Mary Logue Books in Order

Amy Curtis sets out to find who killed her rebellious sister Tricia and is pulled into a dangerous underworld. The search forces her to face how little she knew and how far violence can spread.

Logue's first poetry collection turns memory, family, and daily life into sharp, quiet moments. The poems are observant, plainspoken, and alert to what the past leaves behind.

Barb and her cousins spot a mysterious light in an empty house and decide to investigate. Their search turns a spooky rumor into a fast-moving children's mystery.

While working as junior counselors at Camp Minnehaha, Barb and Burr investigate the disappearance of a small statue. Solving the theft means sorting through camp traditions, suspects, and summer mischief.

Journalist Laura Malloy is researching abortion when a bombing at a family planning clinic blows apart several lives. As she investigates, the story becomes a tense look at violence, belief, and the people left in the blast's wake.

Mary Logue pieces together the life of her grandmother, Mae Kirwin, from records, memories, and family fragments. The result is part biography, part Minnesota history, and part search for a woman hidden by time.

A short biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning that traces her life as a poet and the love story that shaped her work. It gives young readers a clear path into a major literary figure.

This young readers biography follows Mahatma Gandhi's life and explains how he led through nonviolent resistance. It highlights the role forgiveness played in his political and moral vision.

This collection circles around home, change, love, and the slow work of making peace with loss. The poems are intimate without being fussy, grounded in ordinary scenes and clear feeling.

Widowed former Minneapolis cop Claire Watkins moves with her daughter Meg to rural Wisconsin for a fresh start. Then an elderly neighbor is found dead, and the past turns deadly when Meg may hold the key to her father's unsolved murder.

Branko comes to Earth on a desperate mission, he must find a human girl to help save his dying planet. Then he meets Tonia, and first love makes his mission far more complicated than either of them expected.

A farmer is stabbed to death at a harvest dance, leaving three teenagers who seem more relieved than grief-stricken. Claire Watkins uncovers old abuse, buried secrets, and a second death that may not have been accidental.

When Buck Owens is found in a car beneath the ice, tied to the driver's seat, Claire Watkins suspects more than a drunken accident. A battered woman, a brutal winter storm, and a frightened town push the case toward real danger.

A brief biography of Walt Disney, following his rise from young animator to the head of a major studio. It shows how imagination, risk, and relentless work shaped his career.

This short biography introduces Helen Keller's life, from the isolation of childhood deafness and blindness to her breakthrough with Annie Sullivan. It shows how trust and persistence opened a path to learning and public life.

Stolen pesticides and a child's finger bone pull Claire Watkins into the shadow of an unsolved farmhouse massacre. Each new attack feels like part of a message, and she has to read the past before more people die.

A simple introduction to sea jellies for young readers, covering how they move, eat, sting, and grow. Clear text and vivid images make these strange ocean animals easier to understand.

This nonfiction book introduces sea stars and their relatives on the ocean floor. Young readers learn how these colorful animals move, feed, and survive in marine habitats.

An easy-to-follow look at sponges, some of the ocean's simplest animals. The book explains where they live, how they feed, and why they matter in underwater ecosystems.

These poems look closely at family, place, friendship, aging, and desire. Logue finds meaning in small moments and lets everyday life carry the emotional weight.

Claire Watkins sees danger building when a restless land buyer and a calculating new wife circle an old farmer's property. What looks like local gossip hardens into a deadly mix of greed, lies, poison, and arson.

Pairing Doug Ohman's photographs with Mary Logue's text, this book tours county courthouses across Minnesota. It looks at architecture, local history, and why these civic buildings still matter.

When high school student Alicia Camden disappears, the town of Bloodwater panics. School reporter Roni Delicata and science whiz Brian Bain plunge into the mystery before the adults can catch up.

When a missing teenage girl seems to have gone over Maiden Rock after using meth, Claire Watkins refuses the easy answer. The case leads into fear, secrets, and the damage drugs leave behind in a small town.

On a class trip, Roni Delicata and Brian Bain find an archaeologist unconscious in a cave. To solve the attack, they have to sort through local feuds, buried history, and a fight over land development.

Roni Delicata spots an age-progressed missing-child photo that looks eerily like her friend Brian Bain. What starts as curiosity turns into a tense investigation into Brian's adoption and a past someone wants buried.

A naked body floating in Lake Pepin and an apparent suicide pull Claire Watkins into a case where two deaths may be linked. The investigation cuts close to people she knows, which raises the stakes fast.

Drawn from a poem-a-day experiment, this collection finds steadiness in work, weather, animals, and domestic life. It is full of attention, worry, tenderness, and small acts of order.

On New Year's Eve, Daniel Walker steps out of his sauna for a quick roll in the snow and is left to freeze outside his locked cabin. Claire Watkins must untangle a tangle of family grudges, money, and failed love to find who wanted him dead.

A very awake little girl asks her parents whether everything in the world goes to sleep. Their gentle answers turn bedtime into something calm, magical, and finally irresistible.

After her husband dies, Wendy drifts through grief at their lake cabin, where memory begins to feel almost like a haunting. It is a quiet, intimate novel about marriage, loss, and the way the dead stay in familiar rooms.

Acting sheriff Claire Watkins takes on a death that ripples through Fort St. Antoine and unsettles the calm of a Wisconsin summer. As she digs deeper, old hurts and local loyalties make the case harder than it first appears.

A later poetry collection rooted in trees, rivers, snow, work, and the plain beauty of daily life. These poems hold joy and difficulty together without making a fuss about either.

In 1880, young Irish immigrant Brigid Reardon follows her brother to Deadwood and lands in the middle of a killing. To clear his name, she must read a boomtown built on gold, danger, and other people's lies.

In Cheyenne in 1881, Brigid Reardon finds a neighbor's body soon after reaching her new homestead. With the sheriff ready to shrug it off, Brigid digs into the case and crosses a cattle baron who would rather she stop asking questions.

In 1881 Salt Lake City, Brigid Reardon finds work in a bookstore and a room in the home of a prominent church leader with five wives. When her employer is murdered, Brigid and the local coroner start pulling at the household's hidden tensions.