Nancy Allen

For Nancy, there’s magic in storytelling. She comes from a family of storytellers, her siblings and parents could hold her spellbound, recounting the ordinary in such a special way. As a writer, she tries carrying on this tradition, taking stories from the spoken tradition and setting them down onto paper.

The best place to start is the Ozarks Mysteries series, the earliest of Nancy Allen's multi-book series: it opens with The Code of the Hills (2014) and runs to 4 books across 2014–2018, ending with A Wolf in the Woods (2018).

Nancy Allen has 10 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2014 and 2026. 8 of them belong to 3 named series — the largest being the Ozarks Mysteries series with 4 books — and 2 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. Nancy Allen's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Ozarks Mysteries (2014–2018, 4 books), Ruby Bozarth (2018–2021, 2 books) and Anonymous Justice (2022–2023, 2 books).

This guide splits Nancy Allen's 10 books into 3 named series and 2 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Ozarks Mysteries (4 books, 2014–2018); Anonymous Justice (2 books, 2022–2023); Ruby Bozarth (2 books, 2018–2021).