Ki Longfellow Books in Order

A retired music hall performer returns to the seaside theatre where his extraordinary cat disappeared years earlier. Beneath the pier, strange inhabitants draw the worlds of performer and creation together in a comic opera about art and its makers.

Educated and independent, Mariamne moves through a world that gives women little authority. This reimagining of Mary Magdalene explores the spiritual understanding behind her relationship with Jesus and the traditions that obscured her place among his followers.

Hypatia teaches mathematics and philosophy in Alexandria as religious intolerance threatens the city’s intellectual life. Her search for understanding brings her into conflict with forces determined to reshape the Roman world and silence its older traditions.

A successful Hollywood writer once had fame, a celebrated husband, and a child. Now alone with a terrible secret, she confronts the collapse of that life in a story where artistic ambition and personal horror converge.

In Prohibition-era San Francisco, a wealthy woman leaves an unfaithful husband and enters a world of brothels, bootlegging, and dangerous loyalties. Her new connections draw her into the passions and rivalries of the city’s Chinese underworld.

Private detective Sam Russo and his unexpected new companion investigate a giant killer amid Broadway’s hit shows. Moving through the theatrical world, they pursue a case that carries them up and down New York’s Great White Way.

In 1948, aspiring hard-boiled detective Sam Russo takes a case at the Saratoga racetrack. Three promising jockeys are dead, and his love of horses draws him into a mystery the racing town would rather leave alone.

Sam Russo cares deeply for Holly, the intriguing neighbor who occupies the room beside his. When Holly disappears from a street corner, the detective and his companion begin a search that makes this case intensely personal.

Overwhelmed by her life, a housewife walks into the Sonoran Desert intending to leave everything behind. Encounters with people, animals, and the unforgiving landscape turn her disappearance into an unexpected struggle to discover whether she can begin again.

Reluctantly joining wealthy Mrs. Willingford on her husband’s yacht, investigator Sam Russo hopes merely to endure the voyage. Disappearing guests and a missing dog turn the trip into an isolated mystery among an assortment of Hollywood personalities.

Ki Longfellow recalls her marriage and creative partnership with musician and artist Vivian Stanshall. His paintings, sketches, letters, poems, and family photographs accompany a portrait of a restless artistic life and their shared world.