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Publication Order of Dangerous To Love USA Series Books

as Caroline Burnes
Deadly Currents (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Fear Familiar Books

as Caroline Burnes
Fear Familiar (1989)Description / Buy at Amazon
Too Familiar (1993)Description / Buy at Amazon
Shades Of Familiar (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon
Familiar Remedy (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon
Familiar Tale (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon
Bewitching Familiar (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon
Familiar Heart (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon
Familiar Fire (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon
Familiar Christmas (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon
Familiar Obsession (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon
Familiar Lullaby (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon
Familiar Mirage (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon
Familiar Oasis (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon
Familiar Double (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon
Familiar Texas (2005)Description / Buy at Amazon
Familiar Escape (2006)Description / Buy at Amazon
Familiar Vows (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon
Familiar Showdown (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon
Thrice Familiar (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Holding Out For A Hero Books

as Caroline Burnes

Publication Order of Sarah Booth Delaney Books

Them Bones (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon
Buried Bones (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon
Splintered Bones (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon
Crossed Bones (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon
Hallowed Bones (2004)Description / Buy at Amazon
Bones To Pick (2005)Description / Buy at Amazon
Ham Bones (2007)Description / Buy at Amazon
Wishbones (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon
Greedy Bones (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon
Bone Appétit (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
Bones of a Feather (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
Bonefire of the Vanities (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Smarty Bones (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Shorty Bones (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
Booty Bones (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
Bones on the Bayou (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon
Bone to Be Wild (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon
Jingle Bones (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon
Guru Bones (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon
Rock-a-Bye Bones (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon
Sticks and Bones (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Bones and Arrows (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Charmed Bones (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
A Gift of Bones (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Clacking Bones (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Game of Bones (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon
Enchanted Bones (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Devil's Bones (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon
A Garland of Bones (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon
Independent Bones (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon
Lady of Bones (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon
Bones of Holly (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon
Tell-Tale Bones (2023)Description / Buy at Amazon
Lights, Camera, Bones (2024)Description / Buy at Amazon
Blue Christmas Bones (2024)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Trouble Cat Mysteries Books

Familiar Trouble (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Trouble in Dixie (By: Rebecca Barrett) (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Trouble in Tallahassee (By: Claire Matturro) (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Trouble in Summer Valley (By: Susan Y. Tanner) (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Trouble Under the Mistletoe (By: Rebecca Barrett) (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Small Town Trouble (By: Laura Benedict) (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Trouble in Paradise (By: Rebecca Barrett) (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Turning for Trouble (By: Susan Y. Tanner) (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Trouble's Wedding Caper (By: Jen Talty) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon
Trouble in Action (By: Susan Y. Tanner) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon
Trouble Most Faire (By: Jaden Terrell) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon
A Whisper of Trouble (By: Susan Y. Tanner) (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon
Trouble Restored (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Legend of Blackthorn Books

as Caroline Burnes
Babe In The Woods (As: Caroline Burnes) (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon
Rider In The Mist (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Pluto's Snitch Books

The Book of Beloved (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon
The House of Memory (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Specter of Seduction (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
A Visitation of Angels (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Phantom Filly (As: Caroline Burnes) (1989)Description / Buy at Amazon
Jaguar's Eye (As: Caroline Burnes) (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon
Fatal Ingredients (As: Caroline Burnes) (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon
Summer of fear (1993)Description / Buy at Amazon
Hoodwinked (As: Caroline Burnes) (1993)Description / Buy at Amazon
Flesh and Blood (As: Caroline Burnes) (1993)Description / Buy at Amazon
Summer of the Redeemers (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cutting Edge (As: Caroline Burnes) (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon
Season of Innocents (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon
Touched (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon
Shop Talk (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon
Texas Midnight (As: Caroline Burnes) (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon
Midnight Burning (As: Caroline Burnes) (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon
Judas Burning (2005)Description / Buy at Amazon
Penumbra (2006)Description / Buy at Amazon
Fever Moon (2007)Description / Buy at Amazon
Revenant (2007)Description / Buy at Amazon
Deception (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
Skin Dancer (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Seeker (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Darkling (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

My Mother's Witness: The Peggy Morgan Story (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Cozy Case Files Mystery Sampler Books

Cozy Case Files Volume 1 (By: Cynthia Riggs,Mindy Quigley) (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cozy Case Files Volume 2 (With: Donna Andrews,Hannah Dennison,Cate Conte,Diane Kelly,E.J. Copperman,Ellie Alexander,Cynthia Riggs,Susan C. Shea,Mindy Quigley) (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cozy Case Files Volume 3 (By: M.C. Beaton,Donna Andrews,Ellie Alexander,Mindy Quigley) (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cozy Case Files Volume 4 (By: Parnell Hall,Shari Randall,Ellen Hart,Ellie Alexander,Frances Brody,Tessa Arlen,Vivien Chien,Julia Chapman,Paige Shelton,Jane K. Cleland,Mindy Quigley) (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cozy Case Files Volume 5 (With: Donna Andrews,Carola Dunn,Sheila Connolly,Ellie Alexander,Susan C. Shea,Judith Flanders,Mindy Quigley,Auralee Wallace) (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cozy Case Files Volume 6 (With: Donna Andrews,Cate Conte,Kylie Logan,Leonard Goldberg,Allison Montclair,Ellen Hart,Sheila Connolly,Mindy Quigley) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cozy Case Files Volume 7 (By: Donna Andrews,Diane Kelly,Ellen Crosby,Ellie Alexander,Vivien Chien,Ashley Weaver,Mindy Quigley) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cozy Case Files Volume 8 (By: M.C. Beaton,Diane Kelly,Vivien Chien,Paige Shelton,SusanCox,Elizabeth Penney,Mindy Quigley) (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cozy Case Files Volume 9 (With: Donna Andrews,Hannah Dennison,Kylie Logan,Leonard Goldberg,Susanna Calkins,Allison Montclair,Ellie Alexander,Eve Calder,Mindy Quigley) (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cozy Case Files Volume 10 (With: Donna Andrews,Cate Conte,Diane Kelly,Ellen Hart,Ellie Alexander,Vivien Chien,Jane K. Cleland,Ashley Weaver,SusanCox,Elizabeth Penney,Mindy Quigley) (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cozy Case Files Volume 11 (By: Diane Kelly,Ellie Alexander,Vivien Chien,Paige Shelton,Mariah Fredericks,Elizabeth Penney,Mindy Quigley) (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cozy Case Files Volume 12 (With: Donna Andrews,Hannah Dennison,Cate Conte,Kylie Logan,Leonard Goldberg,Allison Montclair,Sheila Connolly,Ellie Alexander,Ashley Weaver,S.C. Perkins,Eve Calder,Jess Dylan,Mindy Quigley,Meri Allen) (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cozy Case Files Volume 13 (By: Mindy Quigley) (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cozy Case Files Volume 14 (By: Diane Kelly,Gigi Pandian,Ellie Alexander,Paige Shelton,Mindy Quigley,Korina Moss) (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cozy Case Files Volume 15 (By: Mindy Quigley) (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cozy Case Files Volume 16 (With: Donna Andrews,Diane Kelly,Elizabeth Penney,Mindy Quigley,Korina Moss,M. C. Beaton) (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cozy Case Files Volume 17 (By: Rhys Bowen,Diane Kelly,Gigi Pandian,Ellie Alexander,Paige Shelton,Jean-Luc Bannalec,Olivia Matthews,Olivia Blacke,Mindy Quigley,Clare Broyles,Korina Moss,Anastasia Hastings) (2023)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cozy Case Files, Volume 18 (With: Donna Andrews,Leonard Goldberg,Allison Montclair,Vivien Chien,Olivia Matthews,Olivia Blacke,Mindy Quigley,Meri Allen,Katharine Schellman,Korina Moss) (2023)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cozy Case Files, Volume 19 (By: M.C. Beaton,Donna Andrews,Cate Conte,Diane Kelly,Ellie Alexander,Cynthia Riggs,R.W. Green,Elizabeth Penney,Korina Moss,Celeste Connally) (2023)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cozy Case Files, Volume 20 (By: Rhys Bowen,Gigi Pandian,Ellie Alexander,Paige Shelton,Olivia Matthews,Jennifer J. Chow,Olivia Blacke,Mindy Quigley,Clare Broyles,Anastasia Hastings) (2024)Description / Buy at Amazon
Anthology series.If author is listed on a book then this author wrote a story within that book.

Publication Order of Safe Haven Books

The Message (By: Stella Cameron) (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon
Measure of Deceit (As: Caroline Burnes) (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon
Come Gentle the Dawn (By: Lindsay McKenna) (1989)Description / Buy at Amazon
Life Line (By: Rebecca York) (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon
Deadly Currents (As: Caroline Burnes) (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Reluctant Bride (By: Barbara Bretton) (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon
A Haven in His Arms (By: Phyllis Halldorson) (1993)Description / Buy at Amazon
Hired Hand (By: Elizabeth Bevarly) (1993)Description / Buy at Amazon
Dead Heat (By: Patricia Rosemoor) (1993)Description / Buy at Amazon
Night Prince (By: Muriel Jensen) (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon
Tempting Faith (By: Susan Mallery) (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon
Odd Man Out (By: B.J. Daniels) (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon
True Lies (By: Ingrid Weaver) (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon
At the Midnight Hour (By: Alicia Scott) (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon
Caitlin's Guardian Angel (By: Marie Ferrarella) (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon
His Friend's Wife (By: Janice Kay Johnson) (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon
Badlands Bride (By: Cheryl St. John) (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Marrying Kind (By: Beverly Bird) (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon
Renegade's Redemption (By: Lindsay Longford) (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon
Sunset Promises (By: Carla Cassidy) (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Amnesiac Bride (By: Marie Ferrarella) (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon
Return to Sender (By: Merline Lovelace) (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon
Clay Yeager's Redemption (By: Justine Davis) (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon
Keeping Annie Safe (By: Beverly Barton) (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon
Her Private Bodyguard (By: Gayle Wilson) (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon
Inadmissible Passion (By: Ann Voss Peterson) (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon
One Good Man (By: Julie Miller) (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon
Secrets and Lies (By: Maggie Shayne) (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon
Memories of Megan (By: Rita Herron) (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Greatest Texas Love Stories of All Time Books

Satan's Angel (By: Kristin James) (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon
A Girl's Best Friend (By: Marie Ferrarella) (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon
Precious Pretender (By: Stella Bagwell) (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon
Like Father, Like Son (By: Elizabeth August) (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon
Double Vision (By: Sheryl Lynn) (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon
Her Kind of Man (By: Barbara McCauley) (1993)Description / Buy at Amazon
Mike's Baby (By: Mary Lynn Baxter) (1993)Description / Buy at Amazon
Guilty as Sin (By: Cathy Gillen Thacker) (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon
Mail Order Brood (By: Arlene James) (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon
My Baby, Your Child (By: Nikki Benjamin) (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon
Father In The Middle (By: Phyllis Halldorson) (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Texas Touch (By: Kate Thomas) (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon
Long Lost Husband (By: Joleen Daniels) (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon
Daddy was a Cowboy (By: Jodi O'Donnell) (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon
Walk Away Joe / Cowboy Takes a Lady (By: Cindy Gerard) (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon
Desperate (By: Kay David) (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon
Child of Her Heart (By: Arlene James) (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Guardian's Bride (By: Laurie Paige) (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon
Christmas Kisses For A Dollar (By: Laurie Paige) (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon
Hide in Plain Sight (By: Sara Orwig) (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Loner and the Lady (By: Eileen Wilks) (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon
Bedded Bliss (By: Heather McAllister) (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon
A Willful Marriage (By: Peggy Moreland) (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Outlaw and the City Slicker (By: Debbi Rawlins) (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Water Baby (By: Roz Denny Fox) (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon
Call Me (By: Alison Kent) (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon
Millie and the Fugitive (By: Liz Ireland) (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon
Some Kind of Hero (By: Sandy Steen) (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon
One Ticket To Texas (By: Jan Hudson) (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon
Hannah's Hunks (By: Bonnie Tucker) (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon
Family Ties (By: Joanna Wayne) (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon
Lawman (By: Laurie Grant) (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon
Familiar Heart (As: Caroline Burnes) (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon
Unforgettable Bride (By: Annette Broadrick) (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon
His-And-Hers Family (By: Bonnie K. Winn) (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon
Storming Paradise (By: Mary McBride) (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon
Two Brothers and a Bride (By: Elizabeth Harbison) (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon
Love, Honor And A Pregnant Bride (By: Karen Rose Smith) (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon
Lone Wolf's Lady (By: Beverly Barton) (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon
A Mother for Jeffrey (By: Trisha Alexander) (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Marry Me, Cowboy Books

The Reckoning (By: Joleen Daniels) (1989)Description / Buy at Amazon
Home Fires Burning Bright (By: Laurie Paige) (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon
Mustang Valley (By: Jackie Merritt) (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon
Rodeo Rider (By: Stella Bagwell) (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon
Woman at Willagong Creek (By: Jessica Hart) (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon
Dangerous (By: Caroline Cross) (1993)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cowboy's Kin (By: Victoria Pade) (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon
Rancher's Choice (By: Kylie Brant) (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon
Madeleine's Cowboy (By: Kristine Rolofson) (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Farmer Takes A Wife (By: Jodi O'Donnell) (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon
White Gold (By: Curtiss Matlock) (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Wilde Bunch (By: Barbara Boswell) (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon
Gideon's Bride (By: Amelia Autin) (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Cowboy's Courtship (By: Patricia Thayer) (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon
A Man Without Love (By: Beverly Bird) (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon
Marriage Incorporated (By: Debbi Rawlins) (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon
A Shotgun Wedding (By: Cathy Gillen Thacker) (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon
Midnight Cowboy (By: Adrianne Lee) (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Rancher and the Baby (By: Elizabeth August) (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Badlands Bride (By: Rebecca Winters) (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon
Daddy on Demand (By: Judy Christenberry) (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Newlywed Game (By: Bonnie K. Winn) (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon
Bulletproof Heart (By: Sheryl Lynn) (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon
Lucky Devil (By: Patricia Rosemoor) (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Other Laura (By: Sheryl Lynn) (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon
She Caught the Sheriff (By: Anne Marie Duquette) (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Cowboy Wants a Wife! (By: Susan Fox) (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon
Trouble At Lone Spur (By: Roz Denny Fox) (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon
Texas Dawn (By: Joan Elliott Pickart) (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Return of the Cowboy (By: Cheryl Biggs) (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon
Marry Me, Cowboy (By: Cheryl Biggs) (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cowboys Do It Best (By: Eileen Wilks) (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon
Upon a Midnight Clear (By: Lynn Erickson) (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon
Midnight Prey (As: Caroline Burnes) (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon
Boss Lady And The Hired Hand (By: Barbara McMahon) (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon
Holding on to Alex (By: Margaret Way) (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon
One More Rodeo (By: Lynnette Kent) (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon
Wyoming Wife? (By: Shawna Delacorte) (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon
Her Torrid Temporary Marriage (By: Sara Orwig) (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon
Colorado Protector / Hiding Out at the Circle C (By: Jill Shalvis) (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Unlikely Bodyguard (By: Amy J. Fetzer) (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Rancher And The Redhead (By: Allison Leigh) (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon
Seduction of the Reluctant Bride (By: Barbara McCauley) (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon
Remember Me, Cowboy (As: Caroline Burnes) (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon
Delightful Jones (By: Patricia Knoll) (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Western Lovers Books

Someone Waiting (By: Joan Hohl) (1985)Description / Buy at Amazon
Yesterday's Lies (By: Lisa Jackson) (1986)Description / Buy at Amazon
A Deadly Breed (As: Caroline Burnes) (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon
Ambushed (By: Patricia Rosemoor) (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon
Wellspring (By: Curtiss Matlock) (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon
Wild Horse Canyon (By: Elizabeth August) (1989)Description / Buy at Amazon
With No Regrets (By: Lisa Jackson) (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Anthologies

The Truth About Cats & Dogs(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon
A Kudzu Christmas(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon
Many Bloody Returns(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon
Delta Blues(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon
Florida Heat Wave(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
Coming Home to Mississippi(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Haunted Holidays(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
Midnight Mysteries(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cozy Case Files Volume 2(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Pieces(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cozy Case Files Volume 5(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cozy Case Files Volume 6(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon
Year-Round Trouble(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon
Alabama Noir(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cozy Case Files Volume 9(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cozy Case Files Volume 10(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cozy Case Files Volume 12(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cozy Case Files Volume 16(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon

Carolyn Haines was born on May 12, 1953, in Lucedale Mississippi. She also uses the pen names Carolyn Burnes and Lizzie Hart in some of her works. With over 70 books written since the start of her writing career, she truly an iconic writer.

Born to Roy and Hilda Hines, Carolyn loved reading and writing. When asked about her past, she speaks of growing in a small town, uninterrupted or troubled by the strife of today’s modernity. She remembers learning to swim in the river, and riding the bicycle at 2 am in the morning. This is without worry or a care in the world. She describes a fine childhood that shaped what she later became.

In some of the articles she has written about herself, Carolyn Haines also mentions her grandmother. A lady that emigrated from Sweden to the Americas when she was just twelve. Caroline tells of her grandmother as a great story teller, and how she too learned the craft at an early stage. She mentions that her grandmother liked telling ghost stories. In no time, she too was telling the same stories to her friends during sleep overs and scared those poor souls.

Caroline went to school in Lucedale graduating in 1971. She joined college and later graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1974 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. After that, she joined the University of South Alabama where she received a master’s degree in creative writing.

She became a journalist perhaps following in the footsteps of her parents who were also journalists. She worked with such papers as the Huntsville times, the Mississippi Press, the mobile press register, Hattiesburg American and George County times. For ten years she worked as a reporter and journalists during a period she speaks of as inspiring. Carolyn known for her sense of humor mentions covering a hostage situation in a graveyard. She says that some of these events shaped the stories she wanted to tell. They gave her the skills to investigate and come up with intriguing mysteries that she later put in her books.

Carolyn Haines takes on mystery and romance. The mystery series she writes under her own name, but the other genres she writes under pseudo names; Carolyn Burnes and Lizzie Hart. It is her mystery novel series that notably makes a dear to many. The Sarah Booth mystery series has 15 books.

The first of these bones mystery novels was published in 1999. The stories are set in zinnia, a fictional town in Mississippi. The stories also introduce Sarah Booth, a 30 something-year-old with a keen eye for detail. Her ability to decipher some of the mysteries in this town make her one of the best detectives available but it also put her in grave dangers. To make the mysteries even more interesting, Sarah lives in an ancestral home with a Jitty. A ghost bent on ensuring that Sarah does not lose her family home. It is this ghosts that convinces her to investigate some of the mysterious deaths of two of the homes inhabitants.

This book was followed by numerous other Sarah Booth mysteries that left readers hungry for more. Some of the books that stood out include hallowed bones. In this book, Sarah Booth investigates the mystery of a Doreen Mallory. This is a somewhat famous school teacher and tarot card reader accused of murdering her baby. Now a fully-fledged personal investigator, Sarah Booth decides to investigate, and this forces her to rub shoulders with the authorities in the town. She also has to deal with the feelings she has for the sheriff. In 2006, Penumbra was named as one the best mystery books in 2006 which also adds to great mystery novels greats.

Sarah Booth mystery Hallowed Bones was named among the top five mystery books by library journal. Other books in the series included crossed bones, bones to pick, bones of a feather, and wish bones among others. They have all be well receiving good critical acclaim.

Carolyn Haines has also written other works. Some are fiction and some non-fictional and some short stories too. Some books that intrigued many are Touched and Summer of Redeemer that are part of a trilogy also set in Mississippi. The books are very powerful and deal with the hypocrisies of gender, religion, and ethics. They are books that make you rethink what how you view the world. The books are published in many other languages.

Carolyn Haines also had the vision to create a publishing company. This company would cater for the authors that had a tough time publishing their books. She mentions that she wanted to do this because she had many friends, good writers that did not have their material published. Facing numerous challenges such as distribution, she had to stop the project. She, however, learnt a lot and still mentors young writers who want to follow in her footsteps.

For her great work Carolyn has received recognition and numerous awards. In 2010, she received the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer of the year. In 2009, she received the Richard write award for literary excellence. She has also received the Alabama state Council on the Arts Literary Fellowship and has also received critical acclaim for the bones series.

Carolyn now teaches creative writing at the University of Alabama. Inspiring both the undergraduate and the graduate classes. She is very passionate and strong desire to end animal cruelty. She has three horses and states in one of her interviews that growing up; she had a desire to be a cowgirl. Carolyn also has a dog that is also seen in some of her picture it goes to show her love for animals.

She is married to Steve Greene. A marriage she humors is almost consistent with what you would find in a novel. Steve is a captain in the sheriff’s department and as she was doing research for her book. With his skill in forensics they complimented each and 2003 they got married.

Carolyn continues to write and inspire many both through her books and in her life.

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