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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1985
  • Latest Book:
    September 2017
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Full Series List in Order

Clanross

1 - The Bar Sinister (Jul-1986)
2 - Lady Elizabeth's Comet (Apr-1985)
3 - Love and Folly (Jun-1988)

Lark Dodge

1 - Larkspur (May-1990)
2 - Skylark (Oct-1992)
3 - Mudlark (Dec-1993)
4 - Meadowlark (Feb-1996)
5 - Malarkey (Feb-1997)

A Latouche County Mystery

1 - Buffalo Bill's Defunct (Sep-2008)
2 - An Old Chaos (Sep-2009)
3 - Beyond Confusion (Apr-2013)

Books in Order: 15 titles

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  • Jane August, an artist who’s “a refugee from a wealthy family,” is visiting her estranged father and his fifth wife on the Columbia River Gorge. Doing a good turn for a wine maker from neighboring Hawk Farm, she is swept into a morass of family...



  • The 2008 election is over, and librarian Meg McLean is thrilled that the library levy passed. Despite an economy in free fall, Meg’s personal and professional lives are thriving. Tribal Chief Madeline Thomas of the Klalos offers an inherited farmho...



  • Mourning the death from consumption of her young sister, Fanny, Lady Jean Conway goes home to the Brecon dower house to be comforted by her former governess, Miss Bluestone. Rescued from a flood by Lord Clanross's Scots steward James Sholto, Jean fin...



  • When a landslide kills six people and destroys several expensive homes, Madeline Thomas, principal chief of the Klalos, and geologist Charlie O Neill know something is rotten in Latouche County: the land should never have been built on. Sheriff s inv...



  • Sheriff's investigator Rob Neill made a mess of his first case, the theft of sacred artifacts belonging to the Klalo, a Native American tribe from the western end of the Columbia River Gorge. Ten years later, a stolen petroglyph emerges-along with a...



  • All Lark Dodge really wants to do is disappear for a while. She needs time to recover from her miscarriage and reevaluate her marriage to Jay, her ex-police detective husband. When her mother suggests that Lark fly to Ireland to keep an eye on her fa...



  • Having recently moved with her professor husband from California up to the Shoalwater Peninsula in Washington state, Lark Dodge has been busy renovating their new home and setting up her bookstore, Larkspur Books. The former basketball player and occ...



  • BEACH BODY Former bookdealer Lark Dodge and her husband, Jay, have traded California for the rustic beaches of Washington state's Shoalwater Peninsula. At first, life is no more complicated than house renovating and baby making. But a carpetbag of...



  • CULTURE SHOCK When San Francisco bookstore owner Lark Dodge and her friend Ann rent a flat in London, they anticipate a bit of bookseller's business and a lot of touristy fun. They get murder. A new acquaintance, a Czech poet, is stabbed on the...






  • WHEN A QUARTET OF VIVACIOUS YOUNG LADIES VISITS A VILLAGE NAMED FOR ST. VALENTINE, CUPID IS THE UNINVITED GUEST. February 14 is unforgettable at the estate of the widowed Cressida Trent, as five acclaimed Regency authors follow the romantic advent...



  • Invited to spend the weekend at the mountain lodge of poet David 'Dai' Llewellyn outside San Francisco, Lark Dailey feels obligated to attend, although her police officer lover, Jay, isn't very keen on the idea of spending a 'literary weekend' with L...



  • TWIN FOLLY The King's untimely death may have cheated the headstrong Lady Jean Conway out of her first season, but it had done nothing to curb her romantic imagination. To the dismay of her more sensible twin Margaret, Lady Jean proceeded to fal...



  • A RUDE CAPTAIN AND A FORTHRIGHT WIDOW ARE CAUGHT IN A WEB OF DANGEROUS DECEPTION... A LOVELY WIDOW The idea of two small, motherless children had wrung Emily Foster's heart. The pretty young widow had immediately agreed to take them in despit...



  • The story of a star-gazing beauty and the two dashing lords who claimed her heart. At 28, lovely Lady Elizabeth Conway was old enough to know what she wanted -- most especially in the matter of choosing a mate. But now the independent Elizabeth fo...



  • The delightful tale of two cousins by marriage -- who did not know how marriageable they were! "HE IS NOT...ROMANTICAL." Miss Jane Ash ran her fingers through her lovely brown ringlets, and pondered her situation. She had come to the co...


Award-Winning Books by Sheila Simonson

Buffalo Bill's Defunct
2009 WILLA Literary Award -- Paperback Original


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Sheila Simonson has published 15 books.

Sheila Simonson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Call Down the Hawk, was published in September 2017.

The first book by Sheila Simonson, A Cousinly Connexion, was published in January 1985.

Yes. Sheila Simonson has 3 series.