Georgia book series in reading order

by Charlaine Harris

by Mary Kay Andrews

by Stuart Woods

by Tina Whittle

by Marilyn Pappano/ Rachel Butler

Karin Slaughter

39 books• 10 series

American crime writer Karin Slaughter was born in 1971. Her debut, Blindsighted (2001), made the Crime Writers' Association shortlist for best thriller debut, and Cop Town won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger in 2015. The catalogue carries 39 of her books through The Secrets We Hide (2026). Will Trent, Sara Linton and Jeffrey Tolliver are recurring figures, and her series listings include Andrea Oliver, North Falls Thriller, Pretty Girls and Good Daughter alongside standalone novels. Subjects cover police work, medical examiners, murder and the state of Georgia. Slaughter's books are published in 120 countries.

Mary Kay Andrews writes women's fiction and mysteries set in Georgia. Every Crooked Nanny (1992) opens the catalogue and introduces Callahan Garrity, an Atlanta woman sleuth. Andrews wrote the Truman Kicklighter mysteries as Kathy Hogan Trocheck, and later work turns to contemporary romance and beach-town novels, with the Weezie & Bebe mysteries in between. The catalogue holds 39 titles through Road Trip (2026).

Charlaine Harris

78 books• 14 series

Charlaine Harris, born Jean Charlaine Harris Schulz on November 25, 1951, in Tunica, Mississippi, is an American author specialising in mysteries. The Southern Vampire Mysteries, Harris's best-known series, became HBO's True Blood, which ran for seven seasons from 2008 to 2014. The catalogue starts with Sweet and Deadly (1981) and A Secret Rage (1984) and reaches The Last Wizards' Ball (2025). Sookie Stackhouse, Aurora Teagarden, Lily Bard, Gunnie Rose and Midnight, Texas are among the series. Vampires, werewolves and women librarians appear in the subjects, and Harris lives in Texas.

Eugenia Price wrote Christian non-fiction before turning to historical novels of the American South. Discoveries (1953) opens a catalogue of 40 books, with the fiction starting in 1965. The Savannah Quartet, the St. Simons Trilogy, the Florida Trilogy and the Georgia Trilogy make up the series work, set in Georgia and on St. Simons Island, with religious life and women's biography among the subjects.

Sherryl Woods is an American writer of romance and mystery, born July 23, 1944, in Arlington, Virginia, who has also used the pen names Alexandra Kirk and Suzanne Sherrill. The Chesapeake Shores novels became a six-season Hallmark Channel series, and Netflix's Sweet Magnolias is based on Woods' books, with Woods as an executive producer. The catalogue lists 157 titles from Restoring Love (1982) to Starlit Secrets (2024). Other named series include Calamity Janes, Devaney Brothers and the Amanda Roberts and Molly DeWitt mysteries.

Rose Pressey writes mysteries with women sleuths and ghosts, and subjects include vintage clothing, private investigators, spirits, cats, Georgia and Miami. The catalogue holds 105 books from My Haunted Family (2007) to Where the Haunted Walk (2026), the latter credited as Rose Betancourt. Series include Ghostly Haunted Tour Guide Mystery, Haunted Vintage Mystery, Halloween LaVeau, Maggie, P.I. Mystery, Larue Donavan, Rylie Cruz and Mystic Cafe. How to Date a Vampire (2011) is among the titles.

Bloodhounds give Virginia Lanier's mystery series its titles. Lanier (1930-2003) was an American mystery writer whose six catalogued books follow the bloodhound trainer Jo Beth Sidden: Death in Bloodhound Red (1995), The House on Bloodhound Lane (1996), A Brace of Bloodhounds (1997), Blind Bloodhound Justice (1998), Ten Little Bloodhounds (1999) and A Bloodhound To Die For (2003). Georgia, dog trainers, dog breeders and women sleuths are the recurring subjects. The series is complete.

David Baldacci

71 books• 16 series

David Baldacci is an American novelist, born on 5 August 1960, who trained as an attorney and writes mostly suspense fiction and legal thrillers. The catalogue lists 72 Baldacci books, starting with Absolute Power (1996); All In appeared in 2026 and Boom Town is scheduled for 2027. Recurring leads include Amos Decker, Will Robie, John Puller, Atlee Pine and Aloysius Archer, alongside the Camel Club and the Sean King & Michelle Maxwell books. Baldacci novels have been published in more than 80 countries and 45 languages, with worldwide sales above 130 million copies.

Stuart Woods

104 books• 9 series

Crime and detective thrillers make up Stuart Woods's catalogue of 104 titles, running from Blue Water, Green Skipper (1977) to Finders Keepers (2025). The Barrington Universe, built around the recurring character Stone Barrington, is the largest strand; Teddy Fay, Ed Eagle and Rick Barron head further series, with standalone novels and non-fiction beside them. Private investigators, police and New York settings recur through the subject tags.

Patricia Sprinkle writes mystery fiction set in Georgia. MacLaren Yarbrough and Sheila Travis are the recurring investigators, with women judges, genealogy and murder investigation among the subjects. Sprinkle's catalogue holds 29 books published between 1988 and 2011, across the Thoroughly Southern, Sheila Travis and Job's Corner Chronicles series. Murder at Markham (1988) opens it, followed by Murder in the Charleston Manner (1990), Murder on Peachtree Street (1991), Somebody's Dead in Snellville (1992) and A Mystery Bred in Buckhead (1994). Friday's Daughter (2011) is the last catalogued title.

Denise Weimer writes historical fiction and romance. Georgia appears among the catalogue subjects alongside families, female friendship, sibling rivalry and the Reconstruction era. The 27 books run from Sautee Shadows (2010) to A Contrary Betrothal (2026), taking in The Gray Divide (2013), Bright as Gold (2014), The Crimson Bloom (2014), Fall Flip (2019) and The Witness Tree (2019). Scouts of the Georgia Frontier, Georgia Gold, Restoration Trilogy and Twenty-Niners of the Georgia Gold Rush are the four series recorded, and Weimer remains actively publishing.

Sharon Sala has written under the Sharon Sala name and as Dinah McCall, with more than 85 books in print since a first publication in 1991. Sala is a seven-time RITA finalist and a Janet Dailey Award winner, and Romance Writers of America gave Sala its Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award. The catalogue holds 144 Sala titles, from Sara's Angel (1991) to Reckoning (2026). Series include Blessings, Georgia; Mossy Creek; Jubilee, Kentucky; Jigsaw Files; Justice Way; Cat Dupree; Storm Front and Rebel Ridge. Romantic suspense and contemporary romance appear among the subject tags.

Robert Whitlow writes Christian legal fiction set in Georgia and South Carolina. The List (2000) opens a catalogue of 24 books that includes the Tides of Truth series, the Alexia Lindale novels and Chosen People, with women lawyers and courtroom cases recurring throughout. Whitlow publishes into 2026 with Witness Protection.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

86 books• 9 series

Caitlín R. Kiernan, born 26 May 1964, is an Irish-born American writer of science fiction and dark fantasy who also works as a paleontologist. The output includes 10 novels, comic book series, and more than 250 short stories, novellas and vignettes. Kiernan has won both the World Fantasy Award and the Bram Stoker Award twice. The catalogue lists 86 entries from 1997 to 2025, including issues of The Dreaming, Silk (1998) and Bright Dead Star (2025). Dancy Flammarion, Siobhan Quinn, Tinfoil Dossier and Chance Matthews are listed series, and horror, vampires and werewolves appear in the subjects.

Mignon F. Ballard, born in 1934, grew up in a small Georgia town and lives in Fort Mill, South Carolina. Ballard writes mysteries with women sleuths in two series, Augusta Goodnight and Miss Dimple Kilpatrick. Guardian angels, elementary school teachers and the Second World War are among the subjects. Aunt Matilda's Ghost (1978) opens a 23-book list that includes An Angel to Die For (2000). No Word for Goodbye (2021) is the last.

Karen White writes about family secrets, old houses and the women who inherit them. 36 catalogued books run from In the Shadow of the Moon (2000) to That Last Carolina Summer, with Whispers of Goodbye (2001), Falling Home (2002), After the Rain (2003), The Color of Light (2005) and Pieces of the Heart (2006) among the early titles. The Tradd Street series turns on a real estate agent and a haunted historic property; Royal Street and Falling Home form separate groupings. The Birds on Newcomb Boulevard is scheduled for 2027.

Terri Blackstock's catalogue holds 78 books published between 1984 and 2021, beginning with Blue Fire (1984), issued under the name Terri Herrington. Recorded subjects place the work in Christian fiction, mystery and detective writing, romantic suspense, and stories of sisters and of mothers and daughters. Series in the listing include Newpointe 911, Sun Coast Chronicles, Cape Refuge and If I Run. Three titles also carry a credit for Tracy Hughes. No new book has been catalogued since Aftermath (2021).

The American South is where Anne Rivers Siddons set her fiction, in novels about families, friendships and the houses and towns that shape both. John Chancellor Makes Me Cry (1975), a memoir, opens the catalogue; The House Next Door (1978) turns to the uncanny, and Peachtree Road (1989) is the Atlanta novel. Twenty-two titles make up the list, closing with The Girls of August in 2014, at a median of 400 pages.

Ann Napolitano is an American novelist whose four catalogued books work in family saga: Irish American households, conflicts between generations, small-town Georgia, the figure of Flannery O'Connor. The run opens with Within Arm's Reach (2004) and reaches Hello Beautiful (2023), with A Good Hard Look (2011) and Dear Edward (2020) in between. Roughly six years separate one Napolitano novel from the next, and nothing has been catalogued since 2023.

Betsy Brannon Green writes mystery and romantic suspense from a Latter-day Saint perspective, with Mormon characters and communities at the centre. Green's 22 catalogued books, published between 2001 and 2015, include the Haggerty Mystery series plus the Kennedy Killingsworth, Duty, Eureka and Proceed With Caution runs and a set of standalone novels. Undercover operations, kidnapping and police investigation drive the plots. Hearts in Hiding (2001) opens the catalogue and Puzzle Pieces (2015) is the last catalogued title.

Forensic science drives Beverly Connor's mysteries. Lindsay Chamberlain is an archaeologist and Diane Fallon a forensic anthropologist, each with a series of her own, and excavation and skeletal evidence supply the plots. A Rumor Of Bones (1996) opens the catalogue of 15 books, which closes with The Poplar Creek Murders in 2015.

Marilyn Pappano/ Rachel Butler is the combined catalogue name for 76 books from 1987 to 2020. Contemporary romance and romantic suspense appear among the subjects, with widows, veterans, assassins, women journalists and kidnapping also recorded. The Lights of Home (1987) is the first title and Dangerous Reunion (2020) the latest. Series include Copper Lake, Bethlehem, Southern Knights, Heartbreak Canyon, Tallgrass, Cedar Creek and Rawlins Brothers.

John Farris, born John Lee Farris on July 26, 1936, is an American novelist, screenwriter and playwright. Farris reached best-seller status at twenty-three, is most famous for The Fury (Playboy Press, 1976) and is known for southern Gothic fiction. The catalogue lists 45 books from The Corpse Next Door (1956) to Last Poems (2025). Baby Moll (1958) and Danger in My Blood (1959) are listed under the name Steve Brackeen, and Harrison High (1959) sits alongside The Girl from Harrison High (1968). Subject tags include horror, psychics, fathers and daughters, and Georgia.

Eva Marie Everson writes Christian fiction and non-fiction. Catalogue subjects record Christianity, marriage, parenting, mothers and daughters, family life and Georgia. The listing holds 35 books published between 1999 and 2022, from Pinches Of Salt, Prisms Of Light (1999) to The Third Path (2022), and records three series: Shadow Of Dreams, the Potluck Club and the Potluck Catering Club. Everson holds the sole credit on all 35 titles.