Beverly Connor Books in Order
Browse Beverly Connor books in order, with quick summaries, guides to the Diane Fallon and Lindsay Chamberlain series, and help choosing where to start.
Last updated: June 9, 2026
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Publication Order
15 books
A Rumor Of Bones
by Beverly Connor
1996
At an archaeological dig in Georgia, Lindsay Chamberlain is asked to identify the bones of missing children found in shallow graves. As more remains appear, she uncovers a much older crime and a killer who still has something to hide.
Questionable Remains
by Beverly Connor
1997
While studying centuries-old bones in Tennessee, Lindsay Chamberlain is asked to look into two suspicious cave deaths. Gold fever, family tensions, and another much older mystery turn her vacation into a dangerous excavation of greed.
Dressed To Die
by Beverly Connor
1998
A skeleton dressed in church clothes falls from a crate stored for decades on Lindsay Chamberlain's family farm. As stolen artifacts, a missing professor, and old family secrets pile up, Lindsay's job and reputation are suddenly at risk.
Skeleton Crew
by Beverly Connor
1999
Excavating a sixteenth-century Spanish galleon off the Georgia coast, Lindsay Chamberlain uncovers signs of murder at sea. The ancient mystery soon collides with modern killings, pirates, and dangers that make the wreck site anything but historic.
Airtight Case
by Beverly Connor
2000
After a brutal attack leaves Lindsay Chamberlain buried alive and struggling with missing memories, she joins a tense dig near the Great Smoky Mountains. Strange coffins, a hostile crew, and a disappearance turn recovery into another fight for survival.
Dead Guilty
by Beverly Connor
2004
Three bodies hanging in the woods launch Diane Fallon into a deeply personal case. As taunting messages pile up and the clues turn stranger, she faces a killer bent on revenge, obsession, and dragging her closer to the edge.
One Grave Too Many
by Beverly Connor
2004
Starting over as a Georgia museum director, Diane Fallon is drawn back into forensics when Detective Frank Duncan asks her to study a bone found in the woods. The case soon opens onto a family's hidden tragedy.
Dead Secret
by Beverly Connor
2005
A skeleton in an unmapped cave is only the start. When two more sets of remains surface, Diane Fallon follows a trail of love, greed, and murder into a decades-old family secret that is still deadly.
Dead Past
by Beverly Connor
2007
A traumatized woman begins remembering fragments of violence after seeing a television cold case, and Diane Fallon realizes they point to two connected crimes. Someone else sees the same link, and will kill again to keep it buried.
Dead Hunt
by Beverly Connor
2008
Diane Fallon helped put Clymene O'Riley behind bars, so she knows better than to trust her. But when the killer reaches out from prison, Diane is pulled into a murder that makes her a suspect and targets her museum.
Scattered Graves
by Beverly Connor
2008
Rosewood's new mayor pushes Diane Fallon out of her crime-lab role, then is murdered along with the police chief. The evidence points one way, but Diane sees corruption, a setup, and a much larger threat closing in.
Dust to Dust
by Beverly Connor
2009
When a woman dies after claiming she found proof her imprisoned brother is innocent, Diane Fallon suspects murder. To uncover the truth, she has to dig through family secrets, old grudges, and a case no one wants reopened.
One Grave Less
by Beverly Connor
2010
A wounded former coworker from Diane Fallon's human rights days stumbles into her museum with a cryptic warning, then dies. The clue drags Diane back toward old atrocities and a deadly enemy who would like her buried with the past.
The Night Killer
by Beverly Connor
2010
Driving through a storm after collecting rare Native American artifacts, Diane Fallon crashes into a fallen tree and finds a skeleton hidden inside. Stranded on a mountain road with a killer nearby, she has to solve the secret before morning.
The Poplar Creek Murders
by Beverly Connor
2015
Back in her East Tennessee hometown, deputy coroner Dr. Lee Turner investigates a string of unexplained deaths, starting with a retired Oak Ridge scientist. As the body count rises, local resistance and hidden forces make every answer more dangerous.
Where should I start?
If you want the archaeology side first: A Rumor Of Bones → Questionable Remains → Dressed To Die
If you want the Diane Fallon series from the beginning: One Grave Too Many → Dead Guilty → Dead Secret
If you like colder cases and deeper backstory: Dead Past → Scattered Graves → Dust to Dust
If you want the most high-pressure later thrillers: The Night Killer → One Grave Less
If you want a co-written standalone: The Poplar Creek Murders
Author bio
Beverly Connor grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a town that left her with a strong feel for place and for the way history sits inside everyday life. In a later oral history, she remembered Oak Ridge as a good place to be a kid, full of library trips, neighborhood freedom, and a head always crowded with stories.
She attended East Tennessee State University, met her husband Charles Connor there, and later continued her studies at the University of Georgia. Over time she built a background in geology, anthropology, sociology, and archaeology, the kind of mix that would later fit her fiction almost perfectly.
Before she wrote novels, she did the real work.
Connor worked as an archaeologist in Georgia and South Carolina, doing fieldwork and analyzing artifacts. She knew what it meant to spend long hours on a dig, how careful bone identification has to be, and how often the past survives only in fragments. That practical knowledge became the backbone of her mysteries.
Connor had been telling herself stories for years. She later said her mind made them up whenever it was not busy with something else. She was shy as a girl and even took public speaking to push against that, but the inner story engine never really turned off. In the 1980s she started writing things down, first by hand, then on a typewriter, and eventually on a computer, which made revision much easier.
One question started it all.
While working with Native American burials, Connor found herself wondering what would happen if one grave turned out not to be ancient at all, but modern and violent. That thought helped light the path to fiction. Her first novel, A Rumor Of Bones, appeared in 1996 and introduced Lindsay Chamberlain, an archaeologist and bone expert who keeps finding that old sites lead to very current crimes. Books like Questionable Remains, Skeleton Crew, and Airtight Case lean into caves, shipwrecks, artifacts, and the uneasy line between scholarship and danger.
Later Connor created Diane Fallon, beginning with One Grave Too Many. She once explained that Diane was meant to be similar to Lindsay, but different enough to open a new world. Diane is still a bone expert, but she works from a museum and crime-lab setting, which gives books like Dead Secret, Dead Past, and The Night Killer a sharper forensic edge.
What readers often like about Connor is how grounded the books feel. She writes about dig sites, museum storage, lab work, local politics, and the slow sorting of evidence into something useful. Her settings are usually in the South, where land, family memory, and old secrets keep colliding. Connor also wrote with Charles Connor, including The Poplar Creek Murders, and after many years in Athens, Georgia, she later returned to Oak Ridge. That ending suits her fiction. Again and again, her stories come back to the same idea: places remember, and the past is never quite finished.
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