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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2009
  • Latest Book:
    February 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Agents of the Glass

1 - A New Recruit (Sep-2016)

The Red Blazer Girls

1 - The Red Blazer Girls (Apr-2009)
2 - The Vanishing Violin (Aug-2010)
3 - The Mistaken Masterpiece (Jun-2011)
4 - The Secret Cellar (Oct-2012)

The Swallowtail Legacy

1 - Wreck at Ada's Reef (Feb-2023)
2 - Betrayal by the Book (Apr-2023)
3 - The Swallowtail Legacy 3 (Feb-2025)

Book List in Order: 12 titles



  • It all began with The Scream. And ended with . . . well, if we told you that, it wouldnt be a mystery! But in between The Scream and The Very Surprising Ending, three friends find themselves on a scavenger hunt set up for a girl they never met, in se...



  • When there are mysteries to be solved, the Red Blazer Girls are on the case! The discovery of the Ring of Rocamadour has secured the girls' reputation as Upper East Side super-sleuths, bringing many sundry job requests (no mystery too small, right?) ...



  • Sophie, Margaret, Becca, and Leigh Ann are back in an all-new Red Blazer Girls caper. In the third installment, Sophie is nose to fist with her arch-rival, Livvy, all while taking care of movie-star Nate Etan's dog, when Father Julian hires the Blaze...



  • With their father en route to Africa for Doctors Without Borders, city-kids Nicholas and younger twin sisters Haley and Hetty are off to spend the summer with their Great-Uncle Nick at his house on Forsaken Lake. Despite some initial doubts, Nicholas...



  • Mysteries seem to find the Red Blazer Girls: when Sophie finds a secret message in the antique fountain pen she bought for her father, the girls are on a case. Soon, they're at the home of the pen's original owner, a secretive man who kept to himself...



  • Lantern Sam is the wise-cracking, sarcastic, talking cat (for those who can hear him, that is) who lives onboard the Lake Erie Shoreliner train and is one of the best detectives no one knows about. He doesn't have much patience for humans (unless the...



  • The Agents of the Glass are at the front lines of the fight between good and evil, and they have a new recruit. But is he up to the task? Andover James Llewellyn, aka Andy, did the unthinkable: he turned in a bag of money he found on the street a...



  • A vibrant contemporary mystery with a classic feel about grappling with grief, righting past wrongs, redefining family, and finding yourself.An Edgar Award Nominee!Twelve-year-old Lark Heron-Finch is steeling herself to spend the summer on Swallowtai...



  • A vibrant contemporary mystery with a classic feel about grappling with grief, righting past wrongs, redefining family, and finding yourself.An Edgar Award Nominee!Twelve-year-old Lark Heron-Finch is steeling herself to spend the summer on Swallowtai...






  • A writer’s conference brings twelve-year-old Lark’s favorite writer—and a suspicious death—to Swallowtail Island, in the second book in this middle grade mystery series by an Edgar Award-nominated author.Swallowtail Island is ...



  • A writer’s conference brings twelve-year-old Lark’s favorite writer -- and a suspicious death -- to Swallowtail Island, in the second book in this middle grade mystery series by an Edgar Award-nominated author.Swallowtail Island is hosting the Sw...



  • The third installment of this Edgar Award-mominated series (for Wreck at Ada's Reef) is another engrossing two-pronged adventure—an island mystery and the long-simmering control over Swallowtail Island.Following the Swallowtales writers’ ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michael D. Beil has published 12 books.

The next book by Michael D. Beil, The Swallowtail Legacy 3, will be published in February 2025.

The first book by Michael D. Beil, The Red Blazer Girls, was published in April 2009.

Yes. Michael D. Beil has 3 series.