Sophie Littlefield Books in Order
Browse Sophie Littlefield books in order, with series guides, standalone titles, quick summaries, and helpful suggestions on where to start.
Last updated: July 3, 2026
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Publication Order
21 books
A Bad Day for Sorry
by Sophie Littlefield
2009
Stella Hardesty, a sewing-shop owner and survivor of abuse, quietly helps other women fight back. When young mother Chrissy Shaw's little boy is taken, Stella finds herself up against a case far darker than the usual local bully.
A Bad Day for Pretty
by Sophie Littlefield
2010
A tornado tears through Prosper and leaves a woman's body exposed beneath the demolition derby snack shack. When a gentle man Stella once tried to help becomes the main suspect, she starts digging into a town full of secrets.
Banished
by Sophie Littlefield
2010
Hailey Tarbell has one plan, survive Gypsum and get little Chub out with her. Then a freak accident reveals a healing power she does not understand, and armed strangers turn her life into a desperate race.
A Bad Day for Scandal
by Sophie Littlefield
2011
Priss Porter rolls back into Prosper with a body in her trunk and a little blackmail for Stella Hardesty. When Priss disappears, Stella and Chrissy have to chase the truth from small-town gossip to much uglier secrets.
Aftertime
by Sophie Littlefield
2011
Cass Dollar wakes in a ruined California with scars, missing memories, and no sign of her daughter Ruthie. To get her back, Cass must cross a world of Beaters, suspicious survivors, and dangers that only keep multiplying.
Rebirth
by Sophie Littlefield
2011
Cass has Ruthie back, but peace does not last long in a collapsing California. Winter closes in, Smoke leaves on a dangerous quest, and the ruthless Rebuilders threaten the fragile community Cass is trying to call home.
Survivors
by Sophie Littlefield
2011
When a young boy and his dying grandmother reach the Box, Cass Dollar knows what will happen if she turns away. In a refuge that forbids children, compassion becomes its own kind of risk.
Unforsaken
by Sophie Littlefield
2011
Hailey Tarbell is finally building a safer life with Prairie and Chub in the Milwaukee suburbs. But one attempt to reach her boyfriend Kaz exposes her hiding place, and the hunt starts all over again.
A Bad Day for Mercy
by Sophie Littlefield
2012
Stella heads to Wisconsin when her step-nephew Chip is threatened over gambling debts, only to find a corpse on his porch. Family loyalty drags her into a case full of lies, side hustles, and more trouble than she bargained for.
Blood Bond
by Sophie Littlefield
2012
Joe Bashir is called to a bloody crime scene in California's wealthy foothills, then a second death points back to a college hazing tragedy thirteen years earlier. Old secrets and old resentments make every polished family look dangerous.
Hanging by a Thread
by Sophie Littlefield
2012
Clare Knight comes home to Winston, California, just as her beach town braces for a third July Fourth disappearance. Her unsettling gift, seeing the past through clothing, pulls her straight into a murder mystery no one wants uncovered.
Horizon
by Sophie Littlefield
2012
Cass Dollar follows a mysterious traveler north with a band of survivors desperate to escape California and the increasingly cunning Beaters. The journey offers hope, but it also forces Cass to face old loyalties and the darkness inside her.
A Bad Day for Romance
by Sophie Littlefield
2013
Stella Hardesty is trying to survive bridesmaid duty and a messy tangle with BJ and Sheriff Goat Jones when a minister's niece is arrested for killing her fiance. Clearing the case means digging through pageants, reality TV, and bad romance.
Garden of Stones
by Sophie Littlefield
2013
After Pearl Harbor, fourteen-year-old Lucy Takeda and her mother are uprooted from Los Angeles and sent to Manzanar. The brutal camp changes both of them, and one desperate choice leaves damage that echoes for years.
Shattered Bond
by Sophie Littlefield
2013
Detective Joe Bashir investigates the murder of a teenage girl after a country club fundraiser ends in shock. Wealthy families, rumors of a missing sex tape, and one last sighting by the victim's best friend keep the case twisting.
House of Glass
by Sophie Littlefield
2014
Jen Glass's polished family life is already cracking when two men force their way into the house and trap everyone in the basement. Over two terrifying days, she and her husband must work together to keep their children alive.
The Missing Place
by Sophie Littlefield
2014
In North Dakota's oil boom country, two mothers from opposite worlds join forces when their sons vanish from the rigs. As they push past police shrugs and corporate stonewalling, the search turns darker and far more dangerous.
The Moon Pool
by Sophie Littlefield
2014
Colleen arrives in wintry North Dakota looking for her missing son and finds another desperate mother asking the same questions. Together they push through man camps, silence, and corporate pressure, and uncover secrets that could wreck both families.
Infected
by Sophie Littlefield
2015
After her mother and uncle die under suspicious circumstances, Carina finds a hidden code in her mother's ring. Following the clues with her boyfriend Tanner, she races to uncover a dangerous secret before the people chasing it catch them first.
The Guilty One
by Sophie Littlefield
2015
Maris is barely holding together after her daughter's murder when she gets a call from the killer's father, standing on the Golden Gate Bridge. Saving him could mean facing the grief, guilt, and questions about justice she has tried to outrun.
That's What Frenemies Are For
by Sophie Littlefield
2019
Upper East Side socialite Julia Summers tries to rebuild her status by turning shy spin instructor Tatum into the face of a trendy gym. Then Tatum's rise, and Julia's husband's arrest, send the whole scheme spinning out of control.
Where should I start?
If you want small-town vigilante mysteries: A Bad Day for Sorry → A Bad Day for Pretty → A Bad Day for Scandal
If you want bleak post-apocalyptic survival: Aftertime → Survivors → Rebirth → Horizon
If you want YA supernatural thrillers: Banished → Unforsaken → Hanging by a Thread → Infected
If you want standalones about family pressure and secrets: Garden of Stones → House of Glass → The Missing Place → The Guilty One
If you want sharp social satire: That's What Frenemies Are For
Author bio
Sophie Littlefield grew up in rural Missouri, the middle child of a professor and an artist. Books were part of everyday life early on, and that wide, curious reading habit never really left her. She now writes across crime, suspense, young adult fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, and historical fiction, which makes sense for an author who has never seemed interested in staying in one lane.
She was a reader long before she was a published writer.
Until her writing career took off, Littlefield was a busy suburban mother raising two children and trying to squeeze a private ambition into ordinary days. She has said she had no formal training, but she had years of reading behind her, everything from mysteries and romances to biographies, cookbooks, self-help books, gardening books, and travel books. She started the usual way, with a blank page, some nerve, and no guarantee that any of it would work.
She kept going. After writing a few short stories, she joined Romance Writers of America, found a circle of writer friends, and learned the unglamorous parts of the job too, queries, submissions, rejection, and trying again. She wrote nine novels before finding her longtime agent, Barbara Poelle, in 2007. Her first sale followed in 2008, and her debut novel, A Bad Day for Sorry, arrived in 2009. That book went on to win the Anthony Award and the RT Book Award, and it helped put her on the map.
That first novel introduced Stella Hardesty, a middle-aged Missouri widow who runs a sewing shop and quietly helps abused women fight back. Readers who like Littlefield tend to like the mix she returns to often: women under pressure, a strong sense of place, plainspoken emotion, and plots that do not dawdle. She brought that same nerve to the Aftertime books, where Cass Dollar crosses a shattered California looking for her daughter, and to YA thrillers like Banished and Hanging by a Thread, where danger and adolescence arrive all tangled together.
She has also written standalones that show how far her range stretches. Garden of Stones turns to the Manzanar incarceration camp during World War II. The Missing Place heads into North Dakota's oil boom and follows two mothers searching for missing sons. The Guilty One starts with a devastating phone call from the Golden Gate Bridge. And That's What Frenemies Are For, written with Lauren Gershell, goes darkly comic inside Upper East Side status games. Along the way she has also been shortlisted for the Edgar, Barry, Macavity, Crimespree, and Goodreads Choice awards.
She also writes under the name Sofia Grant.
Across genres, Littlefield seems drawn to people who are cornered, underestimated, grieving, or forced to improvise. Mothers and daughters show up often. So do women figuring out what to do after the life they counted on falls apart. Even when the setup involves zombies, kidnappings, or social-climbing Manhattan mothers, the emotional question is usually close to home: who protects whom, and what does that protection cost?
Community matters to her too. She has been active in writing circles for years and served as president of the San Francisco chapter of Romance Writers of America. After her divorce and after her children were grown, she moved to Oakland, California, where she has written about living near bookstores, good bagels, an old-fashioned market, and the kind of taco truck worth remembering. When she is not writing or reading, she has said she likes diners, dive bars, hiking, camping, and visits with her grown kids.
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