Elizabeth Adler Books in Order
Browse Elizabeth Adler books in order, with quick summaries, Mac Reilly series background, and easy suggestions on where to start reading.
Last updated: July 6, 2026
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Publication Order
33 books
Leonie
by Elizabeth Adler
1985
Leonie arrives in Paris with little but beauty, pride, and ambition, then rises from the music halls to international fame. As she moves through a glittering world of money and desire, one obsessed man refuses to let her go.
Indiscretions
by Elizabeth Adler
1986
Jenny Haven's three daughters grow up apart, but they remain bound to their mother's legend. When Jenny disappears, the sisters are left to untangle a family history built on glamour, ambition, and lies.
Peach
by Elizabeth Adler
1986
Peach de Courmont, Leonie's granddaughter and heiress, comes of age as war and ambition reshape her world. Her path collides again and again with Noel Maddox, a hard-driven outsider determined to claim power, success, and maybe Peach herself.
Fleeting Images
by Elizabeth Adler
1987
Four gifted women chase fame through fashion, photography, and high society, from New York and Paris to tropical islands and Alpine resorts. Beneath the luxury, each is haunted by the same need for love, and the cost of getting it.
All or Nothing
by Elizabeth Adler
1989
Restless attorney Marla Cwitowitz jumps at the chance to moonlight with private investigator Al Giraud. What begins as a little excitement turns into a risky hunt for a killer, and a test of how far their partnership can go.
The Rich Shall Inherit
by Elizabeth Adler
1989
An enormous inheritance depends on proving a connection to the mysterious Poppy Mallory. As rival claimants fight for fortune and an investigative reporter digs into old lies, buried family secrets turn dangerous.
The Property of a Lady
by Elizabeth Adler
1990
When the Ivanoff emerald appears at a public auction, it draws powerful people back to a long-buried royal secret. Lost heirs, hidden billions, and old curses collide in a globe-spanning fight over money and survival.
Fortune is a Woman
by Elizabeth Adler
1992
After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, three unlikely allies build a vast empire of trade and luxury hotels. Their success creates a powerful dynasty, but the women who inherit it must also face the blood and secrets behind it.
Legacy of Secrets
by Elizabeth Adler
1993
Beautiful, reckless Lily Molyneux leaves a mark on every life she touches. From Ireland to Boston and Wall Street, her choices echo across generations as love, revenge, and long-hidden family wounds rise back to the surface.
Present Of The Past
by Elizabeth Adler
1993
At a crumbling estate in Connemara, sharp-tongued Maudie Molyneux lives with more history than money. When Shannon Keefe arrives with stories of murder and ghosts, Maudie starts pulling at old family threads that refuse to stay buried.
The Secret of the Villa Mimosa
by Elizabeth Adler
1994
A young woman survives a fall into a ravine, but wakes without a name or memory. Psychiatrist Phyl Forster and Detective Franco Mahoney race to unlock her past before an old obsession turns deadly again.
The Heiresses
by Elizabeth Adler
1995
When an English earl finds three illegitimate granddaughters from wildly different worlds, he brings them to London society. Their sudden new life promises wealth and belonging, but one of the girls is hiding a secret that could destroy them all.
Now or Never
by Elizabeth Adler
1996
A serial killer has finally made one mistake, one victim survives. Boston detective Harry Jordan turns to television crime host Mallory Malone for help, only to learn the murderer already knows her name and her deepest secret.
No Regrets
by Elizabeth Adler
1997
Cafe owner Ellie Parrish Duveen is finally building a life of her own, and falling for former cop Dan Cassidy. But a dangerous man from her past believes he has a claim on her family and is closing in fast.
Sooner or Later
by Elizabeth Adler
1997
Ellie Duveen is busy running her restaurant and caring for her grandmother when a killer from the past returns. With former cop Dan Cassidy at her side, she must face a family secret before the man marking victims with an X finds her.
In a Heartbeat
by Elizabeth Adler
2000
A powerful New York developer hovers between life and death after a shooting, whispering one name, Zelda. Detective Marco Camelia tracks down the mysterious woman and finds a love story, a lie, and a case far stranger than it first looked.
The Last Time I Saw Paris
by Elizabeth Adler
2001
Lara Lewis plans a second honeymoon through France, hoping to save her marriage, until her husband admits there is someone else. Heartbroken but not defeated, she takes the trip anyway and discovers a very different kind of future.
Summer in Tuscany
by Elizabeth Adler
2002
Overworked doctor Gemma Jericho heads to Tuscany with her teenage daughter and her mother after news of a strange inheritance. A disputed villa, village gossip, and a handsome rival claimant make the trip far more complicated than a family escape.
The Hotel Riviera
by Elizabeth Adler
2003
Lola Laforet thinks life on the Cote d'Azur is finally hers, until her husband vanishes and leaves chaos behind. As strangers claim the hotel and questions mount, Lola teams with expatriate Jack Ferrar to uncover the truth.
Invitation to Provence
by Elizabeth Adler
2004
Franny is drawn to an intriguing man and an even more complicated family in the heart of Provence. At the center is Rafaella Marten, a matriarch with decades of secrets, and Franny may be the one person who can bring the family back together.
The House in Amalfi
by Elizabeth Adler
2005
After a shattering discovery about her late husband, Lamour Harrington returns to the Amalfi coast home she once loved. There she must sort through old grief, unanswered questions about her father's death, and new danger closing in.
Sailing to Capri
by Elizabeth Adler
2006
When tycoon Sir Robert Hardwick dies in a suspicious crash, he leaves behind a list of people who may have wanted him gone. Daisy Keane and private investigator Harry Montana escort the suspects on a lavish Mediterranean cruise, where the killer is still aboard.
Meet Me in Venice
by Elizabeth Adler
2007
Paris antiques dealer Precious Rafferty thinks she may finally have found the perfect man, until a cousin's warning sends her to Venice. In the maze of canals and the antiques underworld, love and betrayal start to look dangerously alike.
One of Those Malibu Nights
by Elizabeth Adler
2008
A scream on a Malibu night pulls private investigator Mac Reilly into a baffling case involving a vanished woman and a gun planted in his car. To solve it, he and Sunny Alvarez have to chase clues from California to Europe.
There's Something about St. Tropez
by Elizabeth Adler
2009
A dream stay in St. Tropez turns into a tangle of rental fraud, art theft, murder, and a haunting. Mac Reilly and Sunny Alvarez have to sort out which of the glamorous strangers are unlucky, and which are lying.
It All Began in Monte Carlo
by Elizabeth Adler
2010
Sunny Alvarez heads to Monte Carlo looking for space from Mac Reilly and finds herself caught in jewel robberies, blackmail, and murder. When Mac arrives, solving the case may be the only way to save both Sunny and their relationship.
From Barcelona, with Love
by Elizabeth Adler
2011
Celebrity Bibi Fortunata vanished to Barcelona after being suspected of murdering her lover and her best friend. When Bibi's daughter asks Mac Reilly and Sunny Alvarez for help, the pair step into an old scandal that never really died.
A Place in the Country
by Elizabeth Adler
2012
After discovering her husband's long affair, Caroline Evans leaves Singapore and starts over with her teenage daughter in rural England. A rundown property, complicated neighbors, and fresh trouble from the past make reinvention harder than she hoped.
Please Don't Tell
by Elizabeth Adler
2013
Fen Dexter's quiet life on the California coast shatters when a bloodied stranger turns up at her door during a storm. By morning, her niece is treating the latest victim of a serial killer, and the new man in town may know far more than he says.
Last to Know
by Elizabeth Adler
2014
A nighttime explosion tears through a house on Evening Lake, leaving Bea Havnel alive and her mother dead. Detective Harry Jordan soon learns it was murder, and the lake's peaceful community is hiding more than one dangerous secret.
One Way or Another
by Elizabeth Adler
2015
Angie Morse is attacked on a yacht and left for dead by people she trusted. She survives, and with revenge burning hotter than fear, she sets out to uncover which friend betrayed her and why.
The Charmers
by Elizabeth Adler
2016
When novelist Mirabella Matthews inherits her aunt's villa in the South of France, she also inherits questions about the old woman's murder. With a runaway new friend beside her, Mirabella walks into a world of charm, deception, and dangerous secrets.
Better Than Revenge
by Elizabeth Adler
2021
Twin sisters who make a living charming and conning wealthy men find their partnership cracking when one falls for their next target. Then the man is murdered, and the sisters are trapped between suspicion, jealousy, and an Interpol investigator.
Where should I start?
For sweeping historical sagas: Leonie → Peach → Fortune is a Woman
For romantic suspense: Please Don't Tell → Last to Know → One Way or Another
For armchair travel and glamour: The Last Time I Saw Paris → Summer in Tuscany → The Hotel Riviera
For a lighter mystery series: One of Those Malibu Nights → There's Something about St. Tropez → It All Began in Monte Carlo → From Barcelona, with Love
Author bio
Elizabeth Adler grew up in Yorkshire, in northern England, far from the Riviera hotels and California beach towns that later filled her fiction. Before she was known as a novelist, she worked in London, learning how people sell dreams, stories, and themselves.
One of the turning points in her life came while she was working at a talent agency in London. There she met Richard, an American who became her husband. Their life together took her across several countries, including England, France, Ireland, Brazil, and the United States, and that restless, curious life shows up all through her books.
Travel stayed with her.
Adler published her first novel in 1985. In Britain it appeared as Private Desires, and in the United States as Leonie. That book set the pattern for a lot of what followed: strong women, glamorous settings, old secrets, and a romantic streak that never quite trusts appearances. She also wrote under the name Ariana Scott, which suited a writer who moved easily between sweeping family drama and modern suspense.
Readers who come to her early books, especially Leonie, Peach, and Fortune is a Woman, usually find big family sagas with a lot of movement in them. Her characters cross borders, inherit fortunes, lose them, fall in love badly, and keep digging into the past. Even when the stories grow large, the hook is often personal, a woman trying to make sense of her life while trouble closes in.
Later books lean harder into suspense. In novels like Sooner or Later, Please Don't Tell, Last to Know, and One Way or Another, Adler mixes romance with stalking cases, family lies, revenge plots, and murders that reach back years. She likes a polished setting, but she also likes upsetting it. A beautiful hotel, a lake house, a yacht deck, or a coastal road can turn dangerous very quickly in her hands.
Place matters in her fiction as much as plot does.
The Last Time I Saw Paris, Summer in Tuscany, The Hotel Riviera, The House in Amalfi, and Meet Me in Venice are part love story, part mystery, and part armchair escape. Readers often pick up an Adler novel for the same reason they book a trip, to be somewhere vivid, sunny, elegant, and a little risky. The food is good, the view is even better, and somebody is usually keeping a secret.
She also had a good feel for series characters. Her Mac Reilly books, beginning with One of Those Malibu Nights, bring in a relaxed private investigator, his smart partner Sunny Alvarez, and a lighter caper energy. The crimes are still real, but the mood is breezier. They read like a holiday with complications, which is very much Adler territory.
Over the years Adler published more than twenty novels, and her books have been translated into many languages. She lives in Palm Springs, California, has one daughter, and still seems drawn to the same blend of beauty and trouble that marked her earliest work. That mix of English roots, frequent travel, and sun-soaked American life helps explain why her fiction moves so easily from Yorkshire to the Riviera, from family ghosts to modern romantic suspense.
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