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Seven books, and a straight answer to which one first.
Where do I start?
Three questions. You get your first book, the order to read the rest, and book one free by email.
In a hurry? Cosy readers start with The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter. Dark, with Cold Ledger.
All seven books are on the shelf.
- The Lighthouse Keeper's DaughterEllison
- The Salt RoadEllison
- Low Tide at Gull RockEllison
- A Lantern for the DrownedEllison
- Cold LedgerEllison
- The Ferry HourEllison
- The Summer PeopleEllison
The reading order
Publication order is the reading order. Here it is, all on one page.
The Wren Harbor Mysteries
- The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter2021 · 312 pages
- The Salt Road2022 · 288 pages
- Low Tide at Gull Rock2024 · 336 pages
- A Lantern for the Drowned2027 · 320 pages · preorder
Read in order. Each book solves its own case; Nell's story runs through all four.
The Casco Bay Novels
- Cold Ledger2023 · 368 pages
- The Ferry Hour2025 · 352 pages
- Book three, untitledBeing written now, for 2028
Violence mostly off the page, but darker than Wren Harbor.
Standalone
- The Summer People2020 · 274 pages
Read it any time. It shares no characters with either series.
Places in the books
Is there a chronological order?
Publication order is story order in both series. The Summer People can go anywhere.
Are the two series connected?
Lightly. Ray Amato drives up from Portland in Low Tide at Gull Rock, and Nell answers one phone call in The Ferry Hour. Neither spoils the other.
Are they on audio?
All seven, read by Ruth Ansel (Wren Harbor and The Summer People) and Malcolm Teague (Casco Bay), on Libro.fm, Apple Books, Audible and Kobo.
What's coming next?
A Lantern for the Drowned on March 9, 2027, then Casco Bay book three in 2028.