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Leslie Glass Books in Order

Explore Leslie Glass books in order, from the April Woo novels to the standalones, with short summaries, reading guidance, and ideas on where to start.

Last updated: July 10, 2026

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Getting Away With It

by Leslie Glass

1976

Set inside the world of a nationally published magazine, Glass's debut follows the messy overlap of ambition, office politics, and private lives. It is an early New York novel about people chasing success while convincing themselves they can keep the damage contained.

Modern Love

by Leslie Glass

1983

Manhattan stockbroker Annie Flood is dumped, family-scrutinized, and under pressure at work, all at once. Glass turns her romantic confusion and career anxiety into a brisk New York story about love, status, and choosing badly before choosing better.

To Do No Harm

by Leslie Glass

1992

While her husband is stranded overseas, Bettina Dunne goes into labor alone and becomes the target of desperate criminals. What follows is a nightmare of baby switching, kidnapping, and panic, wrapped in one of Glass's earliest suspense plots.

Burning Time

by Leslie Glass

1993

Newly transferred detective April Woo is pulled into a missing-person case that opens onto the trail of a serial killer marked by fire. Psychiatrist Jason Frank becomes an uneasy ally as the hunt moves from the California desert to Manhattan.

Hanging Time

by Leslie Glass

1995

A boutique sales clerk is found hanging from a chandelier, and the killing pulls April Woo back together with psychiatrist Jason Frank. Hidden rivalries, a troubled family, and another murder keep the case shifting until the last minute.

Loving Time

by Leslie Glass

1996

A suicide, a malpractice suit, and a string of deaths inside a psychiatric center draw April Woo into one of her most tangled cases. With Jason Frank close to the chaos, the novel leans hard into obsession, ambition, and institutional secrets.

Judging Time

by Leslie Glass

1998

After a soap star is stabbed and her wealthy companion dies beside her, suspicion falls on a former football hero with a shaky alibi. April Woo and Mike Sanchez have to cut through media pressure, money, and jealousy before the wrong person takes the fall.

Stealing Time

by Leslie Glass

1999

A Chinese American woman is beaten, her adopted baby disappears, and nobody in Chinatown wants to talk. As April Woo digs into family secrets, immigration fear, and questions around the adoption, the case hits close to her own divided sense of duty.

Tracking Time

by Leslie Glass

2000

A psychiatrist vanishes during a jog in Central Park, and April Woo refuses to believe he is already dead. With K-9 teams searching the park and two troubled teens circling the case, the investigation becomes a tense race against time.

The Silent Bride

by Leslie Glass

2002

When an Orthodox Jewish bride is shot on her wedding day, April Woo thinks she is hunting a hate-crime killer. A second murdered bride changes everything, forcing April and Mike Sanchez to race through New York's wedding world before another ceremony turns deadly.

A Killing Gift

by Leslie Glass

2003

At the retirement party of April Woo's old mentor, Lieutenant Alfredo Bernardino disappears and turns up dead. Injured in a chase and barred from the case officially, April follows the trail through lottery money, old debts, and threats aimed at more than one victim.

Over His Dead Body

by Leslie Glass

2003

Cassie Sales gets a facelift to surprise her husband, only to watch him collapse into a coma at the worst possible moment. As she uncovers his lies, mistress, and hidden money, grief turns into a sharp, darkly funny plan for revenge.

For Love and Money

by Leslie Glass

2004

Stockbroker Annie Custer is already juggling a collapsing home life when a favor for her best friend's parents turns dangerous. Accusations of theft, family betrayal, and shady money force her to fight for her job, her name, and her future.

A Clean Kill

by Leslie Glass

2005

April Woo and Mike Sanchez are ready for their delayed honeymoon when a celebrity chef's wife is found slashed to death on the Upper East Side. Then a second wealthy woman is killed, and the case widens into a tense search through privilege, secrets, and domestic loyalties.

Sleeper

by Leslie Glass

2010

Former undercover agent Michael Tamlin wants a quieter life, but her new job, her secretive fiancé, and a murder tied to her past will not let her settle. Set in Portland, this later thriller mixes espionage nerves with domestic uncertainty.

Where to start with Leslie Glass

If you want the full April Woo arc: Burning TimeHanging TimeLoving Time
If you want later, more polished April Woo cases: Tracking TimeThe Silent BrideA Killing GiftA Clean Kill
If you want smart stand-alone suspense: Over His Dead BodyFor Love and MoneySleeper
If you want Leslie Glass before the crime series: Getting Away With ItModern LoveTo Do No Harm

Leslie Glass sub-series and character series

April Woo books in order

Explore this series
  1. Book cover for "Burning Time"

    Burning Time

    by Leslie Glass

    1993April Woo, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Hanging Time"

    Hanging Time

    by Leslie Glass

    1995April Woo, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Loving Time"

    Loving Time

    by Leslie Glass

    1996April Woo, Book 3
  4. Book cover for "Judging Time"

    Judging Time

    by Leslie Glass

    1998April Woo, Book 4
  5. Book cover for "Stealing Time"

    Stealing Time

    by Leslie Glass

    1999April Woo, Book 5
  6. Book cover for "Tracking Time"

    Tracking Time

    by Leslie Glass

    2000April Woo, Book 6
  7. Book cover for "The Silent Bride"

    The Silent Bride

    by Leslie Glass

    2002April Woo, Book 7
  8. Book cover for "A Killing Gift"

    A Killing Gift

    by Leslie Glass

    2003April Woo, Book 8
  9. Book cover for "A Clean Kill"

    A Clean Kill

    by Leslie Glass

    2005April Woo, Book 9

April Woo books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "Burning Time"

    Burning Time

    by Leslie Glass

    1993April Woo, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Hanging Time"

    Hanging Time

    by Leslie Glass

    1995April Woo, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Loving Time"

    Loving Time

    by Leslie Glass

    1996April Woo, Book 3
  4. Book cover for "Judging Time"

    Judging Time

    by Leslie Glass

    1998April Woo, Book 4
  5. Book cover for "Stealing Time"

    Stealing Time

    by Leslie Glass

    1999April Woo, Book 5
  6. Book cover for "Tracking Time"

    Tracking Time

    by Leslie Glass

    2000April Woo, Book 6
  7. Book cover for "The Silent Bride"

    The Silent Bride

    by Leslie Glass

    2002April Woo, Book 7
  8. Book cover for "A Killing Gift"

    A Killing Gift

    by Leslie Glass

    2003April Woo, Book 8
  9. Book cover for "A Clean Kill"

    A Clean Kill

    by Leslie Glass

    2005April Woo, Book 9

Standalone Leslie Glass books

  1. Book cover for "Getting Away With It"

    Getting Away With It

    by Leslie Glass

    1976
  2. Book cover for "Modern Love"

    Modern Love

    by Leslie Glass

    1983
  3. Book cover for "To Do No Harm"

    To Do No Harm

    by Leslie Glass

    1992
  4. Book cover for "Over His Dead Body"

    Over His Dead Body

    by Leslie Glass

    2003
  5. Book cover for "For Love and Money"

    For Love and Money

    by Leslie Glass

    2004
  6. Book cover for "Sleeper"

    Sleeper

    by Leslie Glass

    2010

Author bio

Leslie Glass grew up in the Bronx, on Martha's Vineyard, and in New York City, and that mix of street-level detail and close observation stayed with her. Even when her stories move through murder scenes, police stations, or wealthy apartments, they keep one foot in ordinary life. She notices how people talk, worry, bluff, and hide things from one another.

Before she became known for crime fiction, Glass worked in several kinds of writing. She studied music at Mannes College and later earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. She worked in advertising and publishing, wrote and edited the Intelligencer column at New York magazine, and contributed fiction and features to magazines including Cosmopolitan, Redbook, and Woman's Own.

She didn't start in mystery at all.

Her first novel, Getting Away With It, appeared in 1976, and Modern Love followed in 1983. Those early books leaned more toward relationships, work, and the social comedy of modern city life than police work. But you can already see what Glass is good at, putting smart, stressed people in situations that grow messier by the page, and letting ambition, romance, and self-deception do the rest.

The darker turn came with To Do No Harm and then, in 1993, Burning Time. That book introduced NYPD detective April Woo, along with psychiatrist Jason Frank, and it set up the series that made Glass widely known. Glass has said she first meant to write about psychiatrists, but April quickly took over the story. Part of April's world also came from Glass's own life. She grew up with Chinese caretakers, studied Asian studies in college, and carried that knowledge into the books.

The April Woo novels, including Hanging Time, Loving Time, Tracking Time, The Silent Bride, and A Clean Kill, became New York Times and USA Today bestsellers. Readers tend to return to them for the same reasons: solid police work, a vivid New York setting, and a heroine whose cases are always tangled up with work politics, family obligation, romance, and questions of identity. April is solving crimes, yes, but she is also trying to build a life without breaking from everyone who made her.

Glass also did the homework.

Over the years she spent time around police labs, firing ranges, ride-alongs, and Crime Stoppers meetings, and that research gave the books a grounded procedural feel. At the same time, she stayed interested in psychology, which is one reason the April Woo series keeps circling back to motive, therapy, obsession, and the private stories people tell themselves. The mysteries move fast, but the emotional machinery matters just as much.

She kept moving outside the series too. Over His Dead Body and For Love and Money turn toward marriage, money, betrayal, and revenge, often with a darker comic edge. Much later, Sleeper moved into spy-thriller territory. Glass also wrote plays, including Strokes, and built a career that never sat neatly in one box. Journalism, fiction, theater, and research all fed one another, which helps explain why her books can feel both tightly plotted and full of sharp social detail.

In later years, Glass turned much of her energy toward recovery and family advocacy. With her daughter Lindsey Glass, she helped build Reach Out Recovery and worked on documentaries including The Secret World of Recovery and The Silent Majority. She now lives in Sarasota, Florida. But on the page, she still feels like a New York writer, curious about power, class, family, and the stories people tell themselves so they can keep moving.

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