Mary Anna Evans Books in Order

Environmental scientist Larabeth McLeod is stalked by a man who knows the worst parts of her past and threatens the daughter she has never met. Reconnecting with private detective J.D. Hatten, she faces an enemy whose plans could kill far more than one family.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In Prohibition-era Florida, eight-year-old Lila watches a drunken man drag her teenage sister away at gunpoint. The story turns a child's terror and the danger of the swamp into a taut, fast-moving short mystery.

This short Florida noir turns an ordinary place into a cramped trap. Evans keeps the pressure high as bad choices narrow her characters' options and push the story toward crime.

A compact collection of three short crime stories that shows Evans working in a tighter frame. The pieces are dark, cleanly built, and full of the moral pressure that runs through her longer fiction.

In an operating room, Nurse Crain watches life and death hang in the balance while carrying knowledge no one else has. This brief, tense story builds around medical pressure, hidden guilt, and a choice that could change everything.

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.

Haley wakes beside her dead boyfriend, covered in blood and certain her identical twin is the killer. Since no lab can easily tell the sisters apart, escaping blame means confronting Bailey face to face.

This larger gathering of stories and essays moves from kidnapping and murder to environmental suspense and historical crime. It is a good look at Evans in short form, with room for both sharp twists and more reflective pieces.

A classroom-focused guide to helping older students see math as something they can actually use. It emphasizes engagement, real-world connections, and ways to build stronger quantitative habits.

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.

A practical writing guide built around a simple idea, a page a day becomes a draft in a year. Evans mixes encouragement with structure, helping writers move from blank page to finished novel without losing momentum.

Environmental bureaucrat Garrett Levy investigates when a controversial politician turns up dead in an alligator's jaws. Set in a swampy, overbuilt Florida, the story mixes murder, politics, and sharp feelings about the land itself.

A movie shoot in 1940s Florida brings Hollywood vanity, sexual tension, and plenty of alligators into the same humid frame. When jealousy turns murderous, the whole production starts to look a lot more dangerous than its monster effects.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Coedited by Evans and J.C. Bernthal, this reference volume gathers a wide range of modern scholarship on Agatha Christie. It looks beyond the famous mysteries to explore short fiction, adaptations, themes, and Christie's long afterlife as a cultural figure.

In 1944 New Orleans, factory worker Justine Byrne suspects sabotage in the plant where she welds mysterious parts for the war effort. After a deadly crane crash, she has to use the scientific training her parents gave her to uncover a traitor.

Justine Byrne goes undercover at Arlington Hall, where the Army's wartime codebreakers are racing through Axis messages and someone on the inside is helping the enemy. As young women start disappearing, her hunt for a traitor becomes even more urgent.

Estella Ecker returns to the house and college her domineering father once ruled, only to find her mother missing and the town full of whispers. The answers seem to be locked inside his rare-book library, along with secrets that could remake her whole past.