Below is the complete list of Bobbi Holmes’ Haunting Danielle books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Haunting Danielle Books
as Anna J. McIntyre
About Haunting Danielle
Bobbi Holmes’s Haunting Danielle series is a long-running paranormal cozy mystery sequence centered on Danielle Boatman, Marlow House, and the many living and ghostly complications that gather around the seaside town of Frederickport. The series begins with The Ghost of Marlow House, where Danielle inherits an old house in Oregon and hopes to turn it into a bed and breakfast. What she does not expect is Walt Marlow, the charming ghost of the house’s former owner, whose unresolved death pulls her into her first supernatural mystery.
That opening setup gives the series its durable shape. Marlow House is not just a haunted property; it becomes the emotional and narrative center of the books. Guests arrive, secrets surface, spirits linger, and Danielle’s life gradually becomes inseparable from the strange history of the house and the town around it. The mysteries are cozy in tone rather than graphic or hardboiled, but Holmes gives them steady momentum by allowing the past to remain active. In Frederickport, old crimes and old griefs rarely stay buried, especially when the dead still have something to say.
Danielle is the anchor of the series because she approaches the paranormal with a blend of practicality, curiosity, and compassion. She is not written as a traditional detective, but her ability to communicate with spirits places her in the middle of cases that ordinary investigators cannot fully understand. Walt’s presence adds another layer. He is both helper and mystery, a ghost with wit, history, and emotional ties to the world Danielle has inherited. Their relationship gives the early books a strong through-line, while the expanding cast turns Haunting Danielle into a community series rather than a simple one-house ghost story.
The books often combine murder, family secrets, local gossip, romance, humor, and holiday atmosphere. Titles such as The Ghost Who Loved Diamonds, The Ghost Who Wasn’t, The Ghost of Halloween Past, and The Ghost Who Came for Christmas show how Holmes uses familiar cozy-mystery ingredients while keeping the supernatural element central. The ghosts are not decorative scares. They frequently provide the missing link between a present-day puzzle and an unfinished story from the past, which gives the series its distinctive mix of comfort and melancholy.
As the series grows, the world around Danielle becomes increasingly important. Frederickport develops its own rhythm, with recurring residents, visitors, relationships, and secrets that reward steady reading. The bed-and-breakfast setting also gives Holmes a flexible structure: new guests can bring new problems, while familiar characters continue to evolve in the background. Later books broaden the domestic and community stakes, moving beyond the original question of Walt’s death into a wider web of friendships, family connections, marriages, children, rivalries, and restless spirits.
Haunting Danielle is best approached as a character-driven cozy series with a strong paranormal spine. Each book has its own mystery, but the pleasure of the series comes from accumulation: watching Danielle settle into Marlow House, seeing Frederickport become more layered, and following the way the living and the dead shape one another’s lives. Holmes keeps the tone accessible and gentle without removing danger or emotional consequence. For readers who enjoy cozy mysteries with ghosts, recurring characters, and an ongoing sense of place, Haunting Danielle offers a broad, steadily expanding world built around one very unusual house and the woman who learns to call it home.