Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Making of June | 2002 | Buy |
| Beautiful Bad | 2019 | Buy |
| The Lying Club | 2022 | Buy |
Annie Ward is a fiction author with three standalone novels spread across two decades. Her debut, The Making of June, appeared in 2002, followed by a long gap before Beautiful Bad arrived in 2019. The Lying Club came three years later in 2022. That kind of spacing, with seventeen years between the first and second books, is unusual and suggests either a significant career break or a shift in direction between the debut and her later work.
The titles Beautiful Bad and The Lying Club point toward darker, suspense-driven fiction, which is a common trajectory for authors who find their footing in psychological thrillers after an earlier literary novel. With only three books to her name, Ward’s catalog is small but her recent output has been more consistent, and readers who enjoy domestic suspense may want to start with the later two novels.