Anne Perry Reading Order

34 books (1996–2020)

Start with Murder For Love, the first of 34 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Murder For Love 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	Malice Domestic 6 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	Mystery's Most Wanted 1997Buy 🇺🇸
4	Canine Crimes 1998Buy 🇺🇸
5	Crime After Crime 1999Buy 🇺🇸
6	First Cases, Volume 3 1999Buy 🇺🇸
7	The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1999Buy 🇺🇸
8	A Century of British Mystery and Suspense 2000Buy 🇺🇸
9	The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 2000Buy 🇺🇸
10	Unholy Orders 2000Buy 🇺🇸
11	Death by Horoscope 2001Buy 🇺🇸
12	Malice Domestic 10 2001Buy 🇺🇸
13	Naked Came the Phoenix 2001Buy 🇺🇸
14	Much Ado About Murder 2002Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Mighty Johns 2002Buy 🇺🇸
16	The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 2002Buy 🇺🇸
17	The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4 2003Buy 🇺🇸
18	Death By Dickens 2004Buy 🇺🇸
19	I'd Kill For That 2004Buy 🇺🇸
20	Powers of Detection 2004Buy 🇺🇸
21	Dangerous Women 2005Buy 🇺🇸
22	Price of Desire 2005Buy 🇺🇸
23	Thou Shalt Not Kill 2005Buy 🇺🇸
24	Transgressions 2005Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Deadly Bride and 19 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 2006Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Widow of Slane and Six More of the Best Crime and Mystery Novellas of the Year 2006Buy 🇺🇸
27	Transgressions, Vol. 3 2006Buy 🇺🇸
28	Transgressions, Vol. 4 2006Buy 🇺🇸
29	Ghouls, Ghosts, and Ninja Rats 2013Buy 🇺🇸
30	Impossible Monsters 2013Buy 🇺🇸
31	Cold-Blooded: Killer Nashville Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
32	Equality: What Do You Think About When You Think of Equality? 2017Buy 🇺🇸
33	Odd Partners 2019Buy 🇺🇸
34	Private Investigations: Mystery Writers on the Secrets, Riddles, and Wonders in Their Lives 2020Buy 🇺🇸

40 books (2012–2022)

Start with An Acceptable Sacrifice(By: Jeffery Deaver), the first of 40 books in the Bibliomysteries series.

#	Title
1	An Acceptable Sacrifice(By: Jeffery Deaver) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Death Leaves a Bookmark(By: William Link) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	Pronghorns of the Third Reich(By: C.J. Box) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Book Case(By: Nelson DeMille) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Book Thing(By: Laura Lippman) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Book of Virtue(By: Ken Bruen) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
7	Rides a Stranger(By: David Bell) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Book of Ghosts(By: Reed Farrel Coleman) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Final Testament(By: Peter Blauner) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Long Sonata of the Dead(By: Andrew Taylor) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
11	Book Club(By: Loren D. Estleman) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
12	It's in the Book(By: Max Allan Collins,Mickey Spillane) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
13	Remaindered(By: Peter Lovesey) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Compendium of Srem(By: F. Paul Wilson) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Gospel of Sheba(By: Lyndsay Faye) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Nature of My Inheritance(By: Bradford Morrow) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Scroll 2014Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Sequel(By: R.L. Stine) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
19	What's in a Name?(By: Thomas H. Cook) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
20	Condor in the Stacks(By: James Grady) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
21	Every Seven Years(By: Denise Mina) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
22	From the Queen(By: Carolyn Hart) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
23	Mystery, Inc.(By: Joyce Carol Oates) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Book of the Lion(By: Thomas Perry) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Little Men(By: Megan Abbott) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
26	Citadel(By: Stephen Hunter) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
27	Dead Dames Don't Sing(By: John Harvey) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
28	Reconciliation Day(By: Christopher Fowler) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Haze(By: James W. Hall) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Travelling Companion(By: Ian Rankin) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
31	Hoodoo Harry(By: Joe R. Lansdale) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
32	Seven Years(By: Peter Robinson) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository(By: John Connolly) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Hemingway Valise(By: Robert Olen Butler) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Last Honest Horse Thief(By: Michael Koryta) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Pretty Little Box(By: Charles Todd) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
37	The Girl Who Did Say No(By: David Handler) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Dark Door(By: Lisa Unger) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
39	The Honeymoon Trap(By: Peter Swanson) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
40	The Traitor(By: Martin Edwards) 2022Buy 🇺🇸

32 books (1979–2017)

Start with The Cater Street Hangman, the first of 32 books in the Charlotte & Thomas Pitt series.

#	Title
1	The Cater Street Hangman 1979Buy 🇺🇸
2	Callander Square 1980Buy 🇺🇸
3	Paragon Walk 1981Buy 🇺🇸
4	Resurrection Row 1981Buy 🇺🇸
5	Rutland Place 1983Buy 🇺🇸
6	Bluegate Fields 1984Buy 🇺🇸
7	Death in The Devil's Acre 1985Buy 🇺🇸
8	Cardington Crescent 1987Buy 🇺🇸
9	Silence in Hanover Close 1988Buy 🇺🇸
10	Bethlehem Road 1990Buy 🇺🇸
11	Highgate Rise 1991Buy 🇺🇸
12	Belgrave Square 1992Buy 🇺🇸
13	Farriers' Lane 1993Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Hyde Park Headsman 1994Buy 🇺🇸
15	Traitors Gate 1995Buy 🇺🇸
16	Pentecost Alley 1996Buy 🇺🇸
17	Ashworth Hall 1997Buy 🇺🇸
18	Bedford Square 1998Buy 🇺🇸
19	Brunswick Gardens 1998Buy 🇺🇸
20	Half Moon Street 1998Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Whitechapel Conspiracy 2000Buy 🇺🇸
22	Southampton Row 2002Buy 🇺🇸
23	Seven Dials 2003Buy 🇺🇸
24	Long Spoon Lane 2005Buy 🇺🇸
25	Buckingham Palace Gardens 2008Buy 🇺🇸
26	Betrayal at Lisson Grove / Treason at Lisson Grove 2010Buy 🇺🇸
27	Dorchester Terrace 2011Buy 🇺🇸
28	Midnight at Marble Arch 2012Buy 🇺🇸
29	Death on Blackheath 2014Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Angel Court Affair 2015Buy 🇺🇸
31	Treachery at Lancaster Gate 2016Buy 🇺🇸
32	Murder on the Serpentine 2017Buy 🇺🇸

21 books (2003–2023)

Start with A Christmas Journey, the first of 21 books in the Christmas Stories series.

#	Title
1	A Christmas Journey 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Christmas Guest 2004Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Christmas Visitor 2004Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Christmas Secret 2006Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Christmas Beginning 2007Buy 🇺🇸
6	A Christmas Grace 2008Buy 🇺🇸
7	A Christmas Promise 2009Buy 🇺🇸
8	A Christmas Odyssey 2010Buy 🇺🇸
9	A Christmas Homecoming 2011Buy 🇺🇸
10	A Christmas Garland 2012Buy 🇺🇸
11	A Christmas Hope 2013Buy 🇺🇸
12	A New York Christmas 2014Buy 🇺🇸
13	A Christmas Escape 2015Buy 🇺🇸
14	A Christmas Message 2016Buy 🇺🇸
15	A Christmas Return 2017Buy 🇺🇸
16	A Christmas Revelation 2018Buy 🇺🇸
17	A Christmas Gathering 2019Buy 🇺🇸
18	A Christmas Resolution 2020Buy 🇺🇸
19	A Christmas Legacy 2021Buy 🇺🇸
20	A Christmas Deliverance 2022Buy 🇺🇸
21	A Christmas Vanishing 2023Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (2018–2026)

Start with Triple Jeopardy, the first of 7 books in the Daniel Pitt series.

#	Title
1	Triple Jeopardy 2018Buy 🇺🇸
2	Twenty-One Days 2018Buy 🇺🇸
3	Death with a Double Edge 2020Buy 🇺🇸
4	One Fatal Flaw 2020Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Fourth Enemy 2022Buy 🇺🇸
6	Three Debts Paid 2022Buy 🇺🇸
7	Death Times Seven 2026Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2019–2023)

Start with Death in Focus, the first of 5 books in the Elena Standish series.

#	Title
1	Death in Focus 2019Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Question of Betrayal 2020Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Darker Reality 2021Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Truth to Lie for 2022Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Traitor Among Us 2023Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (2007–2009)

Start with Dead Brigade(By: James Lovegrove), the first of 7 books in the Most Wanted series.

#	Title
1	Dead Brigade(By: James Lovegrove) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
2	Heroes 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	Kill Clock(By: Allan Guthrie) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	Revenge(By: Eric Brown) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Chop(By: Graham Hurley) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
6	Stumps(By: Mark Morris) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Ghosts of 2012(By: Graham Hurley) 2009Buy 🇺🇸

33 books (2022–2025)

Start with Alex Delaware(By: Jonathan Kellerman), the first of 33 books in the Mysterious Profiles series.

1 book (2004–2004)

#	Title
1	Letters from the Highlands 2004Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1992–2010)

Start with Fashionable Funeral, the first of 5 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Fashionable Funeral 1992Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Dish Taken Cold 1999Buy 🇺🇸
3	The One Thing More 2000Buy 🇺🇸
4	Heroes 2007Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Sheen on the Silk 2010Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1999–2001)

Start with Tathea and read in order.

#	Title
1	Tathea 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Come Armageddon 2001Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2011–2012)

Start with Rose of No Man's Land, the first of 4 books in the Timepiece series.

#	Title
1	Rose of No Man's Land 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	Tudor Rose 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	Blood Red Rose 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	Rose Between Two Thorns 2012Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2005–2006)

Start with Transgressions(With: Stephen King,Lawrence Block,Jeffery Deaver,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,Bonnie Jeanne Perry,Joyce Carol Oates,Walter Mosley,John Farris), the first of 4 books in the Transgressions series.

#	Title
1	Transgressions(With: Stephen King,Lawrence Block,Jeffery Deaver,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,Bonnie Jeanne Perry,Joyce Carol Oates,Walter Mosley,John Farris) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Transgressions, Vol. 2(By: Stephen King,Lawrence Block,Ed McBain,John Farris) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	Transgressions, Vol. 3(With: Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,John Farris) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
4	Transgressions, Vol. 4(With: Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain) 2006Buy 🇺🇸

24 books (1990–2018)

Start with The Face of a Stranger, the first of 24 books in the William Monk series.

#	Title
1	The Face of a Stranger 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Dangerous Mourning 1991Buy 🇺🇸
3	Defend and Betray 1992Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Sudden, Fearful Death 1993Buy 🇺🇸
5	Sins of the Wolf 1994Buy 🇺🇸
6	Cain His Brother 1995Buy 🇺🇸
7	Weighed in the Balance 1996Buy 🇺🇸
8	A Breach of Promise/The Whited Sepulchres 1997Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Silent Cry 1997Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Twisted Root 1998Buy 🇺🇸
11	Slaves of Obsession 2000Buy 🇺🇸
12	Funeral in Blue 2001Buy 🇺🇸
13	Death of a Stranger 2002Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Shifting Tide 2004Buy 🇺🇸
15	Dark Assassin 2005Buy 🇺🇸
16	Execution Dock 2009Buy 🇺🇸
17	Acceptable Loss 2011Buy 🇺🇸
18	A Sunless Sea 2012Buy 🇺🇸
19	Blind Justice 2013Buy 🇺🇸
20	Blood on the Water 2014Buy 🇺🇸
21	Corridors of the Night 2015Buy 🇺🇸
22	Revenge in a Cold River 2016Buy 🇺🇸
23	An Echo of Murder 2017Buy 🇺🇸
24	Dark Tide Rising 2018Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2003–2007)

Start with No Graves As Yet, the first of 5 books in the World War I series.

#	Title
1	No Graves As Yet 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	Shoulder the Sky 2004Buy 🇺🇸
3	Angels in the Gloom 2005Buy 🇺🇸
4	At Some Disputed Barricade 2006Buy 🇺🇸
5	We Shall Not Sleep 2007Buy 🇺🇸