April Henry

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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1999
  • Latest Book:
    June 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Claire Montrose Mystery

1 - Circles of Confusion (Feb-1999)
2 - Heart-Shaped Box (Jan-2001)
3 - Square in the Face (Feb-2000)
4 - Buried Diamonds (Dec-2003)

Girl, Stolen

1 - Girl, Stolen (Oct-2010)
2 - Count All Her Bones (May-2017)

Point Last Seen

1 - The Body in the Woods (Jun-2014)
2 - Blood Will Tell (Jun-2015)

Book List in Order: 22 titles

  • Circles of Confusion

    A Claire Montrose Mystery - 1

    Why did dear, departed Aunt Cady have an exquisite old painting buried beneath World War II paraphernalia? And how can a painting so dramatically shift Claire's perspective on everything from her uninspired love life to her ho-hum job in the Oregon s...

  • Square in the Face

    A Claire Montrose Mystery - 3

    HAPPYDAZE Once upon a time, Clair Montrose was a mousy employee in the Oregon State License Plate Division approving vanity plates. Now this part-time sleuth has an artist boyfriend in New York City and a quirky group of friends and family that keep ...

  • Heart-Shaped Box

    A Claire Montrose Mystery - 2

    Amateur sleuth Claire Montrose gets more than she bargained for when she attends her twenty-year high-school reunion and a secret admirer sends her a heart-shaped box marked with death, and she must uncover an elusive killer. Reprint....

  • Learning to Fly

    Nineteen-year-old Free Meeker has a shaved head, a nose ring, and a tattoo of Chinese characters around her biceps. She has a career, if you can call it that, as a pet groomer. And she has just learned that she is pregnant, and that her boyfriend is ...

  • Buried Diamonds

    A Claire Montrose Mystery - 4
    Worldwide Mysteries - 532

    When former vanity license plate inspector Claire Montrose finds a valuable diamond ring embedded in an old stone wall, she's uncovered more than lost jewelry -- she's just unwittingly exposed a fifty-year-old murder. Claire's octogenarian housema...

  • Shock Point

    Cassie discovers that her stepfather, Rick, a teen psychiatrist, has been illegally prescribing a new behavioral drug to his patients?and three teens have died. Before she can report him, Rick commits Cassie to Peaceful Cove, a boot camp for troubled...

  • Torched

    When Ellie's parents are busted for possession of marijuana, the FBI gives her a choice: infiltrate the Mother Earth Defenders (MED), a radical environmental group, or her parents will go to jail. At first Ellie is more than willing to entrap the MED...

  • Girl, Stolen

    Girl, Stolen - 1

    Sixteen year-old Cheyenne Wilder is sleeping in the back of a car while her mom fills her prescription at the pharmacy. Before Cheyenne realizes what's happening, their car is being stolen -- with her inside! Griffin hadn't meant to kidnap Cheyenne, ...

  • The Night She Disappeared

    Gabie drives a Mini Cooper. She also works part time as a delivery girl at Pete's Pizza. One night, Kayla -- another delivery girl -- goes missing. To her horror, Gabie learns that the supposed kidnapper had asked if the girl in the Mini Cooper was w...



  • The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die

    “Take her out back and finish her off.” She doesn’t know who she is. She doesn’t know where she is, or why. All she knows when she comes to in a ransacked cabin is that there are two men arguing over whether or not to kill her. And that...

  • The Body in the Woods

    Point Last Seen - 1

    Alexis, Nick, and Ruby have very different backgrounds: Alexis has spent her life covering for her mom's mental illness, Nick's bravado hides his fear of not being good enough, and Ruby just wants to pursue her eccentric interests in a world that doe...

  • Blood Will Tell

    Point Last Seen - 2

    When a woman's body is found in a Portland park, suspicion falls on an awkward kid who lives only a few blocks away, a teen who collects knives, loves first-person shooter video games, and obsessively doodles violent scenes in his school notebooks. N...

  • The Girl I Used to Be

    When Olivia's mother was killed, everyone suspected her father of murder. But his whereabouts remained a mystery. Fast forward fourteen years. New evidence now proves Olivia's father was actually murdered on the same fateful day her mother died. That...

  • Count All Her Bones

    Girl, Stolen - 2

    Cheyenne sets out to save her former captor in this much-anticipated sequel to "Girl, Stolen." Six months ago, Griffin Sawyer meant to steal a car, but he never meant to steal the girl asleep in the backseat. Panicked, he took her home. His fathe...

  • The Lonely Dead

    A killer is on the loose, and only one girl has the power to find him. But in this genre-bending YA thriller, she must first manage to avoid becoming a target herself. For Adele, the dead aren’t really dead. She can see them and even talk to the...

  • Run, Hide, Fight Back

    Six teens must band together to survive after a shooting breaks out in this high-stakes thriller by New York Times-bestselling author April Henry. When a deadly shooting breaks out in a Portland shopping mall, a diverse group of six teens ends up ...

  • The Girl in the White Van

    A teen is snatched outside her kung fu class and must figure out how to escape―and rescue another kidnapped victim―in The Girl in the White Van, a chilling YA mystery by New York Times bestselling author April Henry. When Savannah disappears s...

  • Playing with Fire

    When a fire cuts off a popular trail in the Oregon forest, a small group trapped by the flames must find another way out -- or die -- in Playing with Fire, an unrelenting teen-vs-nature YA thriller by New York Times bestselling author April Henry.Nat...

  • Eyes of the Forest

    After a bestselling fantasy writer disappears, only his biggest fan believes he’s in danger. Instead of re-reading his books, she must venture into the real world to uncover the truth in this fast-paced mystery by New York Times-bestselling author ...



  • Two Truths and a Lie

    In this chilling mystery from a New York Times bestselling author, a storm strands a group of teens in a creepy motel -- leaving them trapped with a killer. Nell has always wanted to be an actor, but she doubts her ability. As a member of her school...

  • Girl Forgotten

    Piper Gray starts a true-crime podcast investigating a seventeen-year-old cold case in this thrilling YA murder mystery by New York Times bestselling author April Henry.  Seventeen years ago, Layla Trello was murdered and her killer was never fo...

  • Stay Dead

    "Milan is in a race against time and terror to get to her parents’ one trusted friend before she ends up dead, too… readers will be intrigued and thrilled to see how it all turns out." -- Booklist "A page-turning cat-and-mouse survival story." ...

Award-Winning Books by April Henry

The Body in the Woods
2015 Oregon Book Award -- Young Adult
Girl, Stolen
2011 Black-Eyed Susan Award -- High School
2012 Truman Readers Award -- Grades 6-8


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

April Henry has published 22 books.

The next book by April Henry, Stay Dead, will be published in June 2024.

The first book by April Henry, Circles of Confusion, was published in February 1999.

Yes. April Henry has 3 series.
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