Cora Harrison Books in Order

This first Drumshee adventure takes readers back to early Ireland, where Nuala is hiding a dangerous secret, her bond with a wolf. It is a story of loyalty, fear, and the risks of protecting what others do not understand.

A mystery tied to old crosses pulls a young Drumshee cast into danger and discovery. Harrison mixes local legend, history, and a child's-eye view of the past in a brisk, readable adventure.

In 1847, four McMahon children are orphaned as famine and fever rip through their world. Forced into the workhouse, they refuse to give up and begin plotting a way back to home, dignity, and one another.

Set during the 1798 rising, this Drumshee story throws young characters into a world of rebellion, fear, and divided loyalties. Harrison keeps the history personal, showing how political violence lands inside ordinary homes.

Grace Barry is a young heiress whose greedy guardians want Drumshee for themselves. As she grows into a lonely, capable teenager, she must flee for her life and seek help in the dangerous world of Elizabethan power.

As the millennium approaches, Drumshee's long past presses in on the present once again. This later entry connects modern children with the deep history of the place they live in and inherit.

A time of rebellion brings secrecy, danger, and hard choices to Drumshee. Harrison shows how political struggle looks from the side of young people who have to grow up fast.

Kitty leaves Drumshee on the *Titanic* with a precious necklace and two children in her care. When disaster strikes and the children go missing, the grand voyage turns into a frightening race through chaos.

This companion volume looks back across the Drumshee Timeline sequence and the history it covers. It works as a handy extra for readers who want to keep the people, periods, and places straight.

This opening Wolfcub story hints that Mark's life is about to change in strange ways. School trouble, fear, and the first pull of deeper magic make it a strong start to the series.

Conn captures the Viking boy Ivar, but his sister Emer sees a different possibility. With Brian Boru's struggle against the Vikings in the background, the children are drawn into a dangerous plan built on courage and cunning.

A small field mouse with big ideas takes center stage in this light, funny story for younger readers. Harrison keeps the tone cheerful while quietly nudging at ideas of bravery and self-belief.

This early reader captures a very familiar childhood longing, wanting a dog more than anything. Harrison builds a warm, simple story around hope, persistence, and family negotiation.

Gabur, the cruel teacher at Drumshee law school, is dead, and almost nobody is sorry. When suspicion falls on the wrong boy, Ita and her friends set out to find the real killer.

A household vacuum cleaner has simply had enough. This playful early reader turns an ordinary object into the center of a funny little revolt.

A touch of forest magic gives this young-reader story its lift. With a mysterious wizard and a woodland setting, it offers a quick adventure without losing its gentle humor.

Sent from wartime Kent to relatives in Clare, Clive and Marjorie hope for safety at Drumshee. Instead they stumble into a daring rescue involving the Aran Islands, a German U-boat, and a cousin believed lost at sea.

One of the harsher chapters in Drumshee's long story, this book puts children inside a period of fear and uncertainty. Harrison is good at showing survival through ordinary courage rather than grand heroics.

Ronan is determined to help keep Daniel O'Connell safe, even though other people underestimate him because of his disabilities. Alongside his ambitious sister Mary-Ann, he becomes part of a tense and lively historical adventure.

Short, lively, and built for younger readers, this story lets two unruly dogs create the trouble. It is the kind of brisk, comic animal tale that works well for reading aloud or alone.

Mark and Wolf return to the Midnight Forest when a dangerous cold closes in. To help their friends, they have to face new magic, deepening fear, and a world growing harder to trust.

Mark wakes in the Midnight Forest and finds Wolf there too, only now Wolf is changed. With the Swan Princess missing and the Shapechanger threatening the forest, the pair have no time to waste.

Fern Hamilton is chosen for a small film role and suddenly finds herself at the center of attention. What begins as excitement soon turns complicated, with jealousy at school and strain at home.

In fifth-century Ireland, the cruel priest Cetterick is murdered and almost everyone seems to have a reason. Ita and her fellow students at Drumshee law school have to sort through fear, rumor, and motive to find the truth.

Conan, Columba, and Sorcha are caught in a fierce mix of love, jealousy, blackmail, and revenge in eighth-century Ireland. The story has real darkness, but it stays sharply focused on the choices young people make under pressure.

Lochlann of Drumshee is drawn into a violent struggle shaped by prophecy, revenge, and war. Harrison gives the story a strong sense of old belief while keeping the human stakes close and urgent.

A death sentence hangs over the wrong person, and the young people around Drumshee know time is running out. This is one of Harrison's tighter historical adventures, built on law, fear, and the need to act quickly.

In 1509, after a man fails to return from May Day celebrations, his body is found on the mountain and the whole Burren falls silent. Mara, judge and lawgiver, must break that silence to uncover what really happened.

At the Michaelmas Fair, a greedy steward raises old tensions just before he is found dead in the churchyard. Mara must untangle tribute, revenge, and a suspicious second death while her own future pulls at her attention.

Another Burren case pulls Mara into a knot of old grudges, hidden motives, and hard legal choices. Much of the pleasure lies in watching her balance intelligence with sympathy under pressure.

A case tied to old marks, old memory, and stubborn silence forces Mara to look beneath what everyone thinks they know. The story leans hard into the series' gift for place and patient detection.

Mara is pregnant, married, and still carrying the weight of judgment for the Burren. Even with her own life changing fast, she has to keep her eye clear when a troubling case demands action.

Told through Jenny Cooper's journal, this story imagines Jane Austen as a bright, sharp-eyed teenager. Balls, secrets, first love, and one dangerous midnight errand give the history a lively, personal feel.

When murder breaks into the world of performance, Alfie and the gang find themselves backstage among nerves, secrets, and rivalries. Their street smarts matter as much as any official inquiry.

A suspicious blaze sends Alfie and his young allies into another risky investigation. In Victorian London, fire can hide many kinds of crime, and the truth burns hotter than the flames.

A wealthy man lies dead in Victorian London, and Inspector Denham needs someone who knows the streets better than the police. Alfie and his gang step in, chasing clues through fog, hunger, and danger.

Alfie and the gang are drawn into a murder linked to the hard, dangerous world of London's chimney sweeps. It is another strong reminder that children in this city know more than adults think.

During her son's christening celebrations, Mara notices three law students vanish into the night. By morning one is dead, two are missing, and an important legal document has disappeared with them.

Friendship and romance get tangled when Jane Austen's world collides with Jenny's hopes once again. Harrison keeps the tone lively and emotional, with jealousy and longing sitting close together.

After the difficult birth of her son, Mara expects rest, but an unpopular physician is soon poisoned. A young legal scholar offers help, yet Mara is not sure the case, or the kingdom, is safe in other hands.

A new death leads Alfie and his friends into one of London's darker corners. The case tests their nerve as much as their talent for finding the clues other people miss.

As the Derrington sisters enter London's debutante world, glamour quickly gives way to nerves, rivalry, and romantic uncertainty. Harrison uses the bright surface of the season to show how closely freedom and expectation can clash.

Invited to English-ruled Galway, Mara first hopes to save a man from the Burren accused of theft. Then the mayor's son is charged with a far more serious crime, and the whole city becomes a legal battlefield.

When Alfie and the gang find a beggar's body in thick London fog, the case seems grim enough already. Then an explosion and a robbery nearby suggest the murder may be part of something bigger.

Mara follows one small clue after another until a larger pattern starts to emerge. It is a patient, satisfying Burren mystery, built on observation, law, and the weaknesses people try to hide.

When a sacred relic is defaced and burned, a pilgrim is soon found murdered near Kilnaboy Church. Mara must decide whether the killer came with the pilgrims or was waiting for them in the Burren.

Poppy and Daisy Derrington arrive in London for their own debutante season, full of promise and nerves. Love, appearances, and family expectation all pull in different directions.

A fresh legal tangle forces Mara to weigh evidence, duty, and mercy with her usual care. The mystery tightens slowly, with the life of the Burren always pressing around it.

Reverend Mother Aquinas finds the body of a young woman washed into the convent gate after floodwaters rise. What begins as one disturbing death opens into a layered case full of shame, secrecy, and social pressure in 1920s Cork.

With a life hanging in the balance, Mara has little room for error. This later Burren case turns on urgency, careful judgement, and the danger of letting the wrong verdict stand.

Clodagh O'Lochlainn is found strangled after a bitter inheritance dispute that left plenty of enemies behind. Mara must sort through land claims, family rage, and old belief to find the truth.

A public killing sends Reverend Mother Aquinas into a case where politics and private motives are hard to separate. Harrison uses the shock of the crime to open up a wider picture of Cork society.

A novice judge hands down brutally harsh sentences on his first day and is then murdered. Mara's search for the killer leads from the punished men to a young widow, an abused apprentice, and other dangerous possibilities.

A much-loved priest is found murdered inside a confessional, killed in a way that feels both intimate and shocking. Reverend Mother Aquinas is determined to uncover the truth for the sake of his grieving brother.

A grim discovery gives Reverend Mother Aquinas and Inspector Patrick Cashman another difficult Cork case. Harrison is good at turning one shocking scene into a broader story about class, faith, and motive.

A young novice nun is found dead in a shed, and the obvious explanation makes no sense at all. As Reverend Mother Aquinas looks deeper, family secrets and a wider threat begin to surface.

Former headteacher Flora Morgan becomes involved when a girl with learning difficulties is accused of murder. Certain the case is wrong, Flora starts digging into a village mystery shaped by haste, bias, and fear.

In 1522, Irish lawyer Hugh Mac Egan arrives at Hampton Court to arrange a marriage contract and walks straight into murder. Against Cardinal Wolsey's glittering court, he must clear his patron's heir and find the real killer.

A death tied to an old royal stronghold draws Reverend Mother Aquinas into another knot of history, local politics, and private grudges. In Cork, the past never stays buried for long.

When a young woman's body is pulled from the Thames, Charles Dickens recognizes her as someone he once tried to help through his charitable work. He and Wilkie Collins set out to uncover who killed her, and why blackmail lies at the center of the case.

A painter is found with his throat cut in an attic studio, surrounded by slashed canvases, and Wilkie Collins's own brother comes under suspicion. To clear him, Wilkie and Dickens must probe the world of artists and the secrets inside it.

When a well-known Cork citizen dies, public respectability quickly starts to crack. Reverend Mother Aquinas has to look past reputation and grief to find the motives people would rather conceal.

At a spiritual retreat disrupted by a looming mayoral election, a bomb in an orchard cemetery kills one of the candidates. Reverend Mother Aquinas suspects the truth is more complicated than the easy political answer.

At Knebworth House, a charity performance is interrupted when a body is found shot on the stage. Dickens and Collins must sort through house-party tensions, performance, and hidden histories to solve the crime.

Poisoned communion wine kills a Protestant archdeacon, and a small boy is caught in the horror as well. Reverend Mother Aquinas and Patrick Cashman face a case sharpened by religious division and deep local resentment.

Dickens and Wilkie Collins take on another Victorian puzzle in a story full of sharp observation, performance, and hidden motives. Harrison keeps the literary world lively without letting it overwhelm the mystery.

Christmas at Dickens's country home turns grim when a man is found dead on the snowy marshes nearby. With guests, convicts, nephews, and old Cork ties all in play, Dickens and Collins face a case thick with suspicion.