Miranda James Books in Order
Miranda James has written 40 books, published between 1994 and 2025. The first book is By a Woman's Hand (As: Dean James, With: Jean Swanson) (1994) and the newest is Something Whiskered (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 40
- Published
- 1994–2025
- Confirmed
- 1 of 40 titles
- Pages on record
- 8,764 in 32 of 40 books
- Reading time
- 146–219 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 8,764 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 32 of 40 titles with a page count on record.
Miranda James writes several mystery series. Cat in the Stacks is one, and librarians, cats and a Maine coon cat sit in its subject tags beside murder and investigation. Forty titles run from By a Woman's Hand (1994), written as Dean James with Jean Swanson, to Something Whiskered (2025). Southern Ladies, Deep South, Bridge Club, Trailer Park Mysteries and Simon Kirby-Jones are the other series. James publishes on.
How many Miranda James books are there?
Miranda James has 40 books, released between 1994 and 2025. They include 6 series and 4 titles listed outside any series.
Miranda James Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 40 Miranda James 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.
- 1By a Woman's Hand (As: Dean James, With: Jean Swanson)1994 · 277 pages · confirmed 2/419942772/4
- 2The Village Vampire and the Oboe of DeathPeter Robinson Short Stories/Novellas #11998 · 242 pages · confirmed 3/419982423/4
- 3Killer Books (As: Dean James, With: Jean Swanson)1998 · 358 pages · confirmed 2/419983582/4
- 420002022/4
- 520012022/4
- 620022882/4
- 720032882/4
- 8The Dick Francis Companion (As: Dean James, With: Jean Swanson)2003 · 210 pages · confirmed 2/420032102/4
- 920042562/4
- 1020053082/4
- 1120052482/4
- 12The Robert B. Parker Companion (As: Dean James, With: Elizabeth Foxwell)2005 · 206 pages · confirmed 2/420052062/4
- 1320062922/4
- 1420072442/4
- 1520073042/4
- 1620082442/4
- 1720083042/4
- 1820082912/4
- 192010–2/4
- 2020112942/4
- 2120122942/4
- 222012–2/4
- 2320132012/4
- 2420142892/4
- 2520143082/4
- 2620153042/4
- 2720152932/4
- 2820163042/4
- 2920162752/4
- 3020173042/4
- 3120172592/4
- 3220182772/4
- 3320182942/4
- 342019–2/4
- 352020–2/4
- 3620203042/4
- 372021–2/4
- 382023–2/4
- 392024–2/4
- 402025–2/4
Miranda James 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.
Cat In The Stacks Mysteries in order
17 books- 1. Murder Past Due
- 2. Classified as Murder
- 3. File M for Murder
- 4. Out of Circulation
- 5. The Silence of the Library
- 6. Arsenic and Old Books
- 7. No Cats Allowed
- 8. Twelve Angry Librarians
- 9. Claws for Concern
- 10. Six Cats a Slayin'
- 11. The Pawful Truth
- 12. Careless Whiskers
- and 5 more in the table above
Trailer Park Mysteries in order
5 booksSimon Kirby-Jones in order
4 booksSouthern Ladies Mysteries in order
4 booksDeep South Mysteries in order
3 booksBridge Club Mysteries in order
2 booksPeter Robinson Short Stories/Novellas
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Standalone books
4 books4 Miranda James titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Miranda James Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the Miranda James books run from By a Woman's Hand (As: Dean James, With: Jean Swanson) (1994) to Something Whiskered (2025), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Miranda James in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Do you have to read Miranda James books in order?
You only need to read Miranda James books in order within each series: the books listed here span 6 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Miranda James
Start with By a Woman's Hand (As: Dean James, With: Jean Swanson) (1994), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Miranda James book?
Something Whiskered (2025) is the newest Miranda James book released so far.
Is there a new Miranda James book coming?
No next Miranda James book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Miranda James at a glance
- Still publishing
- Miranda James published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Miranda James books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 8,764 pages across the 32 of 40 books with a recorded length, a median of 288 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Miranda James books, 16 of 40, were published in the 2010s.
What the Miranda James books are about
32 of the 40 Miranda James 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 18 of 32. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Mystery & detective 18 of 32 books
- Murder 13 of 32 books
- Investigation 12 of 32 books
- Librarians 10 of 32 books
- Cats 8 of 32 books
- Waitresses 5 of 32 books
- Wanda Nell Culpepper (Fictitious character) 5 of 32 books
- Crime 4 of 32 books
- Maine coon cat 4 of 32 books
- Trailer camps 4 of 32 books