Susan McBride

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1999
  • Latest Book:
    July 2018
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Full Series List in Order

The Debs

1 - The Debs (Sep-2008)
2 - Love, Lies and Texas Dips (Jun-2009)
3 - Gloves Off (Mar-2010)

A Debutante Dropout Mystery

1 - Blue Blood (Feb-2004)
2 - The Good Girl's Guide to Murder (Feb-2005)
3 - The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club (Feb-2006)
4 - Night of the Living Deb (Jan-2007)
5 - Too Pretty to Die (Feb-2008)
6 - Say Yes to the Death (Oct-2015)

Jo Larsen

1 - Walk Into Silence (Dec-2016)
2 - Walk a Crooked Line (Jul-2018)

A Maggie Ryan Mystery

1 - And Then She Was Gone (Apr-1999)
2 - Overkill (Apr-2002)

A River Road Mystery

1 - To Helen Back (Jun-2014)
2 - Mad As Helen (Aug-2014)
3 - Not a Chance in Helen (Oct-2014)
4 - Come Helen High Water (Jun-2017)

Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • And Then She Was Gone

    A Maggie Ryan Mystery - 1

    It wasn't supposed to happen in Litchfield. Beneath the bright Texas sun, a child vanishes without a trace. Detective Maggie Ryan had left the Dallas P.D. in order to escape big city crime, and now it had followed her outside the city limits, remindi...

  • Overkill

    A Maggie Ryan Mystery - 2

    The calm of a quiet morning is split with the sound of gunfire in Dallas' comfortable suburbs. This time the murder takes place on a school bus, but not just any school bus, and the victim is liked by everyone maybe even the killer. ...

  • Blue Blood

    A Debutante Dropout Mystery - 1

    To the dismay of her high society mother Cissy, Dallas heiress Andy Kendricks wants no part of the Junior League life -- opting instead for a job as a website designer and a passel of unpedigreed pals. Now her good friend Molly O'Brien is in bad trou...

  • The Good Girl's Guide to Murder

    A Debutante Dropout Mystery - 2

    Website designer and high society rebel Andrea Kendricks would never have gotten involved with ego-in-pumps life-style hostess Marilee Mabry if it weren't for the underhanded machinations of Andy's upper crust mama. But thanks to Mother Cissy, Andy's...

  • The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club

    A Debutante Dropout Mystery - 3

    WEALTHY TEXAS WIDOWS NEED LOVING TOO... ...which is why Bebe Kent joined a dating service for "discriminating" seniors soon after relocating to the swanky Belle Meade retirement community. Unfortunately, Bebe didn't live long enough to meet "Mr. R...

  • Night of the Living Deb

    A Debutante Dropout Mystery - 4

    Deb's Man Walking Renegade rich girl Andy Kendricks isn't the belle of any Dallas ball--and that's just the way the debutante dropout likes it! She's got a good life and a great man: her defense attorney boyfriend, Brian Malone. Brian's such a strai...

  • Too Pretty to Die

    A Debutante Dropout Mystery - 5

    They call them "pretty parties," and they're the latest rage among Dallas debutantes--get-togethers with light refreshments, heavy gossip, and Dr. Sonja Madhavi and her magic Botox needles. Former socialite Andy Kendricks normally wouldn't be caught ...

  • The Debs

    The Debs - 1

    LAURA DELACROIX BELL--this dazzling trust fund girl's size 14 figure doesn't stop her from attracting the sexiest scoundrel in town, or the admiring eye of the Glass Slipper Club. However, a salacious secret could take her out of the running. Mich...

  • Love, Lies and Texas Dips

    The Debs - 2

    The Debs are back! Now that her dream of becoming a deb is finally coming true, Laura's confidence is at an all-time high. But when she dares to mess with Jo Lynn's football star boyfriend, Dillon, Laura finds herself at the center of some heinous...



  • The Cougar Club

    Meet three women who aren't about to run and hide just because the world says they should be on the shelf and out of circulation. Kat Her life seems perfect until she loses her high-powered advertising job and catches her live-in lover in a compromi...

  • Gloves Off

    The Debs - 3

    LAURA DELACROIX BELL--this dazzling trust fund girl's size 14 figure doesn't stop her from attracting the sexiest scoundrel in town, or the admiring eye of the Glass Slipper Club. However, a salacious secret could take her out of the running. Mich...

  • Little Black Dress

    Two sisters whose lives seemed forever intertwined are torn apart when a magical little black dress gives each one a glimpse of an unavoidable future Antonia Ashton has worked hard to build a thriving career and a committed relationship, but she rea...

  • Boogers' Day Out

    There’s a world of creepy things lurking and waiting to throw a party of wheezes and sneezes. An icky crowd of characters creep across a boy’s pillow and awaken him with a nasty surprise. Slimy boogers entertain themselves with a boy’s misery u...

  • In the Pink

  • The Truth About Love and Lightning

    Susan McBride, author of Little Black Dress and The Cougar Club, gives us her most unforgettable novel to date with this deliciously emotional story of family, forgiveness, love, and magic. As far as Gretchen Brink is concerned, the tornado that j...

  • To Helen Back

    A River Road Mystery - 1

    In this fun and sassy new mystery, USA Today bestselling author Susan McBride introduces us to Helen Evans, a modern-day Miss Marple who must expose a murderer in a town full of suspects When Milton Grone turns up dead in tiny River Bend, Illinois...

  • Mad As Helen

    A River Road Mystery - 2

    In the second River Road Mystery from USA Today bestselling author Susan McBride, Helen Evans must find a killer before her granddaughter is arrested for murder When tiny River Bend, Illinois, is hit by a string of burglaries even Sheriff Frank Bi...

  • Not a Chance in Helen

    A River Road Mystery - 3

    In the third River Road Mystery from USA Today bestselling author Susan McBride, Helen Evans knows her friend is not guilty of murder … she just has to prove it! When 80-year-old Eleanora Duncan is found dead on her kitchen floor, Sheriff Frank ...

  • Very Bad Things

    A dark, moody, boarding-school murder mystery teens won't be able to put down. Katie never thought she'd be the girl with the popular boyfriend. She also never thought he would cheat on her--but the proof is in the photo that people at their boar...



  • Say Yes to the Death

    A Debutante Dropout Mystery - 6

    Someone old, someone cruel... Debutante dropout Andrea Kendricks is beyond done with big hair, big gowns, and big egos so being dragged to a high-society Texas wedding by her socialite mama, Cissy, gives her a bad case of deja vu. As does running in...

  • Walk Into Silence

    Jo Larsen - 1

    A woman vanishes from a Texas town. Did she simply run off, or is something darker at play? When Patrick Dielman shows up at Detective Jo Larsen’s desk insisting that his wife, Jenny, is missing, Jo wonders if it’s a case of a bored housewife ...

  • Come Helen High Water

    A River Road Mystery - 4

    Helen Evans returns in Susan McBride’s fourth River Road Mystery! Spring has sprung, the river is rising, and when Luann Dupree, the head of River Bend’s Historical Society, vanishes into the night, everyone in town is convinced she’s run of...

  • Walk a Crooked Line

    Jo Larsen - 2

    In the follow-up to the #1 Kindle bestseller Walk into Silence, a young girl takes her own life. But what -- or who -- drove her to it? When a teenager’s body is found at the base of the old water tower, Detective Jo Larsen is one of the first o...

Award-Winning Books by Susan McBride

Too Pretty to Die
2008 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Amateur Sleuth


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Susan McBride has published 23 books.

Susan McBride does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Walk a Crooked Line, was published in July 2018.

The first book by Susan McBride, And Then She Was Gone, was published in April 1999.

Yes. Susan McBride has 5 series.
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