Ada Latia Mystery Books in Order

Ada Latia is the kind of sleuth who does not blend into a room, and Harrison turns that into an advantage instead of a flaw. In A Special Interest in Murder, Ada is a young autistic woman whose ex-husband has stolen the company she built and still thinks he can define her. When she sees evidence that a schoolgirl's death has been misread as an accident, she cannot let it go.

What follows is a mystery built around attention, pattern recognition, and the strain of dealing with people who underestimate her. Ada ends up working, unofficially at first, with Henry Bloodstone, an FBI agent who knew her years earlier. Their investigation takes them to a school in Idaho, where money, image, and parental fear have made the truth hard to reach. Ada notices things other people dismiss, but that does not make the case easy. The emotional cost of pushing through noise, cruelty, and social pressure is always part of the story.

Ada is not written as a puzzle.

That matters. Harrison, who has written openly about being autistic herself, gives Ada a strong interior life and lets her way of moving through the world shape the whole book. The result is a detective story with a clear procedural spine, but also one that cares about overwhelm, grief, blunt honesty, and the many ways institutions fail vulnerable people.

Even with only one book so far, the series already has a distinct feel. Expect a sharp narrator, a case that connects personal pain to public injustice, and a partnership that works because Ada and Henry do not process the world in the same way. If you like mysteries where the lead's perspective changes how every clue lands, Ada Latia is a promising new series character.