Julie Smith

Julie Smith is one of the popular novelists from America who likes to write her novels based on the young adult, paranormal, and mystery genres. Till now, she has successfully written a total of 20 mystery books and a few short stories. Author Smith has received the Edgar Award in the category of the Best Novel in the year 1991 for her 6th novel titled 'New Orleans Mourning'.

The best place to start is the Rebecca Schwartz series, the earliest of Julie Smith's multi-book series: it opens with Death Turns a Trick (1982) and runs to 7 books across 1982–2014, ending with Cul-de-Sac (2014). Julie Smith's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Julie Smith has 159 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1982 and 2025. 146 of them belong to 6 named series — the largest being the Skip Langdon series with 11 books — and 13 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Julie Smith's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Rebecca Schwartz (1982–2014, 7 books), Paul MacDonald (1985–1987, 2 books) and Skip Langdon (1989–2019, 11 books), plus 2 more.

This guide splits Julie Smith's 159 books into 6 named series and 13 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Skip Langdon (11 books, 1989–2019); Rebecca Schwartz (7 books, 1982–2014); Talba Wallis (4 books, 2001–2005); Paul MacDonald (2 books, 1985–1987); Talba Wallis Short Stories/Novellas (1 book, 2014), plus 1 further series.