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Faye Longchamp Books in Order

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See the Faye Longchamp series by Mary Anna Evans in order, with short summaries, background on the books, and a clear guide to where to start.

Last updated: June 9, 2026

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13 books

1

Artifacts

by Mary Anna Evans

2003

Faye Longchamp is trying to save her family's crumbling Florida plantation by digging artifacts on the side, until she unearths a murdered woman. Reporting the skull could destroy her livelihood, but staying quiet may be even more dangerous.

2

Relics

by Mary Anna Evans

2005

Back in school and barely qualified, Faye is asked to run an archaeological project in remote Alabama focused on the mysterious Sujosa community. After a fire and a shocking death, she has to untangle buried history, local politics, and murder.

3

Effigies

by Mary Anna Evans

2007

Faye and Joe Wolf Mantooth head to Mississippi to excavate land near Nanih Waiya, only to watch a farmer try to destroy a sacred mound. When he turns up dead, the fight over history, heritage, and old grudges becomes a murder case.

4

Findings

by Mary Anna Evans

2008

Working at Joyeuse, Faye thinks she's finally home and doing the work she loves. Then thieves kill her mentor, steal her field notes, and leave behind clues tied to buried treasure, Confederate history, and a killer who wants her silent.

5

Floodgates

by Mary Anna Evans

2008

In post-Katrina New Orleans, Faye and Joe discover a corpse that is far too recent to belong to an archaeological dig. What looks like storm wreckage becomes a deliberate crime, pulling them into a case shaped by rescue work, secrets, and the city's haunted past.

6

Strangers

by Mary Anna Evans

2010

Faye and Joe's new consulting firm lands its first major job at a historic St. Augustine inn, where a young employee disappears and her boyfriend turns up dead. As Faye digs through centuries of artifacts, a missing diary and a possibly haunted house sharpen the danger.

7

Plunder

by Mary Anna Evans

2012

Working near the Mississippi delta after the Deepwater Horizon spill, Faye and Joe are already dealing with damaged sites and oil-soaked land. When a teenage girl's relatives are murdered and pirate coins surface, the case becomes personal fast.

8

Rituals

by Mary Anna Evans

2013

In a rural New York town founded by Spiritualists, Faye agrees to a seance out of curiosity more than belief. Soon the woman hosting it is dead under impossible circumstances, and Rosebower's mix of mystics, frauds, and old rivalries turns into a deeply strange murder puzzle.

9

Isolation

by Mary Anna Evans

2015

Grieving and withdrawn, Faye digs obsessively at Joyeuse while Joe tries to hold their family together. When a friend is murdered and violence against local women spreads, the island's history and poisoned ground start to matter in frightening ways.

10

Burials

by Mary Anna Evans

2017

A long-buried woman emerges from Oklahoma clay with jewelry, pearls, and questions that never died. Faye's investigation into Sophia Townsend's magnetic, destructive life pulls at old passions, buried motives, and even the fault lines in her own marriage.

11

Undercurrents

by Mary Anna Evans

2018

In Memphis for contract work, Faye notices a small girl alone near a creek and soon finds a woman buried alive. Refusing to walk away, she stays to protect the orphaned child and hunt a killer the police are too slow to name.

12

Catacombs

by Mary Anna Evans

2019

After an explosion tears open the floor of a historic Oklahoma City hotel, Faye discovers underground chambers once used by Chinese immigrants. Then the tunnels yield the bodies of three children, and a fascinating dig becomes a grim search for truth.

13

Wrecked

by Mary Anna Evans

2020

When a trusted sea captain drowns in scuba gear he had no reason to wear, Faye Longchamp knows something is wrong. Set against a hurricane-ravaged coast, the case mixes rumored treasure, grief, and danger that creeps close to her daughter.

Series background & context

The Faye Longchamp books start with a great hook. Faye is living at Joyeuse, a worn Florida plantation that has been in her family since her ancestor Cally gained it after the Civil War. She is short on money and long on determination, and in Artifacts she is digging up pieces of the past to keep the place afloat. Then the past pushes back in the form of a human skull, and the series finds its shape.

Faye is not a tidy amateur sleuth. She is smart, impulsive, deeply attached to land and history, and often caught between what is legal and what feels necessary. As the books go on, she moves from scraping by to doing professional archaeological work, later running a consulting firm. Her closest partner in every sense is Joe Wolf Mantooth, whose steady presence and own sense of duty give the series a strong emotional center.

She keeps digging anyway.

History does real work here. Evans sends Faye to Florida islands, remote Alabama hills, Mississippi sacred ground, storm-damaged New Orleans, St. Augustine, Oklahoma City, Memphis, and beyond. The mysteries are not just dropped into those settings. They grow out of old communities, old violence, contested land, family stories, disaster recovery, and the way people use the past for money, power, or belonging.

That makes the series darker and more grounded than a cozy mystery, even when it has wit or warmth. These books care about archaeology as work, not just backdrop. Digs are exhausting. Records are messy. Human remains raise ethical questions. And the land itself is often under pressure from hurricanes, pollution, development, or neglect. Faye is at her best when she is reading those pressures as carefully as she reads artifacts.

The emotional arc matters too. Joyeuse is more than a base of operations. It is a family burden, a refuge, and a source of unanswered questions. Over the series Faye's relationship with Joe deepens, family life grows more complicated, and later books bring their daughter Amande into the picture. That ongoing thread gives the novels extra weight, because the danger is rarely abstract. It reaches the people Faye loves.

If you like mysteries that move through Southern history, archaeology, and environmental trouble without losing sight of character, this is the heart of Mary Anna Evans's fiction. The books can stand alone, but read in order they let you watch Faye grow from a desperate young woman digging for survival into a seasoned investigator who knows that every buried thing comes with a cost.

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