Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
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| Natural Suspect |
2001 |
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| High Stakes |
2003 |
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| The Blue Religion |
2008 |
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April Woo Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
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| Burning Time |
1993 |
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| Hanging Time |
1995 |
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| Loving Time |
1996 |
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| Judging Time |
1998 |
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| Stealing Time |
1999 |
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| Tracking Time |
2000 |
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| The Silent Bride |
2002 |
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| A Killing Gift |
2003 |
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| A Clean Kill |
2005 |
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Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
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| Getting Away With It |
1976 |
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| Modern Love |
1983 |
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| To Do No Harm |
1992 |
Buy |
| Over His Dead Body |
2003 |
Buy |
| For Love and Money |
2004 |
Buy |
| Sleeper |
2010 |
Buy |
Leslie Glass built her career across several genres before finding her biggest audience with the April Woo mystery series. Her earliest novels, including Getting Away With It (1976) and Modern Love (1983), were contemporary fiction, but she shifted toward suspense with To Do No Harm in 1992. That book’s medical thriller premise showed her growing interest in crime writing, and a year later she introduced the character who would define her bibliography.
The April Woo novels, which ran from 1993 to 2005, follow a Chinese-American detective in the NYPD as she works homicide cases across Manhattan. Glass wrote nine books in the series, and each one layers April’s professional challenges with the expectations of her immigrant mother and the complications of her romantic life. Outside the Woo series, Glass contributed to several multi-author anthologies and continued writing standalone fiction, with her most recent novel Sleeper arriving in 2010.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Leslie Glass written?
Leslie Glass has written eighteen books across three series.
What was Leslie Glass's first book?
Leslie Glass’s first book is Getting Away With It, published in 1976.
What makes the April Woo series different from other police procedural novels?
The April Woo series stands out because its protagonist is a Chinese-American NYPD detective who deals with the pressures of her traditional family while solving crimes in New York City. Leslie Glass draws on real cultural tensions between generations of Chinese-American families, and April’s personal life is as richly developed as the cases she investigates.