Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Down These Green Streets |
2011 |
Buy |
Burren Mysteries Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| My Lady Judge |
2007 |
Buy |
| A Secret and Unlawful Killing |
2008 |
N/A |
| Michaelmas Tribute / A Secret and Unlawful Killing |
2008 |
Buy |
| The Sting of Justice |
2009 |
Buy |
| Writ in Stone |
2009 |
Buy |
| Eye of the Law |
2010 |
Buy |
| Scales of Retribution |
2011 |
Buy |
| Deed of Murder |
2011 |
Buy |
| Laws in Conflict |
2012 |
Buy |
| Chain of Evidence |
2013 |
Buy |
| Cross of Vengeance |
2013 |
Buy |
| Verdict of the Court |
2014 |
Buy |
| Verdict of the Court: A Mystery Set in Sixteenth-Century Ireland |
2014 |
N/A |
| Condemned to Death |
2015 |
Buy |
| A Fatal Inheritance |
2016 |
Buy |
| An Unjust Judge |
2017 |
Buy |
Chimps#
| Title |
Published |
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| Two Mad Dogs |
2003 |
Buy |
Debutantes Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
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| Debutantes |
2012 |
Buy |
| Lorna |
2008 |
N/A |
| Debutantes in Love |
2013 |
Buy |
Drumshee Chronicles Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
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| Murder Strikes Again |
2004 |
Buy |
| Treachery at Midnight |
2004 |
Buy |
| Doomed to Die |
2005 |
Buy |
| A Life for a Life |
2005 |
Buy |
| Titanic Voyage from Drumshee |
1999 |
N/A |
Drumshee Timeline Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
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| Nuala and Her Secret Wolf |
1997 |
Buy |
| The Secret of the Seven Crosses |
1997 |
Buy |
| The Secret of Drumshee Castle |
1998 |
Buy |
| The Secret of 1798 |
1998 |
Buy |
| Famine Secret at Drumshee |
1998 |
Buy |
| Titanic Voyage from Drumshee |
1999 |
Buy |
| Millennium at Drumshee |
1999 |
Buy |
| The Drumshee Rebels |
1999 |
Buy |
| The Viking at Drumshee |
2001 |
Buy |
| Murder at Drumshee |
2002 |
Buy |
| World War II Rescue at Drumshee |
2002 |
Buy |
| Dark Days at Drumshee |
2003 |
Buy |
| Secret Spy from Drumshee |
2003 |
Buy |
Gaslight Mysteries Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
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| Season of Darkness |
2019 |
Buy |
| Winter of Despair |
2019 |
Buy |
| Summer of Secrets |
2021 |
Buy |
| Spring of Hope |
2022 |
Buy |
| Murder in the Mist |
2023 |
Buy |
Hugh Mac Egan Mysteries Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| My Lady Judge |
2007 |
N/A |
| The Cardinal’s Court |
2018 |
Buy |
| A Secret and Unlawful Killing |
2008 |
N/A |
| Verdict of the Court: A Mystery Set in Sixteenth-Century Ireland |
2014 |
N/A |
Jane Austen Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
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| I Was Jane Austen’s Best Friend |
2010 |
Buy |
| Jane Austen Stole My Boyfriend |
2011 |
Buy |
London Murder Mysteries Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| My Lady Judge |
2007 |
N/A |
| The Montgomery Murder |
2010 |
Buy |
| A Secret and Unlawful Killing |
2008 |
N/A |
| The Deadly Fire |
2010 |
Buy |
| Murder on Stage |
2010 |
Buy |
| Death of a Chimney Sweep |
2011 |
Buy |
| The Body in the Fog |
2012 |
Buy |
| Death in the Devil’s Den |
2012 |
Buy |
| Verdict of the Court: A Mystery Set in Sixteenth-Century Ireland |
2014 |
N/A |
Non-Fiction#
| Title |
Published |
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| Timeline 2001 Yearbook |
2000 |
Buy |
Picture Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
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| The Fed-up Vacuum Cleaner |
2002 |
Buy |
| General Field Mouse |
2002 |
Buy |
| I Want a Dog |
2002 |
Buy |
| The Wizard of the Woods |
2002 |
Buy |
Reverend Mother Mystery Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| A Shameful Murder |
2015 |
Buy |
| A Shocking Assassination |
2016 |
Buy |
| A Shocking Assassination: A Reverend Mother Mystery Set in 1920s’ Ireland |
2016 |
N/A |
| Beyond Absolution |
2017 |
Buy |
| A Gruesome Discovery |
2018 |
Buy |
| Death of a Novice |
2018 |
Buy |
| Murder at the Queen’s Old Castle |
2019 |
Buy |
| Death of a Prominent Citizen |
2020 |
Buy |
| Murder in an Orchard Cemetery |
2021 |
Buy |
| Murder in the Cathedral |
2022 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Gorgeous |
2004 |
Buy |
Willowgrove Village Mysteries#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| False Accusations |
2018 |
Buy |
Wolfcub Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
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| That Boy Cadman |
2001 |
Buy |
| Wolf in the Midnight Forest |
2003 |
Buy |
| Wolf and the Frozen Mist |
2003 |
Buy |
Cora Harrison has written across crime fiction and children’s literature throughout her career, with Irish settings a constant. The Burren Mysteries, begun with My Lady Judge (2007), drew on her knowledge of Brehon law to create a detective whose authority derived from a distinctly Irish institution. Mara, the series protagonist, investigates murders within a tightly defined geographic and social world, and Harrison develops both the landscape of the Burren and the legal framework around her across sixteen novels.
The Reverend Mother Mystery series took a different historical angle: 1920s Cork, a Dominican convent, and an elderly nun who finds herself repeatedly in proximity to violent death. The setting during and after the Irish War of Independence gives the series a political texture absent from the Burren books, with the struggle for Irish statehood running in the background.
Outside her adult mystery series, Harrison wrote extensively for children, including the Drumshee Timeline historical series tracing centuries of Irish history through a single County Clare archaeological site, the Gaslight Mysteries featuring Dickens and Collins as Victorian detectives, and the London Murder Mysteries children’s series set in 1858 Victorian London.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Cora Harrison written?
Cora Harrison has written 79 books across sixteen series.
What was Cora Harrison's first book?
Cora Harrison’s first book is Nuala and Her Secret Wolf, published in 1997.
What makes the Burren Mysteries historically distinctive?
The Burren Mysteries are set in sixteenth-century Ireland under the Brehon laws, the ancient Irish legal system that operated independently of English common law in Gaelic territories until the seventeenth century. Mara, the Brehon judge of the Burren region of County Clare, has the authority to investigate crimes and deliver judgment under this system. Harrison uses the setting to explore a pre-colonization Irish society with its own legal and social structures, giving the series a historical specificity different from most medieval crime fiction set in England or continental Europe.