Order of Dan Rhodes Books
Sheriff Dan Rhodes is the protagonist in a series of mystery novels by American author Bill Crider. The series is set in small-town Texas, where Sheriff Rhodes lives alongside some strange people who sometimes commit some strange crimes.
The Dan Rhodes series began in 1986 with the novel Too Late to Die. It won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel. The series is currently ongoing. Below is a list of Bill Crider’s Dan Rhodes books in order of when they were originally published (which is also their chronological order):
Publication Order of Sheriff Dan Rhodes Books
Too Late to Die | (1986) | |
Shotgun Saturday Night | (1987) | |
Cursed to Death | (1988) | |
Death on the Move | (1989) | |
Evil at the Root | (1990) | |
Booked for a Hanging | (1992) | |
Murder Most Fowl | (1994) | |
Winning Can Be Murder | (1996) | |
Death by Accident | (1998) | |
A Ghost of a Chance | (2000) | |
A Romantic Way to Die | (2001) | |
Red, White, and Blue Murder | (2003) | |
A Mammoth Murder | (2006) | |
Murder Among the OWLS | (2007) | |
Of All Sad Words | (2008) | |
Murder in Four Parts | (2009) | |
Murder in the Air | (2010) | |
The Wild Hog Murders | (2011) | |
Murder of a Beauty Shop Queen | (2012) | |
Compound Murder | (2013) | |
Half in Love with Artful Death | (2014) | |
Between the Living and the Dead | (2015) | |
Survivors Will Be Shot Again | (2016) | |
Dead, to Begin With | (2017) | |
That Old Scoundrel Death | (2019) |
Publication Order of Sheriff Dan Rhodes Collections
(By: Bill Crider, Judy Crider)
The Blacklin County Files | (2012) |
Note: The Blackline County Files is co-authored with Judy Crier.