Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her Deadly Homecoming | 2020 | Drew Strickland | N/A |
| 2 | Her Deadly Homecoming / Wake of Buzzards | 2020 | Drew Strickland | Buy |
| 3 | Her Killer Confession / Mutation of Thrushes | 2020 | Drew Strickland | Buy |
| 4 | Her Deadly Double Life | 2020 | Drew Strickland | Buy |
| 5 | Her Deadly Double Life / Siege of Herons | 2020 | Drew Strickland | Buy |
| 6 | Poaching Grounds | 2021 | Drew Strickland | Buy |
| 7 | Winter’s Obsession | 2022 | Drew Strickland | Buy |
| 8 | The Nameless Graves | 2023 | Drew Strickland | Buy |
| 9 | Bury Her Twice | 2025 | Drew Strickland | Buy |
The Carolina McKay series features an investigator working cases in small Southern towns where the crimes run deeper than they first appear. The series launched in 2020 with Her Deadly Homecoming and Her Deadly Double Life, establishing McKay as a protagonist who gets personally entangled in the cases she takes on.
With nine books published through 2025, the series has settled into a pattern of standalone mysteries with an ongoing thread of character development. Later entries like The Nameless Graves (2023) and Bury Her Twice (2025) show Strickland expanding the scope of McKay’s investigations while keeping the Southern small-town atmosphere that defines the series.