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SR Mallery Books in Order

Browse S.R. Mallery books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and easy starting points for her historical fiction, cozy mysteries, and time-slip tales.

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Eleven stories connect lives through sewing, weaving, and other textile crafts. Hidden passports, coded quilts, dangerous smuggling, and a cruise-ship murder place ordinary handmade objects at the center of historical conflicts, intimate relationships, and unexpected crimes.

Unexpected Gifts

by SR Mallery

2013

Drifting through a troubled present, Sonia finds an old trunk full of family journals, letters, and keepsakes. As she follows her relatives through twentieth-century America, their lives begin to change her own.

Tales to Count on

by SR Mallery

2015

Short stories explore secrets, deception, and revenge across settings ranging from a women’s shelter to wartime espionage and revolutionary France. Memories, strange photographs, troubled relationships, and celebrity misfortunes lead characters toward outcomes that challenge their expectations.

The Dolan Girls

by SR Mallery

2015

In late nineteenth-century Nebraska, sisters Cora and Minnie Dolan build a hard-won life while raising Ellie in a rough frontier town. Romance, old wounds, and a returning Pinkerton agent stir up danger.

Genteel Secrets

by SR Mallery

2016

At the start of the Civil War, a Southern belle and a Northern Pinkerton detective find themselves pulled into espionage. Their unlikely alliance brings danger, divided loyalties, and a romance tested by war.

Trouble In Glamour Town

by SR Mallery

2017

Hollywood, 1926. After a film producer is shot, young actress Rosie, her boyfriend Eddie, and Detective Frank Lozano get swept into a murder case behind the glitter of silent-era fame.

Ellie Dolan and her husband Brett are reeling after a devastating loss just as violence spreads through the Wyoming cattle wars. As Ellie digs into the trouble, she risks both her life and her marriage.

Tea, Anyone?

by SR Mallery

2019

Skeptical police researcher Brooke teams up with psychic Abby when murder hits their small town. Abby's leap back to the Boston Tea Party may hold the clue that breaks the case.

Tender Enemies

by SR Mallery

2019

In 1941 New York, Lily is paid to set a honey trap for a suspected Nazi operative. The assignment grows far more dangerous when attraction, secrets, and wartime paranoia start colliding.

The Map Room

by SR Mallery

2019

Cynthia Haddington worries about her wealthy husband Thomas’s mental troubles, yet believes his unsettling claims about wartime espionage. As fears of an invasion mount, she struggles to make others take seriously the truth he says he has uncovered.

Endangered Spells

by SR Mallery

2020

Gillian abandons magic after a disturbing vision leaves her traumatized, hoping to put her powers behind her. A friend’s murder pulls her back toward the spells she fears, while an investigation and a detective’s interest complicate her choices.

Charlotte

by SR Mallery

2021

During the French Revolution, Charlotte makes the hard trip to Paris with one private goal fixed in her mind. Her dangerous journey builds toward a meeting that may change far more than she expects.

When In Rome

by SR Mallery

2021

When an actor collapses onstage and the death looks accidental, Brooke and Abby start asking harder questions. Abby's unexpected trip to ancient Rome may reveal what really happened.

Hidden Spells

by SR Mallery

2022

Seven years after heartbreak, witch Carly Goode is trying to sharpen her powers and keep her past buried. Then her ex returns with a cold case, and a new body turns old questions deadly.

On Being Jen

by SR Mallery

2022

Susan cannot stop envying Jen, the girl who seems to have the looks, the popularity, and the perfect life. Then reality tilts, and Susan learns appearances can hide a very different truth.

Snippets In Time

by SR Mallery

2022

A sampler of Mallery's fiction, this collection offers short excerpts from family saga, western, Civil War romance, Old Hollywood mystery, and wartime suspense. It is a quick way to taste her voice and favorite historical settings.

Snippets In Time 2

by SR Mallery

2022

The second sampler leans into mystery and time travel, with excerpts from her cozy and witchy series plus a few short pieces. It gives readers a fast tour of murders, magic, western drama, and sharp emotional turns.

One In, One Out

by SR Mallery

2024

Under China’s one-child policy, Fen leaves her second baby on church steps in 1992. Years later, the child’s life with an adoptive mother in Nebraska brings the consequences of that desperate decision into an unfolding family story.

Those Foxy Gals

by SR Mallery

2024

A shocking murder challenges Brooke and her friends while Abby travels into the nineteenth century for clues. Her encounter with the Fox sisters and their spiritualist deception reveals a historical mystery connected to the gang’s present investigation.

Bourbon & Suede

by SR Mallery

2025

Brooklyn accountant Cassie carries childhood grief and the legacy of her father’s trauma into an uneasy romantic life. Meeting Simon appears to offer a loving fresh start, but unsettling signs suggest his seemingly perfect presence conceals something wrong.

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Daisy & Cole

by SR Mallery

2026

Cole hides under a new identity to protect his family, determined to avoid attachments until he meets Daisy. Their growing attraction becomes an obsession, forcing him to choose between disappearing and risking the return of a dangerous past.

Where to start with SR Mallery

If you want cozy mystery with time travel: Tea, Anyone? → When In Rome
If you want a western family saga: The Dolan Girls → Ellie and The War On Powder Creek
If you want sweeping family history: Unexpected Gifts
If you want wartime romance and suspense: Genteel Secrets → Tender Enemies
If you just want a sampler: Snippets In Time → Snippets In Time 2

Book Bites books in order

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  1. Book cover for "Snippets In Time"

    Snippets In Time

    by SR Mallery

    2022Book Bites, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Snippets In Time 2"

    Snippets In Time 2

    by SR Mallery

    2022Book Bites, Book 2

Book Bites books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "Snippets In Time"

    Snippets In Time

    by SR Mallery

    2022Book Bites, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Snippets In Time 2"

    Snippets In Time 2

    by SR Mallery

    2022Book Bites, Book 2

Brooke & Abby Cozy Mystery books in order

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  1. Book cover for "Tea, Anyone?"

    Tea, Anyone?

    by SR Mallery

    2019Brooke & Abby Cozy Mystery, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "When In Rome"

    When In Rome

    by SR Mallery

    2021Brooke & Abby Cozy Mystery, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Those Foxy Gals"

    Those Foxy Gals

    by SR Mallery

    2024
  4. Book cover for "Under The Big Ben"

    Under The Big Ben

    by SR Mallery

    2025

Brooke & Abby Cozy Mystery books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "Tea, Anyone?"

    Tea, Anyone?

    by SR Mallery

    2019Brooke & Abby Cozy Mystery, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "When In Rome"

    When In Rome

    by SR Mallery

    2021Brooke & Abby Cozy Mystery, Book 2

Dolan Girls books in order

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  1. Book cover for "The Dolan Girls"

    The Dolan Girls

    by SR Mallery

    2015Dolan Girls, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Ellie and The War On Powder Creek"

    Ellie and The War On Powder Creek

    by SR Mallery

    2019Dolan Girls, Book 2

Dolan Girls books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "The Dolan Girls"

    The Dolan Girls

    by SR Mallery

    2015Dolan Girls, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Ellie and The War On Powder Creek"

    Ellie and The War On Powder Creek

    by SR Mallery

    2019Dolan Girls, Book 2

Gambit House Mystery books in order

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  1. Book cover for "Endangered Spells"

    Endangered Spells

    by SR Mallery

    2020
  2. Book cover for "Hidden Spells"

    Hidden Spells

    by SR Mallery

    2022Gambit House Mystery, Book 1

Gambit House Mystery books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "Hidden Spells"

    Hidden Spells

    by SR Mallery

    2022Gambit House Mystery, Book 1

Standalone SR Mallery books

  1. Book cover for "Sewing Can Be Dangerous and Other Small Threads"
  2. Book cover for "Unexpected Gifts"

    Unexpected Gifts

    by SR Mallery

    2013
  3. Book cover for "Tales to Count on"

    Tales to Count on

    by SR Mallery

    2015
  4. Book cover for "Genteel Secrets"

    Genteel Secrets

    by SR Mallery

    2016
  5. Book cover for "Trouble In Glamour Town"

    Trouble In Glamour Town

    by SR Mallery

    2017
  6. Book cover for "Tender Enemies"

    Tender Enemies

    by SR Mallery

    2019
  7. Book cover for "The Map Room"

    The Map Room

    by SR Mallery

    2019
  8. Book cover for "Charlotte"

    Charlotte

    by SR Mallery

    2021
  9. Book cover for "On Being Jen"

    On Being Jen

    by SR Mallery

    2022
  10. Book cover for "One In, One Out"

    One In, One Out

    by SR Mallery

    2024
  11. Book cover for "Bourbon & Suede"

    Bourbon & Suede

    by SR Mallery

    2025
  12. Book cover for "Daisy & Cole"

    Daisy & Cole

    by SR Mallery

    2026Secret Obsessions

Author bio

S.R. Mallery did not take a straight road to fiction. Before settling into books, she worked across several creative worlds, as a classical and pop singer-composer, a production artist, a calligrapher, a quilt artist and teacher, and later an ESL and reading instructor. That range shows up in her fiction, which moves easily from western romance to cozy mystery to historical drama.

Writing was not the first family trade she wanted to claim. Mallery has said she came from a family of writers, and for a long time that made the whole thing feel like a little too much pressure. Then, in 2008, while waiting for her teenage daughter in a department store, she started scribbling a story inspired by the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire. That piece became the start of her serious writing life.

She kept going.

Short stories came first. Her work appeared in magazines and journals, and the pull of history became the thread that tied everything together. Mallery has said that historical fiction, and later time travel, felt like coming home because it gave her room to do the research she loves just as much as the storytelling.

That love of research is easy to spot in Unexpected Gifts, her first novel, where a young woman discovers family journals and mementos that open a path through twentieth-century American life. In The Dolan Girls, Mallery heads into the late nineteenth-century West, following women trying to survive, love, and hold their ground in a rough Nebraska town. Trouble in Glamour Town shifts again, this time to 1926 Hollywood, where the shine of silent-film fame sits right next to murder and corruption.

She does not stay in one lane. In Tea, Anyone? and When In Rome, she mixes small-town murder, humor, and psychic time slips. In Hidden Spells, she brings witches, family friction, romance, and mystery into the same story. Across genres, her books tend to center people who are under pressure, often women, who have to make sense of danger, loyalty, and the stubborn weight of the past.

History matters in her books, but so do ordinary feelings.

That balance may be one reason readers have followed her across very different kinds of stories. Mallery is a USA Today bestselling author, and she has won Readers' Favorite gold medals for both anthology work and historical fiction. Still, the appeal of her fiction is less about grand gestures and more about how lived-in it feels, the family tangles, the period detail, the bits of humor, and the sense that private lives are always brushing up against bigger events.

She also keeps a history-centered blog, where she shares posts about the past along with interests like vintage culture and older films. She has referred to New Mexico as her adopted state, and that seems to suit her work, curious, eclectic, and a little hard to pin down. For Mallery, one story clearly leads to another.

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