Murder, She Wrote Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| By the Time You Read This I’ll Be Gone | 2022 | Buy |
| Carry My Secret to Your Grave | 2023 | Buy |
| The Dead Will Never Haunt Me | 2024 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Charm & Strange | 2013 | Buy |
| Complicit | 2014 | Buy |
| Delicate Monsters | 2015 | Buy |
| The Smaller Evil | 2016 | Buy |
| When I Am Through with You | 2017 | Buy |
| We Weren’t Looking to Be Found | 2022 | Buy |
Stephanie Kuehn writes young adult fiction that leans into uncomfortable truths about teenage life. Her standalone novels, starting with the Morris Award-winning Charm & Strange in 2013, deal with topics like trauma, manipulation, and moral ambiguity. Books like Complicit and Delicate Monsters put flawed, sometimes unlikable characters at center stage, which sets her work apart from a lot of YA fiction.
Her more recent Murder, She Wrote series takes a different approach. These mysteries, beginning with By the Time You Read This I’ll Be Gone in 2022, are page-turners built around a boarding school setting and a teen detective. The series shows Kuehn’s range as a writer who can move between heavy literary fiction and accessible mystery storytelling.