Christi Daugherty Books in Order
Explore Christi Daugherty books in order, including Ava Glass and C.J. Daugherty titles, with short summaries, series guides, and where to start.
Last updated: July 2, 2026
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Publication Order
26 books
Frommer's Ireland 2006
by Christi Daugherty
2005
A practical guide to Ireland with routes, major sights, hotel and food tips, and help planning trips through Dublin, the countryside, and the coast.
Frommer's Paris Day by Day
by Christi Daugherty
2006
A compact Paris guide with daily itineraries, neighborhood walks, museum picks, dining ideas, and practical tips for making the most of a short visit.
Frommer's Ireland 2007
by Christi Daugherty
2007
An Ireland travel guide packed with sightseeing ideas, lodging and dining advice, and useful help for planning city breaks, scenic drives, and longer tours.
Frommer's Ireland 2008
by Christi Daugherty
2007
A detailed Ireland guide covering key sights, places to stay, local food, and smart ways to explore the country's cities, villages, and scenic regions.
Frommer's Ireland 2009
by Christi Daugherty
2008
A smart guide to Ireland with practical planning advice, destination highlights, and recommendations for hotels, restaurants, drives, and day trips.
Frommer's Ireland 2010
by Christi Daugherty
2009
A traveler-friendly guide to Ireland that maps out major attractions, useful routes, and reliable tips on where to eat, stay, and explore.
Frommer's Ireland 2011
by Christi Daugherty
2010
An easy-to-use guide to Ireland with trip-planning help, sightseeing recommendations, and advice on food, lodging, and getting around.
Frommer's Ireland Day by Day
by Christi Daugherty
2010
A handy Ireland guide built around day-by-day itineraries, scenic drives, local highlights, and practical advice for planning a flexible trip.
Frommer's Ireland 2012
by Christi Daugherty
2011
A concise Ireland guide with practical travel tips, suggested routes, and coverage of the country's best-known cities, coasts, and countryside stops.
Frommer's Best Day Trips from London
by Christi Daugherty
2012
A travel guide to easy escapes from London, with suggested routes, key sights, and planning tips for castles, coast, countryside, and historic towns.
Legacy
by Christi Daugherty
2012
Allie finally feels she belongs at Cimmeria Academy, but the school is more dangerous than ever. With threats closing in and her family tangled in the mystery, she must choose between the people who raised her and the friends who stood by her.
Night School
by Christi Daugherty
2012
After one arrest too many, rebellious Allie Sheridan is sent to Cimmeria Academy, a boarding school full of secrets. A hidden group of students, a violent attack, and her own buried family history turn punishment into a nightmare.
Fracture
by Christi Daugherty
2013
The walls of Cimmeria Academy are starting to fail, and the secret society behind it is tearing itself apart. Angry and grieving, Allie wants justice, but she will have to decide whom she can trust before she loses everything.
Resistance
by Christi Daugherty
2014
After months on the run, Allie returns to Cimmeria Academy to find fear and division everywhere. Nathaniel is closing in, the political war is turning personal, and protecting her friends may cost her everything.
Endgame
by Christi Daugherty
2015
With Nathaniel close to victory and Carter missing, Allie and the survivors of Cimmeria Academy face their final fight. The secrets are out, the losses are real, and the series ends with everything on the line.
The Secret Fire
by Christi Daugherty
2015
Sacha Winters cannot die, until an ancient prophecy says he must. Taylor Montclair is the only person who can save him, but powerful enemies are keeping them apart and time is running out.
The Secret City
by Christi Daugherty
2016
Taylor and Sacha are hidden away in Oxford, but Sacha's eighteenth birthday is days away and the curse that protected him is about to kill him. To stop it, they must travel to Carcassonne and face the darkness at its source.
The Echo Killing
by Christi Daugherty
2018
Savannah crime reporter Harper McClain has never escaped her mother's unsolved murder. When a new killing mirrors that old case, Harper sees a chance for justice, if she can survive getting too close to the truth.
A Beautiful Corpse
by Christi Daugherty
2019
When law student Naomi Scott is shot in Savannah's wealthy historic district, Harper McClain finds herself chasing a case with three strong suspects and no clear answers. The deeper she digs, the more personal, and dangerous, the story becomes.
Number 10
by Christi Daugherty
2020
Gray Langtry's mother is prime minister, and someone wants them both dead. Trapped inside Downing Street and fed half-truths by the adults around her, Gray starts digging into a threat that reaches far deeper than anyone admits.
Revolver Road
by Christi Daugherty
2020
While hiding out on Tybee Island after a death threat, Harper McClain investigates the disappearance of musician Xavier Rayne. When the case turns into murder, the danger stalking her own life comes rushing back.
Codename Firefly
by Christi Daugherty
2021
Gray Langtry is sent to a remote boarding school after an attempt on her life, but the killers hunting the prime minister's daughter are still closing in. Surrounded by bodyguards, secrets, and a boy she may not be able to trust, Gray has to fight back.
Alias Emma
by Christi Daugherty
2022
New British agent Emma Makepeace has twelve hours to move the son of Russian dissidents across London after the city's security cameras are hacked. With no safe route and nowhere to hide, every street becomes a trap.
The Traitor
by Christi Daugherty
2023
Emma Makepeace investigates the murder of an MI6 operative and follows the trail to Russian oligarchs, a superyacht, and a possible conspiracy inside British government. Undercover and isolated, she is never far from becoming the next target.
The Trap
by Christi Daugherty
2024
At the G7 summit in Edinburgh, Emma Makepeace races to stop a Russian assassination plot without knowing who the target is. To catch the killer, she may have to step into the trap herself.
The Hiding Season
by Christi Daugherty
2026
After a painful divorce, Maya Landry takes a quiet job at a Montana ski resort and finds a dead body that soon seems to vanish. Now the only witness to a killing, she has to run before the killers find her.
Where should I start?
If you want spy thrillers: Alias Emma → The Traitor → The Trap
If you want Southern crime: The Echo Killing → A Beautiful Corpse → Revolver Road
If you want boarding-school suspense: Night School → Legacy → Fracture → Resistance → Endgame
If you want political YA intrigue: Number 10 → Codename Firefly
If you want fantasy with alchemy: The Secret Fire → The Secret City
Author bio
Christi Daugherty was born in Dallas and grew up in Texas, in a family that moved around more than once. She studied journalism at Texas A&M because writing was the one thing that always felt steady. Before she published a novel, she learned to write fast, ask direct questions, and live by deadline.
At 22, she took a job as a crime reporter in Savannah, Georgia.
That was the start of several intense newspaper years. Daugherty went on to report in Savannah, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans, covering murders and spending long nights waiting on police calls. She has said those years taught her to notice everything, not just what people say, but what they avoid, how cities change after dark, and how a single act of violence can alter dozens of lives.
Later, her career took a sharp turn. She moved to London around 2000, worked for Reuters and travel publishers, wrote guidebooks, edited magazines, and eventually took a communications job with the Home Office. She has described herself as an accidental civil servant, which feels like a useful clue to the way her career has moved, always through writing, but never in quite the same form for long.
That government job helped unlock her fiction. While working there, and thinking about elite schools, closed systems, and the way power hides behind polished surfaces, she began writing Night School. Published in 2012 under the name C.J. Daugherty, it introduced Allie Sheridan and the unsettling world of Cimmeria Academy. The series grew to five books and became a major international success.
The Night School books went on to sell more than 1.5 million copies worldwide, and Daugherty's work has been translated into 25 languages. The series also inspired a web series and later drew television interest, but its appeal is easy to understand even without the extras: a rebellious heroine, a sealed-off school, and the constant feeling that the adults know far more than they are saying.
She did not stay in one lane for long.
Under her own name, Daugherty turned back to the territory she knew best with The Echo Killing, the first Harper McClain novel. Set in Savannah, it follows a crime reporter still haunted by her mother's unsolved murder. A Beautiful Corpse and Revolver Road keep that same blend of police work, newsroom pressure, and personal grief, with a heroine who is smart, stubborn, and often unwilling to leave a mystery alone.
She also writes as Ava Glass, the name she uses for her spy thrillers. Alias Emma, The Traitor, and The Trap follow Emma Makepeace, a young British intelligence officer working high-risk missions shaped by surveillance, state secrets, and Russian threats. Those books move quickly, but they are still built around the same Daugherty interests: women under pressure, institutions that hide dangerous truths, and the gap between the official story and what is really happening.
She has also stepped into fantasy, co-writing The Secret Fire and The Secret City with Carina Rozenfeld, and returned to YA political suspense with Number 10 and Codename Firefly. Now she lives in the south of England with her husband, filmmaker Jack Jewers. Across all the pen names, the through-line is pretty clear: hidden systems, dangerous people, and girls or women who keep asking questions long after they have been told to stop.
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