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Beverly Connor Books in Order

Beverly Connor has written 15 books, published between 1996 and 2015. The first book is A Rumor Of Bones (1996) and the newest is The Poplar Creek Murders (2015). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
15
Published
1996–2015
Confirmed
15 of 15 titles
Pages on record
4,051 in 11 of 15 books
Reading time
68–101 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,051 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 11 of 15 titles with a page count on record.

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Forensic science drives Beverly Connor's mysteries. Lindsay Chamberlain is an archaeologist and Diane Fallon a forensic anthropologist, each with a series of her own, and excavation and skeletal evidence supply the plots. A Rumor Of Bones (1996) opens the catalogue of 15 books, which closes with The Poplar Creek Murders in 2015.

How many Beverly Connor books are there?

Beverly Connor has 15 books, released between 1996 and 2015. They include 2 separate series.

Beverly Connor Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 15 Beverly Connor books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of A Rumor Of Bones by Beverly Connor, book 1 of the Lindsay Chamberlain series (1996)
  2. Cover of Questionable Remains by Beverly Connor, book 2 of the Lindsay Chamberlain series (1997)
  3. Cover of Dressed To Die by Beverly Connor, book 3 of the Lindsay Chamberlain series (1998)
  4. Cover of Skeleton Crew by Beverly Connor, book 4 of the Lindsay Chamberlain series (1999)
  5. Cover of Airtight Case by Beverly Connor, book 5 of the Lindsay Chamberlain series (2000)
  6. Cover of One Grave Too Many by Beverly Connor, book 1 of the Diane Fallon series (2004)
  7. Cover of Dead Guilty by Beverly Connor, book 2 of the Diane Fallon series (2004)
  8. Cover of Dead Secret by Beverly Connor, book 3 of the Diane Fallon series (2005)
  9. Cover of Dead Hunt by Beverly Connor, book 5 of the Diane Fallon series (2008)
  10. Cover of Scattered Graves by Beverly Connor, book 6 of the Diane Fallon series (2008)
  11. Cover of Dust to Dust by Beverly Connor, book 7 of the Diane Fallon series (2009)
  12. Cover of The Night Killer by Beverly Connor, book 8 of the Diane Fallon series (2010)
  13. Cover of One Grave Less by Beverly Connor, book 9 of the Diane Fallon series (2010)
  1. 1
    A Rumor Of BonesLindsay Chamberlain #11996 · 252 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1996252
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  2. 2
    Questionable RemainsLindsay Chamberlain #21997 · 256 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1997256
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  3. 3
    Dressed To DieLindsay Chamberlain #31998 · 432 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1998432
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  4. 4
    Skeleton CrewLindsay Chamberlain #41999 · confirmed 3/4
    1999–
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  5. 5
    Airtight CaseLindsay Chamberlain #52000 · 480 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2000480
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  6. 6
    One Grave Too ManyDiane Fallon #12004 · 383 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2004383
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  7. 7
    Dead GuiltyDiane Fallon #22004 · 387 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2004387
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  8. 8
    Dead SecretDiane Fallon #32005 · 389 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2005389
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  9. 9
    Dead PastDiane Fallon #42007 · 381 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2007381
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  10. 10
    Dead HuntDiane Fallon #52008 · 372 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2008372
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  11. 11
    Scattered GravesDiane Fallon #62008 · 351 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2008351
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  12. 12
    Dust to DustDiane Fallon #72009 · confirmed 3/4
    2009–
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  13. 13
    The Night KillerDiane Fallon #82010 · 368 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2010368
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  14. 14
    One Grave LessDiane Fallon #92010 · confirmed 3/4
    2010–
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  15. 15
    The Poplar Creek MurdersBeverly Connor Standalone Novels #12015 · confirmed 3/4
    2015–
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Beverly Connor characters in order

The character linked below has its own reading-order page.

Beverly Connor books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Diane Fallon in order

9 books
  1. 1. One Grave Too Many
  2. 2. Dead Guilty
  3. 3. Dead Secret
  4. 4. Dead Past
  5. 5. Dead Hunt
  6. 6. Scattered Graves
  7. 7. Dust to Dust
  8. 8. The Night Killer
  9. 9. One Grave Less

Lindsay Chamberlain in order

5 books
  1. 1. A Rumor Of Bones
  2. 2. Questionable Remains
  3. 3. Dressed To Die
  4. 4. Skeleton Crew
  5. 5. Airtight Case

Beverly Connor Standalone Novels

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Do you have to read Beverly Connor books in order?

You only need to read Beverly Connor books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Beverly Connor

Start with One Grave Too Many (2004), the first Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation book. The earliest catalogued title overall is A Rumor Of Bones (1996).

What is the newest Beverly Connor book?

The Poplar Creek Murders (2015) is the newest Beverly Connor book released so far.

Is there a new Beverly Connor book coming?

No next Beverly Connor book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Beverly Connor at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Beverly Connor title on record dates from 2015, 11 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Beverly Connor books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
4,051 pages across the 11 of 15 books with a recorded length, a median of 381 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Beverly Connor books, 8 of 15, were published in the 2000s.

What the Beverly Connor books are about

14 of the 15 Beverly Connor books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: mystery & detective is tagged on 8 of 14. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.