John Harvey Reading Order

14 books (1997–2025)

Start with Mystery's Most Wanted, the first of 14 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Mystery's Most Wanted 1997Buy 🇺🇸
2	Opening Shots: Great Mystery and Crime Writers Share Their First Published Stories 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Detection Collection 2005Buy 🇺🇸
4	Damn Near Dead 2006Buy 🇺🇸
5	Men from Boys 2006Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Best British Mysteries IV 2007Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Lineup 2009Buy 🇺🇸
8	Deadly Pleasures 2013Buy 🇺🇸
9	Fedora 2013Buy 🇺🇸
10	These Seven 2015Buy 🇺🇸
11	Ten Year Stretch 2018Buy 🇺🇸
12	Invisible Blood 2019Buy 🇺🇸
13	Daggers Drawn 2021Buy 🇺🇸
14	Playing Dead: Short Stories by Members of the Detection Club 2025Buy 🇺🇸

27 books (1974–1984)

Start with Knife in the Night, the first of 27 books in the Apache series.

#	Title
1	Knife in the Night 1974Buy 🇺🇸
2	The First Death 1974Buy 🇺🇸
3	Death Train 1975Buy 🇺🇸
4	Duel to the Death 1975Buy 🇺🇸
5	Fort Treachery 1975Buy 🇺🇸
6	Blood Line 1976Buy 🇺🇸
7	Sonora Slaughter 1976Buy 🇺🇸
8	All Blood is Red 1977Buy 🇺🇸
9	Blood on the Tracks 1977Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Naked and the Savage 1977Buy 🇺🇸
11	Fool's Gold 1978Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Cruel Trail 1978Buy 🇺🇸
13	Blood Rising 1979Buy 🇺🇸
14	Born to Die 1979Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Best Man 1979Buy 🇺🇸
16	Blood Brother 1980Buy 🇺🇸
17	Slow Dying 1980Buy 🇺🇸
18	Texas Killing 1980Buy 🇺🇸
19	Blood Wedding 1981Buy 🇺🇸
20	Death Dragon 1981Buy 🇺🇸
21	Fast Living 1981Buy 🇺🇸
22	Border Killing 1982Buy 🇺🇸
23	Death Valley 1982Buy 🇺🇸
24	Death Ride 1983Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Hanging 1983Buy 🇺🇸
26	Times Past 1983Buy 🇺🇸
27	Debt of Blood 1984Buy 🇺🇸

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(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 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 🇺🇸

5 books (1978–1978)

Start with Bloody Shiloh, the first of 5 books in the Caleb Thorn series.

#	Title
1	Bloody Shiloh 1978Buy 🇺🇸
2	Brotherly Death 1978Buy 🇺🇸
3	Death River 1978Buy 🇺🇸
4	First Shot 1978Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Raiders 1978Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (1989–2014)

Start with Lonely Hearts, the first of 12 books in the Charlie Resnick series.

#	Title
1	Lonely Hearts 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	Wasted Years 1989Buy 🇺🇸
3	Rough Treatment 1990Buy 🇺🇸
4	Cutting Edge 1991Buy 🇺🇸
5	Off Minor 1991Buy 🇺🇸
6	Cold Light 1994Buy 🇺🇸
7	Living Proof 1995Buy 🇺🇸
8	Easy Meat 1996Buy 🇺🇸
9	Still Water 1997Buy 🇺🇸
10	Last Rites 1998Buy 🇺🇸
11	Cold in Hand 2007Buy 🇺🇸
12	Darkness, Darkness 2014Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1999–1999)

#	Title
1	Now's the Time 1999Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2011–2011)

#	Title
1	Good Bait 2011Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1976–1977)

Start with Kill Hitler! and read in order.

#	Title
1	Kill Hitler! 1976Buy 🇺🇸
2	Forest of Death 1977Buy 🇺🇸
3	Lightning Strikes 1977Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2004–2018)

Start with Flesh & Blood, the first of 4 books in the Frank Elder series.

#	Title
1	Flesh & Blood 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	Ash & Bone 2005Buy 🇺🇸
3	Darkness & Light 2006Buy 🇺🇸
4	Body & Soul 2018Buy 🇺🇸

10 books (1979–1982)

Start with Border Affair, the first of 10 books in the Gringos series.

#	Title
1	Border Affair 1979Buy 🇺🇸
2	Cannons in the Rain 1979Buy 🇺🇸
3	Fire in the Wind 1979Buy 🇺🇸
4	Guns Across the River 1979Buy 🇺🇸
5	Easy Money 1980Buy 🇺🇸
6	Mazatlan 1980Buy 🇺🇸
7	One Too Many Mornings 1981Buy 🇺🇸
8	Wheels of Thunder 1981Buy 🇺🇸
9	Durango 1982Buy 🇺🇸
10	Survivors 1982Buy 🇺🇸

10 books (1980–1982)

Start with Blood Trail, the first of 10 books in the Hart: The Regulator series.

#	Title
1	Blood Trail 1980Buy 🇺🇸
2	Cherokee Outlet 1980Buy 🇺🇸
3	Tago 1980Buy 🇺🇸
4	Blood on the Border 1981Buy 🇺🇸
5	Ride the Wide Country 1981Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Silver Lie 1981Buy 🇺🇸
7	Arkansas Breakout 1982Buy 🇺🇸
8	California Bloodlines 1982Buy 🇺🇸
9	John Wesley Hardin 1982Buy 🇺🇸
10	Skinning Place 1982Buy 🇺🇸

14 books (1979–1983)

Start with Blood Money, the first of 14 books in the Hawk series.

#	Title
1	Blood Money 1979Buy 🇺🇸
2	Death's Bounty 1979Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Sudden Guns 1979Buy 🇺🇸
4	Blood Kin 1980Buy 🇺🇸
5	Desperadoes 1980Buy 🇺🇸
6	Fool's Gold 1980Buy 🇺🇸
7	Killing Time 1980Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Gates of Death 1980Buy 🇺🇸
9	Dead Man's Hand 1981Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Widowmaker 1981Buy 🇺🇸
11	Death and Jack Shade 1982Buy 🇺🇸
12	Killer's Breed 1982Buy 🇺🇸
13	Sierra Gold 1982Buy 🇺🇸
14	Border War 1983Buy 🇺🇸

24 books (1976–1984)

Start with River of Blood, the first of 24 books in the Herne The Hunter series.

#	Title
1	River of Blood 1976Buy 🇺🇸
2	White Death 1976Buy 🇺🇸
3	Apache Squaw 1977Buy 🇺🇸
4	Death in Gold 1977Buy 🇺🇸
5	Shadow of the Vulture 1977Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Black Widow 1977Buy 🇺🇸
7	Cross Draw 1978Buy 🇺🇸
8	Death Rites 1978Buy 🇺🇸
9	Massacre! 1978Buy 🇺🇸
10	Vigilante! 1978Buy 🇺🇸
11	Silver Threads 1979Buy 🇺🇸
12	Sun Dance 1979Buy 🇺🇸
13	Billy the Kid 1980Buy 🇺🇸
14	Death School 1980Buy 🇺🇸
15	Geronimo! 1981Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Hanging 1981Buy 🇺🇸
17	Till Death 1981Buy 🇺🇸
18	Bloodline 1982Buy 🇺🇸
19	Dying Ways 1982Buy 🇺🇸
20	Hearts of Gold 1982Buy 🇺🇸
21	Pony Express 1983Buy 🇺🇸
22	Wild Blood 1983Buy 🇺🇸
23	Texas Massacre 1984Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Last Hurrah 1984Buy 🇺🇸

33 books (2022–2025)

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

1 book (2013–2013)

#	Title
1	The Story of Black 2013Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1981–1984)

Start with Comanche!, the first of 9 books in the Peacemaker series.

#	Title
1	Comanche! 1981Buy 🇺🇸
2	Lynch Law 1981Buy 🇺🇸
3	Outlaws 1981Buy 🇺🇸
4	Whiplash 1981Buy 🇺🇸
5	Blood Run 1982Buy 🇺🇸
6	War Party 1983Buy 🇺🇸
7	One Thousand Dollar Death 1984Buy 🇺🇸
8	Shoot-out! 1984Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Lost 1984Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1976–1977)

Start with Amphetamines and Pearls, the first of 4 books in the Scott Mitchell series.

#	Title
1	Amphetamines and Pearls 1976Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Geranium Kiss 1976Buy 🇺🇸
3	Junkyard Angel 1977Buy 🇺🇸
4	Neon Madman 1977Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2007–2016)

Start with Trouble In Mind and read in order.

#	Title
1	Trouble In Mind 2007Buy 🇺🇸
2	Fedora 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dead Dames Don't Sing 2016Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1992–2009)

Start with Ghosts of a Chance and read in order.

#	Title
1	Ghosts of a Chance 1992Buy 🇺🇸
2	Bluer Than This 1998Buy 🇺🇸
3	Minor Key 2009Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (1975–2008)

Start with Angel Alone, the first of 7 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Angel Alone 1975Buy 🇺🇸
2	Avenging Angel 1975Buy 🇺🇸
3	Endgame 1975Buy 🇺🇸
4	Frame 1979Buy 🇺🇸
5	Blind 1981Buy 🇺🇸
6	In a True Light 2001Buy 🇺🇸
7	Nick's Blues 2008Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1977–1980)

Start with Evil Breed, the first of 6 books in the The Lawmen series.

#	Title
1	Evil Breed 1977Buy 🇺🇸
2	Kansas Bloody Kansas 1977Buy 🇺🇸
3	Judgment Day 1978Buy 🇺🇸
4	Vengeance Trail 1978Buy 🇺🇸
5	Hanged Man 1979Buy 🇺🇸
6	One Way to Die 1980Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1987–1988)

Start with Daylight Robbery!, the first of 5 books in the The Tempest Twins series.

#	Title
1	Daylight Robbery! 1987Buy 🇺🇸
2	Hot Property! 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	Downeast to Danger! 1988Buy 🇺🇸
4	Runner! 1988Buy 🇺🇸
5	Terror Trap! 1988Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2007–2010)

Start with Gone to Ground and read in order.

#	Title
1	Gone to Ground 2007Buy 🇺🇸
2	Far Cry 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Darker Shade of Blue 2010Buy 🇺🇸