAN SWEEP Fans of Barbara Paul’s taut procedurals featuring NYPD’s Marian Larch get an extra treat with this original short story spotlighting Larch’s companion, Curt Holland. His effective " if not always exactly legal " computer invest...






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    “An absolutely first-rate anthology. . . a thoughtful and intelligent paean to crime fiction.” — New York Sun

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George serves up a century''s worth of superb crim...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Barbara Paul has published 30 books.

Barbara Paul does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Jack Be Quick, was published in July 2005.

The first book by Barbara Paul, Pillars of Salt, was published in January 1978.

Yes. Barbara Paul has 2 series.