Sharyn McCrumb Reading Order

29 books (1989–2013)

Start with Mistletoe Mysteries, the first of 29 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Mistletoe Mysteries 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	Sisters in Crime 2 1990Buy 🇺🇸
3	Malice Domestic 1 1992Buy 🇺🇸
4	Partners in Crime 1994Buy 🇺🇸
5	Women of Mystery II 1994Buy 🇺🇸
6	Great Writers and Kids Write Mystery Stories 1996Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1995 1996Buy 🇺🇸
8	AZ Murder Goes... Artful 1997Buy 🇺🇸
9	First Cases, Volume 2 1997Buy 🇺🇸
10	Mystery's Most Wanted 1997Buy 🇺🇸
11	Vengeance is Hers 1997Buy 🇺🇸
12	Malice Domestic 7 1998Buy 🇺🇸
13	Once Upon a Crime 1998Buy 🇺🇸
14	Tails of Wonder and Imagination 2001Buy 🇺🇸
15	Murder, My Dear Watson 2002Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Dark: New Ghost Stories 2003Buy 🇺🇸
17	The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4 2003Buy 🇺🇸
18	Mr. President, Private Eye 2004Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction 2004Buy 🇺🇸
20	The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 5 2004Buy 🇺🇸
21	Thou Shalt Not Kill 2005Buy 🇺🇸
22	Transgressions 2005Buy 🇺🇸
23	Transgressions, Vol. 3 2006Buy 🇺🇸
24	Transgressions, Vol. 4 2006Buy 🇺🇸
25	Blood Lite 2008Buy 🇺🇸
26	Poe: 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe 2008Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Monster's Corner 2011Buy 🇺🇸
28	27 Views of Asheville: A Southern Mountain Town in Prose & Poetry 2012Buy 🇺🇸
29	Not Everyone's Cup of Tea 2013Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (1990–2016)

Start with If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O, the first of 12 books in the Ballad series.

#	Title
1	If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	She Walks These Hills 1994Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Rosewood Casket 1996Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Ballad of Frankie Silver 1997Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Songcatcher 2001Buy 🇺🇸
7	Ghost Riders 2003Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Devil Amongst the Lawyers 2010Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Ballad of Tom Dooley 2011Buy 🇺🇸
10	King's Mountain 2013Buy 🇺🇸
11	Nora Bonesteel's Christmas Past 2014Buy 🇺🇸
12	Prayers the Devil Answers 2016Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1984–2000)

Start with Sick of Shadows, the first of 9 books in the Elizabeth MacPherson series.

#	Title
1	Sick of Shadows 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	Lovely in Her Bones 1985Buy 🇺🇸
3	Highland Laddie Gone 1986Buy 🇺🇸
4	Paying the Piper 1988Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Windsor Knot 1990Buy 🇺🇸
6	Missing Susan 1991Buy 🇺🇸
7	MacPherson's Lament 1992Buy 🇺🇸
8	If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him... 1995Buy 🇺🇸
9	The PMS Outlaws 2000Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1987–1992)

Start with Bimbos of the Death Sun and read in order.

#	Title
1	Bimbos of the Death Sun 1987Buy 🇺🇸
2	Zombies of the Gene Pool 1992Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2011–2011)

#	Title
1	Sharyn McCrumb's Appalachia 2011Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1989–1994)

Start with A Wee Doch and Doris, the first of 5 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	A Wee Doch and Doris 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	Remains to Be Seen 1990Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Luncheon 1990Buy 🇺🇸
4	Happiness Is a Dead Poet 1992Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Monster of Glarnis 1994Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1989–2017)

Start with Our Separate Days, the first of 4 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Our Separate Days 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	Fairy Tale Princesses of the Civil War 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	Old Land, Dark Land, Strange Land 2017Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2005–2009)

Start with St. Dale and read in order.

#	Title
1	St. Dale 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Once Around The Track 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	Faster Pastor(With: Adam Edwards) 2009Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2017–2017)

#	Title
1	The Unquiet Grave 2017Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2005–2006)

Start with Transgressions(With: Stephen King,Lawrence Block,Anne Perry,Jeffery Deaver,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,Bonnie Jeanne Perry,Joyce Carol Oates,Walter Mosley,John Farris), the first of 4 books in the Transgressions series.

#	Title
1	Transgressions(With: Stephen King,Lawrence Block,Anne Perry,Jeffery Deaver,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,Bonnie Jeanne Perry,Joyce Carol Oates,Walter Mosley,John Farris) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Transgressions, Vol. 2(By: Stephen King,Lawrence Block,Ed McBain,John Farris) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	Transgressions, Vol. 3(With: Anne Perry,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,John Farris) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
4	Transgressions, Vol. 4(With: Anne Perry,Ed McBain) 2006Buy 🇺🇸