Cathy Elliott books

Cathy Elliott is an American author of cozy mysteries and inspirational fiction, known for the Thea James Mystery series and her contributions to the Annie's Attic Mysteries and Quilts of Love multi-author series.

Annie’s Attic Mysteries Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Lady in the Attic 2010 Buy
Medals In The Attic 2010 Buy
The Photo Album 2010 Buy
Letters in the Attic 2010 Buy
The Package 2010 Buy
The Map In The Attic 2010 Buy
Rag Doll In The Attic 2011 Buy
Boxed in 2011 Buy
The Deed in the Attic 2011 Buy
Emeralds in the Attic 2011 Buy
The Wedding Dress 2011 Buy
The Valise in the Attic 2011 Buy
The Unfinished Sonata 2011 Buy
A Man of His Word 2012 Buy
The Key in the Attic 2012 Buy
Road Trip! 2012 Buy
The Stolen Canvas 2012 Buy
The Tapestry in the Attic 2012 Buy
Gunns & Roses 2012 Buy
The Legend of Fuller’s Island 2012 Buy
A Stony Point Christmas 2012 Buy
A Spicy Secret 2012 Buy
The Cats & the Riddle 2012 Buy
Jazzed 2013 Buy
The Diary in the Attic 2013 Buy
Angels in the Attic 2013 Buy
Wild Things 2013 Buy
The Kennel Caper 2013 Buy
The Legacy in the Attic 2013 Buy
The Ring in the Attic 2013 Buy

Interventions Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Critical Theorists and International Relations 2009 Buy
Ethics As Foreign Policy: Britain, The EU and the Other 2009 Buy
Universality, Ethics and International Relations: A Grammatical Reading 2009 Buy
The Time of the City: Politics, philosophy and genre 2010 Buy
Governing Sustainable Development: Partnerships, Protests and Power at the World Summit 2010 Buy
International Relations and Non-Western Thought: Imperialism, Colonialism and Investigations of Global Modernity 2010 Buy
Insuring Security: Biopolitics, security and risk 2010 Buy
Foucault and International Relations: New Critical Engagements 2010 Buy
Autobiographical International Relations: I, IR 2010 Buy
Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos 2011 Buy
Madness in International Relations: Psychology, Security, and the Global Governance of Mental Health 2011 Buy
Politics of Urbanism: Seeing Like a City 2011 Buy
War, Identity and the Liberal State: Everyday Experiences of the Geopolitical in the Armed Forces 2011 Buy
The Politics of Speed: Capitalism, the State and War in an Accelerating World 2011 Buy
Politics of the Event: Time, Movement, Becoming 2011 Buy
Indian Foreign Policy: The Politics of Postcolonial Identity from 1947 to 2004 2011 Buy
International Relations, Meaning and Mimesis 2012 Buy
The New Violent Cartography: Geo-Analysis after the Aesthetic Turn 2012 Buy
Studies in Trans-Disciplinary Method: After the Aesthetic Turn 2012 Buy
Re-Thinking International Relations Theory via Deconstruction 2012 Buy
Europe’s Encounter with Islam: The Secular and the Postsecular 2012 Buy
Theorizing Post-Conflict Reconciliation: Agonism, Restitution & Repair 2012 Buy
Insuring War: Sovereignty, Security and Risk 2012 Buy
War and Rape: Law, Memory and Justice 2012 Buy
Foucault & the Politics of Hearing 2012 Buy
Cosmopolitan Government in Europe: Citizens and Entrepreneurs in Postnational Politics 2012 Buy
Volunteer Tourism in the Global South: Giving Back in Neoliberal Times 2012 Buy
Deconstructing International Politics 2012 Buy
Production of Postcolonial India and Pakistan: Meanings of Partition 2012 Buy
Celebrity Humanitarianism: The Ideology of Global Charity 2012 Buy
Postcolonial Theory and International Relations: A Critical Introduction 2012 Buy
Feminist International Relations: ‘Exquisite Corpse’ 2012 Buy
Post-Tsunami Reconstruction in Indonesia: Negotiating Normativity through Gender Mainstreaming Initiatives in Aceh 2012 Buy
Deleuze & Fascism: Security: War: Aesthetics 2013 Buy
Leo Strauss and the Invasion of Iraq: Encountering the Abyss 2013 Buy
Postcolonial Encounters in International Relations: The Politics of Transgression in the Maghreb 2013 Buy
Ontology and World Politics: Void Universalism I 2013 Buy
Globalization, Difference, and Human Security 2013 Buy
Memory and Trauma in International Relations: Theories, Cases and Debates 2013 Buy
Critical Environmental Politics 2013 Buy
Alternative Accountabilities in Global Politics: The Scars of Violence 2013 Buy
The Persistence of Nationalism: From Imagined Communities to Urban Encounters 2013 Buy
Interpretive Approaches to Global Climate Governance: constructing the Greenhouse 2013 Buy
Studying the Agency of Being Governed 2013 Buy
On Schmitt and Space 2013 Buy
Writing Global Trade Governance: Discourse and the WTO 2013 Buy
Theory of the Political Subject: Void Universalism II 2013 Buy
Visual Politics and North Korea: Seeing is Believing 2013 Buy
Politics of Violence: Militancy, International Politics, Killing in the name 2013 Buy
International Politics and Performance: Critical Aesthetics and Creative Practice 2013 Buy
Imagining World Politics: Sihar & Shenya, A Fable for Our Times 2014 Buy
Democracy Promotion: A Critical Introduction 2014 Buy
The Politics of Haunting and Memory in International Relations 2014 Buy
European-East Asian Borders in Translation 2014 Buy
Politics in Emotion: The Song of Telangana 2014 Buy
International Intervention in a Secular Age: Re-Enchanting Humanity? 2014 Buy
Negotiating Corruption: NGOs, Governance and Hybridity in West Africa 2014 Buy
Time, Temporality and Violence in International Relations: fatalizing the Present, Forging Radical Alternatives 2014 Buy
Race and Racism in International Relations: Confronting the Global Colour Line 2014 Buy
The Grammar of Politics and Performance 2014 Buy
Political Aesthetics: Culture, Critique and the Everyday 2014 Buy
The Value of Resilience: Securing life in the twenty-first century 2014 Buy
Genre and the Communist Woman: Analyzing Transformations of the Central and Eastern European Female Ideal 2014 Buy
The Anarchist Imagination: Anarchism Encounters the Humanities and the Social Sciences 2014 Buy
Ruling the Margins: Colonial Power and Administrative Rule in the Past and Present 2014 Buy
Re-Imagining North Korea in International Politics: Problems and alternatives 2014 Buy
War, Police and Assemblages of Intervention 2014 Buy
Insuring Life: Value, Security and Risk 2015 Buy
Empire Within: International Hierarchy and its Imperial Laboratories of Governance 2015 Buy
Face Politics 2015 Buy
Sexualities in World Politics: How LGBTQ claims shape International Relations 2015 Buy
Emotions, Politics and War 2015 Buy
Jacques Lacan: Between Psychoanalysis and Politics 2015 Buy
Politics and Suicide: The philosophy of political self-destruction 2015 Buy
Walzer, Just War and Iraq: Ethics as Response 2015 Buy
Late Modern Palestine: The subject and representation of the second intifada 2015 Buy
The Biopolitics of Lifestyle: Foucault, Ethics and Healthy Choices 2015 Buy
On the Greek Origins of Biopolitics: A Reinterpretation of the History of Biopower 2016 Buy
Narrative Global Politics: Theory, History and the Personal in International Relations 2016 Buy
The Global Making of Policing: Postcolonial Perspectives 2016 Buy
Critical Imaginations in International Relations 2016 Buy
Lacan, Deleuze and World Politics: Rethinking the Ontology of the Political Subject 2016 Buy
Researching War: Feminist Methods, Ethics and Politics 2016 Buy
The Politics of Evasion: A Post-Globalization Dialogue Along the Edge of the State 2016 Buy
China’s International Relations and Harmonious World: Time, Space and Multiplicity in World Politics 2016 Buy
Asylum Seekers, Sovereignty, and the Senses of the International: A Politico-corporeal Struggle 2016 Buy
Europe Anti-Power: Ressentiment and Exceptionalism in EU Debate 2016 Buy
Cultural Politics of Targeted Killing: On Drones, Counter-Insurgency, and Violence 2016 Buy
Disorienting Democracy: Politics of emancipation 2016 Buy
Security Without Weapons: Rethinking violence, nonviolent action, and civilian protection 2016 Buy
Refugees in Extended Exile: Living on the Edge 2016 Buy
Global Powers of Horror: Security, Politics, and the Body in Pieces 2016 Buy
East-Asian Marxisms and Their Trajectories 2017 Buy
The Evolution of Migration Management in the Global North 2017 Buy
Neo Delhi and the Politics of Postcolonial Urbanism 2017 Buy
The Political Afterlife of Sites of Monumental Destruction: Reconstructing Affect in Mostar and New York 2017 Buy
Reforming 21st Century Peacekeeping Operations: Governmentalities of Security, Protection, and Police 2017 Buy
Military Intervention in the Middle East and North Africa: The Case of NATO in Libya 2017 Buy
Biopolitical Disaster 2017 Buy
Politics of Visibility and Belonging: From Russia´s “Homosexual Propaganda” Laws to the Ukraine War 2017 Buy
The Emancipatory Project of Posthumanism 2017 Buy
Democracy Promotion as Foreign Policy: Temporal Othering in International Relations 2017 Buy
The Emergence of Brazil to the Global Stage: Ascending and Falling in the International Order of Competition 2018 Buy
Writing the Self and Transforming Knowledge in International Relations: Towards a Politics of Liminality 2018 Buy
Sexual Violence Against Men in Global Politics 2018 Buy
Acting Like a State: Kosovo and the Everyday Making of Statehood 2018 Buy
On the Persistence of the Japanese History Problem: Historicism and the International Politics of History 2018 Buy
Ontological Entanglements, Agency and Ethics in International Relations: Exploring the Crossroads 2018 Buy
Migrant Resistance in Contemporary Europe 2018 Buy
Political Silence: Meanings, Functions and Ambiguity 2018 Buy
Foucault, Biopolitics and Resistance 2018 Buy
Irregular Citizenship, Immigration, and Deportation 2018 Buy
EU Democracy Promotion and Governmentality: Turkey and Beyond 2019 Buy
Autonomy of Migration?: Appropriating Mobility within Biometric Border Regimes 2019 Buy
Methodology and Emotion in International Relations: Parsing the Passions 2019 Buy
Colonial Citizenship and Everyday Transnationalism: An Immigrant’s Story 2019 Buy
Necrogeopolitics: On Death and Death-Making in International Relations 2019 Buy
Critical Methods for the Study of World Politics: Creativity and Transformation 2019 Buy
Cultures of Violence: Visual Arts and Political Violence 2020 Buy
Nation-branding in Practice: The Politics of Promoting Sports, Cities and Universities in Kazakhstan and Qatar 2020 Buy
A New Political Imagination: Making the Case 2020 Buy
Humanitarianism, Human Rights, and Security: The Case of Frontex 2020 Buy
Affective Heritage and the Politics of Memory after 9/11: Curating Trauma at the Memorial Museum 2021 Buy
Rethinking the Body in Global Politics: Bodies, Body Politics, and the Body Politic in a Time of Pandemic 2021 Buy
State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary 2021 Buy
The War on Terror and the Normalisation of Urban Security 2021 Buy
The EU, Hamas and the 2006 Palestinian Elections 2021 Buy
Disappearances and Police Killings in Contemporary Brazil: The Politics of Life and Death 2021 Buy
The International Organization for Migration in North Africa: Making International Migration Management 2021 Buy
Violence, Discourse, and Politics in China’s Uyghur Region: The Terroristization of Xinjiang 2022 Buy

Quilts of Love Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Beyond the Storm 2012 Buy
A Wild Goose Chase Christmas 2012 Buy
Path of Freedom 2013 Buy
For Love of Eli 2013 Buy
Threads of Hope 2013 Buy
A Healing Heart 2013 Buy
A Heartbeat Away 2013 Buy
Pieces of the Heart 2013 Buy
Pattern for Romance 2013 Buy
Raw Edges 2013 Buy
The Christmas Quilt 2013 Buy
Aloha Rose 2013 Buy
Tempest’s Course 2013 Buy
Hidden in the Stars 2013 Buy
Scraps of Evidence 2014 Buy
A Sky Without Stars 2014 Buy
Maybelle in Stitches 2014 Buy
A Promise in Pieces 2014 Buy
A Stitch and a Prayer 2014 Buy
Rival Hearts 2014 Buy
A Grand Design 2014 Buy
Quilted by Christmas 2014 Buy
Swept Away 2014 Buy
Masterpiece Marriage 2014 Buy
A Stitch in Crime 2015 Buy

Thea James Mystery

Title Published Buy on Amazon
A Vase of Mistaken Identity 2006 Buy

Cathy Elliott is an American author who writes cozy mysteries and Christian-inspired fiction. Her first published novel was A Vase of Mistaken Identity (2006), a cozy mystery featuring antique appraiser Thea James. She went on to contribute to two multi-author series published by faith-based publishers: Annie’s Attic Mysteries from Annie’s Fiction/Guideposts, and Quilts of Love from Abingdon Press.

Elliott is also credited in the Routledge academic series Interventions, a line of scholarly books on international relations, political theory, and global governance. That series, which includes over 130 volumes published between 2009 and 2022, is an academic imprint rather than fiction. Her primary work as a novelist is in the cozy mystery and inspirational fiction space, where her books are aimed at readers who enjoy clean, faith-friendly stories with puzzle-based plots.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books has Cathy Elliott written?

Cathy Elliott has written 186 books across four series.

What was Cathy Elliott's first book?

Cathy Elliott’s first book is A Vase of Mistaken Identity, published in 2006.

What types of books does Cathy Elliott write?

Cathy Elliott writes cozy mysteries and inspirational fiction. Her solo work includes A Vase of Mistaken Identity (2006), the first book in the Thea James Mystery series. She also contributed to two multi-author series: Annie’s Attic Mysteries, published by Annie’s Fiction/Guideposts, and Quilts of Love, an Abingdon Press inspirational fiction line where each book centers around a quilt. She is also listed as an editor in the Routledge academic series Interventions, which covers international relations and political theory.

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