The Recurring Cast
Character guide · 39 books · 1990 to 2022 · Often set in the fictional Bon Temps, Louisiana

Charlaine Harris

Crime and mysteryRomanceFantasyScience fictionAmateur sleuthCosy and comicNoir and hardboiledParanormal romanceUrban fantasyAlternate history

Charlaine Harris created Sookie Stackhouse, the telepathic Louisiana waitress who fell for a vampire, as well as the librarian sleuth Aurora Teagarden, the grave-finder Harper Connelly, the hard-edged cleaner Lily Bard and the town of Midnight, Texas, where characters from her other series meet.

Best estimate, compiled from series guides, publisher descriptions and reviews where available, and from memory otherwise. Book level only, not chapter level. Minor includes cameos and brief references. Each book carries a confidence rating in its tooltip. The Gunnie Rose alternate-history westerns are included. Novellas are left out.

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Charlaine Harris books in order

Each series in publication order, with its lead characters. Where the story runs in a different order, switch to Story order. Crossover books are marked and listed under their main series. Use My books to track what you have read.

Sookie Stackhouse

13 books · Set in the fictional Bon Temps, LouisianaUrban fantasyParanormal romance
  1. 1Dead Until Dark2001With Sookie StackhouseBuy on Amazon
  2. 2Living Dead in Dallas2002With Sookie StackhouseBuy on Amazon
  3. 3Club Dead2003With Sookie StackhouseBuy on Amazon
  4. 4Dead to the World2004With Sookie StackhouseBuy on Amazon
  5. 5Dead as a Doornail2005With Sookie StackhouseBuy on Amazon
  6. 6Definitely Dead2006With Sookie StackhouseBuy on Amazon
  7. 7All Together Dead2007With Sookie StackhouseBuy on Amazon
  8. 8From Dead to Worse2008With Sookie StackhouseBuy on Amazon
  9. 9Dead and Gone2009With Sookie StackhouseBuy on Amazon
  10. 10Dead in the Family2010With Sookie StackhouseBuy on Amazon
  11. 11Dead Reckoning2011With Sookie StackhouseBuy on Amazon
  12. 12Deadlocked2012With Sookie StackhouseBuy on Amazon
  13. 13Dead Ever After2013With Sookie StackhouseBuy on Amazon

Aurora Teagarden

10 books · Set in the fictional Lawrenceton, GeorgiaCosy and comicAmateur sleuth
  1. 1Real Murders1990With Aurora TeagardenBuy on Amazon
  2. 2A Bone to Pick1992With Aurora TeagardenBuy on Amazon
  3. 3Three Bedrooms, One Corpse1994With Aurora TeagardenBuy on Amazon
  4. 4The Julius House1995With Aurora TeagardenBuy on Amazon
  5. 5Dead Over Heels1996With Aurora TeagardenBuy on Amazon
  6. 6A Fool and His Honey1999With Aurora TeagardenBuy on Amazon
  7. 7Last Scene Alive2002With Aurora TeagardenBuy on Amazon
  8. 8Poppy Done to Death2003With Aurora TeagardenBuy on Amazon
  9. 9All the Little Liars2016With Aurora TeagardenBuy on Amazon
  10. 10Sleep Like a Baby2017With Aurora TeagardenBuy on Amazon

Lily Bard

5 books · Set in the fictional Shakespeare, ArkansasAmateur sleuthNoir and hardboiled
  1. 1Shakespeare's Landlord1996With Lily BardBuy on Amazon
  2. 2Shakespeare's Champion1997With Lily BardBuy on Amazon
  3. 3Shakespeare's Christmas1998With Lily BardBuy on Amazon
  4. 4Shakespeare's Trollop2000With Lily BardBuy on Amazon
  5. 5Shakespeare's Counselor2001With Lily BardBuy on Amazon

Harper Connelly

4 books · Set in various US townsUrban fantasyAmateur sleuth
  1. 1Grave Sight2005With Harper ConnellyBuy on Amazon
  2. 2Grave Surprise2006With Harper ConnellyBuy on Amazon
  3. 3An Ice Cold Grave2007With Harper ConnellyBuy on Amazon
  4. 4Grave Secret2009With Harper ConnellyBuy on Amazon

Midnight, Texas

3 books · Set in the fictional Midnight, TexasUrban fantasy
  1. 1Midnight Crossroad2014With Manfred BernardoBuy on Amazon
  2. 2Day Shift2015With Manfred BernardoBuy on Amazon
  3. 3Night Shift2016With Fiji CavanaughBuy on Amazon

Gunnie Rose

4 books · Set in an alternate AmericaAlternate historyUrban fantasy
  1. 1An Easy Death2018With Lizbeth RoseBuy on Amazon
  2. 2A Longer Fall2020With Lizbeth RoseBuy on Amazon
  3. 3The Russian Cage2021With Lizbeth RoseBuy on Amazon
  4. 4All the Dead Shall Weep2022With Lizbeth RoseBuy on Amazon

Characters

19 recurring and key characters, with the book each one first appears in.

Bon Temps

Lawrenceton

Shakespeare, Arkansas

Harper Connelly

Midnight

Gunnie Rose