Kathy Lynn Emerson

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  • Bibliography:
    49 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1990
  • Latest Book:
    February 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Diana Spaulding Mystery

1 - Deadlier Than the Pen (Mar-2004)
2 - Fatal as a Fallen Woman (Sep-2005)
3 - No Mortal Reason (Apr-2007)
4 - Lethal Legend (Apr-2008)

A Lady Susanna Appleton Mystery

1 - Face Down in the Marrow-Bone Pie (Mar-1997)
2 - Face Down upon an Herbal (Apr-1998)
3 - Face Down Among the Winchester Geese (Jun-1999)
4 - Face Down Beneath the Eleanor Cross (Mar-2000)
5 - Face Down Under the Wych Elm (Dec-2000)
6 - Face Down Before Rebel Hooves (Aug-2001)
7 - Face Down Across the Western Sea (Apr-2002)
8 - Face Down Below the Banqueting House (Apr-2005)
9 - Face Down Beside St. Anne's Well (Apr-2006)
10 - Face Down O'er the Border (Sep-2007)

A Mistress Jaffrey Mystery

1 - Murder in the Queen's Wardrobe (Mar-2015)
2 - Murder in the Merchant's Hall (Dec-2015)
3 - Murder in a Cornish Alehouse (Apr-2017)

Multi-Author Series List

Treasured Tales

Love Thy Neighbor (Feb-1997)

Book List in Order: 49 titles

  • Julia's Mending

    In 1887, when her missionary parents have gone to China without her, snobbish twelve-year-old Julia is sent to a farm in upstate New York where she breaks a leg, and while it mends, she learns to love and accept her country cousins and heal her anger...

  • Mystery of the Missing Bagpipes

    While at a bagpipe camp on an isolated Maine estate--where her father is attending a bagpipe school run by an eccentric millionaire--Kim must solve a mystery involving a stolen set of valuable, antique bagpipes...

  • Winter Tapestry

    Cordell vows to revenge the murder of her father. Roger Allington is honor bound to protect his friend's daughter but has no liking for her reckless ways. Yet his heart tells him he must pursue this beauty through a maze of plots to win her love an...

  • Echoes and Illusions

    OUT OF THE PAST Lauren Ryder is content with her quiet life in a small, scenic town in Maine. She has it all--a thriving needlecraft business and a wonderful husband. But then the dreams start--dreams so real she fears she's losing her mind. Somethi...

  • Firebrand

    SWEET SORCERY -- With her life in danger, Ellen Allyn fled London. Only handsome young adventurer Jamie Mainwaring understood her plight, and as she sailed with him to New England, destiny wove a powerful bond between them. But when they docked, El...

  • Unquiet Hearts

    Protector, friend, hero. Nick Carrier had been all these things and more to Thomasine Strangeways during her bleak childhood at Catsholme Manor. But that was before she and her mother had been sent away under mysterious circumstances. Now, years l...

  • The Green Rose

    SWEET DECEPTION The young and beautiful widow, Meriall Sentlow, was intrigued by Sir Grey Neville's offer of freedom, solitude, and a home of her own -- in exchange far a mock betrothal. All she had left to bargain with was herself, especially...

  • The Rapunzel Trap

    Hope Rowan suspects Rapunzel had agoraphobia--just like she does. And Cooper Sanford, returned high school bad boy, doesn't really seem the handsome prince who could lure her out, does he? But Coop wants Hope's help with his motherless daughter, and ...

  • Love Thy Neighbor

    Loveswept - 825
    Treasured Tales

    He gave new meaning to being neighborly... The moment she drove up in aflame-red Mustang to claim the crumbling house next door, Marshall Austin knew he'd been right. Linnea Bryan was bewitching, a fascinating puzzle who could easily hold him spel...



  • Face Down in the Marrow-Bone Pie

    A Lady Susanna Appleton Mystery - 1

    In the first installment of her delightful new mystery series, Kathy Lynn Emerson transports readers to Elizabethan England, where she introduces a wonderfully willful heroine who is centuries ahead of her time... When the poisoned body of Sir Rob...

  • Family Lies

    Ariadne Palmer, part-owner of an antiquarian bookshop in Maine, doesn’t believe Clay Franklin when he tells her she has a twin sister and grandparents that she’s never known. As a lawyer, Clay has sworn not to tell her the whole truth about her p...

  • Sleepwalking Beauty

    Loveswept - 835

    He awoke to find a goddess lit by moonlight climbing into his bed.... Duncan Glendower seemed more ancient warrior than modern bodyguard, but to Andrea Lauderdale he represented her powerful grandfather's efforts to control her life! When he agre...

  • Relative Strangers

    Loveswept - 860

    A dreamboat so tall, dark, and handsome, he stole her heart from across the room.... By firelight and dressed in period clothes, Lucas Sinclair resembled a dangerous heartbreaker of a less civilized age -- and Corrie Ballantyne was stunned by the ...

  • Mystery of Hilliard's Castle

    Kerry Odell and her younger brother Lyle are not enthusiastic about spending the next six months in rural western Maine. It seems like a pretty dismal place, especially in March, and means entering a new school in mid-year. The house their mother has...

  • E-Mail Order Bride

    Leslie Baynton had been won over by Chase Forster's emails. But marriage, taking on an instant family? That was crazy, wasn't it? And Chase could marvel at her virtues -- her intelligence and compassion -- but did he really know anything about her? B...

  • Face Down upon an Herbal

    A Lady Susanna Appleton Mystery - 2

    When a dead body is found in a castle library, Elizabethan herbalist Susanna, Lady Appleton, investigates a mystery that mixes passion and deadly ambition into a potent brew.... FACE DOWN UPON AN HERBAL Luxurious Madderly Castle hosts velvet tape...

  • Sight Unseen

    Loveswept - 883

    His words had won her, heart and soul, but who was this man she'd agreed to wed? Chase Forster listed plenty of good reasons to marry Leslie Baynton -- her intelligence, their common interests, the understanding and compassion she showed him, ...

  • Tried and True

    Loveswept - 895

    "I'll be happy in any century, as long as I'm with you...." Grant Bradley was eager to stir up interest in his living history center, but getting talk-show host Vanessa Dare to film at the center for a week -- in costume -- was pro...

  • That Special Smile

    Loveswept - 913

    He ravished her senses and savored her with every touch and taste.... Russ Tandy was still the handsome heartthrob she remembered, but Tory Grenville had to remind herself she wasn't the skinny, tongue-tied class brain any longer! Pleased whe...



  • Face Down Among the Winchester Geese

    A Lady Susanna Appleton Mystery - 3

    Newly transplanted from the English countryside to a splendid London townhouse, Susanna, Lady Appleton, tracks an elusive St. Mark's Day serial killer along a path that leads perilously close to home... A dedicated herbalist, Susanna is caught up ...

  • Face Down Beneath the Eleanor Cross

    A Lady Susanna Appleton Mystery - 4

    Nothing is as it seems when would-be widow Susanna, Lady Appleton, finds her official period of mourning interrupted by a cryptic message from her supposedly dead spouse. Shockingly, Robert is alive--but not for long... Neither late nor lamented ...

  • Face Down Under the Wych Elm

    A Lady Susanna Appleton Mystery - 5

    Elizabethan England is swirling with panic and paranoia, as the enterprising Susanna, Lady Appleton, sets out to save her former nemesis from being burned at the stake... Face Down Under The Wych Elm Wealthily widowed and fiercely independent, Su...

  • Someday

    Kristy Russell, a high school senior, sets out to discover why Sonny, the boy she’s crazy about, has rejected her. Her quest involves her in plans for a Project Graduation party and a school-wide production of The Music Man. And her ultimate decisi...

  • Face Down Before Rebel Hooves

    A Lady Susanna Appleton Mystery - 6

    The Rebellion of 1569 gains another player as the intrepid Susanna, Lady Appleton, infiltrates a ring of conspirators in an effort to thwart a plot to overthrow Queen Elizabeth's monarchy... The moment her friend Sir Walter Pendennis comes to call...

  • Face Down Across the Western Sea

    A Lady Susanna Appleton Mystery - 7

    Anxious to prove England's claim on the New World, Queen Elizabeth has charged Sir Walter Pendennis, seasoned spy and diplomat, with the top-secret mission. Walter gathers a team of scholars at his Cornwall estate, and calls upon his dear friend Susa...

  • Murders and Other Confusions

    The Chronicles of Susanna, Lady Appleton, of the Face Down mystery series. Susanna, 16th century gentlewoman, herbalist and sleuth, solves mysteries and puzzles that baffle her contemporaries. These eleven stories conclude the Face Down series. Histo...

  • Deadlier Than the Pen

    A Diana Spaulding Mystery - 1

    In 1888, the murder of two female journalists in the New York City prompts newly widowed journalist Diana Spaulding to investigate the handsome horror author Damon Bathory in this large-print historical mystery. Although her growing affection for ...

  • Face Down Below the Banqueting House

    A Lady Susanna Appleton Mystery - 8

    Eighth of the Lady Appleton mysteries, where Susanna uses her knowledge of herbs and her sleuthing abilities to solve the mystery of a man falling to his death. Her household of Leigh Abbey is faced with the possibility of a visit from Queen Elizabet...

  • Fatal as a Fallen Woman

    A Diana Spaulding Mystery - 2

    In 1888 intrepid tabloid reporter Diana Spaulding travels to Denver, Colorado, not to cover a story for her newspaper but to help her mother, who has been accused of murdering Diana’s estranged father. But Elmira Torrence has had a rough couple of ...



  • Face Down Beside St. Anne's Well

    A Lady Susanna Appleton Mystery - 9

    In Book Nine of the Face Down series, sixteenth-century gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth Susanna, Lady Appleton, travels north to the old Roman baths at Buxton to help her foster daughter, Rosamond, discover the truth about the sudden death of Mada...

  • No Mortal Reason

    A Diana Spaulding Mystery - 3

    Diana Spaulding, intrepid crime reporter, and her fiancé, physician Ben Northcote, stop in rural Lenape Springs, New York to meet Diana's hitherto unknown relatives. Putting an end to the family feud between Diana's mother and her uncles is the leas...

  • Face Down O'er the Border

    A Lady Susanna Appleton Mystery - 10

    In Book Ten of the Face Down series, sixteenth-century gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth Susanna, Lady Appleton travels to Scotland in search of her dear friend Lady Glenelg, who has disappeared after being accused of murder. Not only must Susanna d...

  • Lethal Legend

    A Diana Spaulding Mystery - 4

    Lethal Legend is the fourth and last volume in the Diana Spaulding 1888 Mystery Quartet. Diana Spaudling, intrepid reporter, and her fiancé, Ben Northcote, return to Maine to solve a murder on an island in Penobscot Bay. This final chapter offers an...

  • Murder in the Queen's Wardrobe

    A Mistress Jaffrey Mystery - 1

    A female spymaster will face mortal danger to protect her husband and her queen... London, 1582: Mistress Rosamond Jaffrey, a talented and well-educated woman of independent means, is recruited by Queen Elizabeth I’s spymaster, Sir Francis Wals...

  • Murder in the Merchant's Hall

    A Mistress Jaffrey Mystery - 2

    When Lina Walkenden is found clutching a bloody knife over the dead body of her brother-in-law and guardian, there’s only one person she can turn to for help: her childhood friend Rosamond Jaffrey. Rosamond vows to do all she can to prove Lina’s ...

  • Different Times, Different Crimes

    BLUTimes may change, but crime remains the same! Award-winning author Kathy Lynn Emerson has penned thirteen thrilling tales -- from medieval England to modern New England -- guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat! "A baker's dozen mysterie...

  • Murder in a Cornish Alehouse

    A Mistress Jaffrey Mystery - 3

    June, 1584. On hearing news of the sudden death of her stepfather, Sir Walter Pendennis, Rosamond Jaffrey must leave London for Cornwall to look after the interests of her young half-brother and try to mend her strained relationship with their mother...

  • Mistress Threadneedle's Quest

    in Malice Domestic 12: Murder Most Historical

  • The Finder of Lost Things

    "The Finder of Lost Things" is the name Blanche Wainfleet's three sisters bestowed on her when they were young, not only for her ability to locate missing handkerchiefs and runaway pets, but also because she was so good at finding...



  • Katie's Way

    Twelve-year-old Katie Brant is used to getting everything her own way. She lives with her grandparents, two uncles, and her Aunt Mattie in a farm/boardinghouse in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains of New York State in the early 1920s. With the ...

  • Shalla

    Set in Colonial Rhode Island in the mid-seventeenth century, Shalla is the fictionalized story of a real person, one of the children of Rhode Island founder Samuel Gorton, who was known as the New England firebrand. Because of his religious and polit...

  • I Kill People For A Living

    In this unique compilation of 115 essays written between 2011 and 2021, Kathy Lynn Emerson, author of over sixty traditionally-published books in a variety of genres and under several names, writes about everything from how to conquer the sagging mid...

  • The Valentine Veilleux Mysteries

    The three short stories and a novella that comprise The Valentine Veilleux Mysteries feature professional photographer Valentine Veilleux as an amateur sleuth. Val specializes in creating calendars for organizations to use for fundraising purposes. S...

  • Diana Spaulding 1888 Mysteries

    This collection of Kathy Lynn Emerson's historical mysteries featuring Diana Spaulding, journalist for a New York scandal sheet, as the amateur detective, contains four complete novels and three short stories, all set in the U. S. in 1888. Publishers...

  • Death of an Intelligence Gatherer

    In 1554, scores of English Protestants fled into exile on the Continent after Mary Tudor took the throne and returned England to Catholicism. Sir Henry Ingram and his daughter Cordell were among them, but Sir Henry is not all he seems. When he dies i...

  • Love and Murder in the Time of the Tudors

    Love and Murder in the Time of the Tudors: Two Novels of Romantic Suspense set in sixteenth-century England Unquiet Hearts was first published in 1994 for the Harper Monogram line. It is 1562 and Thomasine Strangeways has returned to Catsholme M...

  • The Maine Quartet

    These four romance novels, originally published between 1989 and 1997, have been newly edited by the author and are now collected for the first time in this omnibus edition.In Cloud Castles, originally published under the pseudonym Kaitlyn Gorton, fa...

  • Face Down Beside St. Ann's Well

    Face Down Beside St. Ann's Well is book nine in the Face Down series featuring Susanna, Lady Appleton as a sixteenth-century herbalist who has a knack for solving murders. The story is set in Buxton, Derbyshire in 1575, where a midnight visit to the ...

  • Lady Appleton's World

    Lady Appleton's World: The Complete Short Stories is a collection of sixteen short stories first published between 1999 and 2015 and newly edited by the author. They feature the adventures of Susanna, Lady Appleton, sixteenth-century gentlewoman, her...



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Kathy Lynn Emerson has published 49 books.

The next book by Kathy Lynn Emerson, Lady Appleton's World, will be published in February 2025.

The first book by Kathy Lynn Emerson, Julia's Mending, was published in March 1990.

Yes. Kathy Lynn Emerson has 3 series.
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