Order of Maggie MacGowen Books
Maggie MacGowen is the protagonist in a series of mystery novels by American novelist Wendy Hornsby. Maggie MacGowen is a documentary filmmaker/amateur sleuth based in Los Angeles, California.
Wendy Hornsby began her Maggie MacGowen series in 1992 with the novel Telling Lies. The series is currently ongoing. Below is a list of Wendy Hornsby’s Maggie MacGowen books in order of when they were originally published (which is the same as their chronological order):
Publication Order of A Maggie MacGowen Mystery Books
| Telling Lies | (1992) |    |
| Midnight Baby | (1993) | |
| Bad Intent | (1994) | |
| 77th Street Requiem | (1995) | |
| A Hard Light | (1997) | |
| In the Guise of Mercy | (2009) | |
| The Paramour's Daughter | (2010) | |
| The Hanging | (2012) | |
| The Color of Light | (2014) | |
| Disturbing the Dark | (2016) | |
| Number 7, Rue Jacob | (2018) | |
| A Bouquet of Rue | (2019) | |
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Maggie MacGowen Synopses: Telling Lies by Wendy Hornsby is the first book in the Maggie MacGowen series. When her medical crusading sister, Emily, is mysteriously shot to death in a Los Angeles alley and the evidence shows that the shooting was not random, Maggie MacGowen must piece together the murder piece by piece. The trail leads to Emily’s past as a radical decades earlier.
Midnight Baby is the second Maggie MacGowen novel from Wendy Hornsby. Maggie MacGowen’s investigation into the murder of a young prostitute takes her from the mean streets of Los Angeles to a posh suburb.
In Bad Intent by Wendy Hornsby (book 3 of the series), Maggie MacGowen looks into the set up of three police officers by a politician.