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Kathryn Reiss

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Massachusetts, The United States

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Young Adult, Children's, Mystery

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Kathryn Reiss was born in Massachusetts, grew up in Ohio, and received B.A. degrees in English and German from Duke University, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan. After college, she lived in Bonn, Germany as a Fulbright Scholar, and during this time wrote the first draft of her first novel, Time Windows.

Ms. Reiss is an award -winning author of 20 novels for kids and teens. She has been a Writer in Residence for the Princeton Arts Council, a recipient of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant for Writers, and has been a featured speaker with (among others) Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, The Northern California Library Association, ...more

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Average rating: 4.02 · 11,115 ratings · 1,079 reviews · 26 distinct works • Similar authors

	Time Windows 4.15 avg rating — 2,040 ratings — published 1991 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dreadful Sorry (Time Travel Mystery, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 1,960 ratings — published 1993 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sweet Miss Honeywell's Revenge 4.17 avg rating — 970 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	PaperQuake: A Puzzle (Time Travel Mystery, #4) 3.94 avg rating — 941 ratings — published 1998 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Riddle of the Prairie Bride (American Girl History Mysteries, #12) 3.87 avg rating — 684 ratings — published 2001 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tangled Web: A Julie Mystery 3.97 avg rating — 551 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Strange Case of Baby H (American Girl History Mysteries, #18) 3.90 avg rating — 560 ratings — published 2002 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blackthorn Winter 3.88 avg rating — 516 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paint by Magic (Time Travel Mystery, #2) 3.92 avg rating — 499 ratings — published 2002 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Puzzle of the Paper Daughter: A Julie Mystery 4.14 avg rating — 445 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Murder at Heatherstone Hall

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It's been a long journey with this one... and I can't tell you how thrilled I am that it's out and available to my readers at last. I even just like looking at it on my coffee table! (It isn't true that publishing ever gets to be old hat; I'm as thrilled by my 19th novel as I was by my very 1st...) I appreciate your ordering my new novel, MURDER AT HEATHERSTONE HALL! You are the grea Read more of this blog post »

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Series by Kathryn Reiss

Time Travel Mystery (4 books)
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American Girl Julie Mysteries (5 books)
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Juliana Mysteries (2 books)
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3.90 avg rating — 540 ratings

Ghost in the Dollhouse (3 books)
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3.75 avg rating — 110 ratings

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“But what are facts, really, except things we’ve already proven? There could be lots of almost-facts out there, still waiting for proof.”
― Kathryn Reiss, Intruders at Rivermead Manor: A Kit Mystery

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