Below is the complete list of Charlaine Harris’ Gunnie Rose books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Gunnie Rose Books
- An Easy Death (2018)
An Easy Death was published in 2018 and is listed as book #1 in the Gunnie Rose series. - A Longer Fall (2020)
Published in 2020, A Longer Fall is listed as book #2 in the Gunnie Rose series. - The Russian Cage (2021)
The Russian Cage is a 2021 release and appears as book #3 in the Gunnie Rose series. - The Serpent in Heaven (2022)
In the Gunnie Rose series, The Serpent in Heaven is book #4 and was published in 2022. - All the Dead Shall Weep (2023)
All the Dead Shall Weep was first published in 2023; within the Gunnie Rose series, it is listed as book #5. - The Last Wizards’ Ball (2025)
The Last Wizards’ Ball was published in 2025 and is listed as book #6 in the Gunnie Rose series.
About Gunnie Rose
Charlaine Harris’s Gunnie Rose series is an alternate-history fantasy western built around Lizbeth Rose, a young gunslinger working in a fractured version of North America where magic exists, political borders have changed, and survival often depends on how quickly a person can read danger. The series begins with An Easy Death and follows Lizbeth through a world that feels part western, part magical thriller, and part post-collapse adventure. It is one of Harris’s most distinctive series because it moves away from the small-town supernatural mystery style of Sookie Stackhouse and Midnight, Texas, while keeping her talent for practical heroines, dry humor, and hidden worlds.
Lizbeth, often called Gunnie Rose, lives in Texoma, a rough territory formed after the old United States has broken apart. She earns her living as armed protection, guiding people and cargo through dangerous places where bandits, political enemies, and magical threats can all appear. She is young, but not naïve. Harris writes her as blunt, observant, capable, and emotionally guarded, someone who has learned that a steady hand and quick judgment can mean the difference between life and death.
An Easy Death establishes the series’ unusual world when Lizbeth takes a job with Russian wizards searching for someone connected to the Holy Russian Empire. That empire is one of the key alternate-history elements of the series: the Romanovs survived and established power in what was once part of California, bringing with them a magical culture that outsiders both fear and need. Lizbeth’s work with the wizards introduces Eli Savarov, whose role becomes increasingly important across the series, both as a magical figure and as someone whose life intersects deeply with hers.
As the series continues through books such as A Longer Fall, The Russian Cage, The Serpent in Heaven, and All the Dead Shall Weep, Harris keeps widening the map. Lizbeth’s journeys take her into different territories, each with its own dangers, customs, prejudices, and political tensions. The books are not only about shootouts or magical confrontations. They are also about class, power, loyalty, family, and how people survive when governments, borders, and social rules are unstable.
One of the most interesting developments is the growing importance of Felicia, Lizbeth’s younger half-sister. Felicia’s magical ability and place in the world shift the series away from being only Lizbeth’s gunslinger story. Later books give more attention to family ties, training, inheritance, and the danger that comes with being valuable to powerful people. The Serpent in Heaven especially changes the angle by focusing on Felicia in the Holy Russian Empire, showing the series can expand beyond Lizbeth’s direct viewpoint while staying rooted in the same world.
The later entries, including The Last Wizards’ Ball, continue developing the magical and political consequences around Lizbeth, Eli, Felicia, and the Russian grigori. By this stage, the series has become more than a western fantasy adventure. It is a story about people trying to build trust and family across borders, cultures, and dangerous loyalties.
Gunnie Rose works because Harris gives the world a hard, dusty practicality. Magic exists, but bullets, money, hunger, reputation, and geography still matter. Lizbeth is not a glamorous chosen-one heroine. She is a working woman with a gun, a code, and a sharp understanding of how quickly trouble can turn fatal. That grounded quality makes the series feel fresh: a magical western where survival is earned, love is complicated by politics, and every border crossing can change the rules.