Jesus Creek Mystery Books in Order

Jesus Creek Mystery by Deborah Adams contains 8 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.

Books
8
Published
1991–2018
Pages on record
842 in 4 of 8 books
Reading time
14–21 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 842 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 4 of 8 titles with a page count on record.

Jesus Creek Mystery is Deborah Adams' series of 8 books, set in Jesus Creek, an imaginary town in middle Tennessee. Subject headings name women innkeepers, psychic detectives, women detectives, women genealogists, missing women, serial murders and medical personnel. Every catalogued title opens with the word All. All the Great Pretenders (1991) starts the run and All The Ice-Cold Blood (2018) ends it, after All the Crazy Winters (1992), All the Dark Disguises (1993), All the Hungry Mothers (1994), All the Deadly Beloved (1995), All the Blood Relations (1996) and All the Dirty Cowards (2000).

How many Jesus Creek Mystery books are there?

Jesus Creek Mystery has 8 books, released between 1991 and 2018.

Jesus Creek Mystery Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 8 Jesus Creek Mystery 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. 1
    All the Great Pretenders1991 · 215 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1991215
  2. 2
    All the Crazy Winters1992 · 215 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1992215
  3. 3
    All the Dark Disguises1993 · confirmed 1/4
    1993
  4. 4
    All the Hungry Mothers1994 · confirmed 1/4
    1994
  5. 5
    All the Deadly Beloved1995 · 226 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1995226
  6. 6
    All the Blood Relations1996 · confirmed 1/4
    1996
  7. 7
    All the Dirty Cowards2000 · 186 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000186
  8. 8
    All The Ice-Cold Blood2018 · confirmed 1/4
    2018

Is there a chronological order for Jesus Creek Mystery?

No separate chronological order is on record for Jesus Creek Mystery, 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 Jesus Creek Mystery books in order?

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

Where to start with Jesus Creek Mystery

Start with All the Great Pretenders (1991), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Jesus Creek Mystery book?

All The Ice-Cold Blood (2018) is the newest Jesus Creek Mystery book released so far.

Is there a new Jesus Creek Mystery book coming?

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

Jesus Creek Mystery at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Jesus Creek Mystery title on record dates from 2018, 8 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Jesus Creek Mystery books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
Length
842 pages across the 4 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 215 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Jesus Creek Mystery books, 6 of 8, were published in the 1990s.

What the Jesus Creek Mystery books are about

5 of the 8 Jesus Creek Mystery 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

More books by Deborah Adams

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