Maz Evans Standalone Novels books in order

Maz Evans Standalone Novels collects her books that sit outside her main series, including the comedy Over My Dead Body, the illustrated The Hidden World of Magical Creatures, and the YA novel That'll Teach Her. Together they show the range of her voice beyond her series work.

Reading order

# Title Published Author Buy on Amazon
1 Over My Dead Body 2023 Maz Evans Buy
2 The Hidden World of Magical Creatures 2023 Maz Evans Buy
3 That’ll Teach Her 2025 Maz Evans Buy

Over My Dead Body (2023) is a comedy novel in which a girl named Joanna must work with the ghost of a Victorian schoolboy to solve a mystery, and it carries the quick wit and broad humour of Evans’s best series work into a self-contained story. The Hidden World of Magical Creatures is an illustrated reference-style book cataloguing fictional creatures, sitting closer to her picture book output than her chapter novels.

That’ll Teach Her (2025) marks a shift toward older readers, tackling themes more suited to a secondary school audience and showing Evans willing to move beyond the 8-12 age bracket she built her career on. The standalone format gives her room to experiment with different tones and formats, and this small collection reflects that variety. Readers who have finished all her series work will find fresh material here rather than more of the same.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books are in the Maz Evans Standalone Novels series?

There are three books in the Maz Evans Standalone Novels series, published between 2023 and 2025.

What is the first book in the Maz Evans Standalone Novels series?

The first book in the Maz Evans Standalone Novels series is Over My Dead Body, published in 2023.

Are these standalone novels aimed at the same age group as her series books?

Not all of them. Over My Dead Body and The Hidden World of Magical Creatures are aimed at middle-grade readers, while That’ll Teach Her (2025) is a young adult novel for older teen readers. It is worth checking the target age for each book individually before buying.

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