Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Death Rides the Desert | 2025 | Sara Bourgeois | Buy |
| 2 | Bones and Cactus Blooms | 2025 | Sara Bourgeois | Buy |
| 3 | Last Call in Chicago | 2025 | Sara Bourgeois | Buy |
| 4 | Spirits of the Saguaro | 2025 | Sara Bourgeois | Buy |
| 5 | Tombstones with a View | 2026 | Sara Bourgeois | Buy |
| 6 | Body Beneath the Wither | 2026 | Sara Bourgeois | Buy |
| 7 | Death Waits at Dead Rock | 2026 | Sara Bourgeois | Buy |
The Haunted Ranch Mysteries by Sara Bourgeois trades her usual small-town witch settings for the desert Southwest. The series is set on a haunted ranch where death keeps riding in with the tumbleweeds, and the titles evoke a Western landscape of cactus blooms, saguaros, and tombstones.
With seven books published across 2025 and 2026, this is one of Bourgeois’s newer series. The desert ranch setting gives these mysteries a different look and feel from her many witch-in-a-cozy-town books, while still keeping the paranormal and murder-mystery elements her readers expect.