Susan Isaacs Books in Order

This classic study looks at how young children learn through play, questions, and hands-on discovery. Drawing on close observation in an experimental school, Isaacs explores early reasoning, curiosity, and the growth of understanding.

Bored Shorehaven housewife Judith Singer starts poking into the murder of local dentist Bruce Fleckstein and the compromising photos he left behind. The case jolts her suburban life awake and reveals how much sharper she really is.

Political speechwriter Marcia Green is smart, ambitious, and stuck in a love affair going nowhere. When a perfect-on-paper suitor appears, Isaacs turns work, romance, and family expectations into a witty, sharply observed New York story.

Jane and Nicholas Cobleigh build a glamorous life together from wildly different beginnings. Isaacs follows their marriage across decades of family conflict, wealth, fame, and grief, asking how close a life can come to paradise and still break your heart.

Queens secretary Linda Voss knows her boss John Berringer is out of reach, until war, love, and betrayal change everything. What begins as longing becomes a sweeping World War II story of courage, espionage, and hard-won reinvention.

In the Hamptons, homicide cop Stephen Brady investigates the murder of filmmaker Sy Spencer and finds his prime suspect is a woman they both loved. The case mixes murder, romance, and a sharp look at summer money and local life.

Dumped just after her anniversary, Rosie Myers then finds her husband dead on her kitchen floor and becomes the obvious suspect. Fleeing to Manhattan, she has to solve the murder and rethink the life she thought she had.

Long Island defense lawyer Lee White takes on an apparently simple murder case when con man Norman Torkelson is accused of killing his latest mark. As the facts shift, the case opens into a tense story of family damage, status, and self-deception.

A Wyoming FBI agent and a Long Island journalist are drawn together by a brutal hate crime and a shared hunger for justice. Their search leads into white supremacist violence, family history, and a larger argument about who gets to claim America.

In this brisk work of cultural criticism, Isaacs looks at how women are portrayed on screen and on the page. She argues that brave, ethical heroines have too often been replaced by softer, needier versions.

Now a widow and history professor, Judith Singer gets pulled into the disappearance and death of perfect suburban mother Courtney Logan. The case leads from Shorehaven gossip to mob ties, and Judith cannot resist the chase.

Abandoned by her mother and raised by her tough, funny grandmother, Amy Lincoln claws her way into elite schools and journalism. While chasing a political family story, she also goes looking for her own place to belong.

Former CIA officer Katie Schottland still aches over the unexplained firing that ended the job she loved. When an old colleague promises answers and then disappears, Katie is pulled back toward espionage, danger, and the past she never settled.

Susie Gersten thinks she knows her handsome plastic-surgeon husband, until he turns up dead in an escort's apartment. Chasing the truth through Manhattan and Long Island, she uncovers a marriage built on more mystery than she imagined.

At seventy-nine, beauty mogul Gloria Goldberg Garrison summons her estranged grandchildren to Santa Fe and hints that one may inherit her empire. The visit stirs up old grudges, family secrets, and a sharp, funny reckoning with loyalty.

When stylish Long Island executive Vanessa Giddings dies in a department store and the case is ruled suicide, Judith Singer is not convinced. Her quiet questions turn a glossy death into a sly little suburban mystery.

College student Marianne Kent comes home to find her mother murdered, and the police have no answers. With help from her best friend, she starts asking questions herself in this brisk, suspenseful novella.

Former FBI agent Corie Geller has traded counterterrorism for Long Island domestic life, until a fellow lunch regular sets off her instincts. One small hunch pulls her into a hidden-life mystery that turns genuinely dangerous.

Corie Geller and her retired detective father take on a case involving April Brown, a film professor and survivor of a long-unsolved arson. The trail leads back to mob money, old violence, and a killer who may not be finished.