Carolyn Haines

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  • Bibliography:
    59 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1993
  • Latest Book:
    May 2025
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Full Series List in Order

The Jexville Chronicles

1 - Summer of the Redeemers (Jun-1994)
2 - Tocada (Apr-2023)
3 - Judas Burning (Oct-2005)

Pluto's Snitch

1 - The Book of Beloved (Aug-2016)
2 - The House of Memory (Jul-2017)
3 - The Specter of Seduction (Nov-2017)
4 - A Visitation of Angels (Oct-2019)

A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery

1 - Them Bones (Nov-1999)
2 - Buried Bones (Oct-2000)
3 - Splintered Bones (Feb-2002)
4 - Crossed Bones (Apr-2003)
5 - Hallowed Bones (Mar-2004)
6 - Bones to Pick (Jul-2006)
7 - Ham Bones (Jul-2007)
8 - Wishbones (Jul-2008)
9 - Greedy Bones (Jul-2009)
10 - Bone Appetit (Jul-2010)
11 - Bones of a Feather (Jul-2011)
12 - Bonefire of the Vanities (Jun-2012)
13 - Smarty Bones (May-2013)
13.5 - Shorty Bones (Apr-2014)
14 - Booty Bones (May-2014)
14.5 - Bones on the Bayou (Dec-2014)
15 - Bone to Be Wild (May-2015)
15.5 - Jingle Bones (Oct-2015)
16 - Rock-A-Bye Bones (May-2016)
16.5 - Guru Bones (Mar-2017)
17 - Sticks and Bones (May-2017)
18 - Charmed Bones (May-2018)
18.5 - Clacking Bones (Sep-2018)
19 - A Gift of Bones (Oct-2018)
20 - Game of Bones (May-2019)
20.5 - Enchanted Bones (Jun-2020)
21 - The Devil's Bones (Jul-2020)
22 - A Garland of Bones (Oct-2020)
23 - Independent Bones (May-2021)
24 - Lady of Bones (Jun-2022)
25 - Bones of Holly (Oct-2022)
26 - Tell-Tale Bones (May-2023)
27 - Lights, Camera, Bones (May-2024)
28 - Blue Christmas Bones (Oct-2024)
29 - Doggone Bones (May-2025)

Multi-Author Series List

Familiar Legacy

A Box Full of Trouble (Jun-2018)
1 - Familiar Trouble (Jul-2017)
9 - Bone-a-fied Trouble (Mar-2019)
13 - Trouble Restored (Jul-2021)

Book List in Order: 59 titles

  • Summer of Fear

    Returning to the East Coast, riding instructor Connor Tremaine marries Clay Sumner, a charismatic politician who may not be telling all he knows about his first wife's death....

  • Summer of the Redeemers

    The Jexville Chronicles - 1

    The security and comfort of life on Kali Oka Road in rural Mississippi is altered forever with the arrival of the Blood of the Redeemers Church and the mysterious Nadine Andrews. Bekkah Rich, a headstrong and impulsive 13-year-old with a passion for ...

  • Touched

    The Deep South never gets any deeper than 1920s Jexville, Mississippi, of Carolyn Haines' novel Touched. Dirt poor Mattie is the arranged bride of the town's barber Elikah, who is prone to deliver vicious beatings to his young wife. When a little gir...

  • Them Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 1

    Meet Sarah Booth Delaney... an unconventional southern belle whose knack for uncovering the truth is about to make her the hottest detective in Zinnia, Mississippi ... if it doesn't make her the deadest. No self-respecting lady would allow hersel...

  • Buried Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 2

    Private investigation isn't on the list of a southern belle's most desirable accomplishments--but it's saved Sarah Booth Delaney's Delta homestead. Now all she has to cope with is its bossy antebellum ghost who is determined to save Sarah--from spins...

  • Splintered Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 3

    She may be a Mississippi belle, but Sarah Booth Delaney is no pampered daddy's girl. Unwed and over thirty, Sarah has her own set of problems--like coping with regular hauntings by her great-great-grandmother's nanny, a busybody of a ghost who's set ...

  • Crossed Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 4

    Sarah Booth Delaney is no ordinary P.I. A born-and-bred Mississippi belle, she struggles to hold on to her family's plantation and keeps up a running conversation with the ghost of her great-great-grandmother's nanny, a busybody who decks herself out...

  • Hallowed Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 5

    A CASE OF MIRACLES, MAYHEM, AND MURDER Doreen Mallory is beautiful, mysterious -- and claims to have the gift of healing. But why couldn't she save her own daughter, who died mysteriously at ten weeks? Convinced of Doreen's guilt, local law is askin...

  • Judas Burning

    The Jexville Chronicles - 3

    Dixon Sinclair arrives in Jexville, Mississippi, the town of her forebears, to find solace, stop drinking, and rebuild her life after her father's murder. As the new publisher of the weekly newspaper and a second-generation journalist, she's determin...



  • Penumbra

    Jade Dupree is a beautician and an undertaker's assistant with a gift for smoothing the ravages of death from the faces of her clientele. But her strange talent isn't the only thing that sets her apart from the townspeople of tiny Drexel, Mississippi...

  • Bones to Pick

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 6

    Wickedly witty and full of more dirt than a debutante's diary, the mysteries of Carolyn Haines bring the southern Delta to roaring, rollicking life... Intrepid P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney has been known to single- handedly save her family's Mississip...

  • Fever Moon

    With Penumbra, Carolyn Haines branched out from the cozy Southern mysteries that made her name and into more serious territory. With her next literary crime novel, she moves to 1944 New Iberia, Louisiana, where Henri Bastion, a wealthy plantation own...

  • Ham Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 7

    Carolyn Haines's Southern Belle mysteries kick sleuthing up a notch with Sarah Booth Delaney, the sassiest heroine this side of the Mississippi... Displaced from its New Orleans venue, a red-hot touring production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is openi...

  • Revenant

    When a decades-old mass grave near a notorious Biloxi nightclub is unearthed, reporter Carson Lynch is among the first on the scene. The remains of five women lie within, each one buried with a bridal veil--and without her ring finger. Onc...

  • The Wish

    in Many Bloody Returns

    Includes an original Sookie Stackhouse story

    "Clever...entertaining... excellent"(Library Journal) original vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, and more.

    From cakes to stakes, a celebration of everyone's ...

  • Wishbones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 8

    Carolyn Haines's delightful Southern series heads out west when Sarah Booth Delaney lands a lead in a sultry Hollywood film and an even hotter mystery. It's time for Sarah Booth to pack up her hound dog and her P. . business and take a shot at stard...

  • Greedy Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 9

    Hollywood actress Sarah Booth Delaney returns to her Southern hometown to perform some serious sleuthing in this often hilarious, occasionally steamy, and always charming novel from Carolyn Haines. Sarah is no stranger to drama. So when this talente...

  • Bone Appetit

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 10

    In the midst of a cook-off at a posh spa, southern PI Sarah Booth Delaney gets embroiled in a juicy murder in the latest mystery from Carolyn Haines For many years Jitty, Dahlia House's resident ghost, has dreamed that Sarah Booth Delaney would have ...

  • Delta Blues



  • Bones of a Feather

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 11

    When PI Sarah Booth Delaney and her partner and best friend, Tinkie, take on Monica and Eleanor Levert as clients, they don’t have much hope of solving the case. The wealthy heiresses of Briarcliff in Natchez, Mississippi, claim that a family neckl...

  • Skin Dancer

    In the deep quiet of the South Dakota wilderness, a killer is on the loose. The victims are poachers and professional hunters. Their skinned and beheaded corpses are left hanging upside down. Rookie Criss County Deputy Rachel Redmond, a young woman w...

  • Shop Talk

    Shop Talk is a madcap adventure that explores sibling rivalry, romantic love, the passion of a group of desperate writers, the dark designs of the CIA, alien DNA, beefalos, Nazis, and spontaneous combustion - all in the coastal town of Biloxi, Mis...

  • Bonefire of the Vanities

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 12

    Despite the wishes of her overprotective fiancé, Sarah Booth Delaney can’t give up her detective work, no matter how dangerous it becomes. It’s too much a part of her. On this case, avoiding danger might be impossible -- she’s on the trail of ...

  • Deception

    Riding instructor Connor Tremaine returns to her home ground in Mobile, Alabama and ends up married to Clay Sumner, a charismatic politician. On the surface, this is an ideal life, but Connor discovers that things are not as they appear in Clay's wor...

  • Smarty Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 13

    Professor Olive Twist has come to Zinnia, Mississippi to study a mysterious grave wherein lies the Lady in Red, a perfectly preserved and stunningly beautiful but unnamed and unclaimed body. Olive claims she can not only identify the corpse, she can ...

  • The Seeker

    A young graduate student travels to Walden Pond expecting to find inspiration in the quiet solitude but instead finds something eerie and malevolent living deliberately in Thoreau's woods. When graduate student Aine Cahill uncovers a journal prov...

  • Shorty Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 13.5

    From award-winning author Carolyn Haines comes a charming story starring feisty Southern belle and private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney. Sarah Booth just wants to help her fiancé recover from a leg wound in peace...Until, that is, an ex-porn ...

  • Booty Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 14

    Sarah Booth Delaney’s fiancé, Graf Milieu, has become depressed while recovering from a severe leg injury, but Sarah Booth knows just how to help him heal. She’s arranged a romantic getaway for the two of them at a lovely beach cottage on Dauphi...

  • Bones on the Bayou

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 14.5

    Christmas is six days away -- and Sarah Booth Delaney has her hands full! To honor a group of international investors, Shaw, Mississippi, resurrects the old custom of drifting miniature, lighted Christmas floats down Silver Bayou. The Italian deleg...



  • The Hanged Man

  • Bone to Be Wild

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 15

    Sarah Booth Delaney is heartbroken: her fiancé Graf Milieu has decided to move to Hollywood permanently, leaving their relationship in shambles. Sarah Booth has a perfect distraction, however, in the form of the Black and Orange Halloween ball her b...

  • Jingle Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 15.5

    Jingle Bones, an e-original Christmas story featuring Mississippi PI Sarah Booth Delaney, offers all the Southern charm and zany adventure Carolyn Haines's fans have come to expect--and more.Sarah Booth just wants the perfect Christmas holiday. E...

  • Rock-A-Bye Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 16

    Sarah Booth Delaney knows the perfect way to begin recovering from both the recent attack on Scott Hampton’s blues club and her broken heart. She’s going to host a Thanksgiving feast for all of her friends at her ancestral home in Zinnia, Mississ...

  • The Book of Beloved

    Pluto's Snitch - 1

    As a young woman widowed by World War I, Raissa James is no stranger to ghosts. But when an invitation arrives from Caoin House, her uncle’s estate in Mobile, Alabama, she’s finally ready to cast off the shadows of her past. And what better way t...

  • Guru Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 16.5

    In GURU BONES, beloved author Carolyn Haines returns to Zinnia, Mississippi, in a short mystery that will delight fans and new readers alike. Southern-belle-turned-PI Sarah Booth Delaney is unenthusiastic at best when her friends rope her into attend...

  • Sticks and Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 17

    Private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney and her friends are celebrating New Year’s Eve at the party of the year, a smashing Winter Garden party at the Prince Albert Hotel. It’s a dazzling success … until Frangelica “Sister” McFee walks thr...

  • Familiar Trouble

    Familiar Legacy - 1

    BLOOD IS THICKER... Sometimes a unique talent is inherited -- and such is the case for Trouble, son of Familiar the black cat detective. Trouble’s rather indolent life in the sleepy town of Wetumpka, Alabama is upended when a serial killer arrives...

  • The House of Memory

    Pluto's Snitch - 2

    Raissa James not only sees the dead but she’s caught the ears of the living -- especially now that she’s solved her first case. Word of Pluto’s Snitch, her private-investigation agency specializing in the occult, has spread far and wide. It’s...

  • The Specter of Seduction

    Pluto's Snitch - 3

    Waverley Mansion, a unique and lovely antebellum home in northeast Mississippi, offers the most dangerous challenge yet to Raissa James and her partner in the Pluto’s Snitch private detective agency. They specialize in hauntings, possessions, and t...



  • The Trouble with Cupid

    Fun-sized bites of Trouble, Cat Detective! All proceeds from the sale of The Trouble with Cupid will be donated to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary.  The famous black cat detective from Wetumpka, Alabama is at it again in this collection of sometim...

  • Charmed Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 18

    Zinnia, Mississippi is rife with quirky characters, but the arrival of three sister witches―and their intention to open a Wiccan boarding school―sets the small town on its ear. And bodies begin to accumulate as a result. Faith, Hope, and Charity ...

  • Clacking Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 18.5

    EVEN THE DEAD WANT REVENGE! Cliburn Plantation is a ruin. Cursed by a voodoo priestess because of the cruelty of Ezekiel Cliburn, it’s home to the ghosts of Haitian mourners, slaves, river pirates, and tragedy. When Jitty, the resident ghost of Da...

  • A Gift of Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 19

    Christmas comes to Zinnia, Mississippi―Sarah Booth Delaney must solve a case as the holiday approaches, in this new cozy mystery from Carolyn Haines. Christmas is just around the corner and Sarah Booth and Tinkie are preparing for a festive holi...

  • Bone-a-fied Trouble

    Familiar Legacy - 9

    CATS, COTTON, AND…MURDER --

    The worlds of Sarah Booth Delaney’s Zinnia, Mississippi and Trouble, the black cat detective, collide in this fast-paced tale of high stakes cotton research, abduction, and murder.

    Trouble, the Sherlo...

  • Game of Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 20

    The next charming mystery from Carolyn Haines featuring spunky southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney. Dr. Frank Hafner is an archeologist working on excavating a new-found Native American temple site in the Mississippi Delta. He's ...

  • The Darkling

    Berta and Bob Henderson have plenty of love for their children -- and enough even for a foster child. When Annie, a young amnesiac found wandering the streets of a nearby city, comes into their home, bad things begin to happen.

    Mimi Bosarge,...

  • A Visitation of Angels

    Pluto's Snitch - 4

    *100% of all proceeds will be donated to Good Fortune Farm Refuge which will help animals receive medical treatment and loving homes.

    Elizabeth Maslow is an educated woman living in the isolated town of 1920’s Mission, Alabama. She’s def...

  • Enchanted Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 20.5

    In Carolyn Haines's Enchanted Bones, PI Sarah Booth Delaney comes to the rescue in a short mystery set in Zinnia, Mississippi, that will delight fans and new readers alike.A lost little girl is just about the last thing Private Investigator Sarah Boo...

  • The Devil's Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 21

    In Carolyn Haines' The Devil's Bones, spunky southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney tackles a thorny murder while away on a girls' weekend. Sarah Booth and Cece are in Lucedale, Mississippi, where the newly-pregnant Tinkie i...



  • A Garland of Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 22

    Spunky southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney tackles solving a string of strange accidents in the midst of celebrating the holiday season, in Carolyn Haines's cozy A Garland of Bones Sarah Booth is all set for Christmas. She's ...

  • Independent Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 23

    Carolyn Haines's Independent Bones is the next novel in the series that Kirkus Reviews characterizes as “Stephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” featuring sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney.When Dr. Alala Diakos, a visitin...

  • Trouble Restored

    Familiar Legacy - 13

    WHO HAUNTS LOFTUS MANOR?For Tommie Sykes inheriting Loftus Manor in Wetumpka, Alabama, is both a blessing and a curse. The beautiful old estate holds potential as an inn, and the legend that it's haunted may be a boon. But the whispers that it's curs...

  • Lady of Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 24

    Carolyn Haines's Lady of Bones is the next novel in the series that Kirkus Reviews characterizes as “Stephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” featuring sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney.It’s Halloween season in Mississip...

  • Bones of Holly

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 25

    Bones of Holly is the next novel from Carolyn Haines in the series that Kirkus Reviews characterizes as “Stephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” featuring sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney.Sarah Booth and Tinkie, along wi...

  • Tocada

    The Jexville Chronicles - 2

    Conflicts in a small Southern town bubble to the surface in this tale of repression and prophecy, the second book in The Jexville Chronicles trilogy. Sixteen-year-old Mattie comes to Mississippi in the summer of 1926 as a mail-order bride and finds a...

  • Tell-Tale Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 26

    Carolyn Haines's Tell-Tale Bones marks the next novel in the series that Kirkus Reviews characterizes as “Stephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” featuring sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney.Private Investigator Sarah Boot...

  • Lights, Camera, Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 27

    The latest novel in the series that Kirkus Reviews characterizes as “Stephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” featuring sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney.Delaney Detective Agency gets a taste of the spotlight when they are...

  • Blue Christmas Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 28

    Blue Christmas Bones is the next Christmas mystery in the series that Kirkus Reviews characterizes as “Stephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood,” featuring sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney.Sarah Booth Delaney and her frien...

  • Doggone Bones

    A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - 29

    The latest novel in the series that Kirkus Reviews characterizes as “Stephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” featuring sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney.After a dog belonging to local pet activist Tilly Lawson is snatched...

Award-Winning Books by Carolyn Haines

Bone Appetit
2010 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Amateur Sleuth


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Carolyn Haines has published 59 books.

The next book by Carolyn Haines, Doggone Bones, will be published in May 2025.

The first book by Carolyn Haines, Summer of Fear, was published in August 1993.

Yes. Carolyn Haines has 3 series.
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