Cece Laramie Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Pretty Dolls and Hand Grenades | 2016 | Buy |
| Last Doll Standing | 2016 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Sweet Water | 2021 | Buy |
| Into the Sound | 2021 | Buy |
| The Den | 2022 | Buy |
| The Wife at the Window | 2024 | Buy |
| The Clinic | 2024 | Buy |
| Never Come Back | 2025 | Buy |
Cara Reinard grew up in a steel mill town north of Pittsburgh and holds an MFA in writing from Lindenwood University. She has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for over two decades while building a parallel career as a thriller writer. Most of her novels are set in western Pennsylvania — Sewickley, Fox Chapel, and other Pittsburgh-area communities.
She debuted with the Cece Laramie series in 2016, a pair of darkly comic suspense novels about a scorned housewife’s revenge schemes. Her 2021 novel Sweet Water marked a shift to more serious domestic thrillers and became an Amazon bestseller. The book follows a couple who discover their son near his girlfriend’s dead body and agree to a cover-up orchestrated by the husband’s wealthy family.
Reinard has continued writing at a steady pace, with novels like The Den (2022), about siblings turning on each other over their father’s estate, and The Clinic (2024), which Kirkus compared to Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train. Her work returns again and again to affluent settings that hide dysfunction, mothers pushed to extremes, and the question of how far ordinary people will go when their families are threatened.