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Eoin Dempsey Books in Order

Browse Eoin Dempsey books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, reading paths, and tips on where to start with his historical fiction.

Last updated: July 4, 2026

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Finding Rebecca

by Eoin Dempsey

2012

When the Nazis deport Rebecca from Jersey, Christopher makes a desperate choice and joins the SS to find her inside Auschwitz. His search becomes a battle to save the woman he loves without losing himself.

The Bogside Boys

by Eoin Dempsey

2015

As civil rights marches erupt into violence in Derry, Mick Doherty is torn between the woman he loves and the loyalties pulling him toward war. Bloody Sunday changes everything for Mick, Melissa, and Pat.

White Rose, Black Forest

by Eoin Dempsey

2018

Alone in the Black Forest in 1943, Franka rescues an injured airman wearing a Luftwaffe uniform. He is not who he seems, and trusting him could either save her life or destroy it.

Toward the Midnight Sun

by Eoin Dempsey

2020

In 1897, Anna Denton heads for the Klondike to marry a wealthy man and save her family. The journey north brings outlaws, betrayal, and an impossible choice between duty, safety, and love.

The Hidden Soldier

by Eoin Dempsey

2021

Peter flees occupied Poland with his toddler daughter, Sara, and joins the resistance. Decades later in Philadelphia, a bombing and a coma force Sara to uncover the wartime secrets still haunting her family.

The Lion's Den

by Eoin Dempsey

2021

In 1932, widower Seamus Ritter takes his children from Depression-era America to Berlin for a fresh start. Instead, the family lands in a city tilting toward Hitler, where survival and conscience soon collide.

The Longest Echo

by Eoin Dempsey

2021

Occupied Italy, 1944. Liliana and escaped POW James survive the massacre at Monte Sole, then reunite years later to hunt the SS officer responsible and decide whether justice can ever be enough.

A New Dawn

by Eoin Dempsey

2022

Berlin, 1933. As the Nazis tighten their grip, Seamus and Lisa face threats from their past while Maureen helps uncover a secret buried in Lisa's family, one that could change the Ritters forever.

The Coming Storm

by Eoin Dempsey

2022

By 1937, the Ritter family is split between Berlin and Paris. Seamus profits from rearmament while secretly helping others, Maureen plots in exile, and young Fiona is pulled toward the seductions of Nazi propaganda.

The Golden Age

by Eoin Dempsey

2022

In 1935 Berlin, a factory fire pushes Seamus toward ruin and dangerous compromises. As Lisa draws notice from Goebbels and Maureen uncovers a deadly secret, the family's place in Nazi Germany grows more perilous.

The Grand Illusion

by Eoin Dempsey

2022

During the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the Nazis stage a polite face for the world while terror continues underneath. Maureen joins a risky rescue, Seamus is drawn into espionage, and Michael's life changes when he meets Monika.

The American Girl

by Eoin Dempsey

2023

In 2006, Amy reconnects with her grandmother, Maureen, and learns the wartime story she never told. In 1940 France, Maureen risks everything to protect Jewish children and lead them out of danger.

The Forger

by Eoin Dempsey

2023

As Amy's present-day life unravels, Maureen returns in memory to occupied France in 1942. A British spy, a master forger, and a mission to save Jewish children pull her deeper into resistance work.

The Reckoning

by Eoin Dempsey

2023

As Nazi violence closes in on 1938 Berlin, Maureen stays in Paris, Fiona confronts the horror of Kristallnacht, and Seamus must decide how far he'll go to save his family and Jewish workers.

The Saint of Impossible Causes

by Eoin Dempsey

2023

In 1879 Ireland, Maura Doyle and Joseph O'Malley are swept into the Land War as evictions and rebellion tear through their community. Maura must fight for her neighbors, her family, and her own future.

The Secret Soldier

by Eoin Dempsey

2023

Maureen leaves for England to train with the SOE, then returns to France to lead dangerous missions against the Nazis. Her fight soon circles back to Christophe and a desperate effort to save innocent lives.

The Berlin Girls

by Eoin Dempsey

2024

Monika and Sarah reenter Berlin to collect intelligence from a prized Nazi source. When they uncover clues about a nuclear program, the cousins and their allies are forced into a mission with frightening stakes.

The Courier

by Eoin Dempsey

2024

Trapped in southern Germany, Monika turns to her cousin Sarah and presses on with a mission that could change the intelligence war. Meanwhile, Michael's secret flying work in Switzerland leads to an extraordinary reunion.

The Garden of Ireland

by Eoin Dempsey

2024

Joseph flees to England and falls in with Irish nationalists, while Maura starts over at the Powerscourt Estate in Wicklow. There she uncovers an inheritance plot that threatens both her family and her life.

The German Girl

by Eoin Dempsey

2024

In 1942, Monika Ritter joins the OSS while her husband Michael flies bomber missions over Europe. Her first assignment, infiltrating a Nazi sabotage ring on American soil, could shift the war if she fails.

The Girl in the Basement

by Eoin Dempsey

2024

Ellie survived an abduction as a teenager and rebuilt her life around the scars it left. Twenty years later, her daughter vanishes and the return of an old boyfriend forces Ellie to face the truth.

The Wounded and the Lost

by Eoin Dempsey

2024

Monika begins spy work in Bern and crosses back into Germany to meet a crucial contact. At the same time, Michael is shot down on a mission and must rely on the Norwegian resistance to survive.

The Dark Angel

by Eoin Dempsey

2025

Hidden at a monastery near Hallein, Monika and Sarah wait for news about a rumored Nazi redoubt. When the Gestapo closes in, Monika must protect everyone sheltering there and outrun an officer obsessed with her.

The Hard Way

by Eoin Dempsey

2025

After a disastrous mission, Michael is trapped in a POW camp and Oliver is stranded behind enemy lines. Monika and Sarah refuse to stand still, pushing deeper into wartime Europe to bring their loved ones home.

The Infiltrator

by Eoin Dempsey

2025

As D-Day approaches, Monika, Michael, Sarah, and Oliver head into separate missions across Europe. Monika is sent to Austria, where a failed plot against a German general leaves her to improvise under extreme pressure.

The Pursuit

by Eoin Dempsey

2025

Sarah is sent to Mauthausen, where survival itself becomes a daily fight. While a Gestapo officer sets a trap for Monika, Oliver chases a lead that might save Sarah, or drag them all into greater danger.

The Retreat

by Eoin Dempsey

2025

Monika fights her way across the Austrian Alps to a monastery hideout while Sarah moves through Berlin and Oliver faces combat in Normandy. A mysterious weapon and a new mission draw the cousins back together.

New

Monika Ritter Book 12

by Eoin Dempsey

2026

A placeholder entry for a later Monika Ritter installment, continuing the series' World War II espionage saga around Monika, Michael, Sarah, and the dangerous missions that bind them together.

New

The Forgotten

by Eoin Dempsey

2026

In early 1945, Monika and Sarah investigate Albert Goring in occupied Czechoslovakia while Michael is shot down on a secret flight to France. A missing briefcase and a trapped battalion turn everything into a race against time.

New

The Raid

by Eoin Dempsey

2026

Monika and Hans parachute into Austria to rescue Sarah from the Linz III labor camp and investigate a possible Nazi wonder weapon. The deeper they go, the harder it becomes to save both Sarah and the mission.

Where should I start?

If you want his best-known World War II standalone: White Rose, Black ForestThe Longest Echo
If you want a family saga inside Hitler's rise: The Lion's DenA New DawnThe Golden Age
If you want resistance fiction led by Maureen: The American GirlThe ForgerThe Secret Soldier
If you want spy-heavy wartime suspense: The German GirlThe Wounded and the LostThe Courier
If you want Irish historical fiction instead of WWII: The Saint of Impossible CausesThe Garden of Ireland

Author bio

Eoin Dempsey was born in Dublin in 1977 and grew up in Dalkey, a seaside suburb south of the city. He has written about those early years with a grin, including summer jumps into the cold Irish Sea and his time at Blackrock College, where he played rugby, by his own account, badly.

Writing wasn't the first plan.

As a teenager and into his twenties, he spent plenty of energy on music and dreamed bigger on the stage than at a desk. He later studied Commerce at University College Dublin, entering in 1995, but the more important turn in his life came through travel. While visiting the United States in 1997, he met the woman who would become his wife, Jill.

On a later stay in New York, he decided to start a novel, partly, he has joked, to impress women. What began as a half-serious idea stuck. He finished a manuscript, collected more than 150 rejections from publishers, and pinned them to the wall instead of throwing them away.

He kept going. After a year in Australia, where he worked a string of jobs and got fired from more than one of them, he returned to Ireland, worked in financial services, and wrote another novel. In 2008 he moved to Philadelphia, Jill's hometown, just as the economy was falling apart. During a long stretch of unemployment, and a much longer stay with his in-laws than planned, he wrote Finding Rebecca, the book that became his first published novel.

That stubborn streak has shaped the rest of his career.

A lot of Dempsey's best-known work lives in the pressure cooker of war and its aftermath. White Rose, Black Forest pairs a grieving German dissenter with a downed airman in the winter of 1943. The Longest Echo follows love, survival, and a search for justice from wartime Italy to postwar Argentina. The Hidden Soldier moves between occupied Poland and 1960s Philadelphia, while Toward the Midnight Sun heads somewhere very different, the Klondike gold rush, with all the danger and hard weather that setting promises.

Readers who like Dempsey usually come for the pace, but stay for the people. His books tend to focus on ordinary men and women caught in systems that reward fear, cruelty, or silence. He writes about survival, loyalty, family, exile, and the moral cost of getting through terrible times. Even when the history is large, the stories stay close to the characters.

He likes long arcs, too.

That shows up most clearly in the Ritter books. The Lion's Den and its sequels follow one family in Berlin as Hitler rises to power, then branch outward into the Maureen Ritter and Monika Ritter series, where resistance work, espionage, and wartime choices take center stage. He has also stepped back into nineteenth-century Ireland with The Saint of Impossible Causes and The Garden of Ireland, and into straight suspense with The Girl in the Basement.

His novels have been translated into fourteen languages, and several have been optioned for film and radio. These days he lives in Philadelphia with Jill and their three sons, Robbie, Sam, and Jack. He has said one of the pleasures of family life is watching his boys become much better at the sports he loves, especially golf.

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