Evie Woods
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- Where should I start?
- The Lost Bookshop is the natural starting point. It is her most widely read work by a significant margin — over 163,000 Amazon readers have rated it — and it showcases her signature approach most fully: a mystery built around a vanished bookshop, with narratives threading across different time periods. If you enjoy it, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris offers a similar blend of setting-driven atmosphere and mystery, this time centred on Paris.
- What's their writing style?
- Evie Woods writes fiction in which a specific, evocative location — a lost bookshop, a Parisian bakery — functions almost as a character in itself, anchoring the mystery and the mood. Her stories tend to move between time periods or perspectives, using the setting as the thread that binds them. The tone is warm without being sentimental, and her books have connected with a very large general fiction readership, suggesting an accessible but not simplistic style.
- Books we've reviewed
- LuvemBooks has reviewed two Evie Woods titles. The Lost Bookshop is her standout title by readership scale — a multi-timeline mystery centred on a bookshop that has vanished from Dublin's streets, rated 4.4/5 by over 163,000 Amazon readers. The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris takes a similar atmospheric approach, relocating the mystery to Paris and a bakery at its heart, and carries an Amazon reader rating of 4.4/5 from nearly 46,000 ratings.
- How do her books compare?
- Both reviewed titles share a structural similarity: a specific, named place becomes the centre of a mystery that draws characters — and often different time periods — together. The Lost Bookshop is set largely in Dublin and has a notably larger readership footprint, while The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris shifts the setting to France. Readers who respond to one are very likely to enjoy the other, though The Lost Bookshop is the more substantial starting point by most measures.
- What genre does she write?
- Evie Woods writes general fiction, but with a consistent streak of mystery running through her work — specifically, mysteries in which a place (a bookshop, a bakery) holds secrets that characters must unravel, often across time. Her books are not crime fiction in the traditional sense; the mystery is softer and more atmospheric, sitting closer to what is sometimes called 'cosy' or literary mystery fiction.
- What should I read after The Lost Bookshop?
- If you've finished The Lost Bookshop and want to stay with Evie Woods, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris is the natural next step — it shares the same setting-as-mystery structure and atmospheric tone, transposed to Paris. Both carry a 4.4/5 Amazon reader rating, so expectations are well-matched. Beyond her own work, LuvemBooks' broader fiction reviews may surface similar titles worth exploring.
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The Lost Bookshop: The most charming by Evie Woods
4.4/5
Evie Woods's The Lost Bookshop is a genre-blending novel that weaves magical realism, historical fiction, bibliophilia, and romance across two timelines — 1920s Europe and contemporary Dublin — drawing together three distinct narrators in a mystery centred on a vanished bookshop and a possibly undiscovered Emily Brontë manuscript. Published in 2023 by One More Chapter, an imprint of HarperCollins, it topped the Wall Street Journal's weekly book list, made the Sunday Times top 10, became a bestseller on Amazon UK and US, was shortlisted for Page-Turner of the Year at the 2024 British Book Awards, and by May 2024 had surpassed one million copies sold worldwide.
Reviewed Apr 2, 2026
The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris by Evie Woods
4.4/5
Evie Woods returns with a wistful, whimsical novel blending magical realism, historical fiction, and romance, following Edith as she escapes heartache in Ireland for a mysterious bakery in Compiègne, France — only to discover that some ghosts from the past are harder to outrun than others.
Reviewed Mar 22, 2026
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