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Charles Todd Reading Order

9 series · 135 books · Born 1950

Mystery & Thriller

Charles Todd is the pen name of a mother-and-son writing team, Caroline and Charles Todd, who collaborated on mystery and thriller novels from 1994 until Caroline's death in 2021. Known for their meticulously researched historical mysteries, they created multiple acclaimed series including the Inspector Ian Rutledge novels set in post-World War I England and the Bess Crawford mysteries featuring a World War I nurse-sleuth. Their prolific output spans over 130 books across numerous series, establishing them as masters of the psychological mystery and detective fiction genres.

Anthologies Series

Ongoing

9 books (2006–2025)

Start with Death Do Us Part, the first of 9 books in the Anthologies series.

Start this series with Death Do Us Part

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Death Do Us Part
2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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A Study in Sherlock
2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3
Deadly Pleasures
2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4
Crimespree Magazine #58
2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5
Silent Night, Deadly Night
2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6
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Odd Partners
2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7
Private Investigations: Mystery Writers on the Secrets, Riddles, and Wonders in Their Lives
2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8
Black Cat Weekly #50
2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9
Bat Out of Hell
2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Bess Crawford Series

Likely Complete

16 books (2009–2023)

Start with A Duty to the Dead, the first of 16 books in the Bess Crawford series.

Start this series with A Duty to the Dead

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A Duty to the Dead
2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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An Impartial Witness
2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3
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The Girl on the Beach
2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4
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A Bitter Truth
2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5
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An Unmarked Grave
2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6
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A Question of Honor
2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7
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An Unwilling Accomplice
2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8
The Maharani's Pearls
2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9
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A Pattern of Lies
2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10
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The Shattered Tree
2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11
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A Casualty of War
2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12
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A Forgotten Place
2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13
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A Cruel Deception
2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14
A Hanging at Dawn
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15
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An Irish Hostage
2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16
The Cliff's Edge
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Bibliomysteries Series

Likely Complete

40 books (2012–2022)

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

Start this series with An Acceptable Sacrifice(By: Jeffery Deaver)

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

Ongoing

29 books (1994–2026)

Start with A Test of Wills, the first of 29 books in the Inspector Ian Rutledge series.

Start this series with A Test of Wills

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A Test of Wills
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Wings of Fire
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3
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Search the Dark
1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4
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Legacy of the Dead
2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5
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Watchers of Time
2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6
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A Fearsome Doubt
2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7
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A Cold Treachery
2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8
A Long Shadow
2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9
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A False Mirror
2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10
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A Pale Horse
2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11
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A Matter of Justice
2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12
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The Red Door
2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13
The Kidnapping
2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14
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A Lonely Death
2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15
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The Confession
2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16
Cold Comfort
2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17
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Proof of Guilt
2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18
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Hunting Shadows
2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19
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A Fine Summer's Day
2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20
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No Shred of Evidence
2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21
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Racing the Devil
2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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23
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The Gatekeeper
2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24
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The Black Ascot
2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25
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A Divided Loyalty
2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26
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27
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A Game of Fear
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28
A Christmas Witness
2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29
A Day of Judgment
2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Music and Murder Mystery Series

Ongoing

4 books (2022–2025)

Start with Hotel California(By: Heather Graham,John Gilstrap,Reed Farrel Coleman,Andrew Child,Amanda Flower,Don Bruns,Rick Bleiweiss,Jennifer Dornbush), the first of 4 books in the Music and Murder Mystery series.

Start this series with Hotel California(By: Heather Graham,John Gilstrap,Reed Farrel Coleman,Andrew Child,Amanda Flower,Don Bruns,Rick Bleiweiss,Jennifer Dornbush)

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Hotel California(By: Heather Graham,John Gilstrap,Reed Farrel Coleman,Andrew Child,Amanda Flower,Don Bruns,Rick Bleiweiss,Jennifer Dornbush)
2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2
Thriller(By: Heather Graham,Jeffery Deaver,William Kent Krueger,Don Bruns,Dahlia Rose,David R. Slayton)
2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3
Back in Black(By: Heather Graham,Reed Farrel Coleman,Ward Larsen,Tori Eldridge,Andrew Child,Don Bruns)
2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4
Bat Out of Hell(With: Heather Graham,John Gilstrap,Andrew Child,Don Bruns,Rick Bleiweiss,Dave Bruns,C.J. Kudlacz)
2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Mysterious Profiles Series

Ongoing

33 books (2022–2025)

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

Start this series with Alex Delaware(By: Jonathan Kellerman)

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1
Alex Delaware(By: Jonathan Kellerman)
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2
Aloysius X. L. Pendergast(By: Douglas Preston)
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3
Amos Walker(By: Loren D. Estleman)
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4
Bob Lee Swagger(By: Stephen Hunter)
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5
Charlie Parker(By: John Connolly)
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6
Charlie Resnick(By: John Harvey)
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7
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt(By: Anne Perry)
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8
Dismas Hardy(By: John Lescroart)
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9
Elvis Cole and Joe Pike(By: Robert Crais)
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10
Hieronymus Bosch(By: Michael Connelly)
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11
Ian Rutledge
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12
Inspector Morse(By: Colin Dexter)
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13
Jack Reacher(By: Lee Child)
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14
Jack Taylor(By: Ken Bruen)
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15
Jane Whitefield(By: Thomas Perry)
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16
John Rebus(By: Ian Rankin)
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17
Lincoln Rhyme(By: Jeffery Deaver)
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18
Lou Boldt(By: Ridley Pearson)
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19
Maisie Dobbs(By: Jacqueline Winspear)
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20
Mallory(By: Carol O'Connell)
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21
Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus(By: Faye Kellerman)
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22
Precious Ramotswe(By: Alexander McCall Smith)
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23
Rambo(By: David Morrell)
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24
Spenser(By: Robert B. Parker)
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25
Tess Monaghan(By: Laura Lippman)
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26
The Lincoln Lawyer(By: Michael Connelly)
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27
Ben Kincaid(By: William Bernhardt)
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28
Condor(By: James Grady)
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29
Repairman Jack(By: F. Paul Wilson)
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30
Joe Pickett(By: C.J. Box)
2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31
Nathan Heller(By: Max Allan Collins)
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32
Peter Diamond(By: Peter Lovesey)
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33
Orphan X(By: Gregg Hurwitz)
2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Short Stories/Novellas Series

Complete

2 books (2012–2015)

Start with The Walnut Tree and read in order.

Start this series with The Walnut Tree

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The Walnut Tree
2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2
A Guid Soldier
2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Short Story Collections Series

Complete

1 book (2015–2015)

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Standalone Novels Series

Complete

1 book (2003–2003)

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The Murder Stone
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Frequently Asked Questions

How many books has Charles Todd written?
Charles Todd has written 135 books across 9 series. Their published works span from 1994 to 2026.
What is the first book in each Charles Todd series?
Here are the first books in Charles Todd's series: Anthologies: Death Do Us Part; Bess Crawford: A Duty to the Dead; Bibliomysteries: An Acceptable Sacrifice(By: Jeffery Deaver); Inspector Ian Rutledge: A Test of Wills; Music and Murder Mystery: Hotel California(By: Heather Graham,John Gilstrap,Reed Farrel Coleman,Andrew Child,Amanda Flower,Don Bruns,Rick Bleiweiss,Jennifer Dornbush).
What order should I read Charles Todd's books?
We recommend reading Charles Todd's series in publication order. Each series can be read independently.
Is Charles Todd still writing new books?
Yes, Charles Todd has 4 ongoing series: Anthologies, Inspector Ian Rutledge, Music and Murder Mystery, Mysterious Profiles.

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