Laura Wood Books In Order

Publication Order of Effie Books

Publication Order of Poppy Pym Books

Publication Order of The Agency for Scandal Books

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Children's Books

Laura Wood is a best-selling published author.

She has won the Montegrappa Scholastic Prize in the category of New Children’s Writing in 2014.

Laura Wood is known for her Poppy Pym series as well as her Vote for Effie series and the Agency for Scandal series. She has also written several stand alone books, including A Sky Painted Gold, Under a Dancing Star, and more.

Laura attended the University of Warwick where she graduated with her PhD in the subject of 19th century literature.

Some of her novels have been nominated for awards and have made various shortlists. Her work has been shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards and the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards, as well as the YA Book Awards, the Romantic Novelist’s Association Awards, and the Books Are My Bag Awards.

Laura is married and resides with her husband and their dog in Warwickshire. She enjoys such things as romance novels, cups of tea, films featuring Fred Astaire, recipe books, poetry, cozy wool jumpers and cardigans, crisp leaves in the autumn, the cheekbones of Rufus Sewell, dogs, being adjacent to the sea, sensation fiction, scented candles, salted caramel, feminism, ginger beer, fancy cocktails, and new stationary.

The Agency for Scandal is the first novel in the Agency for Scandal series of fictional novels by Laura Wood. If you have been looking for a light mystery that keeps you turning the pages to find out what happens next, then read along.

When a detective agency made up entirely of women is operating in the 19th century’s end, they tackle a lot of cases. They also end up getting into the world of the upper class and utilizing their courage and their intelligence to help take the mask off of a villain.

Main character Isobel Stanhope is 18 years old, and she keeps a lot of secrets to herself. She knows that she has fallen all the way in love with a Duke, the same one that has no idea that she even exists out there. There is also the fact that her family doesn’t have any money to their name but they have managed to keep that information among themselves and no one in society has yet caught on.

Izzy also has a job at the Aviary. This is an investigative agency run totally by women. They specialize in looking into powerful men and being able to dig up some scandal successfully. But Izzy may get more than she bargains for when she discovers that she is being drawn into a case that involves missing jewels but also plenty of gaslighting and blackmail.

The case also involves the Duke, the same man who unknowingly is the object of all of her affection. Now she must work with her friends to try to get to the bottom of this network of lies and secrets to get to the bottom of the truth so that the innocent can be protected.

The stakes are higher than ever. Izzy is about to find out whether her crush will ever be requited, and maybe even witness it turn into something a little more. Will she find true happiness, or will she find in the end that everything is about to get so much worse than she hoped? Read this first book in Laura Wood’s series to find out for yourself!

A Season for Scandal is the second novel in the Agency for Scandal series of novels by Laura Wood. If you liked the first story of a female detective agency that uses their intelligence and courage to take on cases and get to the bottom of things, you are going to likely enjoy this story too!

Main character Marigold Bloom is disrupted when she finds out the family business is in trouble. This is all thanks to a random encounter that she has with Oliver Lockhart, the bad tempered man who nevertheless was extremely handsome.

This encounter ends up taking her to the Aviary. This is an all-female secret agency who have a specialty when it comes to looking into troublesome men and blackmailing them.

Mari is the latest recruit to join the agency. She is quickly sent out to look into the return of Oliver’s sister, who has come back after being in the long lost category for quite some time. Mari and Oliver also have to act as though they are a couple who is newly engaged.

Now it’s up to Oliver and Mari to find out whether there is an impostor among them. Can they figure out what’s going on even as the line between what’s true and what isn’t starts to blur? Will they be able to maintain their romance for show, or will acting like they are in love end up sparking those feelings in a way they never saw coming? Pick up a copy of this book to find out!