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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1991
  • Latest Book:
    February 2017
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Full Series List in Order

Ghost in the Dollhouse

1 - Dollhouse of the Dead (Mar-1997)
2 - The Headless Bride (Apr-1997)
3 - Rest in Peace (May-1997)

A Julie Mystery

1 - The Tangled Web (Mar-2009)
2 - Puzzle of the Paper Daughter (Mar-2010)
3 - The Silver Guitar (Mar-2011)

A Rebecca Mystery

A Bundle of Trouble (Mar-2011)

Related Books

1 - Time Windows (1991)
2 - Pale Phoenix (May-1994)

A Time Travel Mystery

Dreadful Sorry (Apr-1993)
Paperquake (1998)
Paint by Magic (2002)

Multi-Author Series List

The American Girls Collection

Riddle of the Prairie Bride (Mar-2001)
The Strange Case of Baby H (Oct-2002)
The Tangled Web (Mar-2009)
Puzzle of the Paper Daughter (Mar-2010)
A Bundle of Trouble (Mar-2011)
The Silver Guitar (Mar-2011)

American Girl History Mysteries

12 - Riddle of the Prairie Bride (Mar-2001)
18 - The Strange Case of Baby H (Oct-2002)

American Girl Mysteries

The Tangled Web (Mar-2009)
Puzzle of the Paper Daughter (Mar-2010)
A Bundle of Trouble (Mar-2011)
The Silver Guitar (Mar-2011)

Book List in Order: 22 titles



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    An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. “Reminiscent of The Indian in the Cupboard . . . [an] intricately woven ghost story.” -- Publishers WeeklyWhen Miranda moves with her family to a new house in a small Massachusetts town, she discovers a mysterio...



  • Beth’s mother, Hanny Lynn, hasn’t spoken to her parents or her sister, Iris, in twenty years. But she decides it’s time to set aside old grievances, so sixteen-year-old Beth and her brother, Tom, find themselves spending a sweltering summer wit...



  • The author of Time Windows “has crafted a fine tale of psychological time travel . . . this well-executed story transports readers into the plot” (School Library Journal, starred review).Seventeen-year-old Molly’s recurrent nightmares become wa...



  • Miranda isn't happy when sullen orphan Abby Chandler comes to live with her family. But Miranda's anger turns to shock when she learns the girl's horrible secret: Abby's parents and sisters were killed in a house fire in this very town--more than thr...



  • Not wanting a certain shabby dollhouse, but unable to politely refuse it, Zibby is alarmed when she gets the dollhouse home and strange events begin to occur, such as her mother's falling down the steps when the dollhouse mother does...



  • Owning a haunted dollhouse that is an exact replica of the house where a little girl accidentally killed her evil nanny, Zibby realizes that her mother's wedding is doomed, unless she can get rid of the nanny's ghost...



  • Zibby and her friends investigate their classmates' strange nightmares about fire and a burning dollhouse to find out if the evil Miss Honeywell has returned to haunt them or if there is another ghost in the dollhouse...



  • Violet's paralyzing fear of the earthquakes that are rocking the San Francisco Bay Area makes it difficult for her to overcome her "baby" image. But things change when her family renovates an old building. While she helps her sisters sweep up, an aft...



  • Violet's paralyzing fear of the earthquakes that are rocking the San Francisco Bay Area makes it difficult for her to overcome her "baby" image. But things change when her family renovates an old building While she helps her sisters sweep up, an afte...






  • In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead, but Ida Kate soon suspects that the bride is not the woman with whom Papa has corresponded. Simultaneous....



  • Something is terribly wrong with Connor's mom -- she keeps slipping into bizarre trances. Connor suspects that the key to his mom's strange behavior is an old art book filled with paintings of a woman who looks exactly like her. But the artist who cr...



  • In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, twelve-year-old Clara finds a baby left on the doorstep of her family's boarding house, and sets out to unravel the surrounding mysteries. Simultaneous....



  • Dollhouse of Horrors! Zibby Thorne doesn't know what possessed her to buy an antique dollhouse--she doesn't even like dolls. But when her friends and family start having bizarre accidents clearly connected to the dollhouse, she can't ignore the mena...



  • The last place fifteen-year-old Juliana wants to be is halfway around the world in Blackthorn, England, an idyllic seaside artists' colony her mother has dragged her off to while her parents weather a trial separation. Juliana misses her father terri...



  • Julie really likes the new girl in her class, Carla Warner. Still, there's something odd about her. The things Carla says don't quite add up, and she seems to avoid answering certain questions. At first Julie is sure there's a sensible ex...



  • Julie discovers a mysterious note written in Chinese. She brings it to her friend Ivy to translate, and learns that the note once belonged to Ivy's grandmother, from long ago when she was a girl immigrating from China to San Francisco. The note promi...



  • Rebecca is put in charge of the new neighbors' baby--and a kidnapper is on the loose in New York City! So when a strange boy shows up asking a few too many questions about the baby, Rebecca starts to worry. Could the child be in danger? Includes an i...



  • When an oil spill threatens the sea birds of San Francisco, Julie is eager to lend a hand. So when she learns that her friend T.J. is helping with an auction to raise money for the clean-up efforts, she decides to get involved. But then she finds out...



  • To help her family make ends meet, Kit takes a job helping an elderly lady at a rundown mansion called Rivermead Manor. When she discovers a hidden room in the old house, she is sure its secrets will make a great newspaper article. But then Jessamine...






  • A summer job, dangerous secrets… and death Sixteen-year-old Juliana is excited to work for the English grandfather she never knew at Heatherstone Hall, his ancient manor house-turned-hotel-and-spa. But beneath its elegant veneer, Heatherstone Hall ...



  • When Julie visits Gold Moon Ranch, a farming commune in California's gold rush country, the back-to-the-land lifestyle seems idyllic at first. But peculiar problems keep cropping up, almost as if someone was trying to shut down the commune! Then, on ...



  • When Julie visits Gold Moon Ranch, a farming commune in California's gold rush country, the back-to-the-land lifestyle seems idyllic at first. But peculiar problems keep cropping up, almost as if someone was trying to shut down the commune! Then,...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kathryn Reiss has published 22 books.

Kathryn Reiss does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Message in a Bottle, was published in February 2017.

The first book by Kathryn Reiss, Time Windows, was published in January 1991.

Yes. Kathryn Reiss has 5 series.