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Delilah Street Books in Order

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Browse the Delilah Street books in order by Carole Nelson Douglas, with summaries, series background, and a quick guide to this paranormal Vegas run.

Last updated: July 10, 2026

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6 books

1

Dancing With Werewolves

by Carole Nelson Douglas

2007

Thirteen years after the world learned supernaturals are real, reporter Delilah Street arrives in a Las Vegas run by a werewolf mob. Between Ric Montoya, Quicksilver, and the gates of Hell, she is thrown in fast.

2

Brimstone Kiss

by Carole Nelson Douglas

2008

Delilah's search into two long-buried skeletons leads to vampires, celebrity zombies, a dangerous albino rocker, and evil under the desert. Vegas is crawling with supernaturals, but this case digs far deeper.

3

Vampire Sunrise

by Carole Nelson Douglas

2009

Ric is fighting for his life, an ancient undead empire is closing in, and Delilah may need help from a chained death god. Vegas has never felt more apocalyptic, or more personal.

4

Silver Zombie

by Carole Nelson Douglas

2010

Delilah retreats to her Kansas birthplace with Ric and Quicksilver, only to find zombie cowboys, witches, mirror terrors, and a woman named Lilith who looks disturbingly familiar. Home is no safer than Vegas.

5

Virtual Virgin

by Carole Nelson Douglas

2011

Delilah faces a dangerous robot simulacrum modeled after *Metropolis*'s Maria, and the machine has fixed on Ric Montoya. To stop a demonic scheme, Delilah may have to work with her own dark mirror-twin, Lilith.

6

Monster Mash

by Carole Nelson Douglas

2013

Delilah Street is hired to clear a haunted hotel-casino overrun by old movie monsters and family bitterness. It is a shorter, bittersweet case that lets Douglas play with Hollywood horror and Las Vegas supernatural mayhem.

Series background & context

The Delilah Street books take Douglas's love of Vegas, noir talk, and oddball supporting casts and push them into urban fantasy. In this world, the millennium changed everything. Supernatural beings did not stay hidden. Witches, werewolves, vampires, zombies, and stranger things stepped into public life, and Las Vegas became the kind of town where that revelation could thrive, or rot, depending on where you stand.

Delilah starts as a young TV reporter from Kansas who has already been covering the weird stuff before moving to Sin City. She is brave, impulsive, resourceful, and a little too curious for her own good, which makes her perfect for this version of Vegas. Once she arrives, she gets pulled into jobs and mysteries that quickly go far beyond local color. The city is run through by mob power, media spectacle, ancient evil, and supernatural politics.

She is not facing any of that alone. Ric Montoya, a former FBI agent, becomes both ally and emotional complication. Quicksilver, her massive part-wolfhound protector, is one of the series' best presences, part guard dog, part bruiser, part loyal heart. Then there are the stranger figures around the edges, including vampires, movie-star simulacra, an albino rocker named Snow, and enemies who are never content to stay dead, distant, or simple.

The books grow more mythic as they go. What begins as paranormal investigation turns into a broader struggle involving ancient Egypt, hidden bloodlines, mirror worlds, doubles, demonic schemes, and monsters from classic Hollywood turned loose in modern life. Douglas keeps the pace fast, but she never loses the campy, glittery, dangerous feel of the setting. Vegas is not just a backdrop here. It is a machine that magnifies appetite, illusion, and power.

Even with all the supernatural noise, Delilah stays recognizable. She wants answers. She wants to protect the people, and creatures, who matter to her. She wants to make sense of a past that keeps refusing to stay buried. So the series works on two levels at once, as a monster-filled noir adventure and as the story of a woman trying to keep her footing in a city built on spectacle and lies.

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