Patricia Hall

Author and journalist Maureen O'Connor was born in the year 1957, and uses the pen name Patricia Hall to publish her novels. She was raised in West Yorkshire, where she was also born. Hall sets her acclaimed series starring reporter Laura Ackroyd and DCI Michael Thackeray here.

The best place to start is the Raggedy Ann and Andy series, the earliest of Patricia Hall's multi-book series: it opens with Raggedy Ann Stories (1918) and runs to 15 books across 1918–2008, ending with Love, Raggedy Ann (2008). Patricia Hall's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Patricia Hall has 210 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1918 and 2024. 206 of them belong to 6 named series — the largest being the American Association for State and Local History series with 84 books — and 4 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. Patricia Hall's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Raggedy Ann and Andy (1918–2008, 15 books), Ready-to-Read Level 2 (1975–2024, 66 books) and American Association for State and Local History (1991–2022, 84 books), plus 3 more.

This guide splits Patricia Hall's 210 books into 6 named series and 4 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: American Association for State and Local History (84 books, 1991–2022); Ready-to-Read Level 2 (66 books, 1975–2024); Ready-to-Read Level 3 (18 books, 1991–2021); Ackroyd and Thackeray (16 books, 1993–2011); Raggedy Ann and Andy (15 books, 1918–2008), plus 1 further series.