Miranda James Reading Order

9 books (1997–2014)

Start with Deadly Women, the first of 9 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Deadly Women 1997Buy 🇺🇸
2	Canine Crimes 1998Buy 🇺🇸
3	Malice Domestic 7 1998Buy 🇺🇸
4	Magnolias and Mayhem 2000Buy 🇺🇸
5	Death Dines In 2004Buy 🇺🇸
6	Derby Rotten Scoundrels: A Silver Dagger Anthology 2004Buy 🇺🇸
7	A Kudzu Christmas 2005Buy 🇺🇸
8	Suspense Magazine June 2013 2013Buy 🇺🇸
9	Dead But Not Forgotten 2014Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2007–2008)

Start with On the Slam and read in order.

#	Title
1	On the Slam 2007Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Unkindest Cut 2008Buy 🇺🇸

17 books (2010–2025)

Start with Murder Past Due, the first of 17 books in the Cat In The Stacks Mysteries series.

#	Title
1	Murder Past Due 2010Buy 🇺🇸
2	Classified as Murder 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	File M for Murder 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	Out of Circulation 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Silence of the Library 2014Buy 🇺🇸
6	Arsenic and Old Books 2015Buy 🇺🇸
7	No Cats Allowed 2016Buy 🇺🇸
8	Twelve Angry Librarians 2017Buy 🇺🇸
9	Claws for Concern 2018Buy 🇺🇸
10	Six Cats a Slayin' 2018Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Pawful Truth 2019Buy 🇺🇸
12	Careless Whiskers 2020Buy 🇺🇸
13	Cat Me If You Can 2020Buy 🇺🇸
14	What the Cat Dragged In 2021Buy 🇺🇸
15	Hiss Me Deadly 2023Buy 🇺🇸
16	Requiem for a Mouse 2024Buy 🇺🇸
17	Something Whiskered 2025Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1998–1998)

#	Title
1	The Village Vampire and the Oboe of Death 1998Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2000–2013)

Start with Cruel as the Grave and read in order.

#	Title
1	Cruel as the Grave 2000Buy 🇺🇸
2	Closer Than the Bones 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	Death by Dissertation 2013Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1994–2005)

Start with By a Woman's Hand(As: Dean James, With: Jean Swanson), the first of 4 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	By a Woman's Hand(As: Dean James, With: Jean Swanson) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
2	Killer Books(As: Dean James, With: Jean Swanson) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Dick Francis Companion(As: Dean James, With: Jean Swanson) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Robert B. Parker Companion(As: Dean James, With: Elizabeth Foxwell) 2005Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2002–2005)

Start with Posted to Death, the first of 4 books in the Simon Kirby-Jones series.

#	Title
1	Posted to Death 2002Buy 🇺🇸
2	Faked to Death 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	Decorated to Death 2004Buy 🇺🇸
4	Baked to Death 2005Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2014–2017)

Start with Bless Her Dead Little Heart, the first of 4 books in the Southern Ladies Mysteries series.

#	Title
1	Bless Her Dead Little Heart 2014Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dead with the Wind 2015Buy 🇺🇸
3	Digging Up the Dirt 2016Buy 🇺🇸
4	Fixing to Die 2017Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2005–2008)

Start with Flamingo Fatale, the first of 5 books in the Trailer Park Mysteries series.

#	Title
1	Flamingo Fatale 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Murder Over Easy 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	Best Served Cold 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	Bring Your Own Poison 2008Buy 🇺🇸
5	Leftover Dead 2008Buy 🇺🇸