A. E. Howe books

Baron Blasko Mysteries Reading Order

Larry Macklin Mysteries Reading Order

Mortician Murder Mystery Reading Order

Standalone Novels

A. E. Howe is a prolific mystery writer with 35 books published between 2014 and 2025. The bulk of that output comes from the Larry Macklin Mysteries, a long-running series of 24 books that started with November’s Past in 2016 and has kept a steady pace ever since. The titles follow a calendar-themed naming pattern, cycling through months, seasons, days of the week, and holidays, which gives the series an identity that readers can spot on a shelf immediately.

Beyond Larry Macklin, Howe writes the Baron Blasko Mysteries, a five-book series that began in 2018 with Fangs and leans into darker, more atmospheric territory with titles like Claws and Tentacles. The Mortician Murder Mystery series adds another four books to the catalog, each built around death-related themes. A couple of standalone novels round things out, including the earlier Broken State from 2014, which was Howe’s debut.

What stands out about Howe’s bibliography is the consistency. Across more than a decade of writing, there have been very few gaps between releases, and the Larry Macklin series alone has averaged roughly three books per year during its most productive stretches. For readers who like to settle into a long mystery series with plenty of entries to work through, Howe’s catalog has a lot to offer.