Joan Hess Reading Order

20 books (1975–2014)

Start with Crocodile on the Sandbank(By: Elizabeth Peters), the first of 20 books in the Amelia Peabody series.

#	Title
1	Crocodile on the Sandbank(By: Elizabeth Peters) 1975Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Curse of the Pharaohs(By: Elizabeth Peters) 1981Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Mummy Case(By: Elizabeth Peters) 1985Buy 🇺🇸
4	Lion in the Valley(By: Elizabeth Peters) 1986Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Deeds of the Disturber(By: Elizabeth Peters) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Last Camel Died at Noon(By: Elizabeth Peters) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog(By: Elizabeth Peters) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Hippopotamus Pool(By: Elizabeth Peters) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
9	Seeing a Large Cat(By: Elizabeth Peters) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Ape Who Guards the Balance(By: Elizabeth Peters) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Falcon at the Portal(By: Elizabeth Peters) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
12	He Shall Thunder in the Sky(By: Elizabeth Peters) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
13	Lord of the Silent(By: Elizabeth Peters) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Golden One(By: Elizabeth Peters) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
15	Children of the Storm(By: Elizabeth Peters) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
16	Guardian of the Horizon(By: Elizabeth Peters) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Serpent on the Crown(By: Elizabeth Peters) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
18	Tomb of the Golden Bird(By: Elizabeth Peters) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
19	A River in the Sky(By: Elizabeth Peters) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Painted Queen(With: Elizabeth Peters) 2014Buy 🇺🇸

18 books (1988–2000)

Start with The Year's 25 Finest Crime & Mystery Stories, Sixth Edition, the first of 18 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The Year's 25 Finest Crime & Mystery Stories, Sixth Edition 1988Buy 🇺🇸
2	Sisters in Crime 2 1990Buy 🇺🇸
3	Malice Domestic 1 1992Buy 🇺🇸
4	Women of Mystery 1992Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Fine Art of Murder: The Mystery Reader's Indispensable Companion 1993Buy 🇺🇸
6	Malice Domestic 3 1994Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1993 1994Buy 🇺🇸
8	Women of Mystery II 1994Buy 🇺🇸
9	First Cases, Volume 2 1997Buy 🇺🇸
10	Funny Bones: 15 New Tales of Murder and Mayhem 1997Buy 🇺🇸
11	More Malice Domestic 1997Buy 🇺🇸
12	Vengeance is Hers 1997Buy 🇺🇸
13	Murder for Revenge 1998Buy 🇺🇸
14	Once Upon a Crime 1998Buy 🇺🇸
15	Women of Mystery III 1998Buy 🇺🇸
16	Crime After Crime 1999Buy 🇺🇸
17	Mom, Apple Pie and Murder 1999Buy 🇺🇸
18	Malice Domestic 9 2000Buy 🇺🇸

16 books (1987–2009)

Start with Malice in Maggody, the first of 16 books in the Arly Hanks series.

#	Title
1	Malice in Maggody 1987Buy 🇺🇸
2	Miracles in Maggody 1988Buy 🇺🇸
3	Mischief in Maggody 1988Buy 🇺🇸
4	Much Ado in Maggody 1989Buy 🇺🇸
5	Madness in Maggody 1991Buy 🇺🇸
6	Mortal Remains in Maggody 1991Buy 🇺🇸
7	Maggody in Manhattan 1992Buy 🇺🇸
8	O Little Town of Maggody 1993Buy 🇺🇸
9	Martians in Maggody 1994Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Maggody Militia 1997Buy 🇺🇸
11	Misery Loves Maggody 1999Buy 🇺🇸
12	murder@maggody.com / murda@maggody.com 2000Buy 🇺🇸
13	Maggody and the Moonbeams 2001Buy 🇺🇸
14	Muletrain to Maggody 2004Buy 🇺🇸
15	Malpractice in Maggody 2006Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Merry Wives of Maggody 2009Buy 🇺🇸

21 books (1985–2015)

Start with Strangled Prose, the first of 21 books in the Claire Malloy series.

#	Title
1	Strangled Prose 1985Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Murder at the Murder at the Mimosa Inn 1986Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dear Miss Demeanor 1987Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Really Cute Corpse 1988Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Diet to Die For 1989Buy 🇺🇸
6	Roll Over and Play Dead 1991Buy 🇺🇸
7	Death by the Light of the Moon 1992Buy 🇺🇸
8	Poisoned Pins 1993Buy 🇺🇸
9	Tickled to Death 1994Buy 🇺🇸
10	To Kill a Husband 1994Buy 🇺🇸
11	Busy Bodies 1995Buy 🇺🇸
12	Closely Akin to Murder 1996Buy 🇺🇸
13	A Holly, Jolly Murder 1997Buy 🇺🇸
14	A Conventional Corpse 2000Buy 🇺🇸
15	Out on a Limb 2002Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Goodbye Body 2005Buy 🇺🇸
17	Damsels in Distress 2007Buy 🇺🇸
18	Mummy Dearest 2008Buy 🇺🇸
19	Deader Homes and Gardens 2012Buy 🇺🇸
20	Murder as a Second Language 2013Buy 🇺🇸
21	Pride v. Prejudice 2015Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1990–1992)

Start with Too Much To Bare and read in order.

#	Title
1	Too Much To Bare 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Last To Know 1992Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2002–2016)

Start with Death of a Romance Writer and Other Stories, the first of 4 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Death of a Romance Writer and Other Stories 2002Buy 🇺🇸
2	Big Foot Stole My Wife! and Other Stories 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Deadly Ackee and Other Stories of Crime and Catastrophe 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Caveat Emptor and Other Stories 2016Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1987–1987)

Start with Future Tense and read in order.

#	Title
1	Future Tense 1987Buy 🇺🇸
2	Red Rover, Red Rover 1987Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1986–1988)

Start with The Night-Blooming Cereus and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Night-Blooming Cereus 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Deadly Ackee 1988Buy 🇺🇸