Below is the complete list of Haunting Danielle books in order of publication. This is the recommended reading sequence for the series by Bobbi Holmes.
Haunting Danielle Series
By Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre
- The Ghost of Marlow House (2014)
- The Ghost Who Loved Diamonds (2014)
- The Ghost Who Wasn’t (2015)
- The Ghost Who Wanted Revenge (2015)
- The Ghost of Halloween Past (2015)
- The Ghost Who Came for Christmas (2015)
- The Ghost of Valentine Past (2016)
- The Ghost from the Sea (2016)
- The Ghost and the Mystery Writer (2016)
- The Ghost and the Muse (2016)
- The Ghost Who Stayed Home (2016)
- The Ghost and the Leprechaun (2017)
- The Ghost Who Lied (2017)
- The Ghost and the Bride (2017)
- The Ghost and Little Marie (2017)
- The Ghost and the Doppelganger (2018)
- The Ghost of Second Chances (2018)
- The Ghost Who Dream Hopped (2018)
- The Ghost of Christmas Secrets (2018)
- The Ghost Who Was Says I Do (2019)
- The Ghost and the Baby (2019)
- The Ghost and the Halloween Haunt (2019)
- The Ghost and the Christmas Spirit (2019)
- The Ghost and the Silver Scream (2020)
- The Ghost of a Memory (2020)
- The Ghost and the Witches’ Coven (2020)
- The Ghost and the Mountain Man (2021)
- The Ghost and the Birthday Boy (2021)
- The Ghost and the Church Lady (2022)
- The Ghost and the Medium (2022)
- The Ghost and the New Neighbor (2022)
- The Ghost and the Wedding Crasher (2023)
- The Ghost and the Twins (2023)
- The Ghost and the Poltergeist (2024)
- The Ghost Who Sought Redemption (2024)
- The Ghost and Wednesday’s Child (2025)
- The Ghost and Christmas Magic (2025)
- The Ghost and Family Secrets (2026)
About Haunting Danielle Series
Bobbi Holmes’s Haunting Danielle series is a long-running paranormal cozy mystery built around one very dependable promise: a ghost-haunted Victorian inn, a recurring cast that grows more familiar over time, and mysteries that stay light in tone even when murder is involved. Holmes’s official site centers the series as the heart of her bibliography, and current public series listings place it at thirty-seven books, which makes it not just a successful cozy run but a genuinely large fictional world.
The series begins with The Ghost of Marlow House, and that first book establishes almost everything that makes the line work. Danielle Boatman inherits the old Marlow House and plans to turn it into a bed-and-breakfast, only to discover that the property comes with a resident ghost. That setup is the real foundation of the series. These books are not trying to be hard-edged supernatural thrillers. They are cozies first, with the ghostly element adding atmosphere, humor, continuity, and a distinctive hook. Marlow House itself becomes as important as any individual mystery, because it gives the series a fixed emotional center readers can keep returning to.
Publication order matters here because this is not just a stack of unrelated ghost mysteries. The cases may each have their own problem to solve, but the real pleasure of Haunting Danielle comes from accumulation. The relationships deepen, the recurring characters become more meaningful, and the world of Marlow House grows more layered the longer you stay with it. Many sites now lists the series at thirty-seven books, while the official series store page and Holmes’s own site have tracked the expansion through newer titles such as The Ghost and the Poltergeist, The Ghost Who Sought Redemption, The Ghost and Wednesday’s Child, and The Ghost and Christmas Magic. Read in order, that growth feels like a genuine ongoing life rather than a formula merely being repeated.
Another reason order matters is tone. Holmes writes this as a clean paranormal cozy line, and on her official site she explicitly distinguishes this side of her work as G-rated fiction. That matters because it explains the series’ particular niche. The ghostly element is meant to charm and intrigue, not overwhelm. The books are built around hauntings, secrets, local mysteries, and the comfort of a familiar setting rather than the dread or violence of darker supernatural fiction. The series works because it knows exactly what it is offering: mystery with warmth, continuity, and just enough spectral mischief to keep the atmosphere distinctive.
The titles themselves also tell you something useful about the books. As the series progresses, the naming pattern shifts from the earlier “The Ghost of…” and “The Ghost Who…” format into later titles beginning with “The Ghost and…,” which quietly signals how much the series has turned into a world of its own. By that point, readers are no longer only being introduced to a haunting premise. They are returning to a familiar cast and watching new situations ripple through an established setting. That is one of the reasons such a long cozy series can remain satisfying: it becomes as much about revisiting a place and its people as about solving the next mystery.
For readers who already have the order above, the best way to think about Haunting Danielle is as a true long-form paranormal cozy series anchored by Marlow House. The first book gives you the haunted-inn premise, but the later books deliver the deeper reward of continuity. Read in publication order, the series becomes more than a run of ghostly mysteries. It becomes an ongoing cozy world where hauntings, friendship, and murder all coexist inside a setting designed to feel increasingly like home.