The Well Bookshop
Series · espionage thriller

Kate Moore

by Chris Pavone

The Kate Moore series by Chris Pavone has 2 known books (2 published). It is best read in publication order, starting with The Expats (2012). The Paris Diversion is the latest book with a fully recorded publication date.

Books
2 known books (2 novels)
Published
2
First published
2012
Status
completed
Shelved under
Thriller
Start here: The Expats (2012) — then read straight through in publication order.
Book one
Cover of The Expats
The Expats (2012)

Reading order

The date order of published books and any announced future entries — the default way to read the series.

  1. The Expats

    Novel
    The Expats, published in March 2012, is Chris Pavone's debut novel and the first Kate Moore book, running 336 pages and winning the Edgar Award as it follows a former CIA operative who has told her husband Dexter she left banking, not intelligence, after the family relocates to Luxembourg for his job.
    View book

  2. The Paris Diversion

    Novel
    The Paris Diversion followed seven years later, in May 2019, at a longer 384 pages, picking up Kate and Dexter's story years afterward and assuming readers already know how The Expats' central deception played out.
    View book

Key facts about the Kate Moore series

Our list has 2 books in the Kate Moore series. Since all 2 are out now, you can read the whole list today.

Start with The Expats, since it opens the publication order in 2012. The Paris Diversion is book 2, from 2019.

The list keeps the books in date order, while each title links to its own page. Each book page shows its dates and editions.

The Paris Diversion is the latest book with a full release date, out on 7 May 2019. Since the catalogue marks the series as complete, we list no next book.

The books came out between 2012 and 2019, while their length runs from 336 to 384 pages. That is a run of 7 years.

Chris Pavone has 6 books on our list. This is the only series by them we track, while the author page lists the rest. We shelve the books under espionage thriller.

About the Kate Moore series

Chris Pavone's debut, The Expats (2012), introduces Kate Moore, a former CIA operative who has told her husband Dexter she left a career in banking, not intelligence, when the family relocates to Luxembourg for his new job -- until she realizes Dexter is hiding a past of his own, and a couple who move into her small expat social circle turn out to be watching her. The novel won the Edgar Award and Anthony Award for Best First Novel and became a New York Times bestseller. The Paris Diversion (2019) picks the family up seven years later, relocated again to Paris, where Kate now runs a secret intelligence network of her own -- and the entire novel unfolds across a single tense twelve hours as a hostage crisis, a bomb threat, and a market-manipulation scheme all converge on the city at once.

Pavone, a longtime book editor before turning to fiction, built the series around the domestic texture of expatriate life -- the dinner parties, school runs, and social performances of Americans abroad -- as camouflage for a genuine espionage plot underneath, a structural trick he'd continue refining in his standalone novels.

Frequently asked questions

How many books feature Kate Moore?

Two: The Expats (2012) and The Paris Diversion (2019).

Did The Expats win any awards?

Yes -- it won both the Edgar Award and the Anthony Award for Best First Novel in 2013.

Do Pavone's other novels connect to this series?

No -- his other four novels (The Accident, The Travelers, Two Nights in Lisbon, The Doorman) are all standalones with different characters and settings.

Last updated

All series