Cora Harrison

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  • Bibliography:
    56 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1997
  • Latest Book:
    December 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Burren Mystery

1 - My Lady Judge (Jun-2007)
2 - A Secret and Unlawful Killing // Michaelmas Tribute (May-2008)
3 - The Sting of Justice (May-2009)
4 - Writ in Stone (Dec-2009)
5 - Eye of the Law (Apr-2011)
6 - Scales of Retribution (Sep-2011)
7 - Deed of Murder (Nov-2011)
8 - Laws in Conflict (Sep-2012)
9 - Chain of Evidence (Apr-2013)
10 - Cross of Vengeance (Jan-2014)
11 - Verdict of the Court (Jul-2014)
12 - Condemned to Death (Feb-2015)
13 - A Fatal Inheritance (Mar-2016)
14 - An Unjust Judge (Mar-2017)

Debutantes

1 - Debutantes (Sep-2014)
2 - Debutantes in Love (Dec-2014)

Drumshee Timeline

4 - Secret of 1798 (Oct-1998)
6 - Titanic (Apr-1999)
10 - Murder at Drumshee (Sep-2002)
The Viking at Drumshee (Sep-2001)
The Secret Spy from Drumshee (Aug-2003)

A Gaslight Mystery

1 - Season of Darkness (Jul-2019)
2 - Winter of Despair (Jan-2020)
3 - Summer of Secrets (Mar-2021)
4 - Spring of Hope (Feb-2022)

Hugh Mac Egan Mystery

1 - The Cardinal's Court (Jul-2017)

A Reverend Mother Mystery

1 - A Shameful Murder (Sep-2015)
2 - A Shocking Assassination (Sep-2016)
3 - Beyond Absolution (Aug-2017)
4 - A Gruesome Discovery (Mar-2018)
5 - Death of a Novice (Jul-2018)
6 - Murder at the Queen's Old Castle (Jan-2019)
7 - Death of a Prominent Citizen (Jul-2020)
8 - Murder in an Orchard Cemetery (Sep-2021)
9 - Murder in the Cathedral (Sep-2022)
10 - The Deadly Weed (Mar-2023)

Book List in Order: 56 titles

  • Secret of the Seven Crosses

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    Orphan Malachy, who has lived in the monastery since the death of his parents, becomes friends with Rory, an apprentice stonecutter, and Rory's sister Mary, and the threesome try to solve the mystery of the treasure of Kilfenora using the lore of the...

  • Nuala & Her Secret Wolf

  • Secret of 1798

    Drumshee Timeline - 4

    It is 1798 and a rebellion is taking hold in Ireland.

    No matter what her stepmother says, Caitriona knows they have to hide Serge from the British army. The young French sailor saved her life, after all! And the family farm of Drumshee is use...

  • Famine Secret

    It's 1847 and the Great Famine is destroying Ireland. The Drumshee twins, Fiona and Deirdre, and their brothers, Martin and Daniel, are in trouble. The black fever has killed their parents and they have no money left to buy food. They've no choice bu...

  • Secret of Drumshee Castle

    Orphaned Grace Barry is the heiress to Drumshee Castle in Ireland during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and she fears that her guardians are plotting to inherit the place, until the gift of a pony gives her a chance to escape....

  • Millennium at Drumshee

    Emma thinks the only good thing about moving from London to the family home in Drumshee, Ireland, is her German shepherd puppy, but when she starts playing chess on the Internet with an Australian boy she gets involved in solving a cyber-mystery....

  • Titanic

    Drumshee Timeline - 6

    Thirteen-year-old Kitty is leaving the family home of Drumshee. As nursemaid to Lady Victoria Fitzgerald's little niece and nephew, Tabitha and Robert, she will sail across the Atlantic to far-off America - on board the greatest ship that man has eve...

  • Drumshee Rebels

    When Michael Collins comes to Drumshee, Bridget senses trouble. But she doesn't realize just how much danger lies ahead.

    The War of Independence is heating up. Michael Collins leaves Bridget's father a list-a list which the Black and Tans must...

  • The Viking at Drumshee

    Drumshee Timeline

    Living rough and fighting the invading Vikings, Brian Boru has no more money to feed his troops, and the Vikings at Limerick have a hoard of looted treasure, but it s closely guarded....

    Fourteen-year-old Conn, from Drumshee, is the youngest s...



  • World War II: Rescue at Drumshee

  • Murder at Drumshee

    Drumshee Timeline - 10

    He's dead! screamed Mahon, his face as white as his tunic...'

    In the Ireland of Saint Patrick and the Brehon Laws, Drumshee is shaken by a terrible crime. Gabur, the cruel assistant brehon, is found murdered - and Mahon, one of his young stud...

  • Titanic Voyage from Drumshee

  • Dark Days at Drumshee

  • Wolf in the Midnight Forest

    When Mark wakes up in the midnight Forest he can t believe it. Wolf is there as well but he looks so different. He doesn t look like a puppy anymore. What s going on? But there s no time even to think about it. The Swan Princess has disappeared and a...

  • The Secret Spy from Drumshee

    Drumshee Timeline

    It's 1828 and election fever has hit Drumshee. Daniel O'Connell is trying to get elected as the first Catholic Member of Parliament ever. He wants to help Ireland's Catholics - but some people want to stop him and they're ready to kill him if they ha...

  • Two Mad Dogs

    Tim decides to bring two dogs home with him-one pup has a patch over one eye, the other has a squeaky bark. Chaos breaks out at home and his Dad says they'd be trouble. So what causes him to change his mind about them. Illustrated by Terry Myler...

  • My Lady Judge

    A Burren Mystery - 1

    In the sixteenth century, as it is now, the Burren, on the western seaboard of Ireland, was a land of gray stone forts, fields of rich green grass, and swirling mountain terraces. It was also home to an independent kingdom that lived peacefully by th...

  • A Secret and Unlawful Killing // Michaelmas Tribute

    A Burren Mystery - 2

    It is 1509 and, for the people of the Burren in western Ireland, the Michaelmas Fair is a joyous time for trade and celebration, signaling the start of autumn. It's a chance to gather, buy and sell their wares, and pay tribute to the lord of their cl...

  • The Sting of Justice

    A Burren Mystery - 3

    The autumn has come to the Burren, it's a time of harvest: of gathering for the winter to come. The end of summer for most and the end of life for others. When Mara attends the funeral of a local priest of the Burren, the last things she expects is a...



  • Writ in Stone

    A Burren Mystery - 4

    A Mystery of Medieval Ireland

    Christmas, 1510; the Burren, West coast of Ireland. Mara, Brehon of the Burren, has accepted the offer of marriage made by King Turlough Donn O'Brien, ruler of that tiny kingdom of stony land and terraced mountai...

  • I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend

    When shy Jenny Cooper goes to stay with her cousin Jane Austen, she knows nothing of the world of beautiful dresses, dances, secrets, gossip, and romance that Jane inhabits. At fifteen, Jane is already a sharp observer of the customs of courtship. So...

  • Michaelmas Tribute

  • The Montgomery Murder

    THE ROMAN MYSTERIES meets Sherlock Holmes!In the mean streets of Victorian London lies the body of wealthy Mr Montgomery.The police must move fast to catch his killer. They need an insider, someone streetwise, cunning, bold . . . someone like Alfie.W...

  • The Deadly Fire

    THE ROMAN MYSTERIES meets Sherlock Holmes!Alfie has decided to learn to read at St Giles Ragged School. But the school is set on fire and idealistic teacher Mr Elmore perishes in the flames. Alfie and his gang are certain that this was no accident an...

  • Eye of the Law

    A Burren Mystery - 5

    A Mystery of Medieval Ireland - 1510 A great feast is being held. Into a crowd listening to the story of Balor, the one-eyed god, come two strangers. The younger of the two, Iarla, bears a letter that claims that the wealthy Ardal O’Lochlainn is...

  • Death of a Chimney Sweep

    THE ROMAN MYSTERIES meets Sherlock Holmes! Alfie knows who it is the moment he sees the body under the gas lamp. Joe the chimney sweep. No one else seems to care about the death of a poor boy, but Alfie has reason to believe that Joe was murdered. So...

  • Scales of Retribution

    A Burren Mystery - 6

    June, 1510: the Burren, west coast of Ireland - Upon going unexpectedly into an early labour, Mara is alerted to the disappearance of Malachy, the local physician. Mystery follows birth, as shortly after the entrance of her son into the world the bod...

  • Deed of Murder

    A Burren Mystery - 7

    April 1511, Ireland. Mara, Brehon of the Burren, is celebrating the christening of her son when she notices that three of her law students have disappeared from the party. The next morning, one of them is found dead on a lone mountain pass with suspi...

  • The Body in the Fog

    THE ROMAN MYSTERIES meets Sherlock Holmes! The beggar's body lies beneath the king's statue in Trafalgar Square. Alfie and his gang set out to find the murderer, just as a thick fog turns the London streets into a baffling maze. Soon they will be plu...



  • Death in the Devil's Den

    Alfie and his gang are on a dangerous mission.

    Spying on a Russian secret agent, they must be quick, clever and totally invisible. But when the Russian is found dead, Alfie faces the greatest threat of his life . . ....

  • Laws in Conflict

    A Burren Mystery - 8

    February, 1512. Mara, Brehon of the Burren, judge and lawgiver, has been invited to the magnificent city state of Galway, which is ruled by English laws and a royal charter originally granted by Richard III. Mara wonders whether she can use her legal...

  • Chain of Evidence

    A Burren Mystery - 9

    When clan leader Garrett MacNamara’s dead body is found on the road after a herd of cows has escaped, what was initially assumed to be a tragic case of him being squashed to a pulp by livestock becomes more sinister when a local claims they saw a c...

  • Cross of Vengeance

    A Burren Mystery - 10

    When Mara attends mass at Kilnaboy Church, it is just another duty in her busy life as Brehon of the Burren, responsible for the maintenance of law and order in the kingdom. The church holds an important relic: a piece of the true cross itself, house...

  • Verdict of the Court

    A Burren Mystery - 11

    A festive celebration turns into a fight for survival when Mara and her clan come under attack... Christmas 1519 is the twentieth anniversary of King Turlough Donn’s reign over the three kingdoms of Thomond, Corcomroe and Burren, so Mara and her...

  • Debutantes

    Debutantes - 1

    It’s 1923 and London is a whirl of jazz, dancing and parties. Violet, Daisy, Poppy and Rose Derrington are desperate to be part of it, but stuck in an enormous crumbling house in the country, with no money and no fashionable dresses, the excitement...

  • Debutantes in Love

    Debutantes - 2

    It’s 1924. Leaving their beloved Beech Grove Manor to go to London for the season, Poppy and Daisy Derrington know that they must shine as debutantes. Since a girl cannot inherit her father's estate, the sisters have to marry well or face being lef...

  • Condemned to Death

    A Burren Mystery - 12

    When Mara, Brehon of the Burren, is summoned to the sandy beach of Fanore, on the western fringe of the kingdom of the Burren, she sees a sight that she has never witnessed before during her thirty years as law-enforcer and investigating magistrate: ...

  • A Shameful Murder

    A Reverend Mother Mystery - 1

    Introducing the Reverend Mother Aquinas in the first of a brand-new historical mystery series. Cork, Ireland. 1923. When, one wet March morning, Reverend Mother Aquinas discovers a body at the gate of the convent chapel washed up after a flood ‘...

  • A Fatal Inheritance

    A Burren Mystery - 13

    Mara, Brehon of the Burren, must battle superstitious beliefs and fears as she sets out to solve a brutal murder. When a woman’s body is discovered, strangled and bound with rope to the stone torso of Fár Breige, the ancient stone god which sta...



  • A Shocking Assassination

    A Reverend Mother Mystery - 2

    Reverend Mother Aquinas is asked to prove a young man’s innocence in the second of this atmospheric new Irish historical mystery series. Ireland. 1924. Reverend Mother Aquinas is buying buttered eggs in the Cork city market at the very moment w...

  • An Unjust Judge

    A Burren Mystery - 14

    An unfairly harsh judge meets a gruesome end in the latest intriguing Burren mystery. It was a macabre ending for an unjust judge: his throat slit by a sharp knife; his body stuffed into a lobster pot and left beneath a powerful jet of water shoo...

  • The Cardinal's Court

    Hugh Mac Egan Mystery - 1

    Hampton Court, 1522. Two young men, both heirs to an earldom, both rivals. Their hatred comes to a climax when Queen Katherine of Aragon brings her ladies-in-waiting to Cardinal Wolsey's luxurious palace. One of the ladies, Anne Boleyn, is to marry J...

  • Beyond Absolution

    A Reverend Mother Mystery - 3

    Reverend Mother Aquinas must discover who murdered a much-loved priest in the third of this compelling new Irish historical mystery series. Ireland. 1925. Pierced through to the brain, the dead body of the priest was found wedged into the small, ...

  • A Gruesome Discovery

    A Reverend Mother Mystery - 4

    The Reverend Mother receives a decidedly gruesome gift in this compelling Irish historical mystery. Ireland. 1925. Like all who seek charitable contributions, Reverend Mother Aquinas is used to being gifted some fairly dubious items. But nothing ...

  • Death of a Novice

    A Reverend Mother Mystery - 5

    The sudden death of a young novice nun raises a series of puzzling questions in the latest Reverend Mother historical mystery. The Reverend Mother is delighted with her new entrant to the convent. Young Sister Gertrude is well-educated, has worked...

  • Murder at the Queen's Old Castle

    A Reverend Mother Mystery - 6

    A rare shopping trip for the Reverend Mother ends in brutal murder in this absorbing historical mystery. Despite its regal name, the Queen’s Old Castle is nothing but a low-grade department store, housed within the decrepit walls of what was onc...

  • Season of Darkness

    A Gaslight Mystery - 1

    Introducing Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins as an unusual detective duo in the first of a brand-new Victorian mystery series. When Inspector Field shows his friend Charles Dickens the body of a young woman dragged from the River Thames, he cannot...

  • Winter of Despair

    A Gaslight Mystery - 2

    Wilkie Collins must prove his brother is innocent of murder in the second of the compelling new Gaslight mystery series. November, 1853. Inspector Field has summoned his friends Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to examine a body found in an atti...

  • Death of a Prominent Citizen

    A Reverend Mother Mystery - 7

    Money is the root of all evil, according to the Reverend Mother -- but is it the motive for her cousin's murder? Wealthy widow Charlotte Hendrick had always promised that her riches would be divided equally between her seven closest relatives ...



  • Summer of Secrets

    A Gaslight Mystery - 3

    When a murder is staged at magnificent Knebworth House, Victorian writer-sleuths, Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins investigate. August, 1856. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens are spending the summer at Knebworth House, the magnificent Hertfordsh...

  • Jane Austen Stole My Boyfriend

  • Murder in an Orchard Cemetery

    A Reverend Mother Mystery - 8

    The peaceful atmosphere of the Reverend Mother’s annual retreat is shattered by sudden, violent death in this gripping historical mystery. 1920s. Cork, Ireland. The Reverend Mother regrets the bishop’s decision to invite the five candidates ...

  • Spring of Hope

    A Gaslight Mystery - 4

    When an exhibition featuring London's top engineers results in sudden, violent death, Victorian writer-sleuths Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens investigate.  "Victorian whodunits don’t get much better than this" - Publishers Weekly&#x...

  • Murder in the Cathedral

    A Reverend Mother Mystery - 9

    The Reverend Mother's investigative skills are called into action again when one of her young pupils is found murdered at St Fin Barre's Cathedral."This series ranks near the top among mysteries with a religious lead" â€"Publishers Weekly S...

  • The Deadly Weed

    A Reverend Mother Mystery - 10

    The Reverend Mother's investigative skills are called into action when a local tobacco factory burns down and fingers are pointed at one of her ex pupils..."Stellar . . . Harrison is writing at the top of her game" - Publishers Weekly Starred Re...

  • Murder in the Mist

    Tis the season of goodwill, and Dickens extends the hand of friendship to a stranded stranger and his nephews for Christmas, with deadly consequences . . ."The ingenious solution to the mystery makes this the series’ best entry yet. Victorian whodu...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Cora Harrison has published 56 books.

Cora Harrison does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Murder in the Mist, was published in December 2023.

The first book by Cora Harrison, Secret of the Seven Crosses, was published in January 1997.

Yes. Cora Harrison has 6 series.
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