Katherine Bolger Hyde books

Crime With The Classics Reading Order

Picture Reading Order

Standalone Novels

Katherine Bolger Hyde writes primarily in the crime fiction genre, and her Crime With The Classics series is the centerpiece of her catalog. That six-book series pairs literary allusions with murder mysteries, running alphabetically from Arsenic with Austen (2016) through Hanging with Hugo (2024). Each title references a classic author, and the alliterative naming convention gives the series a distinctive identity. The books arrived at a pace of roughly one every year or two.

Her other work is more varied. The Picture series includes a children’s book (Lucia: Saint of Light, 2009) and a picture book from 2018, making it her earliest published work. She also has four standalones that range from The Dome-Singer of Falenda (2016), which appears to be fantasy or speculative fiction, to more recent titles like After He’s Gone (2023) and Gina Washington Slept Here (2024). Across twelve books and fifteen years, Hyde has kept the crime series going while experimenting with other forms on the side.