Dean James

(aka Honor Hartman, Jimmie Ruth Evans & Miranda James)

Click here for a post I’ve written about Miranda James’ Cat in the Stacks Mystery Series.

SIMON KIRBY-JONES MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Simon Kirby-Jones, Writer, Vampire, American, Gay, Snupperton Mumsley, England

1. Posted to Death    ’02
2. Faked to Death   ’03
3. Decorated to Death   ’04
4. Baked to Death    ’05

DEEP SOUTH MYSTERIES:

1. Cruel as the Grave   ’00
2. Closer than the Bones   ’01
3. Death by Dissertation   ’04

STAND ALONES:

Canine Crimes   ’98 (Anthology)

Malice Domestic 7   ’98 (Anthology)

Canine Christmas   ’99 (Anthology)

A Confederacy of Crime   ’01 (Anthology)

Death Dines In   ’04 (Anthology)

Written as Miranda James:

CAT IN THE STACKS MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Charlie Harris, Librarian, & Diesel, Well-Behaved Cat, Mississippi

1. Murder Past Due     ’10
2. Classified as Murder    ’11
3. File M for Murder    ’12
4. Out of Circulation     ’13
5. The Silence of the Library    ’14
6. Arsenic and Old Books    ’15
7. No Cats Allowed   ’16
8. Twelve Angry Librarians    ’17
9. Claws for Concern      ’18
10. Six Cats a Slayin’    ’18
11. The Pawful Truth    ’19
12. Careless Whiskers   ’20
13. Cat Me if You Can   ’20
14. What the Cat Dragged In   ’21
15. Hiss Me Deadly   ’23
16. Requiem for a Mouse   ’24

SOUTHERN LADIES MYSTERY Series:

Main Characters: Miss An’gel & Miss Dickce Ducote, Two Snoopy Sisters, Friends of Charlie & Diesel Harris, Mississippi

1. Bless Her Dead Little Heart   ’14
2. Dead with the Wind    ’15
3. Digging Up the Dirt    ’16
4. Fixing to Die    ’17

Dead But Not Forgotten: Stories From the World of Sookie Stackhouse (edited by Charlaine Harris & Toni L.P. Kelner)  ’14 (anthology with mystery authors, including Leigh Perry, Bill Crider, Miranda James, & Dana Cameron)

Written as Jimmie Ruth Evans:

TRAILER PARK MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Wanda Nell Culpepper, Single Mother, Mississippi

1. Flamingo Fatale   ’05
2. Murder Over Easy   ’06
3. Best Served Cold   ’07
4. Bring Your Own Poison   ’08
5. Leftover Dead    ’09

Written as Honor Hartman:

BRIDGE CLUB MYSTERY Series:

Main character: Emma Diamond, Novice Bridge Player, Widow, Houston

1. On the Slam   ’07
2. The Unkindest Cut   ’08