Harper & Hattie Books in Order

The Harper & Hattie books are Stacy M Jones at her most playful, but the murders are still real and the mysteries still matter. The series is set in Little Rock's Heights neighborhood, where psychic-medium Hattie Beauregard-Ryan and her niece Harper Ryan keep getting pulled into cases that mix family drama, Southern gossip, and the supernatural. The tone is cozy, but not weightless. People lie, ghosts linger, and old trouble has a way of showing up at the worst possible time.

Hattie is the heart of the series. She runs Hattie's Cauldron: Potions & Pasties, reads people well, and takes her magic as a normal part of daily life. Harper arrives more skeptical and a lot less settled, trying to rebuild after her personal life has gone sideways. One of the pleasures of the series is watching Harper slowly accept that the strange things around her are not coincidences, and that she has gifts of her own.

Ghosts are useful, but they are never enough.

That is part of the fun here. Hattie and Harper can get nudges from the other side, feel the pull of curses, or stumble onto clues through intuition and psychometry, but they still need evidence the living can use. Across books like Saints & Sinners Ball, Secrets to Tell, and Rule of Three, the pair deal with murdered prosecutors, haunted houses, missing photographers, family scandals, rival witches, and small-town grudges that have been simmering for years.

The setting does a lot of work. Little Rock feels specific, from upscale neighborhoods to local businesses and the circle of friends and suspects that keeps overlapping. Jones also knows when to widen the map. The Forever Curse takes the duo to New Orleans, and A Treasure Most Deadly puts them on a cruise where even a vacation cannot keep murder and ghosts away. The world keeps expanding, but the series never loses its homey center.

Underneath the charm, there is an ongoing story about family, second chances, and learning how to use power without letting it use you. Harper changes a lot from book to book. Her confidence grows, her abilities sharpen, and her relationships deepen. You can read the mysteries one at a time, but the series is more rewarding in order, starting with Saints & Sinners Ball. If you want cozy crime with wit, warmth, and a paranormal twist, this is the one.