Series
Charley Davidson
Darynda Jones · 13 novels · 5 novellas · 1 short story · 2011–2024
Charley Davidson is Darynda Jones's long-running paranormal mystery series beginning with First Grave on the Right (2011) and running to eighteen novels plus companion novellas. It follows Charley, a part-time private investigator who is also the reincarnation of Death itself, solving murders by talking to the ghosts of the victims, while her relationship with the supernatural being Reyes Farrow complicates the mythology around her. Each book is a largely self-contained case within one long-running arc about Charley's own nature.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(2 editions)
Map
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Stats
By decade
- 2010s14
- 2020s5
Shape
13 novels · 5 novellas · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:urban fantasymurder investigationnorth americacontemporaryfunnyadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book18 of 19 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Dirt on Ninth Gravedarkest
- First Grave on the Rightbrightest
- The Graveside Bar and Grillcalmest
- Eighth Grave After Darkmost intense