A.W. Hartoin

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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2012
  • Latest Book:
    October 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Away From Whipplethorn

0.5 - Flare-up (Apr-2013)
1 - A Fairy's Guide to Disaster (Dec-2012)
2 - Fierce Creatures (Nov-2013)
3 - A Monster's Paradise (Nov-2013)
4 - A Wicked Chill (Dec-2014)
5 - To the Eternal (Nov-2016)

Mercy Watts Mysteries

1 - A Good Man Gone (Dec-2013)
2 - Diver Down (Dec-2013)
2.4 - Coke with a Twist (Dec-2012)
2.5 - Touch and Go (Mar-2013)
2.6 - Nowhere Fast (Feb-2013)
3 - Double Black Diamond (May-2014)
3.5 - Dry Spell (Feb-2015)
4 - Drop Dead Red (Apr-2015)
5 - In the Worst Way (Sep-2015)
5.5 - A Sin and a Shame (Mar-2016)
6 - The Wife of Riley (Apr-2016)
7 - My Bad Grandad (Jan-2017)
8 - Brain Trust (Jul-2017)
9 - Down and Dirty (Dec-2018)
10 - Small Time Crime (Nov-2019)

Stella Bled

1 - The Paris Package (Apr-2018)
2 - Strangers in Venice (Jul-2019)
3 - One Child in Berlin (May-2020)

Book List in Order: 31 titles

  • Coke with a Twist

    Mercy Watts Mysteries - 2.4

    ~Part of the USA Today Bestselling Series~Mercy Watts' P.I. father ropes her into another investigation, this time to find the truth behind a young woman's attack. The case takes her from a dive bar to sorority row to the gutter, and unless she solve...

  • A Fairy's Guide to Disaster

    Away From Whipplethorn - 1

    ~From USA Today Bestselling Author A.W. Hartoin~Tiny fairies. Huge adventure.Matilda Whipplethorn is about to get what she’s always wanted, and it’s a bad thing. Being a babysitter isn’t much of a dream for the average thirteen-year-old, but M...

  • Nowhere Fast

    Mercy Watts Mysteries - 2.6

    ~Part of the USA Today Bestselling Series~A crabby nun and a runaway girl. Mercy should’ve stayed in bed. Instead, she bows to her aunt’s guilt trip and is hot on the trail of Charley Horton, a girl the police can’t find. With the help of her n...

  • It Started with a Whisper

    ~From USA Today Bestselling Author A.W. Hartoin~Wishes are powerful things, if you belong to the MacClarity clan. You can ask Ernest for anything and he’ll make it come true, even though he’s been dead for nearly a hundred years. Puppy MacClarity...

  • Touch and Go

    Mercy Watts Mysteries - 2.5

    ~Part of the USA Today Bestselling Series~A bad dog and a missing man. Mercy Watts is up to her double D’s in trouble. She agrees to take on a case for an old rival to avoid doing paperwork for her PI father, but her plan doesn’t include a poodle...

  • Flare-up

    Away From Whipplethorn - 0.5

    ~From USA Today Bestselling Author A.W. Hartoin~Some people are destined for a quiet life. Matilda Whipplethorn is not one of those people. On a fine summer day, Matilda’s adventurous life begins; inside a dog’s snout....

  • Fierce Creatures

    Away From Whipplethorn - 2

    Another day. Another disaster. After surviving a kidnapping and battling with spriggans, Matilda Whipplethorn finds her life in a suburban human house pretty boring. She's been excluded from school because of her fire-making abilities and her former ...

  • A Monster's Paradise

    Away From Whipplethorn - 3

    Paris isn’t for lovers. It’s for fighters. Matilda Whipplethorn thought her mission would be simple. She’d get the cure for Miss Penrose and get out, but nothing is simple in Paris. The fairy revolution is heating up, not cooling down as the Wh...

  • Diver Down

    Mercy Watts Mysteries - 2

    A sunny place for shady people. Vacations can be murder, especially when you’re Mercy Watts. She’s trying to get away from it all, including her godmother’s lawsuit and a certain situation with the mafia. So she heads to Roatan, Honduras, a pla...



  • A Good Man Gone

    Mercy Watts Mysteries - 1

    Diver Down (Mercy Watts Mysteries Book Two) will be released on December 8th! It's summer in St. Louis and Mercy Watts is on vacation from her parents. The great detective and his nosy wife are on a cruise and Mercy thinks she's off the hook for doin...

  • Double Black Diamond

    Mercy Watts Mysteries - 3

    ~Part of the USA Today Bestselling Series~Commit a crime. Save a child.Mercy Watts is off to Colorado for a ski trip with her boyfriend and his parents. She thinks her biggest problem will be pretending to be a normal girlfriend. A girlfriend that do...

  • A Wicked Chill

    Away From Whipplethorn - 4

    ~From USA Today Bestselling Author A.W. Hartoin~Matilda Whipplethorn is feeling very unlucky. It’s only because she is. Matilda got the family to Vienna, but no farther. Her parents are missing in action, so she’s in charge. Now she’s hiding in...

  • Dry Spell

    Mercy Watts Mysteries - 3.5

    ~Part of the USA Today Bestselling Series~Mercy Watts doesn’t believe in ghosts. She might be the only one. When Mercy’s best friend, Ellen, shows up in the middle of the night, shaken and afraid. Mercy starts digging for a truth that might not e...

  • Drop Dead Red

    Mercy Watts Mysteries - 4

    ~Part of the USA Today Bestselling Series~Nothing’s easy in The Big Easy. Mercy Watts is barely back in St. Louis before her hometown suffers the worst crime in a century, a mass murder at an Italian restaurant. This has nothing to do with Mercy an...

  • In the Worst Way

    Mercy Watts Mysteries - 5

    ~Part of the USA Today Bestselling Series~Playing dead isn't enough to keep Mercy Watts alive. Since killing a man in New Orleans Mercy's kept her head down. With diet, exercise, and work, she thinks she can keep wolves and memories at bay. She's wro...

  • A Sin and a Shame

    Mercy Watts Mysteries - 5.5

    ~Part of the USA Today Bestselling Series~Sin never dies.Mercy Watts is trying to recover from a tumble through a rocky river, but crime just won’t let her be. A retired librarian takes a life and Mercy takes her case under duress, of course. Soon ...

  • The Wife of Riley

    Mercy Watts Mysteries - 6

    ~Part of the USA Today Bestselling Series~There’s darkness in the City of Light. The Fibonacci family saved Mercy Watts’ life and now she owes them a favor. Calpurnia Fibonacci calls on Mercy to make good. When you’re dealing with a powerful ma...

  • To the Eternal

    Away From Whipplethorn - 5

    All Matilda Whipplethorn’s roads lead to Rome. Matilda went from the bottom of Viennese society to the very top. Now everyone knows she’s a kindler and she’s become a target for fairies who want to exploit the tenuous situation in France. Being...

  • My Bad Grandad

    Mercy Watts Mysteries - 7

    Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go to Sturgis.That’s what they say at the famous motorcycle rally. Is Mercy Watts a bad girl? Mercy doesn’t think so, but she’s going to Sturgis and things are about to go bad in a big way. When Mercy’s gran...



  • Brain Trust

    Mercy Watts Mysteries - 8

    Coming home never felt so bad. Mercy Watts and her grandad, Ace, survived the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and are racing home ahead of a stalker whose plans for the Watts clan remain unknown. But they’re too slow and what Mercy finds at home spins her...

  • The Paris Package

    Stella Bled - 1

    On the eve of WWII, a honeymoon turns treacherous.For Stella Bled Lawrence being wealthy and stylish in 1938 is exactly what it’s cracked up to be. She’s blissfully unaware of the rising tensions in Europe even as she travels to Vienna on the eve...

  • Down and Dirty

    Mercy Watts Mysteries - 9

    Love is in the air and it stinks. Mercy Watts thinks things are about to get back to normal. She’s back to work at the Columbia Clinic and her mother is recovering from her stroke. But when a patient goes rogue and lands Mercy smack dab in the midd...

  • Strangers in Venice

    Stella Bled - 2

    November, 1938It began in Vienna, after a night of fire and fear. Stella Bled Lawrence made a promise and she kept it. But the job isn’t done. Abel Hershmann’s cousins, unaware of the danger, are heading to Venice in search of him and the family ...

  • Small Time Crime

    Mercy Watts Mysteries - 10

    Time heals all wounds…unless it doesn’t. In 1965, a young woman in love and a veil was kidnapped and found murdered in a small Missouri town. A priest took the fall, literally. But the FBI has now discovered a clue among the bodies found in Kansa...

  • One Child in Berlin

    Stella Bled - 3

    November 1939It's been a year since Stella Bled Lawrence and her husband, Nicky, escaped Italy by the skin of their teeth and a lot has changed. Nicky joined the Royal Air Force and Stella spent the year training as a spy for His Majesty's Secret Int...

  • Bottle Blonde

    Take one kidnapping. Add a haunted hamlet. Mix in a secret that's lasted forty years and you've got a recipe for trouble.Reluctant detective Mercy Watts' life is changing and she's ready for it with a new apartment, a new career, and new clues to an ...

  • Mean Evergreen

    All Mercy wants for Christmas is answers and she’ll go all the way to Germany to get them.The Watts clan has a plan. Mercy should rest and take it easy after the attack that left her battered and bruised. After all, she solved her own kidnappin...

  • A Quiet Little Place on Rue de Lille

    From USA Today bestselling author A.W. Hartoin comes a series perfect for the fans of Pam Jenoff's The Lost Girls of Paris: A Novel, Martha Hall Kelly’s Lilac Girls, and Kit Sergeant’s The Spark of Resistance: Women Spies in WWII.Paris 19...

  • Silver Bells at Hotel Hell

    An isolated hotel. A blizzard. Guests that can’t stay on their feet. Hotel Hell is about to live up to its name.Seven couples head up into the Swiss mountains for gourmet food and world-class skiing unaware that a freak change in the weather is...



  • Her London Season

    London, 1940.The Battle of Britain rages while Stella Bled sits frustrated on the sidelines. Her husband, Nicky, is unreachable as he risks his life flying in a Spitfire and she has to recover from her mission in France without her beloved Bijou or a...

  • Dark Victory

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    From USA Today bestselling author A.W. Hartoin comes a series perfect for the fans of Pam Jenoff's The Lost Girls of Paris: A Novel, Martha Hall Kelly’s Lilac Girls, and Kit Sergeant’s The Spark of Resistance: Women Spies in WWII.Amsterda...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

A.W. Hartoin has published 31 books.

A.W. Hartoin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Her London Season, was published in October 2022.

The first book by A.W. Hartoin, Coke with a Twist, was published in December 2012.

Yes. A.W. Hartoin has 3 series.
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