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Charlaine Harris Schulz Books in Order

Explore Charlaine Harris Schulz's books in order, with series overviews, story summaries, reading order guides, and simple tips on where to start her mysteries.

Last updated: June 7, 2026

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Sweet and Deadly

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

1981

Grieving her parents' suspicious death in a supposed car accident, young reporter Catherine Linton comes home to Lowfield, Mississippi, only to find her father's nurse murdered and a web of small town secrets that suggest a killer very close to home.

A Secret Rage

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

1984

Dropped by her agent, New York model Nickie Callahan returns to a Tennessee college town just as a serial rapist begins targeting students, and after suffering her own attack she teams with another survivor to hunt the predator hiding in plain sight.

Real Murders

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

1990

Aurora Teagarden belongs to a club of crime buffs who study famous murders, but when a member is killed in a copycat slaying, the librarian finds herself both suspect and sleuth as more deaths echo historic crimes.

A Bone to Pick

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

1992

Roe Teagarden unexpectedly inherits a house, money, and a trove of secrets from a fellow Real Murders Club member, including a human skull hidden in a window seat, and must work out whose death she has literally been handed.

Three Bedrooms, One Corpse

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

1994

Testing the waters of her mother's real estate business, Aurora Teagarden shows a house to a client and discovers a dead body inside, then learns that someone seems to be targeting local agents, including Roe herself.

The Julius House

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

1995

Eager for a place of her own, Aurora Teagarden buys the infamous Julius House, where an entire family vanished years before, and soon finds unsettling clues in the walls that suggest the missing residents may never have left at all.

Dead Over Heels

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

1996

When a police detective literally falls from the sky and lands dead in Aurora Teagarden's yard, Roe becomes enmeshed in a case that links prank calls, old grudges, and someone determined to make her the next victim.

Shakespeare's Landlord

by Charlaine Harris

1996

Cleaning woman Lily Bard keeps to herself in Shakespeare, Arkansas, until she glimpses someone dumping a body in the park using her garbage cart, forcing her to juggle her need for anonymity with a growing determination to see a killer caught.

Shakespeare's Champion

by Charlaine Harris

1997

Trying to keep her head down in Shakespeare, Arkansas, Lily Bard instead finds a body in her gym and a wave of racist violence sweeping the town, pushing her to use her fighting skills and cleaner's eye for detail to uncover who is stirring up hate.

Shakespeare's Christmas

by Charlaine Harris

1998

Lily Bard reluctantly returns to her hometown for a family Christmas and an old friend's wedding, but a long unsolved child kidnapping case and fresh danger in the church aisles prove that the past in small towns is never really past.

A Fool and His Honey

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

1999

Aurora Teagarden's peaceful married life is upended when a young relative arrives with a newborn, then disappears, leaving the baby behind and a dead husband on Roe's porch, sending her on a frantic search for the missing mother and a killer.

Shakespeare's Trollop

by Charlaine Harris

2000

When one of Lily Bard's cleaning clients and sometime rival is found dead in a parked car, gossip in Shakespeare turns vicious, and Lily must navigate ugly small town rumors and her own painful history to uncover the truth.

Dead Until Dark

by Charlaine Harris

2001

In small town Bon Temps, telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse falls for Bill, the first vampire to walk into her bar, just as a string of vampire linked murders makes both of them suspects and forces Sookie into a lethal investigation.

Shakespeare's Counselor

by Charlaine Harris

2001

In this final Lily Bard mystery, Lily joins a group therapy program to confront her past, only to have violence erupt at the counselor's office and drag her into an investigation that forces her to balance hard earned trust with her instinct to run.

Last Scene Alive

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2002

A film crew arrives in Lawrenceton to shoot a movie based on a crime novel clearly inspired by Aurora Teagarden, and when the temperamental lead actress is murdered, Roe must sift through Hollywood egos and hometown tensions to find the killer.

Living Dead in Dallas

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2002

Summoned by vampire sheriff Eric Northman, Sookie Stackhouse is sent to Dallas to use her telepathy to locate a missing vampire, a job that pits her against a militant anti vampire church and tests her fragile relationship with Bill.

Club Dead

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2003

After vampire Bill vanishes on a mysterious errand, Sookie Stackhouse travels to Mississippi with werewolf escort Alcide to search for him in a dangerous vampire club, where court intrigue, old enemies, and a brutal betrayal wait.

Poppy Done to Death

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2003

When Aurora Teagarden's glamorous stepsister in law Poppy is found murdered in her own kitchen, Roe must sort through a tangle of affairs, jealous spouses, and family resentments to find which of Poppy's many entanglements turned deadly.

Dead to the World

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2004

Sookie Stackhouse finds vampire sheriff Eric Northman running through the woods with no memory of who he is, drawing her into a dangerous power struggle among witches, werewolves, and vampires that threatens everyone she cares about.

Fairy Dust

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2004

When a fairy is murdered outside the bar, Sookie Stackhouse agrees to help her surviving siblings by using her telepathy to sift through the human witnesses in Bon Temps and uncover who killed their glamorous sister.

Dead as a Doornail

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2005

In the tense days after shape shifters reveal themselves to the world, Sookie Stackhouse is caught in the crossfire when someone begins shooting shifters, and she must help track a sniper while navigating volatile were and vampire politics.

Grave Sight

by Charlaine Harris

2005

Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver are hired to locate a missing girl in an Ozarks town, but when Harper finds the teenager's body and another corpse beside her, they become entangled in a knot of secrets the locals will do anything to keep buried.

Definitely Dead

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2006

Sookie travels to New Orleans to settle the estate of her murdered cousin Hadley, former lover of the vampire Queen of Louisiana, and finds herself entangled in royal vampire intrigue, witchcraft, and a mystery tightly bound to her own bloodline.

Grave Surprise

by Charlaine Harris

2006

Demonstrating her abilities for a skeptical professor in a Memphis cemetery, Harper Connelly discovers a grave that holds both a centuries dead man and the recently murdered girl she once failed to find, pulling her into a case that quickly turns even deadlier.

All Together Dead

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2007

Sookie travels with the Queen of Louisiana to a high security vampire summit, where her telepathy is meant to keep the queen safe during a public trial but instead reveals plots, betrayals, and a terrorist attack that leaves humans and vampires fighting for survival.

An Ice Cold Grave

by Charlaine Harris

2007

Harper Connelly is hired to find one missing boy in rural North Carolina and instead uncovers a burial site filled with vanished teenagers, making her a target for a sadistic killer who does not want his crimes brought into the light.

From Dead to Worse

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2008

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and a bombing at a vampire summit, Sookie Stackhouse tries to rebuild her life, but new wars among werewolves and vampire kings drag her back into violence and force her to reconsider every alliance she has.

Dead and Gone

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2009

When werewolves and other shifters publicly reveal their existence, the backlash in Bon Temps is immediate, and Sookie Stackhouse soon faces a crucifixion style murder close to home and a deadly power struggle within the fairy world.

Gift Wrap

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2009

At Christmastime, left alone while her friends and family are away, Sookie Stackhouse finds an injured stranger in the woods near her home and brings him inside, only to discover that his presence is part of a supernatural plot and an unexpected holiday gift.

Grave Secret

by Charlaine Harris

2009

Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver travel to Texas to read the grave of a wealthy family's patriarch, only to find the case tangled up with their own painful past and the long unsolved disappearance of Harper's sister.

One Word Answer

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2009

Sookie Stackhouse is eating dinner on her porch when a stranger arrives in a limousine with news that her cousin Hadley has died, forcing Sookie to confront old family rifts, Hadley's secret second life, and the dangerous vampire politics tied to her inheritance.

Dead in the Family

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2010

Still recovering from fairy torture and recent supernatural wars, Sookie Stackhouse finds her home crowded with vampires and fairies who all have unfinished business, while a new murder on her land threatens the fragile peace she is trying to build.

True Blood Collection

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2010

An omnibus collection of Sookie Stackhouse novels issued to tie in with the television adaptation, offering several of Sookie's early adventures in one package for readers coming to the books from the screen.

Dead Reckoning

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2011

When a firebomb shatters a quiet night at Merlotte's, Sookie Stackhouse must find out who wants her dead while deciding how to use a one time piece of fairy magic that could change her future or someone else's in an irreversible way.

Dead Reckoning

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2011

As a firebomb explodes at Merlotte's and vampire power struggles escalate, Sookie Stackhouse must uncover who wants her dead while deciding how to use a one time piece of fairy magic that could change her life or someone else's forever.

Grave Sight

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2011

This full length graphic novel edition of Grave Sight retells Harper Connelly's first case in Sarne, Arkansas, combining the mystery of a missing girl and a suspicious family tragedy with atmospheric artwork that captures the eerie pull of Harper's gift.

Part 1

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2011

In this first graphic novel installment of Grave Sight, Harper Connelly arrives in the town of Sarne, Arkansas, and uses her lightning born gift to locate a missing teenage girl, only to sense that the grave she finds holds more than one troubling secret.

Part 2

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2011

Part 2 of the Grave Sight graphic adaptation follows Harper and her stepbrother Tolliver as the town of Sarne reels from her discovery, tensions rise with local law enforcement, and more violence suggests that someone will kill again to keep old sins covered.

The First Sookie Collection

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2011

An omnibus volume that gathers the early Sookie Stackhouse novels into one edition, letting readers follow Sookie from her first meeting with Bill through her earliest brushes with vampire politics without hunting down separate books.

The Sookie Stackhouse Companion

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2011

This companion to the Sookie Stackhouse series includes a new Sookie novella, timelines, character guides, recipes, and background essays that deepen the world of Bon Temps for readers who want extra detail between or after the novels.

Dancers in the Dark

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2012

In New Orleans, traumatized dancer Rue flees a violent stalker by joining a supernatural dance troupe, where her new partner is a brooding centuries old vampire whose protective instincts and dangerous past make him both sanctuary and threat.

Deadlocked

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2012

With her relationship to vampire Eric Northman already strained, Sookie Stackhouse arrives at his house to find him feeding from a stranger who later turns up dead on the lawn, pulling Sookie into a politically charged murder case where every choice has consequences.

Part 3

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2012

Harper's search for the truth in Sarne reaches a boiling point in Part 3, as she pieces together the connections between the dead girl, a supposed murder suicide, and the town's most respected families, even while hostility toward her strange talent grows.

After Dead

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2013

This companion volume to the Sookie Stackhouse series offers brief, alphabetized glimpses of what happens to major and minor characters after the main novels end, giving fans closure on romances, careers, and fates across Bon Temps and beyond.

Dead Ever After

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2013

In the final Sookie Stackhouse novel, Sookie is trying to reclaim a quieter life when former barmaid Arlene is found murdered and Sookie becomes the prime suspect, forcing her to confront old enemies, shifting alliances, and what kind of future she really wants.

Midnight Crossroad

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2014

Psychic Manfred Bernardo moves to the dried up town of Midnight, Texas, hoping for a quiet place to work, but the discovery of a dead woman with ties to his landlord drags him and his eccentric, often supernatural neighbors into a defining murder investigation.

Part 4

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2014

In Part 4 of the continuing Grave Sight comic, Harper and Tolliver dig deeper into Sarne's scandals, following money, betrayals, and whispered rumors, and Harper must decide how much danger she is willing to accept for the sake of the dead she has found.

Part 5

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2014

Part 5 pushes Harper close to the killer as new bodies and new clues surface, tightening the circle of suspects and forcing her to rely on Tolliver and the few townspeople who are brave enough to face what really happened.

Part 6

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2014

In the final Grave Sight comic installment, Harper Connelly confronts the person behind the deaths in Sarne and lays the victims' secrets to rest, bringing emotional closure to the case and sharpening the uneasy bond between her and Tolliver.

The Pretenders

by Christopher Golden

2014

After waking up bruised and memoryless in a graveyard, a teenage girl takes the name Calexa Rose Dunhill, hides in a crypt, and discovers she can see the dead, a talent she must use when she witnesses a ritual in the cemetery turn to murder.

Day Shift

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2015

When a mysterious hotel opens on the edge of Midnight and an unusual child is left in Manfred Bernardo's care, the already strange town is swamped with strangers, scandal, and murder, forcing its tight knit supernatural residents to decide how far they will go to protect one another.

Inheritance

by Christopher Golden

2015

Still hiding in the cemetery she calls home, Calexa Rose Dunhill witnesses a brutal killing that pulls her into a new investigation, even as police attention and nosy neighbors threaten to expose the identity she is desperate to protect.

All the Little Liars

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2016

Just as Aurora Teagarden is settling into marriage and pregnancy, her teenage half brother Phillip and three other kids vanish from a soccer field, and a body turns up nearby, pushing Roe and her husband Robin into a frantic search before Christmas.

Charlaine Harris' Grave Surprise

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2016

This graphic novel adapts Grave Surprise, sending Harper Connelly to a Memphis cemetery where she discovers two bodies in a single grave and a third corpse soon after, turning a routine demonstration of her skills into a layered murder investigation.

Night Shift

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2016

In Midnight, Texas, weapons bought from the local pawnshop are turning up at public suicides staged in the crossroads, and vampire Lemuel, psychic Manfred, and their supernatural neighbors must uncover who is driving the deaths before the town's secrets are exposed.

Layla Steps Up

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2017

Newly turned vampire Layla LaRue LeMay dances in a supernatural revue with her maker and husband Sean, but when a sadistic ex lover comes to town to reclaim him, Layla must finally tap into the power of her undeveloped vampiric abilities to protect the life she has built.

Sleep Like a Baby

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2017

New mother Aurora Teagarden is down with the flu and relying on a night nurse when she wakes to her baby's cries, the nurse missing, and a stranger's corpse in the backyard, forcing Roe to solve a murder while barely able to stand.

The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2017

A single volume collection of every Sookie Stackhouse short story and novella, gathering tales of fairies, weddings, road trips, and small town crises that fill in the gaps between the Southern Vampire novels for longtime fans.

An Easy Death

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2018

In fractured Texoma, young gunnie Lizbeth Rose takes a job guarding two Russian wizards as they hunt for a descendant of Rasputin, only to find their trail tied to her own bloody past and to forces that could reshape the continent.

Haunted

by Christopher Golden

2018

Calexa Rose Dunhill, the amnesiac girl who lives among the tombs of Dunhill Cemetery, realizes the people who tried to kill her are still hunting when a man named Salazar arrives, forcing her to face the ghosts she carries and the truth about her past.

Small Kingdoms and Other Stories

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2019

This collection introduces Anne DeWitt, a high school principal with a covert past training elite operatives, as she quietly teams up with coach Holt Halsey to confront violent threats at their school, blending dark humor, vigilante justice, and four connected stories in one slim volume.

A Longer Fall

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2020

After a supposedly routine train job ends in a fiery ambush, gunslinger Lizbeth Rose follows stolen magical cargo into the rigid kingdom of Dixie, where class prejudice and dangerous sorcery make every step of her search a gamble.

The Russian Cage

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2021

Lizbeth Rose travels into the heart of the Holy Russian Empire's territory when her partner Eli is imprisoned in San Diego, and she must outshoot wizards, royal guards, and political schemes to bring him home alive.

The Serpent in Heaven

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2022

In this Gunnie Rose novel the focus shifts to Felicia, Lizbeth's magically gifted younger sister, as she leaves the safety of royal schools and is thrown into plots, assassins, and court secrets that test both her powers and loyalties.

All the Dead Shall Weep

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2023

In this later Gunnie Rose novel, Lizbeth Rose and her younger half sister Felicia find their hard won family threatened by enemies from both Texoma and the Holy Russian Empire, and must face fresh conspiracies, gunfights, and magic that could tear their world apart.

The Last Wizards' Ball

by Charlaine Harris Schulz

2025

As the fractured nations of North America gather for the final Wizards' Ball, Lizbeth Rose and Felicia are drawn into a deadly confrontation involving rival mages, royal politics, and the last secrets of Rasputin's bloodline, bringing the Gunnie Rose saga to a decisive close.

Where should I start?

If you want urban fantasy with vampires: Dead Until DarkLiving Dead in DallasClub Dead.
If you prefer cozy small town mysteries: Real MurdersA Bone to PickThree Bedrooms, One CorpseThe Julius House.
If you like darker, grittier crime: Shakespeare's LandlordShakespeare's ChampionShakespeare's Christmas.
If paranormal mysteries appeal to you: Grave SightGrave SurpriseAn Ice Cold GraveGrave Secret.
If you want alt history and gunslingers: An Easy DeathA Longer FallThe Russian CageThe Serpent in Heaven.

Author bio

Charlaine Harris Schulz writes under the name Charlaine Harris, and her stories sit at the crossroads of mystery, small town life, and the supernatural. She is best known for creating telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse, whose adventures in Dead Until Dark became the basis for the television series True Blood.

She was born on November 25, 1951, in Tunica, Mississippi, and grew up in the flat, humid landscape of the Mississippi Delta. As a child she filled notebooks with poems about ghosts and uneasy teenagers, long before she knew those obsessions would turn into a career.

In college she studied at Rhodes College in Memphis, where she shifted from poetry to playwriting and discovered how much she liked putting characters on a stage. After college she turned to crime fiction, publishing stand alone novels like Sweet and Deadly and A Secret Rage that mixed Southern settings with hard questions about violence and justice.

Her first long running character was Aurora 'Roe' Teagarden, a Georgia librarian and true crime buff who keeps stumbling over real corpses. Starting with Real Murders in 1990, the Aurora books let Harris explore cozy mystery comforts alongside real danger, and the series later inspired a long run of television films. In the 1990s she also wrote the Lily Bard or Shakespeare novels, in which a scarred cleaning woman in small town Arkansas tries to build a quiet life after a brutal assault and finds herself dragged, again and again, into violent secrets.

In 2001 Harris combined mystery with full on urban fantasy in Dead Until Dark, the first of the Southern Vampire Mysteries. The books follow Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana, as she navigates vampire politics, werewolf turf wars, and the daily grind of working at a bar. Across thirteen novels Sookie grows from lonely outsider to someone who chooses her own boundaries, even while the wider world comes to terms with vampires coming out into the open.

Harris did not leave crime fiction behind. With the Harper Connelly novels, beginning with Grave Sight in 2005, she created a heroine who can locate the dead and see their final moments after a lightning strike, then built tightly plotted mysteries around that unsettling gift. Later came the Midnight, Texas trilogy, set in a dusty town where witches, angels, psychics, and vampires try to live quietly together while trouble keeps finding them. Around the same time she teamed up with writer Christopher Golden and artists like Don Kramer and Geraldo Borges for the Cemetery Girl graphic novels, about an amnesiac teen living in a graveyard who can see ghosts.

More recently Harris has written the Gunnie Rose books, alternate history adventures that drop a young gunslinger named Lizbeth Rose into a fractured North America where magic and Russian royals sit alongside desert border towns. The series keeps her favorite concerns, loyalty, survival, and complicated family ties, but moves them into a rough edged, 1930s flavored landscape full of wizards, tsars, and gun smoke.

Across all of these stories certain patterns repeat. Her protagonists are usually women who work for a living, who pay bills, run errands, and worry about their relatives even while bodies pile up around them. There is often a strong streak of humor and a dry, practical voice, but her books do not look away from trauma or cruelty, especially when it touches women and children.

Harris has been publishing for more than forty years and has received honors such as the Lord Ruthven Award and the Inkpot Award for her contributions to fantasy and horror. She is a longtime member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and the American Crime Writers League. After many years in Arkansas she now lives in Texas with her husband, Hal Schulz, close to her three grown children and grandchildren, still reading widely and thinking about what kind of trouble to send her characters into next.

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