Sue Ann Jaffarian

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  • Bibliography:
    44 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2006
  • Latest Book:
    December 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Dead Woman Driving

1 - Dead In The Desert (Sep-2020)
2 - Raising The Dead (Oct-2020)
3 - Dog Days (Dec-2020)
4 - Snake Eyes (Jan-2021)
5 - Haunting The Dead (Feb-2021)
6 - Married to Death (Mar-2021)
7 - The Last Death (Jun-2021)

A Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery

1 - Ghost a la Mode (Sep-2009)
2 - Ghost in the Polka Dot Bikini (Feb-2011)
3 - Gem of a Ghost (Feb-2012)
3.5 - The Silent Ghost (Mar-2013)
3.6 - Dummy of a Ghost (Mar-2014)
4 - Ghost of a Gamble (Apr-2014)
5 - Ghost in the Guacamole (Jan-2015)
5.5 - The Ghost of Mistletoe Mary (Dec-2015)
6 - The Ghosts of Misty Hollow (Dec-2016)
7 - Ghosts 'n Graveyards (Nov-2020)

Holidays From Hell

1 - The Rabbit Died (Aug-2011)
2 - Pull My Paw (Aug-2011)
3 - Where's Your Daddy? (Sep-2011)

A Madison Rose Vampire Mystery

Murder in Vein (Sep-2010)
Baited Blood (Sep-2011)

An Odelia Grey Mystery

1 - Too Big to Miss (Feb-2006)
2 - Curse of the Holy Pail (Feb-2007)
3 - Thugs & Kisses (Feb-2008)
4 - Booby Trap (Feb-2009)
5 - Corpse on the Cob (Feb-2010)
6 - Twice As Dead (Jun-2011)
7 - Hide and Snoop (Sep-2012)
8 - Second-Hand Stiff (Dec-2013)
9 - Hell on Wheels (Nov-2014)
10 - A Body to Spare (Nov-2015)
11 - Rhythm & Clues (Nov-2016)
12 - Too Big to Die (Dec-2017)

Winnie Wilde

1 - Running Wilde (Feb-2015)
2 - Wilde Women (Feb-2016)
3 - Wilde In Love (Aug-2019)

Zelda Bowen

1 - Finding Zelda (Sep-2019)

Book List in Order: 44 titles

  • Too Big to Miss

    An Odelia Grey Mystery - 1

    Too big to miss--that's Odelia Grey. A never-married, middle-aged, plus-size woman, she struggles with her relationships, her crazy family, and her crazier boss. And then there's her knack for being in close proximity to dead people ... Too Big to...

  • Curse of the Holy Pail

    An Odelia Grey Mystery - 2

    It's just a %$&# lunch box! Probably reeks of sour milk seasoned with rust. At least, that's what Odelia Grey thinks when millionaire Sterling Price shows her the crown jewel of his lunchbox collection. So why are people willing to cheat, lie, steal,...

  • Thugs & Kisses

    An Odelia Grey Mystery - 3

    With the class bully murdered at her 30th high school reunion, and her annoying boss Michael Steele suddenly missing, Odelia Grey, aka "Corpse Magnet," doesn't know which mystery to poke her big nose into first. The action is hot and heavy as Odelia ...

  • Booby Trap

    An Odelia Grey Mystery - 4

    Booby Trap is book four in this award-winning series starring the plus-sized, middle-aged, and whip-smart Odelia Grey. Could Dr. Brian Eddy, plastic surgeon to the rich and famous, possibly be the Blond Bomber serial killer? Odelia would never hav...

  • Ghost a la Mode

    A Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery - 1

    Rotten to the core or the apple of his eye? Granny was famous for her award-winning apple pies-and notorious for murdering her husband Jacob at their homestead in Julian, California. The only trouble is, Granny was framed, then murdered. For more th...

  • Corpse on the Cob

    An Odelia Grey Mystery - 5

    Trouble grows faster than a corn crop in July when Odelia reunites with her long-lost mom in a corn maze at the Autumn Fair. For starters, there's the dead body in the cornfield. Then there's her mom crouched beside the corpse with blood on her hands...

  • Murder in Vein

    A Madison Rose Vampire Mystery

    Who -- or what -- is prowling the streets of Los Angeles in the dead of night? Vampires. Vam-pires. Real live -- er, dead (undead?) -- bloodsucking vampires, living in the City of Angels. Madison Rose, a street-smart twenty-something waitress, would...

  • Ghost in the Polka Dot Bikini

    A Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery - 2

    Imagine spending eternity with your backside hanging out--that's what Emma Whitecastle and Granny Apples can't help but think when they meet the ghost of Tessa North frolicking in the surf off Catalina Island. Tessa, a young starlet who died on the i...

  • Twice As Dead

    An Odelia Grey Mystery - 6

    Corpse magnet Odelia Grey is at it again -- stumbling across a dead body at a wedding reception while Achy Breaky Heart plays in the background. Bodies are turning up so fast that Odelia enlists the help of her family and friends -- Greg, Seth, Zee, ...



  • Pull My Paw

    Holidays From Hell - 2

    A dog with a flatulence problem wasn’t high on Judy Bowen’s wish list of Mother’s Days gifts, no matter how cute the canine. So imagine her surprise when the spa gift her eldest daughter, Norma, usually gave her was substituted with a little do...

  • The Rabbit Died

    Holidays From Hell - 1

  • Baited Blood

    A Madison Rose Vampire Mystery

    Who's murdering vampires in Los Angeles and throwing the bodies into the Dedhams' pool? Each victim has been branded, a distinct mark that is the calling card of femme fatale vampire Ann Hayes. The contemptuous undead beauty declares her innocence, b...

  • Where's Your Daddy?

    Holidays From Hell - 3

    How do you celebrate Father’s Day when your father has flown the familial coop? For Zelda Bowen it means carrying on with the tradition of visiting, Pops, her cantankerous and ill-tempered grandfather. Armed with his beloved burgers, she shows up a...

  • Gem of a Ghost

    A Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery - 3

    When overbearing, ultra-rich Joanna Reid demands that Emma Whitecastle get rid of the ghost of her late husband Max, a former action film star who was killed in a car accident, Emma intends to refuse. But when Joanna reveals that she thinks Max kille...

  • Hide and Snoop

    An Odelia Grey Mystery - 7

    A merger at Odelia Grey’s law firm has put her job in jeopardy, and her new icy-cold boss, Erica Mayfield, has it in for her. The humiliation doubles when Erica dumps her three-year-old niece with Odelia and disappears for the weekend. The nerve! P...

  • The Silent Ghost

    A Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery - 3.5

    A brand-new novella in the Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery series, featuring Emma Whitecastle’s daughter, Kelly -- only available digitally… Like mother, like daughter? Emma Whitecastle’s daughter Kelly just wants to live a normal life and pu...

  • Love Bytes

    Sometimes your heart and your head are not on the same page. Middle-aged Cynthia Quinn was not looking for romance when her friend Gwen insisted that they post personal ads together. She was content being the busy mother of a teenager and the owner ...

  • Second-Hand Stiff

    An Odelia Grey Mystery - 8

    Final Bid Thanksgiving with her fault-finding mother has Odelia Grey stewing in her own juices. But her husband’s cousin Ina -- who shows up to dinner alone with ugly bruises -- clearly has it worse. Things quickly go downhill after Odelia’s mot...

  • Dummy of a Ghost

    A Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery - 3.6

    A party is giving Kelly Whitecastle a chance to play catch-up with old friends, and she’s especially keen on seeing Chris May again, an up-and-coming ventriloquist. But when Kelly sees his show, and Chris’s dummies, a couple named Shirley and Dou...



  • Ghost of a Gamble

    A Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery - 4

    Spiritual medium Emma Whitecastle knows a good ghost when she feels one -- like her own sweet Granny Apples, long gone but still as famous for her apple pies as she is for helping her great-great-great-granddaughter get to the core of the most baffli...

  • Ho Ho Humbug

    Odelia Grey has always disliked Friendship Mall, especially at Christmas time. On her last visit, she was suspected of bumping off Santa Claus. On her most recent trip, Odelia and her mother are nearly arrested for inciting a riot over a parking spac...

  • Hell on Wheels

    An Odelia Grey Mystery - 9

    GAME ON When Odelia Grey and her husband, Greg, attend a rugby match to cheer for their quadriplegic friends, the last thing they expect is to witness a murder on the playing court. Complicating matters is their friendship with the prime suspect. It...

  • Early Retirement

  • Ghost in the Guacamole

    A Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery - 5

    When two sisters feud over the family business, medium Emma Whitecastle doesn’t need a Ouija board to know it spells trouble. But with a little help from the spirited ghost of Granny Apples, she may be able to solve one murder and prevent another ....

  • Running Wilde

    Winnie Wilde - 1

    When her thirty-year marriage ended, fifty-year-old Winnie Wilde took back her maiden name and set out to rediscover the woman she'd left behind. She never expected her journey to begin in the arms of Ben Church, a young contractor nearly half her ag...

  • A Body to Spare

    An Odelia Grey Mystery - 10

    Odelia Grey's relaxing day of errands is ruined when she finds a body folded like an origami crane in the trunk of her car. And it's not just any dead body--it's the corpse of Zach Finch, a young man who had been kidnapped eight years earlier. But wh...

  • The Ghost of Mistletoe Mary

    A Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery - 5.5

    In this all-new Christmas mystery from the author of Ghost in the Guacamole, Granny Apples, medium Emma Whitecastle, and psychic PI Jeremiah Jones join forces to find a missing homeless woman.   When a homeless veteran on LA’s Skid Row claims ...

  • Wilde Women

    Winnie Wilde - 2

    On a trip to Florida to visit her widowed mother, Winnie learns that when it comes to the Wilde women, the apple didn't fall far from the tree. Her spirited elderly mother wants to remarry but the groom's family objects. A handsome doctor is just the...

  • Rhythm & Clues

    An Odelia Grey Mystery - 11

    Amateur sleuth Odelia Grey tries to get a band back together―and get her mother off the hook―in book eleven of the award-winning series It’s a rockin’ flashback for Odelia Grey when her mother asks her to look into the disappearance of her...



  • The Ghosts of Misty Hollow

    A Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery - 6

    The author of Ghost in the Guacamole returns as a spiritual medium and her spectral sidekick encounter murder and mystery in a Massachusetts farmhouse -- Mysterious plots abound when spiritual medium Emma Whitecastle offers aid to a famous novel...

  • Too Big to Die

    An Odelia Grey Mystery - 12

    It’s the dog days of summer for Odelia and Greg after they rescue a dog from a closed car on a blistering hot day. The culprit is former reality star Marla Kingston, who’s married to a client of Odelia’s law firm. The dog was saved, but Odelia...

  • Sh*t I'd Kill For

  • Wilde In Love

    Winnie Wilde - 3

    Love has left Winnie Wilde up in the air. Her young lover, Ben Church, has moved on, and Dr. Gabriel Dunn professes love but still wants an “open” relationship. Her career as a romance novelist is booming, but is it enough? When Winnie meets a se...

  • Finding Zelda

    Zelda Bowen - 1

    Zelda Bowen was the glue in her dysfunctional family, but who was holding her together?When Bill Bowen ran off with a woman from his office, leaving no word of his whereabouts, he left his family reeling and angry. As always, Zelda, the middle of his...

  • Dead In The Desert

    Dead Woman Driving - 1

    Ever since running away from home as a teen, Hope Callahan has lived a rough life, often on the other side of the law. When a drug deal goes bad, she's found in the desert beaten and nearly dead by Ozzie Byrd, a scruffy old guy in an RV. Oz...

  • Raising The Dead

    Dead Woman Driving - 2

    Raising the Dead, Episode 2 of the Dead Woman Driving serial novel, finds Hope Callahan embracing her new identity as Kate Hastings as she puts distance between herself and Stake's gang. She has difficult decisions to make. Should she stay on the roa...

  • Ghosts 'n Graveyards

    A Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery - 7

    Emma Whitecastle and the ghost of Granny Apples are back in this new short fiction! Emma and her husband Phil Bowers are hosting P.I. and medium Jeremiah Jones and his friend Rose for Thanksgiving. Plans for a relaxing holiday go awry when Granny pop...

  • Dog Days

    Dead Woman Driving - 3

    Kate Hastings is back in Episode 3 of the Dead Woman Driving serial novel. Kate, with the help of her mentor Sue Wright, tackles her first job for her new employers. The job seems easy enough — the simple retrieval of a stolen dog. But as Kate ...

  • Snake Eyes

    Dead Woman Driving - 4

    In Snake Eyes, Episode 4 of Sue Ann Jaffarian's popular Dead Woman Driving serial novel, Kate Hastings is tackling her first solo job for her mysterious employers, a task she cannot slither out of, while attempting to normalize her new...



  • Haunting The Dead

    Dead Woman Driving - 5

    As Kate Hastings gets comfortable with her new life on the road, she makes friends and experiences love. Episode 5: Haunting the Dead also brings Kate face to face with the past that has been haunting her since she was fourteen and her more recent pa...

  • Married to Death

    Dead Woman Driving - 6

    Posing as a married RVing couple, Kate Hastings and Michael Antol, a fellow Hopkins crew member, tackle a big assignment. Their mission: to locate and recover Sarah Browning, a young woman who disappeared two years earlier. But rescuing Sarah comes w...

  • The Last Death

    Dead Woman Driving - 7

    After Kate and Michael rescue Sarah, Holly and Holly's two children from the Willits farm, Kate is tasked with getting Holly and her kids to the Hopkins' Compound in Missouri. On their first day on the road, they learn that someone has killed the Wil...

  • Sweet Scent of Death

    In Episode 9: Sweet Scent of Death, Kate Hastings takes on a new type of job for The Agency. Using her own truck and trailer, she is going to take Eddie Forester, a dying old woman from Iowa, on a dream trip to the Dakotas.  They aren't on the r...

  • The Ghost of Christmas Granny

    A few weeks before Christmas, medium Emma Whitecastle begins hearing the voice of a young boy named Kaleb asking for help. At first she thinks it is the spirit of a deceased child, but soon realizes the boy is very much alive and communicating with h...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Sue Ann Jaffarian has published 44 books.

Sue Ann Jaffarian does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Ghost of Christmas Granny, was published in December 2022.

The first book by Sue Ann Jaffarian, Too Big to Miss, was published in February 2006.

Yes. Sue Ann Jaffarian has 7 series.
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