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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1988
  • Latest Book:
    April 2012
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Full Series List in Order

A Family Tree Mystery

1 - Death on the Family Tree (Dec-2006)
2 - Sins of the Fathers (Oct-2007)
3 - Daughter of Deceit (Oct-2008)

Job's Corner Chronicles

1 - The Remember Box (Nov-2000)
2 - Carley's Song (Nov-2001)

A Sheila Travis Mystery

1 - Murder at Markham (Oct-1988)
2 - Murder in the Charleston Manner (May-1990)
3 - Murder on Peachtree Street (Apr-1991)
4 - Somebody's Dead in Snellville (Aug-1992)
5 - Death of a Dunwoody Matron (Apr-1993)
6 - A Mystery Bred in Buckhead (Nov-1994)
7 - Deadly Secrets on the St. Johns (Sep-1995)

A Thoroughly Southern Mystery

1 - When Did We Lose Harriet? (Oct-1997)
2 - But Why Shoot the Magistrate? (Sep-1998)
3 - Who Invited the Dead Man? (Jul-2002)
4 - Who Left That Body in the Rain? (Dec-2002)
5 - Who Let That Killer in the House? (Oct-2003)
6 - When Will the Dead Lady Sing? (Jun-2004)
7 - Who Killed the Queen of Clubs? (Mar-2005)
8 - Did You Declare the Corpse? (Feb-2006)
9 - Guess Who's Coming to Die? (Feb-2007)
10 - What Are You Wearing To Die? (Feb-2008)

Book List in Order: 27 titles



  • AT A PRESTIGIOUS SCHOOL FOR DIPLOMATS, SOME LESSONS ARE LEARNED THE HARD WAY The body of beautiful bad girl Melanie Forbes is found wrapped in an Oriental rug in an unused basement storeroom of Chicago's elite school of diplomacy, the Markham Inst...



  • A LETHAL DOSE OF SOUTHERN COMFORT "Trouble follows that woman like fleas follow a dog" her father had always said about Aunt Mary. Sheila Travis ruefully agrees when she is dispatched by her colorful aunt to Charleston to "investigate" some mysterio...



  • NO MORE MR. NICE GUY Prominent television personality Dean Anderson was as popular as he was respected, but he had incurred a good deal of animosity among family, friends and coworkers. Though the police are willing to rule his shooting death a su...



  • OVER HER DEAD BODY Young widow Sheila Travis is reluctantly drawn into the affairs of the extended Sims family by her neighbor, Sara Sims Tait, in the rural community of Snellville. The small Georgia town does little more than straggle along th...



  • LIFE-STYLES OF THE RICH AND FATAL Dunwoody is the kind of place where opulent homes and luxury cars are the measure of a person's worth...where the veneer of suburban serenity and gracious hospitality is rarely shaken. But behind the tennis dates ...




  • SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY AND COLD-BLOODED MURDER In genteel Atlanta society there are worse crimes than murder--such as missing Rippen Delacourt's annual Christmas party, a fifty-year Delaeourt tradition. As amateur sleuth Sheila Travis joins her fami...




  • MURDER STRIKES DEEP IN THE HEART OF DIXIE A "do" in Jacksonville, Florida--among the right people--is a party where the bourbon flows, tuxes are required, and certain activities, like dropping dead, just aren't done. Unfortunately, at elegant Daph...






  • A teenage girl has been missing from her Montgomery, Alabama, home for six weeks. She may be a runaway, a crime victim, or both. What's amazing is other people's lack of concern. Just one person cares that she's gone: a spunky amateur sleuth on the s...



  • When a popular youth pastor is accused of a grisly crime, MacLaren Yarbrough won't rest until she finds the truth. Her gut instinct tells her Luke Blessed is innocent. Still, how could the dream he had on the night a young woman was murdered depict t...



  • I stroked the satin wood in delight and confusion. Why should Uncle Stephen send it to me? The Remember Box was Aunt Kate's private place, the one we were sternly forbidden to open. Suddenly I was reluctant, even fearful -- a modern Pandora, about to...



  • The exciting sequel to THE REMEMBER BOX.Poised at the edge of a mystifying adult world, twelve-year-old Carley grapples with complexities she doesn't understand. Why the prickly tension between the beautiful divorcee, Maddie Raeburn, and the school p...



  • Whether handling customer calls at Yarbrough's Feed, Seed and Nursery or close calls while solving crimes, sixty-something Southerner Maclaren Yarbrough knows how to charm her way through anything.... Judge MacLaren Yarbrough is the new magistrate...



  • Sixty-something Southerner MacLaren Yarbrough keeps busy as a county magistrate, a co-owner of Yarbrough's Feed, Seed and Nursery, and a loving wife and mother. But her penchant for snooping around in other people's business often lands her up to her...



  • MacLaren Yarbrough has her plate full -- in addition to having a lively extended family, she's county magistrate and co-owner of the local plant nursery. But amateur sleuthing may be her true calling.... Years ago, a dark cloud moved over the smal...



  • Hopemore, Georgia, county magistrate MacLaren Yarbrough is experiencing some of the weirdest weeks of her life, weighing the cons and more cons of a strange animal in her yard, the return of an old boyfriend, and of course, murder.... Folks in Hop...



  • It's a high-stakes game for Hopemore, Georgia, county magistrate MacLaren Yarbrough when she investigates the murder of a bridge maven.... State bridge champion Edith Whelan Burkett has been dealt a string of bad hands. Not only did her husband comm...



  • Somehow mystery and warder have a .may of finding her, even when she's on vacation! When planning her vacation, Georgia magistrate MacLare Yarbrough envisioned a tropical isle where she and h husband would be concerned with nothing but sunbathing,...






  • IF YOU DIG AROUND THE ROOTS OF YOUR FAMILY TREE, YOU MIGHT FIND A FEW BONES... With grown-up kids and a husband always on the road, Katharine Murray's nest would be empty if it weren't for her Aunt Lucy--until the elderly woman dies. Now Katharine...



  • Georgia magistrate, mother, wife, and sometime sleuth MacLaren Yarbrough has been invited to join the Magnolia Ladies' Investment Club and is plumb confused-she's definitely no heiress. But she tables that thought when, at her first meeting, she find...



  • Always ready to help a friend, Katharine Murray has made her way to Bayard Island off the coast of Georgia with Dr. Flo Gadney, to attend to an unsavory errand. Burch Bayard, local patriarch and greedy landowner, has a nefarious plan to build McMansi...



  • Georgia magistrate MacLaren Yarbrough has never believed her husband's threat to shackle her to her desk to keep her from "meddling in murder." But when Starr Knight, the taxidermist's daughter, is found dead, that's just what Joe Riddley does, despi...



  • A MEDAL IN MURDER Katharine Murray's elegant Atlanta home has been viciously vandalized! She's prepared to devote all her time to getting it back in tip-top shape--until she meets Bara Weidenauer. Once a picture-perfect socialite, Bara has fallen on...



  • Mamie is facing an overwhelming secret. Margaret has lost her home. Billie can no longer care alone for her disabled daughter. And Maria is living with an untenable choice. When these four women come together to live on a drought-stricken Georgia far...



  • A contemporary novel of sisterhood, the South, and matters of the heart. Teensie MacAllester's two elder sisters consider her an insignificant appendage to their illustrious family. For fifteen years they have been delighted to let her care for th...



  • Fact: Doing chores improves your child's chances for a happy marriage and a good job. Many parents, rather than fighting their children over chores, would rather do the chores themselves. But Patricia Sprinkle makes a convincing and entertaining case...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Patricia Sprinkle has published 27 books.

Patricia Sprinkle does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Children Who Do Too Little, was published in April 2012.

The first book by Patricia Sprinkle, Murder at Markham, was published in October 1988.

Yes. Patricia Sprinkle has 4 series.