Mignon F Ballard Books in Order

When Peggy, her younger brother Rob, and their friends move into the family's ancestral home, a ghostly relative pulls them into an old mystery. It is a young readers' story about family history, bravery, and setting an old wrong right.

Henrietta Meredith comes to a mountain town in North Carolina to learn why her mother abandoned her as a baby. What she finds is an old house, a shadowy local past, and someone who may be willing to kill to keep those answers buried.

Laura Graham returns to Redpath, South Carolina, for a reunion and to ask what really happened to her cousin Laney, whose body was found below Crybaby Bridge. A child's old locket and a second mystery pull Laura toward a past the town would rather forget.

Molly Stonehouse comes to Harmony, Georgia, for Christmas still haunted by her husband's suspicious death. Between poisoned treats, threatening pranks, and a secret he and a friend swore to keep as boys, the holiday turns darker by the day.

Recently jilted Jane Cannon goes back to Sweetsprings, South Carolina, and walks into a town already on edge after a schoolgirl's ritual-looking murder. When a neighbor dies and another girl disappears, Jane finds rumor, superstition, and real danger tangled together.

Ginger Cameron heads to Fiddler's Glen to learn how her actress aunt Martha Virginia Brown really died fifty years earlier. Old theater gossip, a supposed ghost, and a killer who wants the past left alone make this a classic small-town Southern suspense tale.

Eliza Figg takes in pregnant Melody Lamb, a girl her family once sheltered, and tries to help her start over. When Melody and her newborn disappear and the baby turns up alone, Eliza has to dig through small-town loyalties, family strain, and a baffling double identity.

Mary George Murphy has lost her job, her fiance, and her beloved Aunt Caroline in what looks like a fatal fall. Certain it was no accident, Mary George starts digging with help from Augusta Goodnight, a guardian angel with old-fashioned charm and sharp instincts.

After losing her job and both her father and sister, Prentice Dobson returns to rural Georgia and finds her disgraced uncle's grave dug up. With a missing baby, a coffin holding the wrong body, and family lies everywhere, Augusta Goodnight is badly needed.

Newly widowed Minda Hobbs comes home to Angel Heights, South Carolina, hoping for peace, and finds her cousin Otto murdered instead. A strange pin, a secret group called the Mystic Six, and an old quilt send Minda and Augusta Goodnight into a knot of buried shame.

Kate McBride arrives in North Carolina for a tense family reunion and expects awkward questions, not murder. When a housekeeper whispers that she was pushed before dying, Kate and Augusta Goodnight have to sift through old family secrets and a second, older death.

Set in rural Georgia during World War II, this novel follows Frannie and the people around her as the war reshapes childhood, family life, and the town itself. It is less a whodunit than a warm, sharp look at growing up on the home front.

In quiet Stone's Throw, a confused older woman appears on Lucy Nan Pilgrim's doorstep claiming to be a child lost decades ago. Then two suspicious deaths shake the town, and Lucy Nan and Augusta must untangle inheritance questions, family memory, and murder.

Lucy Nan Pilgrim and Augusta Goodnight find trouble at Sarah Bedford College when student D.C. Hunter turns up dead beside a line from Jabberwocky. As more deaths point back to a long-buried campus secret, they race to stop a killer with a taste for old grudges.

Waiting in a hospital chapel while her husband fights for his life, Meredith Enright is carried back to a childhood Christmas after her mother was badly hurt. That memory leads her to a lonely aunt, a hidden cottage, and a season touched by grace.

At Christmas in Stone's Throw, Lucy Nan Pilgrim is hunting a tree on her grandmother's abandoned estate when a stranger falls from the mansion balcony. With a local ghost legend stirring and danger rising, Augusta Goodnight helps separate holiday gossip from murder.

In 1942, Elderberry's beloved first-grade teacher vanishes just after a school janitor is found dead. Young teachers Charlie Carr and Annie Gardner refuse to accept the easy answers and start pulling at threads that lead straight into wartime fear and small-town secrets.

Elderberry is preparing a 1943 War Bond Rally when children uncover a skeleton in a cotton field. A backstage shooting, missing money, and private worries pull Miss Dimple and her friends into a case that keeps spreading in every direction.

Christmas lights are up in Harmony, but Molly Stonehouse still cannot let go of the accidents that killed her husband and Neil Fry. When old threats return and a childhood secret stirs, the holiday spirit gives way to a tense small-town mystery.

A search for a missing child leads Miss Dimple to reclusive artist Mae Martha and her young companion, Suzy. Days later Mae Martha is dead and Suzy looks guilty, sending Miss Dimple and the other teachers after the truth before fear hardens into blame.

While helping with the peach harvest in the brutal summer of 1944, Miss Dimple hears a scream and soon learns a local girl has vanished. When the girl is found murdered, Miss Dimple must sort through secrets, bad alibis, and a witness nobody quite knows how to trust.

When a frightened young stranger named Dora appears on the library porch, Miss Dimple and her friends try to help her. By the next morning Dora is dead in a church, and Elderberry gets unexpected assistance from Augusta Goodnight herself.

In 1831, eleven-year-old Nell Webb leaves Athens, Georgia, to live in New Echota with her uncle and his Cherokee wife. What begins in fear slowly becomes an eye-opening look at a culture and community standing on the brink of terrible change.