Cherie Priest

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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2005
  • Latest Book:
    July 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Booking Agents

1 - Grave Reservations (Nov-2021)
2 - Flight Risk (Nov-2022)

The Borden Dispatches

1 - Maplecroft (Sep-2014)
2 - Chapelwood (Sep-2015)

Cheshire Red Reports

1 - Bloodshot (Jan-2011)
2 - Hellbent (Sep-2011)

The Clockwork Century

1 - Boneshaker (Oct-2009)
1.5 - Clementine (Jun-2010)
2 - Dreadnought (Oct-2010)
3 - Ganymede (Sep-2011)
4 - The Inexplicables (Nov-2012)
5 - Fiddlehead (Nov-2013)
5.5 - Jacaranda (Feb-2015)

Eden Moore

1 - Four and Twenty Blackbirds (Oct-2005)
2 - Wings to the Kingdom (Oct-2006)
3 - Not Flesh Nor Feathers (Oct-2007)

Book List in Order: 31 titles

  • Four and Twenty Blackbirds

    Eden Moore - 1

    Although she was orphaned at birth, Eden Moore is never alone. Three dead women watch from the shadows, bound to protect her from harm. But in the woods a gunman waits, convinced that Eden is destined to follow her wicked great-grandfather--an Africa...

  • Wings to the Kingdom

    Eden Moore - 2

    The fields at Chickamauga, Georgia--America's oldest national military park--claimed 35,000 casualties during the Civil War. Any good guide will tell you that the grounds are haunted. The battlefield even has its own resident haunt, called Old Green ...

  • Dreadful Skin

    I ducked into a niche between a cabin and the pilot house and hiked my skirt up enough to reach down into my garter holster. I've heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal. We'd see what Mr. Colt could do for a woman. * ...

  • Not Flesh Nor Feathers

    Eden Moore - 3

    Down by the river, the first to go missing were not much lamented. Disappearances of homeless men foraging through trash or nuisance skater kids who rolled their boards along the planked piers at night were not noteworthy enough to delay the city's d...

  • Fathom

    "I can't fathom them, and neither can you." The ageless water witch Arahab has been scheming for eons, gathering the means to awaken the great Leviathan. She aims to bring him and the old gods back to their former glory, caring little that their a...

  • Those Who Went Remain There Still

    Heaster Wharton is dead, and his passing might mean an end to hostilities between the Manders and the Coys. If the the elderly patriarch showed the kindness and foresight to split his land cleanly between his feuding descendants, then a truce could b...

  • Boneshaker

    The Clockwork Century - 1

    In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine thr...

  • Clementine

    The Clockwork Century - 1.5

    Maria Isabella Boyd's success as a Confederate spy has made her too famous for further espionage work, and now her employment options are slim. Exiled, widowed, and on the brink of poverty...she reluctantly goes to work for the Pinkerton National Det...

  • Dreadnought

    The Clockwork Century - 2

    Nurse Mercy Lynch is elbows deep in bloody laundry at a war hospital in Richmond, Virginia, when Clara Barton comes bearing bad news: Mercys husband has died in a POW camp. On top of that, a telegram from the west coast declares that her estranged fa...



  • Bloodshot

    Cheshire Red Reports - 1

    VAMPIRE FOR HIRE Raylene Pendle (AKA Cheshire Red), a vampire and world-renowned thief, doesn't usually hang with her own kind. She's too busy stealing priceless art and rare jewels. But when the infuriatingly charming Ian Stott asks for help, Ra...

  • Ganymede

    The Clockwork Century - 3

    The air pirate Andan Cly is going straight. Well, straighter. Although he's happy to run alcohol guns wherever the money's good, he doesn't think the world needs more sap, or its increasingly ugly side-effects. But becoming legit is easier said than ...

  • Hellbent

    Cheshire Red Reports - 2

    BAD TO THE BONE Vampire thief Raylene Pendle doesn't need more complications in her life. Her Seattle home is already overrun by a band of misfits, including Ian Stott, a blind vampire, and Adrian deJesus, an ex-Navy SEAL/drag queen. But Raylene ...

  • Tanglefoot

    Stonewall Jackson survived Chancellorsville. England broke the Union’s naval blockade, and formally recognized the Confederate States of America. Atlanta never burned.It is 1880. The American Civil War has raged for nearly two decades, driving tech...

  • The Inexplicables

    The Clockwork Century - 4

    Rector “Wreck ‘em” Sherman was orphaned as a toddler in the Blight of 1863, but that was years ago. Wreck has grown up, and on his eighteenth birthday, he’ll be cast out out of the orphanage. And Wreck’s problems aren’t merely about f...

  • The Button Man and the Murder Tree

    George R. R. Martin's Wild Cards multi-author shared-world universe has been thrilling readers for over 25 years. Now, in addition to overseeing the ongoing publication of new Wild Cards books (like 2011's Fort Freak), Martin is also commissioning an...

  • Tell My Sorrows to the Stones

    A circus clown willing to give anything to be funny. A spectral gunslinger who must teach a young boy to defend the ones he loves. A lonely widower making a farewell tour of the places that meant the world to his late wife. A faded Hollywood actress ...

  • Fiddlehead

    The Clockwork Century - 5

    Young ex-slave Gideon Bardsley is a brilliant inventor, but the job is less glamorous than one might think, especially since the assassination attempts started. Worse yet, they're trying to destroy his greatest achievement: a calculating engine calle...

  • Maplecroft

    The Borden Dispatches - 1

    Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks; and when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.... The people of Fall River, Massachusetts, fear me. Perhaps rightfully so. I remain a suspect in the brutal deaths of ...

  • Jacaranda

    The Clockwork Century - 5.5

    The Ranger On the island of Galveston, off the coast of southeast Texas, lies a hotel called the Jacaranda. In its single year of operation, two dozen people have died there. The locals say it's cursed. The Rangers say that's nonsense, but they know...



  • I Am Princess X

    Once upon a time, two best friends created a princess together. Libby drew the pictures, May wrote the tales, and their heroine, Princess X, slayed all the dragons and scaled all the mountains their imaginations could conjure. Once upon a few year...

  • Chapelwood

    The Borden Dispatches - 2

    From Cherie Priest, the award-winning author of Maplecroft, comes a new tale of Lizzie Borden’s continuing war against the cosmic horrors threatening humanity… Birmingham, Alabama is infested with malevolence. Prejudice and hatred have consume...

  • The Family Plot

    Chuck Dutton built Music City Salvage with patience and expertise, stripping historic properties and reselling their bones. Inventory is running low, so he's thrilled when Augusta Withrow appears in his office offering salvage rights to her entire pr...

  • Brimstone

    A new dark historical fantasy from the “supremely gifted”* Cherie Priest, author of Mapelcroft and Boneshaker. In the trenches of Europe during the Great War, Tomás Cordero operated a weapon more devastating than any gun: a flame projector th...

  • The Agony House

    Denise Farber has just moved back to New Orleans with her mom and step-dad. They left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and have finally returned, wagering the last of their family's money on fixing up an old, rundown house and converting it to a bed ...

  • The Toll

    A 2020 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST HORROR NOVELFrom Cherie Priest, the author of The Family Plot and Maplecroft, comes The Toll, a tense, dark, and scary treat for modern fans of the traditionally strange and macabre.Take a road trip into a Souther...

  • Grave Reservations

    Booking Agents - 1

    “Delightful.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewA psychic travel agent and a Seattle PD detective solve a murder in this quirky mystery in the vein of Lisa Lutz’s The Spellman Files and Charlaine Harris’s Aurora Teagarden series.Meet Leda Fol...

  • Holy Terror

    Since Cherie Priest burst onto the speculative fiction scene, she's built a huge following through novels that have earned her accolades and the titles The Queen of Horror and The High Priestess of Steampunk at various times. A nominee for the Nebula...

  • The Book of Cthulhu

    Tales of tentacles, terror, and madness from the publisher who brought you Wastelands, The Living Dead, and Brave New Worlds First described by visionary author H. P. Lovecraft, the Cthulhu mythos encompass a pantheon of truly existent...

  • Flight Risk

    Booking Agents - 2

    Inconsistent psychic Leda Foley and Seattle detective Grady Merritt return to solve the case of a missing couple in this sequel to the “delightful” (The New York Times Book Review) mystery Grave Reservations.When psychic travel agent Leda Foley i...



  • Cinderwich

    “Who put Ellen in the blackgum tree?” Decades after trespassing children spotted the desiccated corpse wedged in the treetop, no one knows the answer. Kate Thrush and her former college professor, Dr. Judith Kane, travel to Cinderwich, T...

  • The Drowning House

    “Cherie Priest is our new queen of darkness, folks. Time to kneel before her, lest she take our heads.” -- Chuck Wendig, author of The Book of Accidents A violent storm washes a mysterious house onto a rural Pacific Northwest beach, stoppin...

Award-Winning Books by Cherie Priest

Boneshaker
2010 Locus Award -- Science Fiction
2010 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award -- Regional Book


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Cherie Priest has published 31 books.

The next book by Cherie Priest, The Drowning House, will be published in July 2024.

The first book by Cherie Priest, Four and Twenty Blackbirds, was published in October 2005.

Yes. Cherie Priest has 5 series.
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