Megan Abbott

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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books
  • First Book:
    November 2002
  • Latest Book:
    July 2025
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Bibliomysteries

21 - The Little Men (Sep-2015)

Book List in Order: 21 titles

  • The Street Was Mine

    This book considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space. The descendent of Nineteenth-century frontier and western heroes, the figure re-emerges in 1930-50s America as the 'tough guy'. The Stre...

  • Die a Little

    FEMME FATALES OBSESSIVE LOVE DOUBLE CROSSES How does a respectable young woman fall into Los Angeles' hard-boiled underworld? Shadow-dodging through the glamorous world of 1950s Hollywood and its seedy flip side, Megan Abbott's debut, D...

  • The Song Is You

    On October 7, 1949, dark-haired starlet Jean Spangler kissed her five-year-old daughter good-bye and left for a night shoot at a Hollywood studio. "Wish me luck," she said as she crossed her fingers, winked, and walked away. She was never seen again....

  • Queenpin

    A young woman hired to keep the books at a down-at-the-heels nightclub is taken under the wing of the infamous Gloria Denton, a mob luminary who reigned during the Golden Era of Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano. Notoriously cunning and ruthless, Gloria...

  • A Hell of a Woman

    “A Hell of a Woman is not only an exceptionally entertaining anthology, it’s an invaluable resource that will be cherished by aficionados of the genre.” -- Paul Goat Allen, Chicago Tribune

    An original anthology.

    A collection of t...

  • Bury Me Deep

    In October 1931, a station agent found two large trunks abandoned in Los Angeles's Southern Pacific Station. What he found inside ignited one of the most scandalous tabloid sensations of the decade. Inspired by this notorious true crime, Edgar-wi...

  • The End of Everything

    Thirteen-year-old Lizzie Hood and her next-door neighbor, Evie Verver, are inseparable, best friends who swap clothes, bathing suits, and field-hockey sticks and between whom -- presumably -- there are no secrets. Then one afternoon, Evie disappears,...

  • Dare Me

    Beth and me wedged tight, jeaned legs pressed against each other. The sound of our own breathing. Before we all stopped believing a tornado, or anything, could touch us, ever. Addy Hanlon and Beth Cassidy are tough, inseparable, invincible. No pair m...

  • The Fever

    In this impossible-to-put-down "panic attack of a novel,"* a small-town high school becomes the breeding ground for a mysterious illness. Deenie Nash is a diligent student with a close-knit family; her brother Eli is a hockey star and her father i...



  • The Little Men

    Bibliomysteries - 21

    In 1950s Hollywood, an actress is haunted by a bookseller’s death: A novella from the Edgar Award-winning author of Give Me Your Hand.   In 1953, Penny is just another washed-up, wannabe Hollywood actress who is past her prime. She has settled...

  • You Will Know Me

    The audacious new novel about family and ambition from "one of the best living mystery writers" (Grantland) and bestselling, award-winning author of The Fever, Megan Abbott. How far will you go to achieve a dream? That's the question a celebrated ...

  • Normandy Gold #2

    After receiving an alarming call from her estranged sister, tough-as-nails Sheriff Normandy Gold headed to Washington DC in the hopes of tracking her down. Discovering a link to a high-class prostitution ring, Normandy – with the help of local ...

  • Normandy Gold #3

    After heading to Washington DC to investigate her estranged sister’s disappearance, tough-as-nails Sheriff Normandy Gold began to dig deep into the city’s underground sex industry. Playing the part of a high-class escort, Normandy soon un...

  • Normandy Gold #4

    Following her bloody encounter with Senator Selwyn Grange… and his subsequent disappearance, tough-as-nails Sheriff Normandy Gold has begun to realize that the search for her estranged sister may be more complicated than first anticipated. With...

  • Normandy Gold #5

    Normandy Gold is hot on the trail of her sister’s killer – a trail that has led all the way to the White House. She’s close – a little too close for the comfort of those responsible. While Gold has been tracking them, they hav...

  • Normandy Gold

    Written by acclaimed author Megan Abbott (You Will Know Me, TV writer on HBO’s The Deuce - created by The Wire's David Simon), and bestselling crime novelist Alison Gaylin (What Remains Of Me), with artwork by Steve Scott (Batman, X-Men Forever, JL...

  • Normandy Gold #1

    When her younger sister is found murdered in a D.C. hotel, relentless Sheriff Normandy Gold dives headfirst into the seedy world of prostitution and politics, soon discovering a twisted conspiracy that could lead right to the White House....

  • Give Me Your Hand

    A mesmerizing psychological thriller about how a secret can bind two friends together forever...or tear them apart. Kit Owens harbored only modest ambitions for herself when the mysterious Diane Fleming appeared in her high school chemistry class...

  • The Turnout

    Bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott's revelatory and mesmerizing new novel set against the hothouse of a family-run ballet studio. With their long necks and matching buns and pink tights, Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers s...



  • Beware the Woman

    An NPR Best Book of the YearBy the "master of thinly veiled secrets often kept by women who rage underneath their delicate exteriors" (Kirkus Reviews), Beware the Woman is Megan Abbott at the height of her game.Honey, I just want you to have everythi...

  • El Dorado Drive

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Turnout comes a simmering, atmospheric novel of friendship and betrayal, following a women-led pyramid scheme in suburban Detroit."Abbott is a superstar of the suspense genre." -- NPRAll I want is to...

Award-Winning Books by Megan Abbott

The Fever
2015 Thriller Award -- Novel
The Little Men
2016 Anthony Award -- Short Story
2016 Macavity Award -- Short Story
Queenpin
2008 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Paperback Original


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Megan Abbott has published 21 books.

The next book by Megan Abbott, El Dorado Drive, will be published in July 2025.

The first book by Megan Abbott, The Street Was Mine, was published in November 2002.

No. Megan Abbott does not write books in series.
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