Darynda Jones

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2011
  • Latest Book:
    September 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Betwixt & Between

1 - Betwixt (Feb-2020)
2 - Bewitched (Aug-2020)
3 - Beguiled (Feb-2021)
4 - Moonlight and Magic (Oct-2022)

Charley Davidson

1 - First Grave on the Right (Feb-2011)
1.5 - For I Have Sinned (Jul-2011)
2 - Second Grave on the Left (Aug-2011)
3 - Third Grave Dead Ahead (Feb-2012)
4 - Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet (Nov-2012)
5 - Fifth Grave Past the Light (Jul-2013)
6 - Sixth Grave on the Edge (May-2014)
7 - Seventh Grave and No Body (Oct-2014)
8 - Eighth Grave After Dark (May-2015)
8.5 - Brighter Than the Sun (Oct-2015)
9 - The Dirt on Ninth Grave (Jan-2016)
10 - The Curse of Tenth Grave (Jul-2016)
11 - Eleventh Grave in Moonlight (Jan-2017)
12 - The Trouble with Twelfth Grave (Nov-2017)
13 - Summoned to Thirteenth Grave (Nov-2018)
13.5 - The Graveyard Shift (Jun-2020)
13.6 - The Gravedigger's Son (May-2021)
13.7 - The Graveside Bar and Grill (Aug-2022)
13.8 - The Grave Robber (Sep-2023)

Darklight

1 - Death and the Girl Next Door (Oct-2012)
2 - Death, Doom, and Detention (Mar-2013)
3 - Death and the Girl He Loves (Oct-2013)

Sunshine Vicram

1 - A Bad Day for Sunshine (Apr-2020)
2 - A Good Day for Chardonnay (Apr-2021)
3 - A Hard Day for a Hangover (Jan-2022)

Multi-Author Series List

1001 Dark Nights

The Graveyard Shift (Jun-2020)
The Gravedigger's Son (May-2021)
The Graveside Bar and Grill (Aug-2022)
The Grave Robber (Sep-2023)

Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • First Grave on the Right

    Charley Davidson - 1

    This whole grim reaper thing should have come with a manual. Or a diagram of some kind. A flow chart would have been nice. Charley Davidson is a part-time private investigator and full-time grim reaper. Meaning, she sees dead people. Really. And it'...

  • For I Have Sinned

    Charley Davidson - 1.5

    Darynda Jones revisits the sexy, suspenseful world of supernatural shenanigans she created in her Grave series with For I Have Sinned. In this Charley Davidson story, Charley helps a woman find out how she died and gives her the closure she needs to...

  • Second Grave on the Left

    Charley Davidson - 2

    Charley Davidson, Grim Reaper Extraordinaire, is back in this sexy, suspenseful novel of supernatural shenanigans When Charley is rudely awakened in the middle of the night by her best friend who tells her to get dressed quickly and tosses clothes...

  • Third Grave Dead Ahead

    Charley Davidson - 3

    Paranormal private eye. Grim reaper extraordinaire. Whatever. Charley Davidson is back! And she's drinking copious amounts of caffeine to stay awake because, every time she closes her eyes, she sees him: Reyes Farrow, the parthuman, part-supermodel s...

  • Death and the Girl Next Door

    Darklight - 1

    Ten years ago, Lorelei's parents disappeared without a trace. Raised by her grandparents and leaning on the support of her best friends, Lorelei is finally beginning to accept the fact that her parents are never coming home. For Lorelei, life goes ...

  • Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet

    Charley Davidson - 4

    In Darynda Jones's Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet, sometimes being the grim reaper really is that. Grim. And since Charley’s last case went so awry, she has taken a couple months off to wallow in the wonders of self-pity. But when a woman shows up on...

  • Death, Doom, and Detention

    Darklight - 2

    The normal part of Lorelei MacAlister’s life didn’t just slip away quietly the day Jared Kovach came to town. Nope. The normal part of her life shattered. It exploded. It burst into a gazillion shards of fleeting light. It went out with a ban...

  • Fifth Grave Past the Light

    Charley Davidson - 5

    Charley Davidson may not look like your everyday, run-of-the-mill grim reaper, but she has vowed to reap grimness wherever she goes despite this unfortunate fact. Sadly, she gets sidetracked when the sexy, sultry son of Satan, Reyes Farrow, moves in ...

  • Death and the Girl He Loves

    Darklight - 3

    The fate of the world is not something a girl wants on her shoulders, and that is especially true for Lorelei McAlister. Unfortunately for her, that is exactly where the world’s fate has decided to take up residence. Lorelei has seen firsthand the...



  • Sixth Grave on the Edge

    Charley Davidson - 6

    Sometimes I wrestle my demons. Sometimes we just snuggle. -- Bumper Sticker Most girls might think twice before getting engaged to someone like Reyes Farrow -- but Charley Davidson is not most girls. She’s a paranormal private eye and grim rea...

  • Seventh Grave and No Body

    Charley Davidson - 7

    Lead me not into temptation. Follow me instead! I know a shortcut! --T-shirt Twelve. Twelve of the deadliest beasts ever forged in the fires of hell have escaped onto our plane, and they want nothing more than to rip out Charley Davidson’s jug...

  • Eighth Grave After Dark

    Charley Davidson - 8

    Sometimes I wonder if the purpose of my life is to serve as a cautionary tale to others. --T-shirt Charley Davidson has enough going on without having to worry about twelve hellhounds hot on her trail. She is, after all, incredibly pregnant and f...

  • Brighter Than the Sun

    Charley Davidson - 8.5

    All his life, Reyes Alexander Farrow has suffered the torments of the damned. Only one thing has given him hope: the woman who radiates a light that no mortals can see; a light that only the departed can see...Told from his point of view, BRIGHTER ...

  • The Dirt on Ninth Grave

    Charley Davidson - 9

    I see dead people. No wait. I take that back. I see people I want dead. ―eCard Charley Davidson is living in New York City as Jane Doe, a girl with no memory of who she is or where she came from. So when she begins to realize she can see dead p...

  • The Curse of Tenth Grave

    Charley Davidson - 10

    If one door closes and another one opens, your house is probably haunted. ―Bumper Sticker As a Part-time PI and fulltime grim reaper, Charley Davidson has asked a lot of questions throughout her life: Why can I see dead people? Who is the hot ...

  • Eleventh Grave in Moonlight

    Charley Davidson - 11

    My entire life can be summed up in one sentence: “Well, that didn’t go as planned.” ―T-Shirt A typical day in the life of Charley Davidson involves cheating husbands, errant wives, missing people, philandering business owners, and, oh ...

  • The Trouble with Twelfth Grave

    Charley Davidson - 12

    Ever since Reyes Farrow escaped from a hell dimension in which Charley Davidson accidentally trapped him, the son of Satan has been brimstone-bent on destroying the world his heavenly Brother created. His volatile tendencies have put Charley in a bit...

  • Summoned to Thirteenth Grave

    Charley Davidson - 13

    Grim Reaper Charley Davidson is back in the final installment of Darynda Jones’ New York Times bestselling paranormal series! Charley Davidson, Grim Reaper extraordinaire, is pissed. She’s been kicked off the earthly plane for eternity -- wh...

  • Betwixt

    Betwixt & Between - 1

    A Paranormal Women's Fiction with a bit of class, and a lot of sass, for anyone who feels like age is just a number!Newly indoctrinated witch, and a charmling to boot, Defiance Dayne discovers there’s more to life after forty than she'd ever im...



  • Lovely Drop

    A woman who claims to do the impossible... Andrea Grace comes from a long line of women who can do the impossible: They can eavesdrop on the past. But ever since her mother's suspicious death, Andrea has led a half-life, guarding herself from ...

  • A Bad Day for Sunshine

    Sunshine Vicram - 1

    New York Times bestselling author Darynda Jones is back with the first novel in the brand-new snarky, sassy, wickedly fun Sunshine Vicram series -- A Bad Day for Sunshine!"Laugh-out-loud funny, intensely suspenseful, page-turning fun." -- New York Ti...

  • The Graveyard Shift

    Charley Davidson - 13.5
    1001 Dark Nights

    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Darynda Jones comes a new story in her Charley Davidson series...Guarding a precocious five-year-old who is half-human, half-god, and 100% destined to save the world is no easy feat.Garrett Swopes ...

  • Bewitched

    Betwixt & Between - 2

    Bewitched is book two in the Betwixt & Between series by NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Darynda Jones Forty-something Defiance Dayne only recently discovered she comes from a long line of powerful witches. Added to that shocker was the tee...

  • Beguiled

    Betwixt & Between - 3

    Newly indoctrinated witch, Defiance Dayne discovers there's more to life after forty than she'd ever imagined possible. Especially if one is a charmling, one of only three in the world, with enough magics to make her a target for every power-hungry w...

  • A Good Day for Chardonnay

    Sunshine Vicram - 2

    From the New York Times bestselling author Darynda Jones comes the second novel in her laugh-out-loud Sunshine Vicram mystery series, A Good Day for Chardonnay. Running a small-town police force in the mountains of New Mexico should be a smooth, c...

  • The Gravedigger's Son

    Charley Davidson - 13.6
    1001 Dark Nights

    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Darynda Jones comes a new story in her Charley Davidson series...The job should have been easy. Get in. Assess the situation. Get out. But for veteran tracker Quentin Rutherford, things get sticky ...

  • A Hard Day for a Hangover

    Sunshine Vicram - 3

    A Library Reads Pick The blockbuster conclusion to the bestselling Sunshine Vicram trilogySome people greet the day with open arms. Sheriff Sunshine Vicram would rather give it a hearty shove and get back into bed, because there’s just too much g...

  • The Graveside Bar and Grill

    Charley Davidson - 13.7
    1001 Dark Nights

    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Darynda Jones comes a new story in her Charley Davidson series...When Donovan St. James' precocious charge asks him—no questions asked—to tail the doctor who keeps their ragtag team p...

  • Moonlight and Magic

    Betwixt & Between - 4

    From NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Darynda Jones comes book four in the uber popular Betwixt and Between series, a series chockful of witches, shifters and mouthwatering apparitions to set your imagination-and other parts-on fire! It just...



  • The Grave Robber

    Charley Davidson - 13.8
    1001 Dark Nights

    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Darynda Jones comes a new story in her Charley Davidson series... Eric Vause is done. Done with ghosts. Done with hellhounds. And definitely done with asshole demons, mostly because he'd been posse...

Award-Winning Books by Darynda Jones

Betwixt
2021 Vivian Award -- Speculative Romance: Mid
The Dirt on Ninth Grave
2016 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Urban Fantasy Worldbuilding
First Grave on the Right
2012 Rita Award -- First Book


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Darynda Jones has published 30 books.

Darynda Jones does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Grave Robber, was published in September 2023.

The first book by Darynda Jones, First Grave on the Right, was published in February 2011.

Yes. Darynda Jones has 4 series.
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