Denise Mina Reading Order

5 books (2009–2015)

Start with Still Midnight, the first of 5 books in the Alex Morrow series.

#	Title
1	Still Midnight 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	The End of the Wasp Season 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	Gods and Beasts 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Red Road 2013Buy 🇺🇸
5	Blood Salt Water 2015Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2019–2022)

Start with Conviction and read in order.

#	Title
1	Conviction 2019Buy 🇺🇸
2	Confidence 2022Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (2000–2021)

Start with The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2, the first of 8 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 2000Buy 🇺🇸
2	Deadly Housewives 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	Crimespotting 2009Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 8 2011Buy 🇺🇸
5	OxCrimes: 27 Killer Stories from the Cream of Crimewriters 2014Buy 🇺🇸
6	Bloody Scotland 2019Buy 🇺🇸
7	Invisible Blood 2019Buy 🇺🇸
8	Daggers Drawn 2021Buy 🇺🇸

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(By: Anne Perry) 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 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 🇺🇸

7 books (2021–2025)

Start with Rizzio, the first of 7 books in the Darkland Tales series.

#	Title
1	Rizzio 2021Buy 🇺🇸
2	Hex(By: Jenni Fagan) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
3	Columba's Bones(By: David Greig) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
4	Nothing Left to Fear From Hell(By: Alan Warner) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
5	Queen Macbeth(By: Val McDermid) 2024Buy 🇺🇸
6	Queen Macbeth(By: Val McDermid) 2024Buy 🇺🇸
7	Benbecula(By: Graeme Macrae Burnet) 2025Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1998–2001)

Start with Garnethill and read in order.

#	Title
1	Garnethill 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	Exile 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	Resolution 2001Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2014–2014)

50 books (1991–2022)

Start with Bloodlines(By: Garth Ennis,William Simpson), the first of 50 books in the Hellblazer Graphic Novels series.

#	Title
1	Bloodlines(By: Garth Ennis,William Simpson) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dangerous Habits(By: Jamie Delano) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
3	Damnation's Flame(By: Garth Ennis) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
4	Fear and Loathing(By: Garth Ennis) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Fear Machine(By: Jamie Delano) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
6	Hard Time(By: Brian Azzarello) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
7	Freezes Over(By: Brian Azzarello) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
8	Good Intentions(By: Brian Azzarello) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
9	Haunted(By: Warren Ellis) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
10	Son of Man(By: Garth Ennis) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
11	Highwater(By: Brian Azzarello) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
12	Setting Sun(By: Warren Ellis) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
13	All His Engines(By: Mike Carey) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
14	Rare Cuts(By: Grant Morrison,Garth Ennis,Jamie Delano) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
15	Empathy is the Enemy 2006Buy 🇺🇸
16	Lady Constantine(By: Andy Diggle) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
17	Papa Midnite(By: Mat Johnson) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Gift(By: Mike Carey) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Devil You Know(By: Jamie Delano) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Red Right Hand 2007Buy 🇺🇸
21	Joyride(By: Andy Diggle) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Family Man(By: Jamie Delano) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
23	The Laughing Magician(By: Andy Diggle) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
24	Dark Entries(By: Ian Rankin) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
25	Scab(By: Peter Milligan) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Roots of Coincidence(By: Andy Diggle) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
27	Hooked(By: Peter Milligan) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
28	India(By: Peter Milligan) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
29	Bloody Carnations(By: Peter Milligan) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
30	City of Demons(By: Si Spencer) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
31	Original Sins(By: John Ridgway,Jamie Delano) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
32	Phantom Pains(By: Peter Milligan) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Devil's Trenchcoat(By: Peter Milligan) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
34	Death and Cigarettes(By: Peter Milligan) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
35	Critical Mass(By: Paul Jenkins) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
36	Rake at the Gates of Hell(By: Garth Ennis) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
37	Shoot(By: Brian Azzarello) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
38	Tainted Love(By: Garth Ennis) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
39	In The Line Of Fire(By: Paul Jenkins) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
40	Last Man Standing(By: Paul Jenkins) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
41	How to Play with Fire(By: Sean Phillips) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
42	Out of Season(By: Mike Carey) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
43	The Wild Card(By: Mike Carey) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
44	30th Anniversary Celebration(By: Neil Gaiman,Paul Jenkins,Alan Moore,Garth Ennis) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
45	Systems of Control(By: Mike Carey) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
46	No Future(By: Peter Milligan) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
47	Regeneration(By: Peter Milligan) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
48	Another Season(By: Peter Milligan) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
49	Sectioned(By: Peter Milligan,Si Spencer) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
50	The Curse of the Constantines(By: Peter Milligan) 2022Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2012–2015)

Start with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Book 1, the first of 4 books in the Millennium: The Graphic Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Book 1 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Book 2 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Girl Who Played with Fire 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest 2015Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2005–2007)

Start with The Field Of Blood and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Field Of Blood 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Dead Hour 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	Slip of the Knife / The Last Breath 2007Buy 🇺🇸

13 books (1939–2023)

Start with The Big Sleep(By: Raymond Chandler), the first of 13 books in the Philip Marlowe series.

#	Title
1	The Big Sleep(By: Raymond Chandler) 1939Buy 🇺🇸
2	Farewell, My Lovely(By: Raymond Chandler) 1940Buy 🇺🇸
3	The High Window(By: Raymond Chandler) 1942Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Lady in the Lake(By: Raymond Chandler) 1943Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Little Sister(By: Raymond Chandler) 1949Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Long Goodbye(By: Raymond Chandler) 1953Buy 🇺🇸
7	Playback(By: Raymond Chandler) 1958Buy 🇺🇸
8	Poodle Springs(By: Robert B. Parker,Raymond Chandler) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
9	Perchance to Dream(By: Robert B. Parker) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Black-Eyed Blonde / Marlowe(By: Benjamin Black) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
11	Only to Sleep(By: Lawrence Osborne) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Goodbye Coast(By: Joe Ide) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Second Murderer 2023Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2015–2019)

Start with Every Seven Years and read in order.

#	Title
1	Every Seven Years 2015Buy 🇺🇸
2	Nemo Me Impune Lacessit 2019Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2002–2025)

Start with Sanctum / Deception, the first of 5 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Sanctum / Deception 2002Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Long Drop 2017Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Less Dead 2020Buy 🇺🇸
4	Three Fires 2023Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Good Liar 2025Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1998–2011)

Start with The Chill(By: Jason Starr), the first of 9 books in the Vertigo Crime series.

#	Title
1	The Chill(By: Jason Starr) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	Filthy Rich(By: Brian Azzarello) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Sickness in the Family 2010Buy 🇺🇸
4	Fogtown(By: Andersen Gabrych) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Bronx Kill(By: Peter Milligan) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Executor(By: Andrea Mutti,Jon Evans) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
7	Area 10(By: Christos Gage) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
8	Cowboys(By: Brian Hurtt) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
9	Rat Catcher(By: Andy Diggle) 2011Buy 🇺🇸