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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1980
  • Latest Book:
    June 2022
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Full Series List in Order

A Cassandra Reilly Mystery

1 - Gaudi Afternoon (Oct-1990)
2 - Trouble in Transylvania (Oct-1993)
3 - The Death of a Much-Travelled Woman (Oct-1998)
4 - The Case of the Orphaned Bassoonists (Nov-2000)

Pam Nilson

1 - Murder in the Collective (1984)
2 - Sisters of the Road (1986)
3 - The Dog Collar Murders (1989)

Book List in Order: 26 titles





  • Seattle printing collective owner Pam Nilsen is on the case when a member of the group turns up dead before a controversial mergerPam Nilsen and her twin sister, Penny, inherited Best Printing four years ago when their parents died in a car crash. Un...





  • Pam Nilsen is looking for teenage prostitute Trish Margolin and the murderer of Trish's best friend. Her search brings her into contact with the world of teenage prostitutes and runaways on the streets of Seattle and Portland. The author won the Crim...





  • When an antipornography activist dies after a provocative speech, Pam Nilsen dives headlong into Seattle's feminist community to uncover a murderer The Seattle Conference on Sexuality is a lightning rod for controversy, with big politics and even ...



  • Ben Stevens has vanished without a trace. His wife thinks he’s hiding out in Barcelona, and she asks Cassandra Reilly for help. On the trail of the elusive Ben, Cassandra is soon chasing people of all persuasions and motives in a madcap caper. This...





  • Cassandra Reilly arrives in Venice to see why her best friend Nicky Gibbons, bassoonist extraordinaire, has been accused of stealing a Venetian family heirloom. With an international cast of characters, the luminous backdrop of Venice, and the author...






  • Moving from her Chicago home to a tiny southern town, Tess Lawrence is devastated until she realizes that the kids in her new school are friendly, except for the one boy who she is strongly attracted to. Original....



  • Crime and detection are women's work for twenty-six great writers in this second brilliant collection of mystery fiction edited by Sara Paretsky. From wicked irony and white-collar crime in Amanda Cross's "The Baroness," to the chilling "Only a Woman...



  • Thirtysomething Cory West, an accountant and amateur painter, struggles to come to terms with her memories of a painful childhood, which included the death of her mother, as she falls in love for the first time with Rosemary. Simultaneous. IP.



  • An anthology of mysteries featuring Cassandra Reilly, globe-trotting translator and sleuth. The stories show her solving thefts and murders, frequently in the publishing world, from Vladivostok to Reykjavik. By the author of Trouble in Transylvania....




  • Cassandra Reilly arrives in Venice to see why her best friend Nicky Gibbons, bassoonist extraordinaire, has been accused of stealing a Venetian family heirloom. With an international cast of characters, the luminous backdrop of Venice, and the author...



  • Willa C. Lopez is traveling on her own for the first time. She's almost twelve, and grown-up enough to fly on a plane by herself and spend the summer away from home. But is Willa ready for the changes, surprises, and mysteries she'll find when she ar...



  • Kathy Ryan, a rebellious, strong-willed young woman had left home when she was eighteen, leaving her infant daughter and a Christian family behind. She was sure she could make it on her own. Seven years later, she finds herself alone and unable to pa...












  • Beth grew up with her mother constantly criticizing her and making her feel like she wasnt capable of doing things on her own. When she was nineteen she escaped her home life by eloping with Nathan, a twenty-nine year old who turned out to be as crit...



  • Barbara Wilson was an emotional wreck. The daughter of an abusive alcoholic, she grew up with virtually no self-esteem. She lived her life in fear and sadness. It was as if a black cloud of negativity followed her everywhere. Then she married the han...



  • Emily is holidaying in Rome with Grazia when Grazia's boyfriend, a mysterious doctor with some very sinister secrets, is wounded by an anonymous gunman on a motorbike. Fearful for their lives, they all flee to the doctor's remote summer house in A...



  • In Gaudi Afternoon


    Cassandra Reilly, an Irish-American translator and amateur sleuth, shares a flat in London with her long-time friend, retired bassoonist Nicky Gibbons. Their lives are disrupted when Cassandra attends a lecture on the beguines, laywomen who lived in ...



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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Barbara Wilson has published 26 books.

Barbara Wilson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Love Dies Twice, was published in June 2022.

The first book by Barbara Wilson, Backbone Two, was published in June 1980.

Yes. Barbara Wilson has 2 series.