Mignon F. Ballard

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1987
  • Latest Book:
    March 2021
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Full Series List in Order

An Augusta Goodnight Mystery

1 - Angel at Troublesome Creek (Oct-1999)
2 - An Angel to Die For (Oct-2000)
3 - Shadow of an Angel (Apr-2002)
4 - The Angel Whispered Danger (Jan-2001)
5 - Too Late for Angels (Mar-2005)
6 - The Angel and the Jabberwocky Murders (Dec-2006)
7 - Hark! The Herald Angel Screamed (Nov-2008)

Miss Dimple

1 - Miss Dimple Disappears (Dec-2010)
2 - Miss Dimple Rallies to the Cause (Nov-2011)
3 - Miss Dimple Suspects (Jan-2013)
4 - Miss Dimple Picks a Peck of Trouble (Feb-2014)
5 - Miss Dimple and the Slightly Bewildered Angel (Aug-2016)

Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • Cry at Dusk

    Worldwide Mysteries - 25

    Why would Laney McCall take a midnight plunge off Crybaby Bridge? The mysterious circumstances of her cousin's death left Laura Graham grieving -- yet determined to find the answers. Her search takes her back to her South Carolina home -- and int...

  • Deadly Promise

    Worldwide Mysteries - 86

    The first victim was her husband. Then his best friend. So Molly Stonehouse had come to Harmony, Georgia, for Christmas -- to discover who in her husband's cheery hometown was a murderer. At the center of the mystery is a secret from the past, an...

  • The Widow's Woods

  • Final Curtain

    Virginia Cameron travels to Fiddler's Glen to probe into the death of her great aunt and escape harassment from her ex-boyfriend, and as her aunt's spirit helps her dig up old clues, the murderer emerges to stop the investigation....

  • Minerva Cries Murder

    When Eliza Figg investigates her first mystery, she must delve deep into the atmosphere of the South. By the author of Cry at Dusk, Raven Rock, Deadly Promise, The Widow's Woods, and Final Curtain. ...

  • Waiting for Pixie

    in Malice Domestic 4

  • Angel at Troublesome Creek

    An Augusta Goodnight Mystery - 1

    Since her sudden break-up with her fiance, and the even more sudden death of her beloved Aunt Caroline, Mary George Murphy had not only considered suicide she'd tried it. But her attempts at ending it all proved yet another in her list of failures......

  • Aunt Matilda's Ghost

  • Raven Rock

    Searching for the mother who had abandoned her as an infant, Henrietta Meredith is drawn to Raven Rock, a small town in the mountains of North Carolina, and to the long-neglected Honeysuckle House where her mother once lived. Why did terrified Maggie...



  • An Angel to Die For

    An Augusta Goodnight Mystery - 2

    Prentice Dobson is plumb out of luck in the big city. To collect her thoughts and mourn her younger sister's recent death, Prentice packs up and heads for her family's small, southern town. But there is no comfort to be found there - the town is aq...

  • The Angel Whispered Danger

    An Augusta Goodnight Mystery - 4
    Worldwide Mysteries - 516

    GOSSAMER AND GRAVESTONES While trying to come up with a clever excuse for her estranged husband's conspicuous absence at the family reunion, Kate McBride arrives at Bramblewood, her great-uncle Ernest's magnificent old estate in the North Carolina...

  • The War in Sallie's Station

    “. . . a compelling story, deftly and artfully told by a writer at the top of her form.” -- Robert Inman, author of Dairy Queen Days

    In the beginning, God created Sallie's Station. He molded it from red Georgia clay and Cherokee-brown rivers...

  • Shadow of an Angel

    An Augusta Goodnight Mystery - 3

    Meet Augusta Goodnight, guardian angel extraordinaire and the afterlife's best angel-sleuth. Always on call, she's resourceful, wisecracking--and literally down-to-earth... Minda Hobbs has returned to her hometown of Angel Heights, South Carolina ...

  • Too Late for Angels

    An Augusta Goodnight Mystery - 5
    Worldwide Mysteries - 559

    DIVINE INTERVENTION Lucy Nan Pilgrim has lived her entire life in Stone's Throw, South Carolina, a place where nothing much happens, not even trouble. So when something bad does happen, everybody remembers -- like the time a little girl disappeared ...

  • The Angel and the Jabberwocky Murders

    An Augusta Goodnight Mystery - 6

    Augusta Goodnight, heavenly sleuth and guardian angel, is a welcome boarder with longtime resident Lucy Nan Pilgrim in the seemingly tranquil town of Stone's Throw, South Carolina. And Augusta's divine intervention is needed now more than ever. The l...

  • The Christmas Cottage

    Christmas has always been a special time for Meredith Enright. Born on Christmas Eve, she celebrates the holiday with joy, filling her home with seasonal music and the fragrance of fir and pine. But this year, her jam cake is still warm from the oven...

  • Hark! The Herald Angel Screamed

    An Augusta Goodnight Mystery - 7
    Worldwide Mysteries - 732

    Holiday festivities are in full swing for Lucy Nan Pilgrim and her resident guardian angel, Augusta Goodnight -- until murder meddles with the good cheer. No one recognizes the man pushed to his death from the balcony at Lucy Nan's abandoned ancestra...

  • Miss Dimple Disappears

    Miss Dimple - 1

    IT IS 1942, and most of the men in the town of Elderberry, Georgia, have gone to war. One frosty morning just before Thanksgiving, young schoolmistress Charlie Carr and her fellow teachers are startled to find that the school custodian, Wilson "Chris...

  • Miss Dimple Rallies to the Cause

    Miss Dimple - 2

    September, 1943. As the second year of World War II draws to a close, h residents of the small town of Elderberry, Georgia, are doing their best to support the war effort. The upcoming war bond rally -- complete with pageant and parade -- has everyon...



  • Miss Dimple Suspects

    Miss Dimple - 3

    With the country in the midst of World War II, you can be sure the small town of Elderberry, Georgia, will pull together to find a missing child. And you can be equally certain that first-grade teacher, Miss Dimple Kilpatrick, will be in the search p...

  • How Still We See Thee Lie

    Candles are gleaming, carolers, singing, and Christmas bells are joyfully ringing, but all is not well in Harmony. Residents of the small Georgia town are busily preparing for pageants and parties, and Molly Stonehouse, spending the holidays with her...

  • Miss Dimple Picks a Peck of Trouble

    Miss Dimple - 4

    It's the summer of 1944 and the world seems mired in a war that will never end. On the home front, the people of Elderberry, Georgia, are doing everything they can to support the troops. Even with a war on, the peaches are ripe for picking. As vetera...

  • Miss Dimple and the Slightly Bewildered Angel

    Miss Dimple - 5

    October, 1944. It has been a challenging season for Elderberry's favorite first grade teacher, Miss Dimple Kilpatrick. A beloved former student was recently killed in the war, her brother has become distant, and her friend Odessa, the cook at Pheobe'...

  • No Word for Goodbye

    ... I was sure to be scalped and chopped into little pieces with a tomahawk. Well, it would serve them right if I was.Although I'd rather not.* * *In the autumn of 1831, feeling as though her heart and stomach had switched places, eleven year old Nel...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mignon F. Ballard has published 24 books.

Mignon F. Ballard does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, No Word for Goodbye, was published in March 2021.

The first book by Mignon F. Ballard, Cry at Dusk, was published in September 1987.

Yes. Mignon F. Ballard has 2 series.
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