Order of Rhys Bowen Books
Rhys Bowen is the pen name of English author Janet Quin-Harkin. Under the Rhys Bowen pen name, she writes mystery novels. Under her real name, she started out her career writing young adult romance, adult romance and children’s books. She made the switch to adult mysteries in 1997. Today, she writes the Constable Evan Evans, Molly Murphy and Royal Spyness mystery series.
Janet Quin-Harkin became a published author in 1982 with the novel Love Match. She stopped writing under her real name in 1999. Her debut as Rhys Bowen came with Evans Above in 1997. Below is a list of Rhys Bowen’s books in order of when they were first published:
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Publication Order of Constable Evans Books
Evans Above | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Evan Help Us | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Evanly Choirs | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Evan and Elle | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Evan Can Wait | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Evans to Betsy | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Evan Only Knows | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Evan's Gate | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Evan Blessed | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Evanly Bodies | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Friends Books
(as Janet Quin-Harkin)
Starring Tess and Ali | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Boy Trouble for Tess and Ali | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Tess and Ali and the Teeny Bikini | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Tess and Ali, Going on Fifteen | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Full House: Club Stephanie Books
(as Janet Quin-Harkin)
Flamingo Revenge | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Fun, Sun, and Flamingoes | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Heartbreak Cafe Books
(as Janet Quin-Harkin)
No Experience Required | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Just Desserts | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Main Attraction | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Catch of the Day | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
At Your Service | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Love to Go | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Her Royal Spyness Books
Publication Order of Love Stories Books
(with Elizabeth Craft, Katherine Applegate, Kieran Scott)
Sharing Sam | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Boy Next Door | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Who Do You Love? | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
What We Did Last Summer | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Trust Me | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Kiss and Tell | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
While You Were Gone | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Torn Apart | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
How Do I Tell? | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Justin & Nicole | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Jake & Christy | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Molly Murphy Books
(with Clare Broyles)
Publication Order of NBC Great Escapes Books
(as Janet Quin-Harkin)
The Secrets of Lake Success | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Trade Winds | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of On Our Own Books
(as Janet Quin-Harkin)
The Graduates | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Trouble with Toni | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Out of Love | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Old Friends, New Friends | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Growing Pains | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Best Friends Forever | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Senior Year Books
(as Janet Quin-Harkin)
Homecoming Dance | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
New Year's Eve | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Night of the Prom | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Graduation Day | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Sister, Sister Books
(as Janet Quin-Harkin)
Cool in School | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
You Read My Mind | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
One Crazy Christmas | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Homegirl on the Range | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
He's All That | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Summer Daze | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Star Quality | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
All Rapped Up | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Sugar and Spice Books
(as Janet Quin-Harkin)
Publication Order of TGIF Books
(as Janet Quin-Harkin)
Sleepover Madness | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Four's a Crowd | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Forever Friday | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Toe-Shoe Trouble | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Secret Valentine | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Boyfriend Club Books
(as Janet Quin-Harkin)
Ginger's First Kiss | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Roni's Dream Boy | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Karen's Perfect Match | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Queen Justine | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Ginger's New Crush | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Roni's Two-Boy Trouble | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
No More Boys | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Karen's Lessons in Love | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Roni's Sweet Fifteen | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Justine's Baby-Sitting Nightmare | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Boyfriend Wars | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Dear Karen | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Red Dragon Academy Books
(with C.M. Broyles)
Dreamwalker | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of True Love Books
(as Janet Quin-Harkin)
Kiss and Lie | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Secrets | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Seal of the Confessional | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Doppelganger | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Voodoo | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Please Watch Your Step | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Picture Books
Peter Penny's Dance | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Benjamin's Balloon | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Septimus Bean and His Amazing Machine | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Magic Growing Powder | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Helpful Hattie | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Billy and Ben | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Tgif! Books
(as Janet Quin-Harkin)
Friday Night Fright | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Cozy Case Files Mystery Sampler Books
Cozy Case Files Volume 1 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Cozy Case Files Volume 2 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Cozy Case Files Volume 3 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Cozy Case Files Volume 4 | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Cozy Case Files Volume 5 | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Cozy Case Files Volume 6 | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Cozy Case Files Volume 7 | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Cozy Case Files Volume 8 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Cozy Case Files Volume 9 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Cozy Case Files Volume 10 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Cozy Case Files Volume 11 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Cozy Case Files Volume 12 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Cozy Case Files Volume 13 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Cozy Case Files Volume 14 | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Cozy Case Files Volume 15 | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Cozy Case Files Volume 16 | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Cozy Case Files Volume 17 | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Cozy Case Files, Volume 18 | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Cozy Case Files, Volume 19 | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Cozy Case Files, Volume 20 | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Anthology series.If author is listed on a book then this author wrote a story within that book. |
Publication Order of Caroline Canfield Mysteries Books
(with Various, Joyce Christmas, Rochelle Krich, G. Miki Hayden, Terence Faherty, Kate Charles, Margaret Frazer, Dianne Day, Serita Stevens, Jacqueline Fiedler, Tom Kreitzberg)
Tiger's Palette | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Sketches with Wolves | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Sweet Dreams Books
Publication Order of Anthologies
Unholy Orders | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Blood on Their Hands | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 5 | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
A Merry Band of Murderers | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Sherlock Holmes: The American Years | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Mysterious Writers: The Many Facets of Mystery Writing | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Malice Domestic 11 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Silent Night, Deadly Night | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Private Investigations: Mystery Writers on the Secrets, Riddles, and Wonders in Their Lives | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Shattering Glass | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Nothing Good Happens After Midnight | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Promophobia: Taking the Mystery Out of Promoting Crime Fiction | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Cozy Case Files Volume 17 | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Notes: All novels except for the books in her Constable Evan Evans, Molly Murphy and Royal Spyness series were written under her real name of Janet Quin-Harkin. The Red Dragon Academy series is written with C.M. Broyles.
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Dear Janet,
I have read about 6 of the Evan’s books and thoroughly enjoy them. Wales fascinates me as my wife of 58 years is Welsh. Pure she says! Her mother’s father was called Evan Evans too. She was born in Pontypridd (Home of the National Anthem) in 1943.
I am being picky here but there is an error in “Evan to Betsey”. You describe the Oxford Colleges as Built in Beautiful ‘Sandstone’. The buildings are in fct built in Limestone. Having done my degree in Geology in Oxford (’63 to’66) the colleges are built in Jurassic ‘Oolitic’ Limestone.
Your stories are superb and I love Betsey.
Take care
Erik Vahl Meyer
I just can not get enough of your books – I absolutely love them.