Susan McBride Books in Order

Four-year-old Carrie Spencer disappears from a crowded park while her mother briefly looks away. Detective Maggie Ryan investigates the child's disappearance, confronting a frightened suburban community and painful echoes of her own childhood as the search unfolds.

A school bus shooting leaves a young girl dead, and Detective Maggie Ryan must untangle the circumstances behind the violence. The victim's mother appears to withhold crucial information, while troubled family relationships complicate the search for the killer.

Dallas heiress Andy Kendricks takes an undercover restaurant job after her friend Molly is accused of killing her boss. Investigating the accusation brings Andy into contact with dangerous local figures and a murderer determined to discourage her interference.

Andy Kendricks reluctantly attends the launch of lifestyle celebrity Marilee Mabry's new television studio. When fire disrupts the celebration and Marilee's daughter is found near death, Andy investigates the family's secrets and the people surrounding them.

Cissy Kendricks suspects foul play when her friend Bebe dies after moving to an exclusive retirement community. As Cissy investigates undercover, daughter Andy reluctantly joins the search, especially when other wealthy widows begin dying under suspicious circumstances.

Andy Kendricks's boyfriend Brian disappears after a bachelor party, and a woman's body turns up in his car. Despite rumors of infidelity and police suspicions, Andy sets out to locate Brian and establish whether he has been framed.

Laura, Mac, Ginger, and Jo-Lynn navigate Houston's debutante world with sharply different ambitions. Family expectations, romantic complications, private secrets, and Jo-Lynn's determination to undermine Laura threaten to turn their preparations for society into a contest of rivalries.

A drunken former beauty queen disrupts a Botox party before Andy Kendricks escorts her home. When the woman is found dead the next morning, Andy doubts the apparent suicide and investigates the resentments surrounding Dallas's pursuit of beauty.

Laura's flirtation with Jo-Lynn's boyfriend sparks gossip as the debutantes continue their preparations. Meanwhile, Mac faces a threat to an important friendship, and Ginger's portrait sitting reunites her with someone whose reputation gives her reason to worry.

Childhood friends Kat, Carla, and Elise reunite in midlife as their careers and relationships face upheaval. Job loss, competition from younger colleagues, and suspicions of infidelity challenge them to reconsider what they want and support one another.

Toni Ashton returns home after her mother's stroke and begins sorting through a house full of family secrets. Her aunt's disappearance decades earlier and a dress that reveals future events complicate her understanding of love and the past.

Susan McBride recounts the unexpected changes that followed her fortieth birthday, including meeting a younger partner, marriage, breast cancer, and pregnancy. Her memoir traces these experiences together, reflecting on relationships and the search for happiness during personal upheaval.

A tornado brings an amnesiac stranger into Gretchen Brink's life just as her pregnant daughter returns home. Abby believes he is her missing father, threatening to expose a lie Gretchen has maintained for forty years about their family.

A series of unexplained burglaries unsettles River Bend before a local psychotherapist is found murdered. When Helen Evans's granddaughter is discovered holding the weapon, Helen investigates the victim's enemies to keep the girl from being blamed.

Wealthy widow Eleanora Duncan dies under suspicious circumstances, and her daughter-in-law Jean becomes the sheriff's chief suspect. Convinced her friend is innocent despite their bitter relationship, Helen Evans investigates who else might have wanted Eleanora dead.

Unpopular businessman Milton Grone is murdered in River Bend, but most potential suspects were attending the same town meeting. Puzzle enthusiast Helen Evans examines grievances over money, property, and development to discover who could have committed the crime.

A photograph appears to expose Katie's boyfriend Mark cheating with another student at Whitney Prep. When the girl disappears and Mark becomes a murder suspect, Katie investigates, uncovering troubling secrets involving him and her best friend Tessa.

At a society wedding, Andy Kendricks encounters her former school bully, now a television wedding planner. When the planner is murdered and an elderly baker is accused, Andy investigates the victim's many enemies to clear the woman's name.

Detective Jo Larsen investigates Jenny Dielman's disappearance from a small Texas town. A controlling husband, a failed earlier marriage, and the death of Jenny's son make it difficult to determine whether she fled deliberately or became a victim.

River Bend's historical society leader Luann Dupree vanishes as floodwaters rise, apparently leaving with an online romantic interest. Her friend Sarah asks Helen Evans to investigate, and the search uncovers false identities and disturbing secrets within the town.

A teenager's body is found beneath an old water tower, apparently after suicide. Detective Jo Larsen and partner Hank Phelps investigate what drove Kelly Amster to her death, uncovering painful secrets hidden within their seemingly close community.