The Beginner's Guide to Necromancy Books in Order

This is the series a lot of readers use as their doorway into Hailey Edwards. It opens with Grier Woolworth, an exiled necromancer living in Savannah, trying to keep her head down after years of imprisonment and family ruin. She gives ghost tours for money. She lives in a haunted house with opinions. She wants a normal life, which is exactly the kind of plan that never survives long in urban fantasy.

Grier is the draw.

She is funny, stubborn, bruised, and often one bad day away from making a spectacularly risky choice. That works because the series is built around her trying to reclaim a self that other people have spent years defining for her. The Society that cast her out still has a grip on her life. Her family history keeps spilling into the present. Every answer she gets seems to open two more ugly questions.

Savannah gives the books their texture. These are ghost-heavy stories, and Edwards leans into the city well, the old houses, the haunted corners, the tourist gloss sitting on top of darker things. Woolworth House is especially memorable. It is not just a spooky address. It is part protector, part problem, and one of the most charmingly stubborn houses in urban fantasy.

The series moves through murders, vampire politics, necromantic rules, old blood feuds, and a love triangle that eventually turns into something more emotionally specific than it first appears. Boaz matters. Linus matters. Lethe matters. So do the friends, rivals, ghosts, and supernatural hangers-on who make Grier's world feel crowded in a good way. Even when the plot gets bigger, the books stay rooted in character.

And the plot does get bigger. What starts as a woman trying to survive in Savannah becomes a story about inheritance, power, magical law, loyalty, and who gets to control the dead and the living. The stakes climb book by book, but the series keeps its humor and its affection for odd little domestic details in the middle of chaos.

If you want haunted-house energy, necromancy, vampire trouble, and a heroine who grows into her power the hard way, start here. Read How to Save an Undead Life first, then keep going in order. If you end up loving this world, The Potentate of Atlanta and the epilogues give you more once Grier's main arc is done.