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Alafair Tucker Books in Order

Alafair Tucker by Donis Casey contains 10 books, published between 2005 and 2018. The first book is The Old Buzzard Had It Coming (2005) and the newest is Forty Dead Men (2018). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
10
Published
2005–2018
Pages on record
1,646 in 7 of 10 books
Reading time
27–41 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,646 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 10 titles with a page count on record.

See all 10 books in order Printable Alafair Tucker checklist

Alafair Tucker is a historical mystery series by Donis Casey, catalogued at 10 books published between 2005 and 2018. Alafair Tucker is filed as the series character, a woman sleuth in country-life Oklahoma, and subjects record murder and its investigation, neighbours' deaths and the nineteen-tens. The Old Buzzard Had It Coming (2005) opens the run and Forty Dead Men (2018) ends it, by way of Hornswoggled, The Drop Edge of Yonder, The Sky Took Him, Crying Blood, All Men Fear Me and The Return of the Raven Mocker. Casey is credited on all 10.

How many Alafair Tucker books are there?

Alafair Tucker has 10 books, released between 2005 and 2018.

Alafair Tucker Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 10 Alafair Tucker 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 Hornswoggled by Donis Casey, book 2 of the Alafair Tucker series (2006)
  2. Cover of The Drop Edge of Yonder by Donis Casey, book 3 of the Alafair Tucker series (2007)
  3. Cover of The Sky Took Him by Donis Casey, book 4 of the Alafair Tucker series (2008)
  4. Cover of Crying Blood by Donis Casey, book 5 of the Alafair Tucker series (2011)
  5. Cover of Wrong Hill to Die On by Donis Casey, book 6 of the Alafair Tucker series (2012)
  6. Cover of Hell with the Lid Blown Off by Donis Casey, book 7 of the Alafair Tucker series (2014)
  7. Cover of All Men Fear Me by Donis Casey, book 8 of the Alafair Tucker series (2015)
  8. Cover of The Return of the Raven Mocker by Donis Casey, book 9 of the Alafair Tucker series (2017)
  1. 1
    The Old Buzzard Had It Coming2005 · 216 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005216
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  2. 2
    Hornswoggled2006 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006240
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  3. 3
    The Drop Edge of Yonder2007 · 226 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007226
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  4. 4
    The Sky Took Him2008 · confirmed 2/4
    2008–
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  5. 5
    Crying Blood2011 · confirmed 2/4
    2011–
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  6. 6
    Wrong Hill to Die On2012 · confirmed 2/4
    2012–
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  7. 7
    Hell with the Lid Blown Off2014 · 228 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014228
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  8. 8
    All Men Fear Me2015 · 312 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015312
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  9. 9
    The Return of the Raven Mocker2017 · 218 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017218
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  10. 10
    Forty Dead Men2018 · 206 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018206
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Is there a chronological order for Alafair Tucker?

No separate chronological order is on record for Alafair Tucker, because none of the book listings this catalogue draws on publishes one; the publication order above is the only order given.

Do you have to read Alafair Tucker books in order?

You should read the Alafair Tucker books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Alafair Tucker book also stands alone.

Where to start with Alafair Tucker

Start with The Old Buzzard Had It Coming (2005), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Alafair Tucker book?

Forty Dead Men (2018) is the newest Alafair Tucker book released so far.

Is there a new Alafair Tucker book coming?

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

Alafair Tucker at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Alafair Tucker title on record dates from 2018, 8 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Alafair Tucker books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
1,646 pages across the 7 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 226 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Alafair Tucker books, 6 of 10, were published in the 2010s.

What the Alafair Tucker books are about

All 10 Alafair Tucker books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: murder is tagged on 7 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Donis Casey

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.

Characters in the Alafair Tucker books

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