Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To Slip the Bonds of Earth | 2024 | Amanda Flower | Buy |
| 2 | Not They Who Soar | 2025 | Amanda Flower | Buy |
Amanda Flower’s Katharine Wright Mysteries feature Katharine Wright, the lesser-known sister of aviation pioneers Orville and Wilbur Wright, as an amateur detective. To Slip the Bonds of Earth (2024) and Not They Who Soar (2025) make up the series so far.
The historical setting lets Flower place Katharine in the middle of early twentieth-century America, where her famous brothers’ work draws attention and trouble. Katharine was a teacher and later managed much of the Wright Brothers’ business correspondence, which gives her a believable reason to be involved in investigations. Flower has a long track record with cozy mysteries, including the Amish Candy Shop series and the Magic Garden series.
Readers who enjoy historical cozies with real people reimagined as fictional detectives will find this series appealing. The titles take their names from the poem “High Flight,” fitting the aviation connection to the Wright family.