Maeve Conlon is a single mother, bar owner, and the central character of Maggie Barbieri’s three-book mystery series. She lives in a small town in Westchester County, north of New York City, where she runs her establishment and raises her daughters. To most people in town, she is exactly what she appears to be: a hardworking widow doing her best.
What makes Maeve unusual as a mystery protagonist is what lies beneath that ordinary surface. She has a capacity for deception and even violence that most characters in her genre do not. Across the trilogy, starting with Once Upon a Lie, Barbieri reveals the lengths Maeve will go to when the people she loves are threatened.
Reading Order
See the complete Maeve Conlon reading order for all books in the series.