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Gunnie Rose

by Charlaine Harris

The Gunnie Rose series by Charlaine Harris has 6 known books (6 published) and is best read in publication order, starting with An Easy Death (2019).

Books
6 known books (6 novels)
Published
6
First published
2019
Status
completed
Shelved under
Fantasy
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Start here: An Easy Death (2019) — then read straight through in publication order.

Book one

Cover of An Easy Death

An Easy Death (2019)

Reading order

The date order of published books and any announced future entries — the default way to read the series.

  1. An Easy Death

    Novel

    An Easy Death (2019) opens Gunnie Rose at 352 pages, the longest of the six novels, introducing gunslinger Lizbeth Rose in Harris's fractured, magic-touched 1930s America.

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  2. A Longer Fall

    Novel

    A Longer Fall , published in 2020 at 304 pages, continues Lizbeth's story a year after An Easy Death , deepening the political intrigue between Texas, Dixie and the magic-wielding Russian grigoris that fractured her 1930s America.

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  3. The Russian Cage

    Novel

    The Russian Cage , published in 2021 at 320 pages, pushes deeper into the Tsarist-succession politics of the Russian grigori community at the heart of Lizbeth's fractured-America saga, continuing directly from A Longer Fall .

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  4. The Serpent in Heaven

    Novel

    The Serpent in Heaven , published in 2022 at 304 pages -- matching A Longer Fall 's length -- is the fourth entry in the single continuous Gunnie Rose saga, advancing the overarching political plot toward Harris's planned conclusion.

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  5. All the Dead Shall Weep

    Novel

    All the Dead Shall Weep , at just 153 pages by far the shortest Gunnie Rose entry, is the fifth book in the six-part saga, published in 2023 as Lizbeth's found family and the fractured America around her head toward the series' deliberate ending.

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  6. The Last Wizards' Ball

    Novel

    The Last Wizards' Ball , published in 2025 at 304 pages, is the sixth and final Gunnie Rose novel -- written and marketed by Charlaine Harris as the deliberate close of Lizbeth's alternate-1930s-America saga rather than an open-ended continuation.

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About the Gunnie Rose series

Lizbeth Rose is a gunnie — a hired gun for travelers who can't afford to cross dangerous territory alone — in an alternate 1930s America that fractured after a fictional assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt splintered the country into rival nations: Texas remains its own republic, the old Confederacy hangs on as Dixie, and a magic-wielding Russian community has fled the revolution to settle in the fractured West, bringing grigoris (wizards) and the political intrigue of Tsarist succession with them. Charlaine Harris builds a genuinely ambitious alternate-history setting here, closer to weird western and fantasy than to her supernatural-mystery series — Lizbeth is a competent, dangerous professional first and a romantic lead second, and the series takes real interest in the politics and worldbuilding of its fractured America alongside her personal story.

Harris wrote six novels between 2019 and 2025, closing out the story as a complete arc rather than an open-ended series — The Last Wizards' Ball (2025) was explicitly written and marketed as the saga's ending. This is the series for readers who want Harris's plain-spoken, competence-focused voice applied to a much bigger canvas than her small-town mystery series — alternate history, magic, and a rolling cast of nations rather than one town's secrets.

Frequently asked questions

How many Gunnie Rose books are there?

Six novels, published between 2019 and 2025: An Easy Death, A Longer Fall, The Russian Cage, The Serpent in Heaven, All the Dead Shall Weep, and The Last Wizards' Ball.

What order should I read the Gunnie Rose books in?

Publication order, starting with An Easy Death. It's a single continuous saga with an overarching plot, not standalone mysteries, so reading in order matters.

Is Gunnie Rose finished?

Yes. The Last Wizards' Ball (2025) was written and released as the series' planned conclusion.

What kind of world is Gunnie Rose set in?

An alternate 1930s America that splintered into rival nations — Texas, Dixie, a Holy Russian Empire community with magic-wielding grigoris, and others — after a fictional assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt changed history.

Is Gunnie Rose connected to Sookie Stackhouse or Harris's other series?

No — it's a standalone alternate-history fantasy saga, tonally and structurally distinct from her small-town supernatural-mystery series.

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