Betsy Brannon Green Books in Order
Find Betsy Brannon Green books in order, with series lists, short summaries, background notes, and help choosing where to start.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
22 books
Hearts in Hiding
by Betsy Brannon Green
2001
Pregnant widow Kate Singleton learns her murdered FBI-agent husband left enemies behind, and now they want her dead too. Witness protection sends her to Haggerty with a new name and a pretend husband.
Never Look Back
by Betsy Brannon Green
2002
Sydney Lovell's carefully planned life collapses when her husband asks for a divorce. As she rebuilds, rancher Cole Brackner faces sabotage, rumors, and pressure to sell his land.
Until Proven Guilty
by Betsy Brannon Green
2002
After her fiancé dies on their wedding day, Beth Middleton shuts herself away from life. A job evaluating an attorney and his daughter pulls her into a dangerous trial where witnesses vanish.
Above Suspicion
by Betsy Brannon Green
2003
Mary Grace O'Malley's quiet bed-and-breakfast life is upended when reporter John Wright returns to investigate an old murder. Then a new death pulls Haggerty visitors into Bethany Beach's buried secrets.
Don't Close Your Eyes
by Betsy Brannon Green
2003
A woman is murdered in Eureka, Georgia, the same night secretive Helen Tyler arrives in town. Sheriff Matt Clevenger finds a white Bible on the bed, a clue tied to another recent killing.
Foul Play
by Betsy Brannon Green
2004
Billie Murphy, an Atlanta public relations worker and part-time novelist, is pulled into a glamorous business scheme built on fraud. To survive, she must run with a man hiding his own painful past.
Silenced
by Betsy Brannon Green
2004
Detective Mila Edwards is drawn into a case involving two children and the disappearance of their parents. In Haggerty, concern, gossip, and danger mix as Mila follows evidence someone wants buried.
Copycat
by Betsy Brannon Green
2005
FBI agent Mark Iverson visits a condemned serial killer who claims one victim was not his. As Mark reopens the mystery, a missing woman and Haggerty's watchful neighbors complicate the truth.
Poison
by Betsy Brannon Green
2005
Detective Mila Edwards is in Hawaii for her wedding when a dinner party turns deadly and a maid is found murdered. With Haggerty friends underfoot, paradise becomes a suspect-filled puzzle.
Christmas in Haggerty
by Betsy Brannon Green
2006
Christmas in Haggerty brings door-decorating contests, caroling, food, and familiar neighbors. Kate Iverson is struggling with infertility and a recurring dream, and the season nudges her toward service and healing.
Double Cross
by Betsy Brannon Green
2006
FBI agent and bishop Mark Iverson goes undercover in Colombia to rescue a young woman from a drug lord. When the mission proves false, Mark and Kate must protect their family from betrayal.
Backtrack
by Betsy Brannon Green
2007
Four old friends retreat to a mountain cabin, only for a storm and a suspicious man in uniform to trap them. Back in Haggerty, Miss Eugenia's new romance may bring its own danger.
Hazardous Duty
by Betsy Brannon Green
2007
When Savannah McLaughlin's six-year-old daughter is kidnapped, she turns to Major Christopher Dane, the one man who might find her. Their painful past makes the rescue mission even more dangerous.
Above and Beyond
by Betsy Brannon Green
2008
Savannah has Caroline back, but safety is still out of reach. When a mob boss's pregnant daughter asks for help, Savannah and Major Dane are pulled into another mission with personal stakes.
Code of Honor
by Betsy Brannon Green
2009
Savannah McLaughlin is still in Mario Ferrante's sights, and Major Dane makes a dangerous trade to save her. Now Savannah and Dane's team must risk everything to bring him home.
Murder by the Book
by Betsy Brannon Green
2009
Small-town librarian Kennedy Killingsworth thinks Midway, Georgia, is dull until Foster Scoggins dies hours after getting a library card. Kennedy doubts it was suicide, and suspects gather close to home.
Murder by Design
by Betsy Brannon Green
2010
Kennedy expects Midway to calm down after Foster Scoggins's murder, until Sloan climbs through her bedroom window with classified information. When a bad artist dies and his paintings become valuable, Kennedy smells murder.
Murder by the Way
by Betsy Brannon Green
2012
Kennedy Killingsworth is newly married when Luke is called away and Drake Langston returns to Midway. A prison van crash, escaped inmates, and fresh threats make her quiet future disappear fast.
Pivot Point
by Betsy Brannon Green
2012
Dr. Meghan Collins has a good life, but one old decision still haunts her. When dream technology offers a chance to revisit that pivotal moment, temptation opens a door she may not be able to close.
Proceed with Caution
by Betsy Brannon Green
2013
Brooke Clayton vanishes after finding evidence someone will kill to bury. Major Dane's team sends Hunter 'Owl' Ezell to protect her, but hiding as a married couple makes danger, and feelings, hard to ignore.
Danger Ahead
by Betsy Brannon Green
2014
Brooke Clayton's secrets have caught up with her, and Hunter 'Owl' Ezell is no longer sure what to believe. With Joined Forces closing in, trust becomes as dangerous as escape.
Puzzle Pieces
by Betsy Brannon Green
2015
Presley DeGraff runs to Haggerty, Georgia, hoping her Aunt Violet can help her start over. A skeleton in the backyard, a growing romance with Mac, and Presley's dangerous past soon turn refuge into another puzzle.
Where should I start?
For small-town Southern mystery: Hearts in Hiding → Until Proven Guilty → Above Suspicion → Silenced.
For military romantic suspense: Hazardous Duty → Above and Beyond → Code of Honor.
For a librarian sleuth: Murder by the Book → Murder by Design → Murder by the Way.
For a shorter linked read: Proceed with Caution → Danger Ahead.
For a standalone change of pace: Pivot Point.
Author bio
Betsy Brannon Green was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on June 1, 1958. Her family did not stay in one place for long. Her father went from medical school in Alabama into the U.S. Army, and Green spent parts of her childhood in places such as Fort Knox, Colorado Springs, Honolulu, and San Antonio before the family settled in Decatur, Alabama.
The South stuck.
Green has often tied her fiction to the rhythms of small-town Southern life. Her grandparents' hometown, Headland, Alabama, helped shape her fictional Haggerty, Georgia, a place full of porch visits, church friends, gossip, recipes, and neighbors who know far more than they probably should.
She married Robert Green in 1979, and they raised eight children. For years, writing was something she wanted to do someday. Then, in the fall of 1999, she sat down and began trying in earnest. Her first manuscript did not find a publisher, which is a familiar beginning for many writers. Her second did.
That book was Hearts in Hiding, published in 2001. It introduced readers to Kate Singleton, a pregnant widow pushed into FBI protection, and it opened the door to the Haggerty stories Green is still best known for. Those books mix suspense, romance, faith, and Southern manners in a way that feels more like a visit with very nosy relatives than a hard-boiled crime series.
Green kept building from there.
The Eureka books, including Never Look Back and Don't Close Your Eyes, lean into romantic suspense in Georgia settings. The Duty books, starting with Hazardous Duty, move toward military danger and family stakes. The Kennedy Killingsworth mysteries, beginning with Murder by the Book, follow a small-town librarian whose life gets much less boring than she expected.
Readers tend to come to Green for clean suspense, complicated family ties, and mysteries that leave room for romance and humor. Her characters are often ordinary people who get dropped into frightening situations: a mother searching for a kidnapped child, a librarian pulled into a murder case, a woman hiding under a new identity, or a doctor tempted to revisit the one choice she can't stop thinking about.
Several of her books have been Whitney Award finalists in the mystery and suspense category, including Hazardous Duty, Above and Beyond, Murder by the Book, and Murder by Design. Green has lived in Bessemer, Alabama, and her work still carries the warm, busy, slightly meddlesome feel of the Southern communities that shaped her.
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