Charlaine Harris: Complete Gunnie Rose series

**#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author returns to her version of America where magic is acknowledged but despised.**

Charlaine Harris, the bestselling author of the Southern Vampire Sookie Stackhouse series and the supernatural Harper Connelly Mysteries, has returned to bookshelves with her latest novel, All the Dead Shall Weep (Gunnie Rose Book 5). It’s the fifth title in her Gunnie Rose series, which follows a young gunslinger on deadly mission through a version of America where magic is an acknowledged but despised power. Scroll down for info on all the books in the whole Gunnie Rose series.

Set in an alternate version of 1930s America, the Gunnie Rose series mixes the wild west, magic, and Russian influence. Gunslingers help keep the peace in a no longer united country.

“The world of the Gunnie Rose series is complex,” author Harris told the Kill Zone blog. “And I have to be aware of a lot of history when I’m changing it to suit my narrative. America is split into parts following the assassination of Roosevelt, the Spanish Flu, and the collapse of Wall Street. Lizbeth Rose, a gunslinger by trade, lives in Texoma, the poorest of the new countries.”

Harris told The Mary Sue that she wanted to set the story in the 1930s using the attempted assassination of Roosevelt as her catalyst. “If he had died,” Harris told them, “I think all of this might have possibly happened because he was such a unifying force for the United States.”

Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing more than 30 years. She has written multiple series, plus stand-alone novels, short stories, novellas, and graphic novels. Her bestselling Sookie Stackhouse books have appeared in 25 different languages and served as the basis of the HBO series True Blood.

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Complete Gunnie Rose series by Charlaine Harris

An Easy Death (Gunnie Rose series #1)

From the bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series comes “a gripping, twisty-turny, thrill ride of a read” (Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author) following a young gunslinging mercenary on deadly mission through the American Southwest.

In a fractured United States, a new world where magic is acknowledged but mistrusted, a young gunslinger named Lizbeth Rose takes a job offer from a pair of Russian wizards. Lizbeth Rose has a wildly fearsome reputation but these wizards are desperate. Searching the small border towns near Mexico, they’re trying to locate a low-level magic practitioner believed to be a direct descendant of Grigori Rasputin.

As the trio journey through an altered America—shattered into several countries after the assassination of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression—they’re set on by enemies. It’s clear that a powerful force does not want them to succeed in their mission. Lizbeth Rose has never failed a client, but this job may stretch her to her deadly limits. An Easy Death is a fast-paced thriller of the highest order.

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Review:

“Immersive, involving, suspenseful and intriguing, with a main character you’ll love”—Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author

A Longer Fall (Gunnie Rose series #2)

Charlaine Harris returns with “a gripping, twisty-turny, thrill ride of a read (Karin Slaughter) in which Lizbeth is hired onto a new crew, transporting a crate into Dixie, the self-exiled southeast territory of the former United States. What the crate contains is something so powerful, that forces from across three territories want to possess it.

In this second thrilling installment of the Gunnie Rose series, Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly easy protection job. She is tasked with transporting a crate into Dixie, just about the last part of the former United States of America she wants to visit. But what seemed like a straightforward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. Up against a wall in Dixie, where social norms have stepped back into the last century, Lizbeth has to go undercover with an old friend to retrieve the crate as what’s inside can spark a rebellion, if she can get it back in time.

Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse mysteries and Midnight, Texas trilogy) is at her best here, building the world of this alternate history of the United States, where magic is an acknowledged but despised power.

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Review:

“Another winning series from a sure-bet author”—(Booklist)

The Russian Cage (Gunnie Rose series #3)

#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Charlaine Harris is at her best in this alternate history of the United States where magic is an acknowledged but despised power in this third installment of the Gunnie Rose series.

Picking up right where A Longer Fall left off, this thrilling third installment follows Lizbeth Rose as she takes on one of her most dangerous missions yet: rescuing her estranged partner, Prince Eli, from the Holy Russian Empire. Once in San Diego, Lizbeth is going to have to rely upon her sister Felicia, and her growing Grigori powers to navigate her way through this strange new world of royalty and deception in order to get Eli freed from jail where he’s being held for murder.

Russian Cage continues to ramp up the momentum with more of everything Harris’ readers adore her for with romance, intrigue, and a deep dive into the mysterious Holy Russian Empire.

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Reviews:

“The plot is solid and moves swiftly, but logically. This is a quick, but enjoyable read, and a great addition to the series.” (Red Hat Cat Book Blog)

“The plot twists are where this novel really shined. Okay, that and the setting, but that much is obvious at this point, right? The variety of twists was a delight, with some balancing out Rose’s adventure, and others bringing more complications into the mix. It was, dare I say, the perfect balance.” (Quirky Cat’s Fat Stacks)

The Serpent in Heaven (Gunnie Rose series #4)

#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Charlaine Harris returns to her alternate history of the United States where magic is an acknowledged but despised power in this fourth installment of the Gunnie Rose series.

Felicia, Lizbeth Rose’s half-sister and a student at the Grigori Rasputin school in San Diego—capital of the Holy Russian Empire—is caught between her own secrets and powerful family struggles. As a granddaughter of Rasputin, she provides an essential service to the hemophiliac Tsar Alexei, providing him the blood transfusions that keep him alive. Felicia is treated like a nonentity at the bedside of the tsar, and at the school she’s seen as a charity case with no magical ability.

But when Felicia is snatched outside the school, the facts of her heritage begin to surface. Felicia turns out to be far more than the Russian-Mexican Lizbeth rescued. As Felicia’s history unravels and her true abilities become known, she becomes under attack from all directions. Only her courage will keep her alive…

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Reviews:

“When a master of her craft offers to tell you a story, let her. The results are dazzling.”—Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of the Alex, Hugo, & Nebula, Award-winning Wayward Children series

“An entertaining addition to a consistently fun series.”—Kirkus

“There is rarely a dull moment. Fans of Harris’s daring heroine will be pleased to accompany her on her latest adventure.”—Publishers Weekly

All the Dead Shall Weep (Gunnie Rose series #5)

#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author returns with the fifth installment in the bestselling Gunnie Rose series as sisters Lizbeth Rose and Felicia as well as brother Eli and Peter, are reunited in Texoma only to break apart before the Wizard’s Ball held in San Diego, which will determine all their fates.

Following the murderous events of the “gripping…thrill-ride” (Karin Slaughter) Serpent of Heaven, Lizbeth Rose is awaiting the arrival of her sister Felicia and her husband’s younger brother Eli in Texoma. Both needed to leave the seat of the Holy Russian Empire in San Diego after Felicia’s burgeoning wizardly power in death magic became the reason for kidnapping and assassination attempts from her mother’s family of high-powered wizards in Mexico.

Yet bad news has traveled ahead of them, as Eli is called back to San Diego, taking Peter along with him, splitting them apart in more ways than one as their enemies’ plans for revenge come to fruition. In this fifth installment in the beloved and bestselling Gunnie Rose series, #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Charlaine Harris has crafted a family drama of murderous and magical thrills.

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Reviews:

“A lovable heroine who can shoot like nobody’s business, a harsh, post-apocalyptic world, and plenty of action make this an excellent start to a new urban fantasy series. I’m so happy I decided to take a chance on Charlaine Harris’ latest…” (Books, Bones & Buffy)

“This series always manages to suck me back in with every new release.” (Smexy Books)

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