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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2001
  • Latest Book:
    November 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Anne Cartier

1 - Mute Witness (May-2001)
2 - Black Gold (May-2002)
3 - Noble Blood (Aug-2004)
4 - Lethal Beauty (May-2005)
5 - Fatal Carnival (Sep-2006)
6 - Cruel Choices (May-2007)
7 - Assassins' Rage (Jul-2008)
8 - Deadly Quarrel (Jun-2009)
9 - False Patriots (Jul-2010)

A Gilded Age Mystery

1 - Death of a Robber Baron (Aug-2013)
2 - Death in Saratoga Springs (Jun-2014)
3 - Death at Tammany Hall (Jul-2015)

Book List in Order: 14 titles



  • The years just prior to the French Revolution were filled with conflict, although many chose to ignore the signals of the coming storm. The Palais-Royal was the scene of much gaiety and a constant round of pleasures -- perfect cover for darker activi...



  • The setting is Bath, England's most fashionable spa, during the spring season of 1787. Haughty aristocrats, wealthy upstart businessmen, social climbers, adventurers, courtesans, sharpers, addicted gamblers, and a representative sample of the dregs o...



  • The third title in an acclaimed historical mystery series set at the time of the French Revolution
    Paris, 1787. A deaf maid at the Court of Versailles is accused of the murder of the Duchesse de Saumur, one of Marie Antoinette's intimates. Anne Ca...



  • The fourth in the acclaimed Anne Cartier historical mystery series set at the time of the French Revolution Lethal Beauty, set in 1787 at the Louvre in Paris, opens with a ghastly discovery. At the biennial exhibition of paintings and sculptures, the...



  • The latest in Charles O?Brien's acclaimed French Revolution series January 1788. Anne Cartier and her husband Paul, Provost of the Paris Highway Patrol, are spending the winter in Nice, at the home of a wealthy English couple, Thomas and Beverly Park...



  • The latest in the acclaimed French Revolution series Spring, 1788. Anne Cartier is searching for missing Lucie Gigot, last seen with the Marquis de Bresse's valet. The trail leads to the marquis himself, a notorious libertine. When Bresse is found...



  • The latest in the acclaimed French Revolution series - 14th July 1789. Anne Cartier observes a mob storming the Bastille as the city revolts and the kings authority vanishes. When several royal officers are assassinated, Annes husband, Colonel Paul d...



  • The latest in Charles O’Brien’s acclaimed French Revolution series - On a trip from Paris to London in October 1789, Anne Cartier learns that her rich young deaf friend, Janice Parker, was almost murdered. With the help of retired Bow Street o...



  • The latest in Charles O’Brien’s acclaimed French Revolution series Spring, 1791. Paris is in turmoil over church reforms, and food shortages and unemployment cause a decline in public order. One of Anne Cartier’s deaf pupils, Patrick O’F...






  • Set amidst the glittering enclaves of money, power, and privilege in America’s tumultuous Gilded Age, this richly detailed mystery follows private detective Pamela Thompson into an elite world where fortunes are flaunted and scandals are hidden -- ...



  • From the slaughterhouses of Manhattan to the elite enclaves of Saratoga Springs, private detective Pamela Thompson follows a trail of death and deception left by a Civil War hero. . . New York City, 1894. Captain Jed Crake is a decorated veteran o...



  • New York City, 1894. The Democratic Party headquarters at Tammany Hall is a hotbed of cronyism, corruption, and intimidation. Private investigator Pamela Thompson’s close colleague at Jeremiah Prescott’s law firm, former NYPD detective Harry Mill...



  • Larry Banyin had a good life running a small but thriving photography business in Glasgow. He was happily married to Celia who worked for a solicitors in the town centre and everything was great. Then one incident shattered his whole world and he los...



  • Pamela Thompson, private investigator, tracks down a missing boy on behalf of a wealthy Manhattan family. In the process she discovers the murderers of a doctor and a nurse, and unravels a mystery of child identity. All of this set at the end of the ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Charles O'Brien has published 14 books.

Charles O'Brien does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Lethal Bargain, was published in November 2021.

The first book by Charles O'Brien, Mute Witness, was published in May 2001.

Yes. Charles O'Brien has 2 series.