A Callie Parrish Mystery Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| A Tisket, A Tasket, A Fancy Stolen Casket |
2007 |
Buy |
| Casket Case |
2008 |
Buy |
| Hey Diddle Diddle, the Corpse and the Fiddle |
2008 |
Buy |
| Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, There’s a Body in the Car |
2011 |
Buy |
| Mother Hubbard Has a Corpse in the Cupboard |
2013 |
Buy |
| A Corpse Under the Christmas Tree |
2013 |
Buy |
| Murder is on the Clock |
2015 |
Buy |
| A Skull Full of Posies |
2017 |
Buy |
Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Southern Swamps and Ruins |
2016 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Kudzu River |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Horror of Julie Bates |
2016 |
Buy |
Fran Rizer spent twenty-five years teaching in South Carolina public schools before retiring to write fiction. She won a Porter Fleming Fiction Award and has been nominated for both an Agatha Award and a SIBA Award. She is also a featured author on the SCETV series A Literary Tour of South Carolina.
She is best known for the Callie Parrish cozy mystery series, which runs to eight books. The series follows a mortuary cosmetologist in a small South Carolina town who has a habit of stumbling into murder cases. The books have playful nursery-rhyme titles — the first is called A Tisket, A Tasket, A Fancy Stolen Casket. Outside the series, she has written a thriller (Kudzu River) and a horror novel (The Horror of Julie Bates), both set in South Carolina.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Fran Rizer written?
Fran Rizer has written 11 books across 3 series.
What was Fran Rizer's first book?
Fran Rizer’s first book is A Tisket, A Tasket, A Fancy Stolen Casket, published in 2007.
What is the Callie Parrish series about?
The Callie Parrish series follows Calamine Callie Parrish, a mortuary cosmetologist in small-town South Carolina who keeps getting involved in murder investigations. The eight-book series is known for its nursery-rhyme-themed titles.