000427

Regional Mysteries: U.S. South

Authors & Titles

• Evans, Mary Anna: Relics
  (NOTE: This title is part of the Faye Longchamp series, listed under Archaeological Mysteries)
  
• Stewart, Mike: Tom McInnes series
  
  1. Sins of the Brother
     
  2. Dog Island
     
  3. A Clean Kill
     

• Atkins, Ace: White Shadow
  
• Ayres, E.C.: Tony Lowell series
  
  1. Hour of the Manatee
     
  2. Eye of the Gator
     
  3. Night of the Panther
     
  4. Lair of the Lizard
     
• Bartholomew, Nancy: Sierra Lavotini series (exotic dancer)
  
  1. Miracle Strip
     
  2. Drag Strip
     
  3. Film Strip
     
  4. Strip Poker
     
• Belgrave, Laura: Claudia Hershey series
  
  1. In the Spirit of Murder
     
  2. Quietly Dead
     
  3. Deadly Associations
     
• Born, James O.: Bill Tasker series
  
  1. Walking Money
     
  2. Shock Wave
     
  3. Escape Clause
     
• Coffey, Tom: Miami Twilight
  
• Corcoran, Tom: Alex Rutledge series
  
  1. The Mango Opera
     
  2. Gumbo Limbo
     
  3. Bone Island Mambo
     
  4. Octopus Alibi
     
  5. Air Dance Iguana
     
• Dorsey, Tim: Florida series (aka Serge Storms series)
  
  1. Florida Roadkill
     
  2. Hammerhead Ranch Motel
     
  3. Orange Crush
     
  4. Triggerfish Twist
     
  5. The Stingray Shuffle
     
  6. Cadillac Beach
     
  7. Torpedo Juice
     
  8. The Big Bamboo
     
  9. Hurricane Punch
     
  10. Atomic Lobster
      
  11. Nuclear Jellyfish
      
  12. Gator A-Go-Go
      
• Douglas, Charlotte: Maggie Skeritt series
  
  1. Pelican Bay
     
• Evanovich, Janet: Metro Girl
  
• Evans, Mary Anna: Artifacts
  (NOTE: This title is part of the Faye Longchamp series, listed under Archaeological Mysteries)
  
• Florida Heat Wave (edited by Michael Lister)
  
• Francis, Dorothy: Conch Shell Murder
  
• Griffin, H. Terrell: Matt Royal series
  
  1. Longboat Blues
     
  2. Murder Key
     
  3. Blood Island
     
  4. Wyatt's Revenge
     
• Hall, James W.: Magic City
  
• Hury, Hadley: The Edge of the Gulf
  
• Kaminsky, Stuart M.: Lew Fonesca series
  
  1. Vengeance
     
  2. Retribution
     
  3. Midnight Pass
     
  4. Denial
     
  5. Always Say Goodbye
     
  6. Bright Futures
     
• King, Jonathon: Max Freeman series
  
  1. The Blue Edge of Midnight
     
  2. A Visible Darkness
     
  3. Shadow Men
     
  4. A Killing Night
     
  5. Acts of Nature
     
• MacDonald, John D.: Travis McGee series
  
  1. The Deep Blue Good-By
     
  2. A Purple Place for Dying
     
  3. The Quick Red Fox
     
  4. Nightmare in Pink
     
  5. A Deadly Shade of Gold
     
  6. Bright Orange for the Shroud
     
  7. Darker Than Amber
     
  8. One Fearful Yellow Eye
     
  9. Pale Gray For Guilt
     
  10. The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper
      
  11. The Long Lavender Look
      
  12. A Tan and Sandy Silence
      
  13. Dress Her in Indigo
      
  14. The Scarlet Ruse
      
  15. The Turquoise Lament
      
  16. The Dreadful Lemon Sky
      
  17. The Empty Copper Sea
      
  18. The Green Ripper
      
  19. Free Fall in Crimson
      
  20. Cinnamon Skin
      
  21. The Lonely Silver Rain
      
• McClelland, Michael: Oyster Blues
  
• O'Neil, Vincent H.: Murder in Exile
  
• Roby, Kinley: Harry Brock series
  
  1. Death in a Hammock
     
  2. Now Comes Death
     
• White, Randy Wayne: Doc Ford series
  
  1. Sanibel Flats
     
  2. The Heat Islands
     
  3. The Man Who Invented Florida
     
  4. Captive
     
  5. North of Havana
     
  6. The Mangrove Coast
     
  7. Ten Thousand Islands
     
  8. Shark River
     
  9. Twelve Mile Limit
     
  10. Everglades
      
  11. Tampa Burn
      
  12. Dead of Night
      
  13. Dark Light
      
  14. Hunter's Moon
      
  15. Black Widow
      
  16. Dead Silence
      
  17. Deep Shadow
      
• Woods, Stuart: Holly Barker series
  
  1. Orchid Beach
     
  2. Orchid Blues
     
  3. Blood Orchid
     
  4. Iron Orchid
     
  5. Hothouse Orchid
     (Holly Barker also appears in Reckless Abandon )
     

• Buchanan, Edna: Britt Montero series:
  
  1. Contents Under Pressure
     
  2. Miami, It's Murder
     
  3. Suitable for Framing
     
  4. Act of Betrayal
     
  5. Margin of Error
     
  6. Garden of Evil
     
  7. You Only Die Twice
     
  8. The Ice Maiden
     
• Buchanan, Edna: Craig Burch series
  
  1. Cold Case Squad
     
  2. Shadows
     
• Buchanan, Edna: Nobody Lives Forever
  
• Buchanan, Edna: Pulse
  
• Garcia-Aguilera, Carolina: Lupe Solano series (A Miami detective)
  
  1. Bloody Waters
     
  2. Bloody Shame
     
  3. Bloody Secrets
     
  4. A Miracle in Paradise
     
  5. Havana Heat
     
  6. Bitter Sugar
     
• Standiford, Les: John Deal series (Building Contractor)
  
  1. Done Deal
     
  2. Raw Deal
     
  3. Deal to Die For
     
  4. Deal on Ice
     
  5. Presidential Deal
     
  6. Deal with the Dead
     
  7. Bone Key
     
  8. Havana Run
     

• Birmingham, Ruth: Sunny Childs series
  
  1. Atlanta Graves
     
  2. Fulton County Blues
     
  3. Sweet Georgia
     
  4. Blue Plate Special
     
  5. Cold Trail
     
  6. Feet of Clay
     
• DePoy, Phillip: Fever Devilin series
  
  1. The Devil's Hearth
     
  2. The Witch's Grave
     
  3. A Minister's Ghost
     
  4. A Widow's Curse
     
  5. The Drifter's Wheel
     
• Hill, Sam: Top Kiernan series
  
  1. Buzz Monkey
     
  2. Buzz Riff
     
• Sprinkle, Patricia: Sheila Travis series
  
  1. Murder at Markham
     
  2. Murder in the Charleston Manner
     
  3. Murder on Peachtree Street
     
  4. Somebody's Dead in Snellville
     
  5. Death of a Dunwoody Matron
     
  6. A Mystery Bred in Buckhead
     
  7. Deadly Secrets on the St. Johns
     
• Sprinkle, Patricia: Thoroughly Southern Mystery series
  
  1. When Did We Lose Harriet?
     
  2. But Why Shoot the Magistrate?
     
  3. Who Invited the Dead Man?
     
  4. Who Let That Killer in the House?
     
  5. When Will the Dead Lady Sing?
     
  6. Who Killed the Queen of Clubs?
     
  7. Did You Declare the Corpse?
     

• Burke, James Lee: Dave Robicheaux series
  
  1. The Neon Rain
     
  2. Heaven's Prisoners
     
  3. Black Cherry Blues
     
  4. A Morning for Flamingos
     
  5. A Stained White Radiance
     
  6. In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead
     
  7. Dixie City Jam
     
  8. Burning Angel
     
  9. Cadillac Jukebox
     
  10. Sunset Limited
      
  11. Purple Cane Road
      
  12. Jolie Blon's Bounce
      
  13. Last Car to Elysian Fields
      
  14. Crusader's Cross
      
  15. Pegasus Descending
      
  16. The Tin Roof Blowdown
      
  17. Swan Peak
      
  18. The Glass Rainbow
      
• Fey, David L.: Catspaw
  
• Haines, Carolyn: Fever Moon
  
• Hegwood, Martin: Jack Delmas series
  
  1. Big Easy Backroad
     
  2. The Green-Eyed Hurricane
     
  3. Massacre Island
     

• Abel, Kenneth: Danny Chaisson series
  
  1. Cold Steel Rain
     
  2. The Burying Field
     
  3. Down in the Flood
     
• Atkins, Ace: Nick Travers series
  
  1. Crossroad Blues
     
  2. Leavin' Trunk Blues
     
  3. Dark End of the Street
     
  4. Dirty South
     
• Colley, Barbara: Charlotte LaRue series
  
  1. Maid for Murder
     
  2. Death Tidies Up
     
  3. Polished Off
     
  4. Wiped Out
     
  5. Married to the Mop
     
  6. Scrub-a-Dub Dead
     
  7. Wash and Die
     
  8. Dusted to Death
     
• De Noux, O'Neil: LaStanza series
  
  1. Grim Reaper
     
  2. The Big Kiss
     
  3. Blue Orleans
     
  4. Crescent City Kills
     
  5. LaStanza: New Orleans Police Stories
     
• Dunbar, Sophie: Eclaire series
  
  1. Behind Eclaire's Door
     
  2. Redneck Riviera
     
  3. A Bad Hair Day
     
  4. Shiveree
     
• Dunbar, Tony: Tubby Dubonnett series
  
  1. Crooked Man
     
  2. City of Beads
     
  3. Trick Question
     
  4. Shelter From the Storm
     
  5. The Crime Czar
     
  6. Lucky Man
     
  7. Tubby Meets Katrina
     
• Fennelly, Tony: Margo Fortier series
  
  1. The Hippie in the Wall
     
  2. 1 (900) DEAD
     
  3. Don't Blame the Snake
     
• Fulmer, David: Valentin St. Cyr series (aka Storyville series)
  
  1. Chasing the Devil's Tail
     
  2. Jass
     
  3. Rampart Street
     
  4. Lost River
     
• Herren, Greg: Scott Bradley series
  
  1. Bourbon Street Blues
     
  2. Jackson Square Jazz
     
  3. Mardi Gras Mambo
     
• Nelson, Rick: Bound by Blood
  
• Sallis, James: Lew Griffin series
  
  1. The Long-Legged Fly
     
  2. Moth
     
  3. Black Hornet
     
  4. Eye of the Cricket
     
  5. Bluebottle
     
  6. Ghost of a Flea
     
• Smith, Julie: Skip Langdon series
  
  1. New Orleans Mourning
     
  2. The Axeman's Jazz
     
  3. Jazz Funeral
     
  4. New Orleans Beat
     
  5. House of Blues
     
  6. The Kindness of Strangers
     
  7. Crescent City Kill
     
  8. 82 Desire
     
  9. Mean Woman Blues
     
• Smith, Julie: Talba Wallis series (aka Baroness Pontalba series)
  
  1. 82 Desire
     
  2. Louisiana Hotshot
     
  3. Louisiana Bigshot
     
• Speart, Jessica: Rachel Porter series
  
  1. Gator Aide
     
  2. Tortoise Soup
     
  3. Bird Brained
     
  4. Border Prey
     
  5. Black Delta Night
     
  6. A Killing Season
     
  7. Coastal Disturbance
     
  8. Blue Twilight
     
  9. Restless Waters
     
  10. Unsafe Harbor
      
• Williamson, Penn/Penelope: Daman Rourke series
  
  1. Mortal Sins
     
  2. Wages of Sin
     

• Haines, Carolyn: Sarah Booth Delaney series (aka Mississippi Delta series)
  
  1. Them Bones
     
  2. Buried Bones
     
  3. Splintered Bones
     
  4. Crossed Bones
     
  5. Hallowed Bones
     
  6. Bones to Pick
     
  7. Ham Bones
     
  8. Wishbones
     
  9. Greedy Bones
     

• Ball, Donna: Raine Stockton series
  
  1. Smoky Mountain Tracks
     
• de Castrique, Mark: Barry Clayton series
  
  1. Dangerous Undertaking
     
  2. Grave Undertaking
     
  3. Foolish Undertaking
     
• de Castrique, Mark: Sam Blackman series
  
  1. Blackman's Coffin
     
  2. The Fitzgerald Ruse
     
• Kelner, Toni L.P.: Laura Fleming series
  
  1. Down Home Murder
     
  2. Dead Ringer
     
  3. Trouble Looking for a Place to Happen
     
  4. Country Comes to Town
     
  5. Tight as a Tick
     
  6. Death of a Damn Yankee
     
  7. Mad as the Dickens
     
  8. Wed and Buried
     
• Lane, Vicki: Elizabeth Goodweather series
  
  1. Signs in the Blood
     
  2. Art's Blood
     
• Malone, Michael: First Lady
  
• Maron, Margaret: Deborah Knott series
  
  (prequel) Bloody Kin
  
  1. Bootlegger's Daughter
     
  2. Southern Discomfort
     
  3. Shooting at Loons
     
  4. Up Jumps the Devil
     
  5. Killer Market
     
  6. Home Fires
     
  7. Storm Track
     
  8. Uncommon Clay
     
  9. Slow Dollar
     
  10. High Country Fall
      
  11. Rituals of the Season
  12. Winter's Child
      
  13. Hard Row
      
  14. Death's Half Acre
      
  15. Sand Sharks
      
• Mountford, B.J.: Roberta Lenehan series
  
  1. Sea-Born Women
     
  2. Bloodlines of Shackleford Banks
     
• Myers, Tim: Lighthouse Inn series (aka Alex Winston series)
  
  1. Innkeeping with Murder
     
  2. Reservations for Murder
     
  3. Murder Checks Inn
     
  4. Room for Murder
     
  5. Booked for Murder
     
• Rhoades, J.D.: Jack Keller series
  
  1. The Devil's Right Hand
     
  2. Good Day in Hell
     
• Shaber, Sarah R.: Professor Simon Shaw series
  
  1. Simon Said
     
  2. Snipe Hunt
     
  3. The Fugitive King
     
  4. The Bug Funeral
     
  5. Shell Game
     
• Zachary, Hugh: Munday
  

• Cousins, Caroline: Carolina Cousins series
  
  1. Fiddle Dee Death
     
  2. Marsh Madness
     
• Dunham, Tracy: Tal Jefferson series
  
  1. Wishful Sinful
     
  2. Yes, The River Knows
     
• Hart, Carolyn: Death on Demand series
  
  1. Death on Demand
     
  2. Design for Murder
     
  3. Something Wicked
     
  4. Honeymoon with Murder
     
  5. A Little Class on Murder
     
  6. A Deadly Valentine
     
  7. The Christie Caper
     
  8. Southern Ghost
     
  9. Mint Julep Murder
     
  10. Yankee Doodle Dead
      
  11. White Elephant Dead
      
  12. Sugarplum Dead
      
  13. April Fool Dead
      
  14. Engaged to Die
      
  15. Murder Walks the Plank
      
  16. Death of the Party
      
  17. Dead Days of Summer
      
  18. Death Walked In
      
  19. Dare to Die
      
  20. Laughed 'Til He Died
      
• Wall, Kathryn R.: Bay Tanner series
  
  1. In For a Penny
     
  2. And Not a Penny More
     
  3. Perdition House
     
  4. Judas Island
     
  5. Resurrection Road
     
  6. Bishop's Reach
     
  7. Sanctuary Hill
     
  8. The Mercy Oak
     
  9. Covenant Hall
     
  10. Canaan's Gate
      

• Campbell, Chester: Greg McKenzie series
  
  1. Secret of the Scroll
     
  2. Designed to Kill
     
  3. Deadly Illusions
     
• Crawford, Charles R.: John McAllister series
  
  1. Bluff Walk
     
• Sallis, James: Turner series
  
  1. Cypress Grove
     
  2. Cripple Creek
     
  3. Salt River
     
• Saums, Mary: Willi Taft series
  
  1. Midnight Hour
     
  2. The Valley of Jewels
     
  3. When the Last Magnolia Weeps
     
• Villatoro, Marcos McPeek: Romilia Chacon series
  
  1. Home Killings
     
  2. Minos
     
  3. A Venom Beneath the Skin
     

• Abbott, Jeff: Jordan Poteet series
  
  1. Do Unto Others
     
  2. The Only Good Yankee
     
  3. Promises of Home
     
  4. Distant Blood
     
• Abbott, Jeff: Whit Mosley series
  
  1. A Kiss Gone Bad
     
  2. Black Jack Point
     
  3. Cut and Run
     
• Bell, Nancy: Biggie Weatherford series
  
  1. Biggie and the Poisoned Politician
     
  2. Biggie and the Mangled Mortician
     
  3. Biggie and the Fricasseed Fat Man
     
  4. Biggie and the Meddlesome Mailman
     
  5. Biggie and the Quincy Ghost
     
  6. Biggie and the Devil Diet
     
• Bell, Nancy: Judge Jackson Crain series
  
  1. Restored to Death
     
  2. Paint the Town Dead
     
• Burke, James Lee: Billy Bob Holland series
  (NOTE: Billy Bob Holland started out in Texas. In Book 4 he moved to Montana.)
  
  1. Cimarron Rose
     
  2. Heartwood
     
  3. Bitterroot
     
  4. In the Moon of Red Ponies
     
• Burke, James Lee: Hackberry Holland series
  
  1. Lay Down My Sword and Shield
     
  2. Rain Gods
     
  3. Feast Day of Fools
     
• Casey, Kathryn: Sarah Armstrong series
  
  1. Singularity
     
  2. Blood Lines
     
• Conwell, Kent: Tony Bourdreaux series
  
  1. Skeletons of the Atchafalaya
     
  2. Galveston
     
  3. Death in the Distillery
     
  4. Vicksburg
     
  5. The Ying on Triad
     
  6. Extracurricular Murder
     
  7. The Swamps of Bayou Teche
     
  8. Death in the French Quarter
     
  9. The Crystal Skull Murders
     
  10. The Puzzle of Piri Reis
      
• Cooper, Susan Rogers: E.J. Pugh series
  
  1. One, Two, What Did Daddy Do?
     
  2. Hickory Dickory Stalk
     
  3. Home Again, Home Again
     
  4. There Was a Little Girl
     
  5. A Crooked Little House
     
  6. Not in My Backyard
     
  7. Don't Drink the Water
     
• Cooper, Susan Rogers: Kimmey Kruse series
  
  1. Funny as a Dead Comic
     
  2. Funny as a Dead Relative
     
• Crider, Bill: Dan Rhodes series
  
  1. Too Late to Die
     
  2. Shotgun Saturday Night
     
  3. Cursed to Death
     
  4. Death on the Move
     
  5. Evil at the Root
     
  6. Booked for a Hanging
     
  7. Murder Most Fowl
     
  8. Winning Can Be Murder
     
  9. Death by Accident
     
  10. A Ghost of a Chance
      
  11. A Romantic Way to Die
      
  12. Red, White & Blue Murder
      
  13. A Mammoth Murder
      
  14. Murder Among the OWLS
      
  15. Of All Sad Words
      
  16. Murder in Four Parts
      
  17. Murder in the Air
      
• Davis, Austin: Clay Parker series
  
  1. Shoveling Smoke
     
• DeMarinis, Rick: A Clod of Wayward Marl
  
• DeMarinis, Rick: Sky Full of Sand
  
• Douglas, Laramee: Dancing at the Shoulder of the Bull
  
• Grape, Jan: Austin City Blue
  
• Hall, Malinda M.: Louisa Daniel series
  
  1. Social Graces
     
  2. Nowhere is Somewhere
     
• Hime, James: Jeremiah Spur & Clyde Thomas series
  
  1. The Night of the Dance
     
  2. Scared Money
     
  3. Where Armadillos Go to Die
     
• Lansdale, Joe R.: Hap Collins & Leonard Pine series
  
  1. Savage Season
     
  2. Mucho Mojo
     
  3. The Two-Bear Mambo
     
  4. Bad Chili
     
  5. Rumble Tumble
     
  6. Captains Outrageous
     
  7. Vanilla Ride
     
• Lansdale, Joe R.: Sunset and Sawdust
  
• Martin, Allana: Texana Jones series
  
  1. Death of a Healing Woman
     
  2. Death of a Saint Maker
     
  3. Death of an Evangelista
     
  4. Death of a Myth Maker
     
  5. Death of the Last Villista
     
  6. Death of the River Master
     
• Moore, Laurie: Fort Worth series
  
  1. Constable Run
     
  2. The Lady Godiva Murder
     
• Reasoner, James: Dust Devils
  
• Reasoner, James: Texas Wind
  
• Rehder, Ben: Blanco County series
  
  1. Buck Fever
     
  2. Bone Dry
     
  3. Flat Crazy
     
  4. Guilt Trip
     
  5. Gun Shy
     
  6. Holy Moly
     
• Simon, Michael: Dan Reles series
  
  1. Dirty Sally
     
  2. Body Scissors
     
  3. Little Faith
     
• Smith, Barbara Burnett: Jolie Wyatt series (aka Purple Sage series)
  
  1. Writers of the Purple Sage
     
  2. Dust Devils of the Purple Sage
     
  3. Celebration in Purple Sage
     
  4. Mistletoe from Purple Sage
     
  5. Skeletons in Purple Sage
     

• Hunsicker, Harry: Lee Henry Oswald series
  
  1. Still River
     
  2. The Next Time You Die
     
• McBride, Susan: Debutante Dropout series
  
  1. Blue Blood
     
  2. The Good Girl's Guide to Murder
     
  3. The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club
     
• Swanson, Doug: Jack Flippo series
  
  1. Big Town
     
  2. Dreamboat
     
  3. 96 Tears
     
  4. Umbrella Man
     
  5. House of Corrections
     

• Riordan, Rick: Tres Navarre series
  
  1. Big Red Tequila
     
  2. Widower's Two-Step
     
  3. The Last King of Texas
     
  4. The Devil Went Down to Austin
     
  5. South Town
     
  6. Mission Road
     
  7. Rebel Island
     

• Brown, Elaine Meryl: Lemon City
  
• Brown, Rita Mae: Foxhunting series (aka Sister Jane Arnold series)
  
  1. Hotspur
     
  2. Outfoxed
     
  3. Full Cry
     
  4. The Hunt Ball
     
  5. The Hounds and the Fury
     
  6. The Tell-Tale Horse
     
  7. Hounded to Death
     
• Hoffman, William: Charley LeBlanc series
  
  1. Tidewater Blood
     
  2. Wild Thorn
     
• Ramsay, Frederick: Ike Schwartz series
  
  1. Artscape
     
  2. Secrets
     
  3. Buffalo Mountain
     
  4. Stranger Room
     
  5. Choker
     
  6. The Eye of the Virgin
     
  7. Rogue
     
• Richmond Noir (edited by Andrew Blossom)