Lynn Messina

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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2003
  • Latest Book:
    June 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mystery

1 - A Brazen Curiosity (Aug-2018)
2 - A Scandalous Deception (Aug-2018)
3 - An Infamous Betrayal (Aug-2018)
4 - A Nefarious Engagement (Apr-2019)
5 - A Treacherous Performance (Nov-2019)
6 - A Sinister Establishment (Jan-2020)
7 - A Boldly Daring Scheme (Oct-2020)
8 - A Ghastly Spectacle (Jan-2021)
9 - A Malevolent Connection (Nov-2021)
10 - An Ominous Explosion (May-2022)
11 - An Extravagant Duplicity (Jan-2023)
12 - A Murderous Tryst (Nov-2023)
13 - A Vicious Machination (Jun-2024)

Love Takes Root

1 - The Harlow Hoyden (Feb-2014)
2 - The Other Harlow Girl (Sep-2014)
3 - The Fellingham Minx (Dec-2014)
4 - The Bolingbroke Chit (Jun-2015)
5 - The Impertinent Miss Templeton (Jul-2018)

A Verity Lark Mystery

1 - A Lark’s Tale (Sep-2022)
2 - A Lark's Flight (May-2023)
3 - A Lark’s Conceit (Feb-2024)

Multi-Author Series List

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Prejudice & Pride (Dec-2015)

Book List in Order: 34 titles

  • Fashionistas

    Red Dress Ink

    Life at Fashionista magazine can be a real bitch. Especially when you work for one. Vig Morgan finally worked her way out of the assistant-for-the-bitch-from-hell trenches only to get stuck in a sea of editors. But Vig isn't like the other associa...

  • Tallulahland

    Red Dress Ink

    Tallulah West thinks she's got everything figured out, from her interrupted career path to the men in her life. (Career path = anything to displease Dad. Nick = trusty best friend. Dad = see career path.) But when her world is turned upside down (aga...

  • Lola Was Here

    in Never on a Sundae

    Three young women searching for love in the big city come together at the finest spot in Manhattan to find the perfect ice cream sundae where they share their problems, enjoy their friendship, and commiserate about their romantic ups and downs, but t...

  • Mim Warner's Lost Her Cool

    Red Dress Ink

    Want to know what'll be hot next season? Just ask Mim Warner, the best coolhunter in the business. But Mim's latest trend predictions ("slut" T-shirts for eight-year-old girls? Samurai swords for ten-year-old boys?) are troubling, to say the least. ...

  • Troublemaker

    in Girls' Night Out

    Too tired to doll up and head out for a night on the town? (It happens to the best of us.) Just dip into this year's must-read collection for a Girls' Night Out to remember and indulge in tales of reunions and weddings, sisters and friends, endings a...

  • Savvy Girl

    Seventeen-year-old Chrissy Gibbons has landed her dream job -- a summer internship at her favorite magazine, Savvy. Being an intern is hard work, but the job becomes a lot more fun when Chrissy is befriended by a glamorous fashion editor who takes h...

  • Little Vampire Women

    "Christmas wont be Christmas without any corpses." The dear, sweet March sisters are back, and Marmee has told them to be good little women. Good little vampire women, that is. That's right: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy have grown up since you last read t...

  • The Girls' Guide to Dating Zombies

    Hattie Cross knows what you're thinking: Zombie sex? Ewwwww. But she also knows that since a virus turned 99.9999 percent of human males into zombies, it's statistically impossible to meet--let alone date--the remaining 0.00001 percent. So she writes...

  • Bleak

    Lights! Cameras! Inaction!New York writer Ricki Carstone knows it’s extremely unlikely a movie of her debut novel, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, will actually get made -- the odds are like one in a hundred or something -- but Moxie Bernard (hello! most fa...



  • Henry and the Incredibly Incorrigible, Inconveniently Intelligent Smart Human

    Henry Jacobson, a robot in the 13th upgrade, can’t process the data. Sure, humans can follow simple instructions to sweep floors and do other menial tasks that robots don’t want to do, but they can’t do anything complicated. Humans are just sim...

  • Love in the Time of Zombies

    It’s 2017, and a raging virus has drastically reduced the world’s population of men, transforming all but a fraction into a race of putrid, brain-dead zombies. So what’s single, ambitious 23-year-old Hattie Cross to do for fun, not to mention r...

  • The Harlow Hoyden

    Love Takes Root - 1

    Miss Emma Harlow hasn’t earned the reputation as a hoyden for nothing, so when the Duke of Trent discovers her in his conservatory stealing one of his orchids, he’s isn’t surprised -- charmed, delighted and puzzled, yes, but not surprised. It i...

  • Miss Fellingham's Rebellion

    Twenty-four-year-old Catherine Fellingham keeps a low profile -- in society and in her family. A practical young woman, she leaves the spotlight to her beautiful younger sister and prefers quiet pursuits such as reading. But all that changes the mome...

  • The Other Harlow Girl

    Love Takes Root - 2

    A woman in the British Horticultural Society! The very idea horrifies everyone, including ardent horticulturalist Lavinia Harlow, whose own name has been put forth for membership by the provoking Marquess of Huntly. He does it as a joke, of course, t...

  • The Fellingham Minx

    Love Takes Root - 3

    WARNING: THIS IS A NOVELLA OF 19,000 WORDS. IF YOU PREFER YOUR NOVELLAS TO BE LONGER, PROCEED WITH CAUTION.Miss Evelyn Fellingham does not need to see the admiration in the Earl of Halsey’s eyes to know she is attractive -- most men find her violet...

  • The Bolingbroke Chit

    Love Takes Root - 4

    Earning the nickname Lady Agony was no minor achievement for Lady Agatha Bolingbroke. It required a great deal of effort to make herself so disagreeable, but she did it for a good cause: The fewer invitations she receives, the more time she has to pa...

  • Prejudice & Pride

    Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

    You know Darcy: rich, proud, disapproving, standoffish. Bennet Bethle knows Darcy, too -- at least, the type. As a fundraiser for the Longbourn Collection, an art museum in out-of-the-way Queens, he’s met a lot of bored heiresses. Watching the aloo...

  • The Impertinent Miss Templeton

    Love Takes Root - 5

    A PATENT FOR PASSIONNo, no, no! It doesn’t matter how many times the Duchess of Trent (The Harlow Hoyden) requests her help with a delicate matter regarding a patent for her sister’s invention, Tuppence Templeton will not lend a hand. She has a h...

  • A Brazen Curiosity

    A Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mystery - 1

    Twenty-six-year-old Beatrice Hyde-Clare is far too shy to investigate the suspicious death of a fellow guest in the Lake District. A spinster who lives on the sufferance of her relatives, she would certainly not presume to search the rooms of her hos...



  • An Infamous Betrayal

    A Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mystery - 3

    Having solved the two murders that somehow fell in her path, Beatrice Hyde-Clare is on the lookout for a third. Through a absurd quirk of stupid fate, the shy spinster has fallen in love with the thoroughly unattainable Duke of Kesgrave and is desper...

  • A Scandalous Deception

    A Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mystery - 2

    As much as Beatrice Hyde-Clare relished the challenge of figuring out who murdered a fellow guest during a house party in the Lake District, she certainly does not consider herself an amateur investigator. So when a London dandy falls dead at her fee...

  • A Nefarious Engagement

    A Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mystery - 4

    Having long abandoned any hope of making a match, twenty-six-year-old Beatrice Hyde-Clare finds herself a little overwhelmed by her engagement to the Duke of Kesgrave. Cloying society matrons clamor for her attention while her aunt reels off an endle...

  • A Treacherous Performance

    A Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mystery - 5

    Having inexplicably nabbed the Duke of Kesgrave, twenty-six-year-old spinster Beatrice Hyde-Clare is determined to marry him at once and no amount of handwringing from anxious family members, worried friends and well-meaning acquaintances will con...

  • A Sinister Establishment

    A Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mystery - 6

    The former Beatrice Hyde-Clare is having a little trouble adjusting to her new situation. Now installed as the Duchess of Kesgrave in elegant splendor in Berkeley Square, she is confounded by the stately residence's seemingly endless array of rooms a...

  • A Boldly Daring Scheme

    A Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mystery - 7

    Finally, Flora Hyde-Clare has wrest the narrative from Beatrice by finding her own compelling murder mystery to solve.Well, it's not entirely her own because the victim is her cousin's former beau, Mr. Theodore Davies, whose father cruelly separated ...

  • A Ghastly Spectacle

    A Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mystery - 8

    Since the new Duchess of Kesgrave cannot be swayed from her unfortunate interest in dead bodies, Lady Abercrombie decides to confront the matter head-on by hosting a murder mystery dinner party.Gathering together several of society's most influential...

  • A Malevolent Connection

    A Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mystery - 9

    Despite suffering a few initial setbacks, the former Beatrice Hyde-Clare has settled into her new position nicely. Thanks to Lady Abercrombie's machinations, she has secured the admiration of society and finally earned the respect of her staff. Even ...

  • An Ominous Explosion

    A Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mystery - 10

    To be clear: Beatrice, Duchess of Kesgrave, does not think every dead person in London is the victim of a sinister plot. The city is large, after all, and some of its inhabitants had to have died from innocent causes. Like Peter Huzza, who was ki...

  • A Lark’s Tale

    A Verity Lark Mystery - 1

    Verity Lark knows everything. As the London Daily Gazette’s popular gossip columnist, she is extremely adept at sneaking into houses, assuming disguises and overseeing a vast network of spies to ensure she stays abreast of the beau monde’s com...



  • An Extravagant Duplicity

    A Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mystery - 11

    Why, yes, the former Beatrice Hyde-Clare is distracted. Having settled comfortably into marriage to the Duke of Kesgrave, she is nevertheless surprised to find herself in an interesting condition. And it has to be that-the unsettling prospect of moth...

  • A Lark's Flight

    A Verity Lark Mystery - 2

    Verity Lark, Unraveling Deception. Verity Lark -- England's most tenacious gossip, the London Daily Gazette's most dogged reporter -- relishes a challenge, which is why she refuses Colson Hardwicke's offer of menial employment. If ...

  • A Murderous Tryst

    A Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mystery - 12

    The past rears its gorgeous head… Deeply distressed to discover her husband lied about his whereabouts the day before, Beatrice, Duchess of Kesgrave, emerges from a wretched night’s sleep to discover him embracing the most beautiful woman she ...

  • A Lark’s Conceit

    A Verity Lark Mystery - 3

    Verity Lark is in a new flap! Bedeviled by Colson Hardwicke’s treatment -- summarily dumping her via tersely worded message! -- Verity Lark is lying awake in her bed seething over his behavior when she hears a floorboard creak. Immediately alert...

  • A Vicious Machination

    A Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mystery - 13

    As eager as Beatrice, Duchess of Kesgrave, is to meet her husband’s newly discovered illegitimate half sister, she does not want it to happen like in the keeper's house at Newgate. Yes, that Newgate, the abject prison filled with squalor and mi...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lynn Messina has published 34 books.

Lynn Messina does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Vicious Machination, was published in June 2024.

The first book by Lynn Messina, Fashionistas, was published in March 2003.

Yes. Lynn Messina has 3 series.
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