Mignon F. Ballard Collection

The Books

Augusta Goodnight series

Augusta Goodnight, a Guardian angel:

When Mary George Murphy finds that her Aunt Caroline fell down a flight of stairs to her death, she's heartbroken. To make matters worse, Mary is sure that Caroline's death was no accident.

Enter Augusta Goodnight, Mary's guardian angel. Normally assigned to Heaven's strawberry fields, Augusta died during WWII -- which explains her old-fashioned glamour and love of swing. She appears in Troublesome Creek just in the nick of time-helping Mary unearth an old mystery and the truth about Caroline's death.

The books in suggested reading order
Angel at Troublesome Creek
Shadow of an Angel
Shadow of an Angel
The Angel Whispered Danger
Too Late for Angels
Angel at Troublesome Creek
Hark! The Herald Angel Screamed

Miss Dimple Kilpatrick series

Miss Dimple Kilpatrick, a longtime first-grade teacher during World War II, in Elderberry, Georgia:

It's 1942, almost a year since the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and the residents of the small town of Elderberry, Georgia, have been rattled down to their worn, rationed shoes. For young teacher Charlie Carr, life and love aren't going exactly as planned—her head dictates loyalty to the handsome corpsman, Hugh, but whenever she thinks of her best friend's beau, Will, her heart does the Jersey Bounce. Charlie is doubly troubled by the disappearance of beloved schoolmistress Miss Dimple Kilpatrick one frosty November morning just before Thanksgiving. Miss Dimple, who has taught the town's first graders—including Charlie—for almost forty years, would never just skip town in the middle of the school year, and Charlie and her best friend, Annie, are determined to prove it.

The books in suggested reading order
Miss Dimple Disappears
Miss Dimple Rallies to the Cause
Miss Dimple Suspects: A Mystery
Miss Dimple Picks a Peck of Trouble
Miss Dimple and the Slightly Bewildered Angel