Carolyn Haines Explained

Carolyn Haines
Pseudonym:	Carolyn Haines R.B. Chesterton Caroline Burnes Lizzie Hart
Birth Name:	Carolyn Haines
Birth Date:	May 12, 1953
Birth Place:	Lucedale, Mississippi, U.S.
Occupation:	Novelist
Alma Mater:	University of Southern Mississippi University of South Alabama
Period:	1988–present
Genre:	suspense, horror

Carolyn Haines (born May 12, 1953, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi), who uses the pseudonyms R.B. Chesterton, Caroline Burnes, and Lizzie Hart, is a prolific mystery author and former journalist specializing in mysteries set in the Mississippi Delta.

Biography

Haines is the daughter of Roy and Hilda Haines, both journalists. Haines grew up in Lucedale, Mississippi, and graduated from high school there in 1971. She received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1974 and a master's degree in creative writing from the University of South Alabama in 1985. For over ten years she was a reporter and journalist for newspapers such as the George County Times, the Mobile Press-Register, The Mississippi Press, The Huntsville Times, and the Hattiesburg American.

Her current mysteries are the Sarah Booth Delaney Mississippi Delta series, set in the fictional town of Zinnia. The humorous series has won numerous accolades, including Best Amateur Sleuth. "Hallowed Bones," the fifth in the series, was named in the top five mysteries of 2004 by Library Journal.

Haines also writes darker crime novels and general fiction. "Penumbra" was named one of the top five mysteries of 2006 by Library Journal. She has written under the pseudonyms Caroline Burnes in romantic mysteries, and Lizzie Hart in humor.

She taught the graduate and undergraduate fiction writing classes at the University of South Alabama, where she was an assistant professor and Fiction Coordinator.

Awards & praise

• 2010 Harper Lee Award winner for Alabama's Distinguished Writer of the Year
• Received Alabama State Council on the Arts literary fellowship for her writing
• 2009 Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence

Bibliography

As herself

The Sarah Booth Delaney Mysteries

1. Book: Them Bones. 1999. Bantam. 9780553581713.
2. Book: Buried Bones. 2000. Bantam. 9780553581720.
3. Book: Splintered Bones. 2003. Dell. 9780440237211.
4. Book: Crossed Bones. 2004. Dell. 9780440240938.
5. Book: Hallowed Bones. 2005. Dell. 9780440241317.
6. Book: Bones to Pick. registration. 2006. Kensington. 9780758210913.
7. Book: Ham Bones. registration. 2007. Kensington. 9780758210920.
8. Book: Wishbones. 2008. Minotaur Books. 9780312377083.
9. Book: Greedy Bones. 2009. Minotaur Books. 9780312377106.
10. Book: Bone Appétit . 2010 . Minotaur Books . 9780312594640.
11. Book: Bones of a Feather. 2011. Minotaur Books. 9780312595029.
12. Book: Bonefire of the Vanities. 2012. Minotaur Books. 9780312641870.
13. Book: Smarty Bones. 2013. Minotaur Books. 9780312641887.
14. Book: Booty Bones. 2014. Minotaur Books. 9781250046130.
15. Book: Bone to Be Wild. 2015. Minotaur Books. 9781250046147.
16. Book: Rock-a-Bye Bones. 2016. Minotaur Books. 9781250085160.
17. Sticks and Bones. Minotaur Books. 2017. .
18. Charmed Bones. Minotaur Books. 2018. .
19. A Gift of Bones. Minotaur Books. 2018. .
20. Game of Bones. Minotaur Books. 2019. .
21. The Devil's Bones. Minotaur Books. 2020. .
22. A Garland of Bones. Minotaur Books. 2020. .
23. Independent Bones. Minotaur Books. 2021. .
24. Lady of Bones. Minotaur Books. 2022. .
25. Bones of Holly. Minotaur Books. 2022. ISBN 9781250833754.

Sarah Booth Delaney Short Stories

• "Bones on the Bayou" (2014)
• "Shorty Bones" (2014)
• "Guru Bones" (2015)
• "Jingle Bones" (2015)
• "Bones and Arrows" (2016)
• "Clacking Bones" (2018 - novella)
• "Enchanted Bones" (2020)

The Jexville Chronicles

1. Summer of the Redeemers (1994)
2. Touched (1996)
3. Judas Burning (2005)

Non-series

1. Deception (2012)
2. Skin Dancer (2011)
3. Fever Moon (2007)
4. Revenant (2007)
5. Penumbra (2006)
6. My Mother's Witness: The Peggy Morgan Story (2003)

Short stories

• "The Christmas Ornament" in Haunted Holidays: Three Short Tales of Horror (2014)

• "The Sugar Cure" in Delta Blues (2010)

• "Ode to the Fruitcake" in Christmas Memories from Mississippi (2010)

• "The Cypress Dream" in Florida Heat Wave (2010)

• "Neighborhood Watch" in Damn Near Dead II (2010)

• "The Wish" in Many Bloody Returns (2009)

• "Carolyn Haines" in Growing Up in Mississippi (2008)

As Caroline Burnes

Fear Familiar

1. Fear Familiar (1990)
2. Too Familiar (1993)
3. Thrice Familiar (1993)
4. Shades of Familiar (1994)
5. Familiar Remedy (1994)
6. Familiar Tale (1995)
7. Bewitching Familiar (1995)
8. Familiar Heart (1997)
9. Familiar Fire (1998)
10. Familiar Valentine (1999)
11. Familiar Christmas (1999)
12. Familiar Obsession (2000)
13. Familiar Lullaby (2001)
14. Familiar Mirage (2002)
15. Familiar Oasis (2002)
16. Familiar Texas (2005)
17. Familiar Escape (2006)
18. Familiar Vows (2008)
19. Familiar Showdown (2009)

Legend of Blackthorn

1. Babe in the Woods (2003)
2. Rider in the Mist (2003)

Non-series

1. Phantom Filly (1989)
2. The Jaguar's Eye (1990)
3. Fatal Ingredients (1992)
4. Hoodwinked (1993)
5. Cutting Edge (1994)
6. Texas Midnight (2000)
7. Midnight Burning (2001)

As editor

1. Delta Blues (2010)

As R.B. Chesterton

1. Book: The Darkling. 2013. Pegasus. 9781605984582. registration.
2. Book: The Seeker. 2014. Pegasus. 9781605985008.

Short stories

• "The Hanged Man" (2015 - novella)

External links

• Official website