Molly Murphy Books in Order

After killing a man in self-defense, Molly Murphy flees Ireland for America and lands on Ellis Island under suspicion. When another man is murdered there, she becomes the obvious suspect and must save herself.

Trying to start over in New York, Molly apprentices herself to a private investigator. When her mentor's office becomes a crime scene, she is pulled into a dangerous case of her own.

Molly juggles runaway girls, cheating husbands, and sweatshop secrets, then a body in the East River drags her into the city's criminal underworld. It is more perilous than any routine job should be.

Molly goes undercover at a senator's mansion to expose fake spiritualists, only to find an old kidnapping case may hold darker truths. The séance atmosphere is eerie, and murder is close behind.

Molly wants distance from Daniel Sullivan until he is jailed and accused of taking bribes. Clearing his name means stepping into a case tied to a brutal serial killer.

A chance to return to Ireland becomes complicated when Molly boards a liner and finds a famous actress missing, then another passenger dead. So much for a quiet crossing home.

Snowed under with work, Molly thinks she may finally need help, then she finds a speechless young woman collapsed in Central Park. Everyone else wants the woman locked away, but Molly suspects a bigger story.

After a suffrage protest lands her in jail, Molly takes on two private cases among educated young women and wealthy families. A suspicious death pushes her toward some very dangerous men.

When a stage illusion goes horribly wrong before Harry Houdini can perform, Molly is drawn into the dangerous world of vaudeville magic. Someone may be using tricks to hide a very real crime.

With her wedding to Daniel close at hand, Molly promises to give up detective work, then promptly takes one last case. A missing Chinese bride leads her into a troubling and tightly controlled world.

Before America, Molly is a sharp young woman in Ireland helping at a grand house party. When a priceless ruby necklace disappears, she finds herself solving her very first mystery.

Molly and Daniel's honeymoon at a Newport estate turns sour when their host is found dead below the cliffs. Molly tries to stay out of it, but the chase begins anyway.

Newly married and bored by domestic life, Molly attends a suffragist meeting and meets a woman who claims to live in a haunted house. It is just the kind of mystery she cannot resist.

Pregnant and meant to be resting, Molly stumbles onto a missing servant case at the same time babies are being kidnapped across New York. She cannot stop digging, even when Daniel sends her away for safety.

After violence at home shatters Molly's new family life, she travels to Paris with baby Liam. There she finds her friends missing and a murder waiting in the City of Light.

Confined to bed after Liam's birth, Molly starts watching the street from her window. What she sees across the way soon stirs her old detective instincts.

At Christmas, Molly and Bridie try to help a ragged girl singing in the street and discover two children with good manners, bad circumstances, and a missing mother. The trail leads high into New York society.

A train crash, taunting notes, and a killer with no obvious pattern leave Daniel baffled. Molly's strange dreams may hold the clue they need, if she can decipher them in time.

Daniel vanishes into secret work, and a glimpse of him in San Francisco tells Molly he is in trouble. She sets off cross-country with Liam into danger she can barely guess.

Hoping for a peaceful Christmas, Molly instead lands in a house haunted by the disappearance of a little girl ten years earlier. Then, on Christmas Eve, the missing child seems to come home.

Back on Ellis Island to help new arrivals, Molly is shaken when a murder suspect turns out to be her dead ringer. The case echoes her own past and feels strangely fated.

When Daniel suddenly announces a move to Fifth Avenue and a run for sheriff on the Tammany ticket, Molly knows something is wrong. Politics, wealth, and lies make this a dangerous mystery.

Typhoid sends Molly north for the summer, where boredom quickly gives way to a body in the Catskills. Family visits, artists, and old tensions make for a lively and dangerous holiday.

Bridie lands a role in one of the new motion pictures, and Molly is soon worrying about more than stage fright. Deadly accidents on set suggest sabotage, and she goes undercover to find out why.

During New York's 1909 Hudson-Fulton celebrations, Molly takes a case involving a missing scientist and some secretive Vassar women. When a parade turns deadly, her loyalties are split on every side.

Molly Murphy Sullivan faces another historical mystery in which gossip, reputation, and one dangerous secret threaten to become something far deadlier than talk.