Susan Meissner

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2004
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Rachel Flynn Mystery

1 - Widows and Orphans (Oct-2006)
2 - Sticks and Stones (Jan-2007)
3 - Days and Hours (Sep-2007)

Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • A Window To The World

    Here is the dramatic story of two young girls, Megan and Jen, who meet in first grade and quickly become inseparable friends.

    Inseparable, that is, until one of them is snatched away by kidnappers as the other young girl watches helplessly....

  • Why the Sky Is Blue

    What options does a Christian woman have after she’s brutally assaulted by a stranger...and becomes pregnant? That’s the heartrending situation Claire Holland faces. Happily married and the mother of two when she is attacked, Claire begins an ...

  • The Remedy for Regret

    Tess Longren is 28, single, and at a crossroads in her life.  She finally has a job she enjoys as well as a proposal of marriage from a man she loves, but Tess can’t seem to grasp a future filled with promise and hope.  Her mother’s long ago...

  • In All Deep Places

    Susan Meissner explores what God does in the deep places of the human spirit in this story about an acclaimed mystery writer Luke Foxbourne, who lives a happy life in a centuryâ€"old manor house in Connecticut. But when his father, Jack, has a str...

  • A Seahorse in the Thames

    In this new novel by critically acclaimed author Susan Meissner, readers will again applaud the storytelling efforts that last year resulted in the author’s previous book, A Window to the World, being named by Booklist Magazine as one of the top...

  • Widows and Orphans

    A Rachel Flynn Mystery - 1

    Widows and Orphans is the debut novel in the new Rachael Flynn mystery series by critically acclaimed author, Susan Meissner.  The perfect new series for readers who enjoy CBA authors Dee Henderson, Angela Hunt, and Brandilyn Collins.

    When...

  • Sticks and Stones

    A Rachel Flynn Mystery - 2

    Critically acclaimed author Susan Meissner's Rachael Flynn mystery series started with the popular Widows and Orphans. In the second serving of intrigue, Sticks and Stones, lawyer Rachael Flynn receives an unsigned, heart-stopping letter:

    T...

  • Days and Hours

    A Rachel Flynn Mystery - 3

    Readers of suspense fiction will once again be enthralled with the latest entry in the compelling series featuring attorney Rachael Flynn and her continuing cast of intriguing characters. A newborn is found alive in a trash bin and a young, single...

  • Blue Heart Blessed

    In this moving new novel by critically acclaimed author Susan Meissner, readers will once again delight in the masterful storytelling that resulted in the author’s A Window to the World (2005) being named among the top ten Christian novels of th...



  • The Shape of Mercy

    "We understand what we want to understand." Leaving a life of privilege to strike out on her own, Lauren Durough breaks with convention and her family's expectations by choosing a state college over Stanford and earning her own income over accepti...

  • White Picket Fences

    When her black sheep brother disappears, Amanda Janvier eagerly takes in her sixteen year-old niece Tally. The girl is practically an orphan: motherless, and living with a father who raises Tally wherever he lands -- in a Buick, a pizza joint, a hor...

  • Lady in Waiting

    Love is a choice you make every day. Content in her comfortable marriage of twenty-two years, Jane Lindsay had never expected to watch her husband, rad, pack his belongings and walk out the door of their Manhattan home. But when it happens, she fe...

  • A Sound Among the Trees

    A house shrouded in time. A line of women with a heritage of loss. As a young bride, Susannah Page was rumored to be a Civil War spy for the North, a traitor to her Virginian roots. Her great-granddaughter Adelaide, the current matriarch of Holly...

  • The Girl in the Glass

    Renaissance is a word with hope infused in every letter. Since she was a child, Meg has dreamed of taking a promised trip to Florence, Italy, and being able to finally step into the place captured in a picture at her grandmother’s house. But af...

  • A Fall of Marigolds

    A beautiful scarf, passed down through the generations, connects two women who learn that the weight of the world is made bearable by the love we give away.... September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood cannot face retur...

  • Secrets of a Charmed Life

    The author of A Fall of Marigolds journeys from the present day to World War II England, as two sisters are separated by the chaos of wartime ... "She stood at a crossroads, half-aware that her choice would send her down a path from which there co...

  • Stars Over Sunset Boulevard

    In this new novel from the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life, two women working in Hollywood during its Golden Age discover the joy and heartbreak of true friendship. Los Angeles, Present Day. When an iconic hat worn by Scarlett O’Ha...

  • A Bridge Across the Ocean

    Wartime intrigue spans the lives of three women past and present in the latest novel from the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life. February, 1946. World War Two is over, but the recovery from the most intimate of its horrors has only jus...

  • As Bright as Heaven

    From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and A Bridge Across the Ocean comes a new novel set in Philadelphia during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, which tells the story of a family reborn through loss and love. In 1918, Philadelph...



  • The Last Year of the War

    A novel about a German American teenager whose life changes forever when her immigrant family is sent to an internment camp during World War II. Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in 1943--aware of the war but distanced from its rea...

  • The Nature of Fragile Things

    April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate ...

  • Only the Beautiful

    A Best Historical Fiction of Spring Pick by Amazon, PopSugar, AARP, and BookBub! A heartrending story about a young mother’s fight to keep her daughter, and the terrible injustice that tears them apart, by the USA Today bestselling author of The Na...

  • To Mimi's House We Go

    Join bestselling author Susan Meissner and other Mimis in this Christmas-season poem inspired by the traditional holiday traveling song Over the River and Through the Woods. Modern families find their way to grandmother's house using a variety of veh...

  • A Map to Paradise

    1956, Malibu, California: Something is not right on Paradise Circle.With her name on the Hollywood blacklist and her life on hold, starlet Melanie Cole has little choice in company. There is her next-door neighbor, Elwood, but the screenwriter’s ag...

Award-Winning Books by Susan Meissner

The Girl in the Glass
2013 San Diego Book Award -- Young Adult Fiction
The Shape of Mercy
2009 Carol Award -- Women's Fiction
2009 Christian Book Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Susan Meissner has published 24 books.

The next book by Susan Meissner, A Map to Paradise, will be published in March 2025.

The first book by Susan Meissner, A Window To The World, was published in January 2004.

Yes. Susan Meissner has 1 series.
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