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Carolyn Haines was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on May 12, 1953. She grew up in Lucedale and got her high school diploma in 1971. She went to the University of Southern Mississippi and graduated in 1974, getting her bachelor’s in journalism and would later get her master’s in creative writing from the University of South Alabama in 1985. Before becoming an author, she worked as a journalist for over ten years and wrote about mysteries in the Mississippi Delta. She worked for several papers such as The Huntsville Times, Hattiesburg American, and The Mississippi Press. In addition to writing, Haines also teaches both undergraduate and graduate classes in fiction writing at University of Alabama; she is also the coordinator of fiction and an assistant professor.
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Order of Dangerous To Love USA Series as Caroline Burnes
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Deadly Currents | 1992 | Description / Buy |
Order of Fear Familiar Series as Caroline Burnes, with Rebecca York
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Fear Familiar | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Too Familiar | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Shades Of Familiar | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Familiar Remedy | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Familiar Tale | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Bewitching Familiar | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Familiar Heart | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Familiar Fire | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Familiar Christmas | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Familiar Obsession | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Familiar Lullaby | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Familiar Mirage | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Familiar Oasis | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Familiar Double | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Familiar Texas | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Familiar Escape | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Familiar Vows | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Familiar Showdown | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Thrice Familiar | 2017 | Description / Buy |
Order of Holding Out For A Hero Series as Caroline Burnes
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1 | Midnight Prey | 1997 | Description / Buy |
Order of Sarah Booth Delaney Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Them Bones | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Buried Bones | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Splintered Bones | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Crossed Bones | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Hallowed Bones | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Bones To Pick | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Ham Bones | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Wishbones | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Greedy Bones | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Bone Appétit | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Bones of a Feather | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Bonefire of the Vanities | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Smarty Bones | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Shorty Bones (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Booty Bones | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Bones on the Bayou (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Bone to Be Wild | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Jingle Bones (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Guru Bones (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
20 | Rock-a-Bye Bones | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Sticks and Bones | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Bones and Arrows | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
23 | A Gift of Bones | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
24 | Charmed Bones | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Clacking Bones (Short Story) | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
26 | Game of Bones | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
27 | Enchanted Bones (Short Story) | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
28 | The Devil's Bones | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
29 | A Garland of Bones | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
30 | Independent Bones | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
31 | Lady of Bones | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
32 | Bones of Holly | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
33 | Tell-Tale Bones | 2023 | Description / Buy | |
34 | Lights, Camera, Bones | 2024 | Description / Buy |
Order of Trouble Cat Mysteries Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Familiar Trouble | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Trouble in Dixie | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Trouble in Tallahassee | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Trouble in Summer Valley | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Trouble Under the Mistletoe (Short Story) | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Small Town Trouble | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Trouble in Paradise | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Turning for Trouble | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Trouble's Wedding Caper | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Trouble in Action | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Trouble Most Faire | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
12 | A Whisper of Trouble | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Trouble Restored | 2021 | Description / Buy |
Order of Legend of Blackthorn Series as Caroline Burnes
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Babe In The Woods | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Rider In The Mist | 2003 | Description / Buy |
Order of Pluto's Snitch Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Book of Beloved | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The House of Memory | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Specter of Seduction | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
4 | A Visitation of Angels | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Order of Carolyn Haines Standalone Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Phantom Filly | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Jaguar's Eye | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Fatal Ingredients | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Summer of fear | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Hoodwinked | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Flesh and Blood | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Summer of the Redeemers | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Cutting Edge | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Season of Innocents | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Touched | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Shop Talk | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Texas Midnight | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Midnight Burning | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Judas Burning | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Penumbra | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Fever Moon | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Revenant | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Deception | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Skin Dancer | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
20 | The Seeker | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
21 | The Darkling | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Order of Carolyn Haines Non-Fiction Books
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1 | My Mother's Witness: The Peggy Morgan Story | 2003 | Description / Buy |
Order of Western Lovers Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Someone Waiting | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Yesterday's Lies | 1986 | Description / Buy | |
3 | A Deadly Breed | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Ambushed | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Wellspring | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Wild Horse Canyon | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
7 | With No Regrets | 1990 | Description / Buy |
Order of Marry Me, Cowboy Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Reckoning | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Home Fires Burning Bright | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Mustang Valley | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Rodeo Rider | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Woman at Willagong Creek | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Dangerous | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Cowboy's Kin | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Rancher's Choice | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Madeleine's Cowboy | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Farmer Takes A Wife | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
11 | White Gold | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
12 | The Wilde Bunch | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Gideon's Bride | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
14 | The Cowboy's Courtship | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Marriage Incorporated | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
16 | A Shotgun Wedding | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Midnight Cowboy | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
18 | The Rancher and the Baby | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Daddy on Demand | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
20 | The Badlands Bride | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
21 | The Newlywed Game | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Bulletproof Heart | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Lucky Devil | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
24 | The Other Laura | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
25 | She Caught the Sheriff | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
26 | The Cowboy Wants a Wife! | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
27 | Trouble At Lone Spur | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
28 | Texas Dawn | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
29 | Marry Me, Cowboy | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
30 | Cowboys Do It Best | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
31 | Upon a Midnight Clear | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
32 | Midnight Prey | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
33 | Boss Lady And The Hired Hand | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
34 | Holding on to Alex | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
35 | One More Rodeo | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
36 | Wyoming Wife? (Short Story) | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
37 | Her Torrid Temporary Marriage | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
38 | Colorado Protector / Hiding Out at the Circle C | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
39 | The Unlikely Bodyguard | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
40 | The Rancher And The Redhead | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
41 | Seduction of the Reluctant Bride | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
42 | Remember Me, Cowboy | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
43 | Delightful Jones | 1998 | Description / Buy |
Order of Cozy Case Files Mystery Sampler Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Cozy Case Files Volume 1 | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Cozy Case Files Volume 2 | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Cozy Case Files Volume 3 | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Cozy Case Files Volume 4 | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Cozy Case Files Volume 5 | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Cozy Case Files Volume 6 | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Cozy Case Files Volume 7 | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Cozy Case Files Volume 8 | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Cozy Case Files Volume 9 | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Cozy Case Files Volume 10 | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Cozy Case Files Volume 11 | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Cozy Case Files Volume 12 | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Cozy Case Files Volume 13 | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Cozy Case Files Volume 14 | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Cozy Case Files Volume 15 | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Cozy Case Files Volume 16 | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Cozy Case Files Volume 17 | 2023 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Cozy Case Files, Volume 18 | 2023 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Cozy Case Files, Volume 20 | 2024 | Description / Buy |
Order of Safe Haven Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Message | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Measure of Deceit | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Come Gentle the Dawn | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Life Line | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Deadly Currents | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Reluctant Bride | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
7 | A Haven in His Arms | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Hired Hand | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Dead Heat | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Night Prince | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Tempting Faith | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Odd Man Out | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
13 | True Lies | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
14 | At the Midnight Hour | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Caitlin's Guardian Angel | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
16 | His Friend's Wife | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Badlands Bride | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
18 | The Marrying Kind | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Renegade's Redemption | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
20 | Sunset Promises | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
21 | The Amnesiac Bride | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Return to Sender | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Clay Yeager's Redemption | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
24 | Keeping Annie Safe | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Her Private Bodyguard | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
26 | Inadmissible Passion | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
27 | One Good Man | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
28 | Secrets and Lies | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
29 | Memories of Megan | 2002 | Description / Buy |
Order of Greatest Texas Love Stories of All Time Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Satan's Angel | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
2 | A Girl's Best Friend | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Precious Pretender | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Like Father, Like Son | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Double Vision | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Mike's Baby | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Guilty as Sin | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Mail Order Brood | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
9 | My Baby, Your Child | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Father In The Middle | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
11 | The Texas Touch | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Long Lost Husband | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Daddy was a Cowboy | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Walk Away Joe / Cowboy Takes a Lady | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Desperate | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Child of Her Heart | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
17 | The Guardian's Bride | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Christmas Kisses For A Dollar | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Hide in Plain Sight | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
20 | The Loner and the Lady | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Bedded Bliss | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
22 | A Willful Marriage | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
23 | The Outlaw and the City Slicker | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
24 | The Water Baby | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Her Kind of Man | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
26 | Call Me | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
27 | Millie and the Fugitive | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
28 | Some Kind of Hero | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
29 | One Ticket To Texas | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
30 | Hannah's Hunks | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
31 | Family Ties | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
32 | Lawman | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
33 | Familiar Heart | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
34 | Unforgettable Bride | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
35 | His-And-Hers Family | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
36 | Storming Paradise | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
37 | Two Brothers and a Bride (Short Story) | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
38 | Love, Honor And A Pregnant Bride | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
39 | Lone Wolf's Lady | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
40 | A Mother for Jeffrey | 1998 | Description / Buy |
Carolyn Haines Anthologies
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Truth About Cats & Dogs | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
2 | A Kudzu Christmas | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Many Bloody Returns | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Delta Blues | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Florida Heat Wave | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Coming Home to Mississippi | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Haunted Holidays | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Midnight Mysteries | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Cozy Case Files Volume 2 | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Pieces | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Cozy Case Files Volume 5 | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Cozy Case Files Volume 6 | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Year-Round Trouble | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Alabama Noir | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Cozy Case Files Volume 9 | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Cozy Case Files Volume 10 | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Cozy Case Files Volume 12 | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Cozy Case Files Volume 16 | 2022 | Description / Buy |
She has written many stand alone novels, some short stories, and some novels that make up the “Sarah Booth Delaney Mysteries” series. Some of Haines’s fiction is on the light side, but she does write darker novels too. She writes under her own name, but also uses pen names such as Lizzie Hart, Caroline Burnes, and R. B. Chesterton. Caroline Burnes is a pen named Haines uses when she writes romance mysteries, and Lizzie Hart is used for her humorous novels.
CAROLYN HAINES AWARDS:
In 2010 she won the Harper Lee Award which is, Alabama’s Distinguished Writer of the Year. The previous year, she won the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence. Haines also received an Arts literary fellowship from the Alabama State Council for her writing. Sarah Booth Delaney has won an award for Best Amateur Sleuth and “Hallowed Bones” made the top five of a list that ranked the best mysteries that came out in 2004 by Library Journal. “Penumbria” made its way onto another Library Journal list for best mysteries released in 2006.
BEST CAROLYN HAINES BOOKS:
For readers looking to get into Caroline Haines’s books, “Hallowed Bones”, “Penumbra”, and “Crossed Bones” are really good novels to start with.
Penumbra: This novel is one of Haines’s stand alone novels, and as a result sees her try to distance herself from her more humorous “Sarah Booth Delaney Mysteries” series by moving into more serious territory, and it is a lot darker. The result is a more literary crime novel that has passion and suspense. “Penumbra” is set in 1952 and takes place in Drexl, Mississippi. The novel is about a half black hair dresser named Jade, whose mother is Lucille Longier (the first lady of Drexl) who works for an undertaker. She is great at what she does and is highly sought out by the people in Drexl for her talents, however, she will never be accepted by the people in the town because she is black. After things go horribly wrong for Jade’s younger half-sister (named Marlena, she is beaten and has her child kidnapped). Jade knows that Marlena was cheating on her husband and wealthiest man in the town. She winds up getting help from a white sherriff’s deputy named Frank Kimble, and the two later date.
Hallowed Bones: The fifth installment in the “Sarah Booth Delaney Mysteries” series, and the one that stands out because it has accomplished the most. Normally installments in this series are set in solely in Mississippi, but this one takes readers to New Orleans so that Sarah can catch a bad guy. This novel is set near Halloween, and involves Sarah taking on the case of a woman (Doreen Mallory) feeding her ten week old daughter (named Rebekah) sleeping pills. The daughter was born with many birth defects, it looks like a slam dunk that Doreen did it. Sarah Booth does not think so, and upon digging into things, she finds that Doreen will not talk about the men in her life. Including one guy who is a televangelist and another that is a politician with a wife and mob ties. Either one could be Rebekah’s father and they also could be her killer.
Crossed Bones: The fourth installment in the “Sarah Booth Delaney Mysteries” series. In this one, she tries to help exonerate a man (named Scott Hampton) who is accused of killing a talented and very popular blues pianist named Ivory Keys. The accused and the pianist met in prison and were cellmates; the accused is also a rich white guy who turned racist. Meeting Ivory Keys changed Scott, he stopped being racist and started playing blues guitar at a level that made women go weak in their knees. Ivory’s widow does not believe he did it and hires Sarah so that she can prove it.
When Does The Next Carolyn Haines book come out?
The next book by Carolyn Haines is Lights, Camera, Bones and will be released on May, 21st 2024. It is the newest book in the Sarah Booth Delaney Series.