Deborah Adams Books in Order
Deborah Adams has written 10 books, published between 1991 and 2018. The first book is All the Great Pretenders (1991) and the newest is All The Ice-Cold Blood (2018). Publication order is the reading order below. 8 of the 10 books listed here are in the Jesus Creek Mystery series, which has its own page: Jesus Creek Mystery books in order.
- Books
- 10
- Published
- 1991–2018
- Pages on record
- 1,268 in 6 of 10 books
- Reading time
- 21–32 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,268 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.
Deborah Adams is the author of the Jesus Creek Mystery series, with 10 books catalogued from 1991 to 2018. All the Great Pretenders (1991) is the first. All the Crazy Winters, All the Dark Disguises, All the Hungry Mothers, All the Deadly Beloved, All the Blood Relations and All the Dirty Cowards follow, and All The Ice-Cold Blood (2018) is the newest. Subjects include the imaginary place Jesus Creek, Tennessee, women innkeepers and psychic detectives.
How many Deborah Adams books are there?
Deborah Adams has 10 books, released between 1991 and 2018. 8 of them belong to the Jesus Creek Mystery series.
Deborah Adams Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 10 Deborah Adams 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.
- 119912151/4
- 219922151/4
- 31993–1/4
- 4Cast Your Fate to the Wind1994 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/419942401/4
- 51994–1/4
- 619952261/4
- 71996–1/4
- 820001861/4
- 9This Tale is True2018 · 186 pages · confirmed 1/420181861/4
- 102018–1/4
Deborah Adams series in order
The series linked below has its own reading-order page.
Deborah Adams 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.
Standalone books
2 books2 Deborah Adams titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Deborah Adams books in order?
You only need to read Deborah Adams books in order within the Jesus Creek Mystery series, which holds 8 of the 10 Deborah Adams books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Deborah Adams
Start with All the Great Pretenders (1991), the first Jesus Creek Mystery book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.
What is the newest Deborah Adams book?
All The Ice-Cold Blood (2018) is the newest Deborah Adams book released so far.
Is there a new Deborah Adams book coming?
No next Deborah Adams book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Deborah Adams at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Deborah Adams title on record dates from 2018, 8 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Deborah Adams books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 1,268 pages across the 6 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 215 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Deborah Adams books, 7 of 10, were published in the 1990s.
What the Deborah Adams books are about
5 of the 10 Deborah Adams books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: jesus creek (tenn. : imaginary place) is tagged on 2 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Jesus Creek (Tenn. : Imaginary place) 2 of 5 books
- Jesus Creek (Tennessee : Imaginary place) 1 of 5 books
- Medical personnel 1 of 5 books
- Middle tennessee in fiction 1 of 5 books
- Missing women 1 of 5 books
- Psychic detectives 1 of 5 books
- Serial murders 1 of 5 books
- Mystery & detective, women sleuths 1 of 5 books
- Women genealogists 1 of 5 books
- Women genealogists in fiction 1 of 5 books
- Women innkeepers 1 of 5 books