Wendy Hornsby

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1987
  • Latest Book:
    April 2019
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Full Series List in Order

Kate Teague & Roger Tejada

1 - No Harm (Aug-1987)
2 - Half a Mind (Apr-1990)

A Maggie MacGowen Mystery

1 - Telling Lies (1992)
2 - Midnight Baby (Jun-1993)
3 - Bad Intent (Aug-1994)
4 - 77th Street Requiem (Oct-1995)
5 - A Hard Light (Jul-1997)
6 - In the Guise of Mercy (Sep-2009)
7 - Paramour's Daughter (Aug-2010)
8 - The Hanging (Sep-2012)
9 - The Color of Light (Apr-2014)
10 - Disturbing the Dark (Apr-2016)
11 - Number 7, Rue Jacob (Apr-2018)

Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • No Harm

    Kate Teague & Roger Tejada - 1
    Worldwide Mysteries - 30

    It was a terrible tragedy when Kate Teague's mother died on the hands of a common street mugger. But as sole beneficiary to a great deal of money and valuable Southern California real estate, Kate was now very rich indeed. Too rich, evidently. Sev...

  • Half a Mind

    Kate Teague & Roger Tejada - 2

    Southern California homicide detective Roger Tejeda has "the gift"--a sixth sense for catching the most elusive kind of criminal, the serial killer. But Lt. Tejeda is now working with a handicap: half a mind. His last case left him with a skull fract...

  • Telling Lies

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    A Maggie MacGowen Mystery - 1

    Exposing the truth is investigative filmmaker Maggie MacGowen's business. She's smart, skeptical, and stubborn, with a hard-edged, wise-cracking approach to life that hides her vulnerable heart. Maggie's passion for truth is first inspired when h...

  • Midnight Baby

    A Maggie MacGowen Mystery - 2

    As Maggie MacGowen searches for the killer of a fourteen-year-old prostitute named Pisces, her investigation into the crime takes her from the mean streets of Los Angeles to one of its posh suburbs. Reprint....

  • High Heels in the Headliner

    in Malice Domestic 3

    Acclaimed Agatha Award-winning author Nancy Pickard dishes up a perfectly delicious new feast of original mystery stories, served up in classic Agatha Christie style. Celebrating the enduring legacy of the most beloved crime writer of all time, MALIC...

  • Bad Intent

    A Maggie MacGowen Mystery - 3

    Investigative filmmaker Maggie MacGowen finds herself in the urban war zone of South Central L.A. when a ruthless politician decides to get the minority vote by resurrecting a fifteen-year-old cop-killing case. He claims the police, including MacGowe...

  • 77th Street Requiem

    A Maggie MacGowen Mystery - 4

    Maggie MacGowen, an independent filmmaker, is initially intrigued by the twenty-year-old cop-killing case of Roy Frady because her boyfriend, L.A.P.D. cop Mike Flint, had been Frady's partner. Twenty years ago, Frady was shot in the head. The murder ...

  • Nine Sons

    in Modern Treasury of Great Detective and Murder Mysteries

    No hit-or-miss anthology, this first-rate collection of 25 contemporary mysteries offers a cross-section view of the American detective, suspense and mystery short-story worlds. Gorman, editor of Mystery Scene, gathers the works of such masters as To...

  • A Hard Light

    A Maggie MacGowen Mystery - 5

    Investigative filmmaker Maggie MacGowen's past catches up with her when Vietnamese expatriate Khanh Nguyen asks for help in finding a man. Maggie's only link with the Vietnamese community is the one person she won't touch with a ten-foot pole--her ex...



  • New Moon and Rattlesnakes

    in A Moment on the Edge

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    “An absolutely first-rate anthology. . . a thoughtful and intelligent paean to crime fiction.” — New York Sun

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George serves up a century''s worth of superb crim...

  • In the Guise of Mercy

    A Maggie MacGowen Mystery - 6

    A decade has passed since Maggie MacGowen s last investigation in the pages of Hornsby s award-winning noir series. Gritty and streetwise, yet compassionate, these mysteries appeal to America s current fascination with realistic crime stories. Filmma...

  • Paramour's Daughter

    A Maggie MacGowen Mystery - 7

    Just a few hours before she is murdered, a foreign stranger claims she is a close relative of investigative filmmaker Maggie MacGowen. It is a truism that “it’s a wise child who knows its father.” The same can apply to a mother, since we must...

  • The Hanging

    A Maggie MacGowen Mystery - 8

    When her television series is abruptly canceled, investigative filmmaker Maggie MacGowen accepts a short-term contract to teach film production at a local community college-an interesting diversion, she thinks, until the next TV gig comes along. But ...

  • The Color of Light

    A Maggie MacGowen Mystery - 9

    Filmmaker Maggie MacGowen learns the hard way that going home again can be deadly. While clearing out her deceased father’s desk, Maggie discovers that he had locked away potential evidence in a brutal unsolved murder 30 years earlier. When she b...

  • Disturbing the Dark

    A Maggie MacGowen Mystery - 10

    Maggie MacGowen, an investigative filmmaker, is in Normandy with a film crew to document the agricultural four seasons on her ancestral family farm. An accidentally excavated skull causes a social media sensation, dredging up psychic scars left by t...

  • Number 7, Rue Jacob

    A Maggie MacGowen Mystery - 11

    Imagine your every move is being tracked by someone whose clear intention is to do you harm. Filmmaker Maggie MacGowen arrives at the Paris apartment she inherited from the mother she never knew, ready to begin a settled life with her fiancé, Jean-P...

  • A Bouquet of Rue

    Filmmaker Maggie MacGowen moves to France ready to settle into a new job with a French television network and a new life with diplomat Jean-Paul Bernard. Maggie soon discovers that under the peaceful veneer of the leafy Paris suburb where she now liv...

Award-Winning Books by Wendy Hornsby

Nine Sons
1992 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Short Story


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Wendy Hornsby has published 17 books.

Wendy Hornsby does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Bouquet of Rue, was published in April 2019.

The first book by Wendy Hornsby, No Harm, was published in August 1987.

Yes. Wendy Hornsby has 2 series.
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