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Cheryl A. Head Books in Order

Cheryl A. Head has written 10 books, published between 2013 and 2025. The first book is Long Way Home (2013) and the newest is Finding Jimmy Baldwin (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
10
Published
2013–2025
Pages on record
1,689 in 6 of 10 books
Reading time
28–42 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,689 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 10 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Cheryl A. Head, author of the Charlie Mack Motown Mystery series

Cheryl A. Head writes the Charlie Mack Motown Mystery series, whose private investigator protagonist is a queer Black woman. Head is a former television producer, broadcast executive and organizer. Honors include two Anthony Award nominations and two Lambda Literary Award finalist spots, plus finalist places for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Agatha Award and the Next Generation Indie Book Award. The 10 catalogued books run from Long Way Home (2013) to Finding Jimmy Baldwin (2025), with Time's Undoing (2023) among them.

How many Cheryl A. Head books are there?

Cheryl A. Head has 10 books, released between 2013 and 2025. 6 of them belong to the Charlie Mack Motown Mystery series.

Cheryl A. Head Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 10 Cheryl A. Head 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 Bury Me When I'm Dead by Cheryl A. Head, book 1 of the Charlie Mack Motown Mystery series (2016)
  2. Cover of Wake Me When It's Over by Cheryl A. Head, book 2 of the Charlie Mack Motown Mystery series (2018)
  3. Cover of Catch Me When I'm Falling by Cheryl A. Head, book 3 of the Charlie Mack Motown Mystery series (2019)
  4. Cover of Judge Me When I'm Wrong by Cheryl A. Head, book 4 of the Charlie Mack Motown Mystery series (2019)
  5. Cover of Find Me When I'm Lost by Cheryl A. Head, book 5 of the Charlie Mack Motown Mystery series (2020)
  6. Cover of Warn Me When It's Time by Cheryl A. Head, book 6 of the Charlie Mack Motown Mystery series (2021)
  7. Cover of Time's Undoing by Cheryl A. Head (2023)
  1. 1
    Long Way Home2013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
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  2. 2
    Bury Me When I'm DeadCharlie Mack Motown Mystery #12016 · 284 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016284
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    Wake Me When It's OverCharlie Mack Motown Mystery #22018 · 310 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018310
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    Catch Me When I'm FallingCharlie Mack Motown Mystery #32019 · 260 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019260
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    Judge Me When I'm WrongCharlie Mack Motown Mystery #42019 · 300 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019300
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    Find Me When I'm LostCharlie Mack Motown Mystery #52020 · 250 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020250
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    Warn Me When It's TimeCharlie Mack Motown Mystery #62021 · 285 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2021285
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    Time's Undoing2023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    Brotherly Love2025 · confirmed 1/4
    2025–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  10. 10
    Finding Jimmy Baldwin2025 · confirmed 1/4
    2025–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK

Cheryl A. Head 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.

Charlie Mack Motown Mystery in order

6 books
  1. 1. Bury Me When I'm Dead
  2. 2. Wake Me When It's Over
  3. 3. Catch Me When I'm Falling
  4. 4. Judge Me When I'm Wrong
  5. 5. Find Me When I'm Lost
  6. 6. Warn Me When It's Time

Standalone books

4 books

4 Cheryl A. Head titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Cheryl A. Head books in order?

You only need to read Cheryl A. Head books in order within the Charlie Mack Motown Mystery series, which holds 6 of the 10 Cheryl A. Head books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Cheryl A. Head

Start with Long Way Home (2013), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Cheryl A. Head book?

Finding Jimmy Baldwin (2025) is the newest Cheryl A. Head book released so far.

Is there a new Cheryl A. Head book coming?

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

Cheryl A. Head at a glance

Still publishing
Cheryl A. Head published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Cheryl A. Head books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
1,689 pages across the 6 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 284 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Cheryl A. Head books, 5 of 10, were published in the 2020s.

What the Cheryl A. Head books are about

5 of the 10 Cheryl A. Head books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: private investigators is tagged on 3 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.