Susan McBride

Susan McBride is a USA Today Best-selling writer who is best known for the novels, Blue Blood and Debutante Dropout Mystery series, which won the Lefty Award and was nominated for an Antony Award. She is also known for her other works such as Too Pretty to Die, Night of the Living Deb and the Lone Star. Susan McBride also has another bestselling series, the River Road mystery book series that was released in the year, 2015 and was published by Harper Collins.

The best place to start is the Debutante Dropout series, the earliest of Susan McBride's multi-book series: it opens with Blue Blood (2004) and runs to 6 books across 2004–2015, ending with Say Yes to the Death (2015). Susan McBride's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Susan McBride has 22 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1999 and 2018. 17 of them belong to 5 named series — the largest being the Debutante Dropout series with 6 books — and 5 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. Susan McBride's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Maggie Ryan (1999–2001, 2 books), Debutante Dropout (2004–2015, 6 books) and The Debs (2008–2010, 3 books), plus 2 more.

This guide splits Susan McBride's 22 books into 5 named series and 5 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Debutante Dropout (6 books, 2004–2015); River Road (4 books, 2014–2017); The Debs (3 books, 2008–2010); Detective Jo Larsen (2 books, 2016–2018); Maggie Ryan (2 books, 1999–2001).