Kate Sweeney

Kate Sweeney is an accomplished American novelist, renowned for her unique style of fiction. She has made a significant impact in the literary world with her distinctive writing, which has captivated a diverse international audience. Sweeney's work is characterized by her engaging humor and gentle wit, which has become a trademark of her storytelling.

Born in Chicago, Sweeney currently resides in Villa Park, Illinois, where she works as an office manager to support her writing career. Her journey as a writer began with the successful Kate Ryan Mystery series, for which she received the Golden Crown Literary Society award for Debut Author in 2007 for the first book, She Waits. The series has gained considerable recognition, with the second book, A Nice Clean Murder, being nominated for the Lambda Literary Society award for Lesbian Mystery and the GCLS award in the Mystery category. Sweeney's talent extends to other genres, as evidenced by her novel Away from the Dawn, which was nominated for the GCLS award for Speculative Fiction.

In addition to her mystery series, Sweeney has written over fifteen romance novels and the Goldie Award-winning Moon/Dawn vampire series for Intaglio Publications. She is a prolific writer who balances her time between her creative pursuits and her work with Intaglio. Sweeney's love for travel is a source of inspiration for her writing, and she welcomes communication from her readers at her email or through the Intaglio website, www.intagliopub.com.
Dawn Books
# Title Year
1 Away From the Dawn 2007
2 Survive the Dawn 2009
3 Before the Dawn 2011
Jessica and Cliff Books
# Title Year
1 Lilac Time 2017
2 Autumn Waltz 2017
Kate Ryan Mysteries Books
# Title Year
1 She Waits 2006
2 A Nice Clean Murder 2006
3 The Trouble with Murder 2008
4 Who'll Be Dead For Christmas? 2009
5 Of Course It's Murder 2010
6 What Happened in Malinmore 2011
7 A Near Myth Murder 2012
8 It's Not Always Murder 2012
9 Recalculated Murder 2013
10 Dead in the Water 2015
11 Married to Mayhem 2015
12 It's Murder, Dude 2017
13 Stranger Than Murder 2018
Moon Books
# Title Year
1 Residual Moon 2008
2 Liar's Moon 2010
Winds of Heaven Books
# Title Year
1 Winds of Heaven 2009
2 Moonbeams And Skye 2013
Standalone Novels
# Title Year
1 The O'Malley Legacy 2008
2 Sea of Grass 2010
3 Paradise 2011
4 Love At Last 2011
5 Someday I'll Find You 2012
6 Moon Through The Magnolia 2012
7 Love in E Flat 2012
8 One Night In Paris 2013
9 I Love You Again 2013
10 Buoyed out on the Foam of the Sea 2014
11 Build Me A Dream 2014
12 Mistress of Peacock Walk 2014
13 Who Wouldn't Love Me? 2014
14 Crosse My Heart 2015
15 The Right Window 2015
16 Miles to Go 2016
17 Evelyn's Whimsy 2016
18 The Ladies on Carrick Road 2018
19 The Best Things in Life 2019
20 Rose's Thorne 2019
Short Stories/Novellas
# Title Year
1 Stone Walls 2012
2 Second Time Around 2012
3 Inamorata 2013
4 The Hypotenuse of Love 2014
Collections
# Title Year
1 Tales for the Holidays 2012