Laura Lippman Reading Order

5 books (2005–2020)

Start with The Cocaine Chronicles, the first of 5 books in the Akashic Drug Chronicles series.

#	Title
1	The Cocaine Chronicles 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Speed Chronicles(By: Megan Abbott,Scott Phillips,Sherman Alexie,James Franco,William T. Vollmann,Jess Walter,Beth Lisick,Tao Lin,JamesGreer,Jerry Stahl,Natalie Díaz,Joseph Mattson,Kenji Jasper,Rose Bunch) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Heroin Chronicles(By: Jervey Tervalon,Lydia Lunch,Erin Moon,Nathan Larson,Antonia Crane,Jerry Stahl,Eric Bogosian,Ava Stander,John Albert,Michael Albo,Sophia Langdon,Tony O'Neill,L.Z. Hansen) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Marijuana Chronicles(By: Jonathan Santlofer) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Nicotine Chronicles(By: Lee Child,Joyce Carol Oates,Hannah Tinti,Christopher Sorrentino,Cara Black,Lauren Sanders,Bernice L. McFadden,Jonathan Ames) 2020Buy 🇺🇸

121 books (2002–2025)

Start with San Francisco Noir, the first of 121 books in the Akashic Noir series.

#	Title
1	San Francisco Noir 2002Buy 🇺🇸
2	Bronx Noir 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	Seattle Noir 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Brooklyn Noir 2004Buy 🇺🇸
5	Hasidic Noir 2004Buy 🇺🇸
6	Brooklyn Noir 2 2005Buy 🇺🇸
7	Chicago Noir 2005Buy 🇺🇸
8	Dublin Noir 2005Buy 🇺🇸
9	Baltimore Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
10	D.C. Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
11	London Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
12	Manhattan Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
13	Miami Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
14	Twin Cities Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
15	Detroit Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸
16	Havana Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸
17	Los Angeles Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸
18	New Orleans Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸
19	Wall Street Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸
20	Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth 2008Buy 🇺🇸
21	D.C. Noir 2 2008Buy 🇺🇸
22	Istanbul Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
23	Las Vegas Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
24	Manhattan Noir 2 2008Buy 🇺🇸
25	Paris Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
26	Queens Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
27	Toronto Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
28	Trinidad Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
29	Boston Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸
30	Delhi Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸
31	Phoenix Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸
32	Portland Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸
33	Rome Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸
34	San Francisco Noir 2 2009Buy 🇺🇸
35	Copenhagen Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
36	Haiti Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
37	Indian Country Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
38	Lone Star Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
39	Los Angeles Noir 2 2010Buy 🇺🇸
40	Mexico City Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
41	Moscow Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
42	Orange County Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
43	Philadelphia Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
44	Richmond Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
45	Barcelona Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
46	Cape Cod Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
47	New Jersey Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
48	Pittsburgh Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
49	San Diego Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
50	Boston Noir 2 2012Buy 🇺🇸
51	Kansas City Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
52	Kingston Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
53	Long Island Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
54	Mumbai Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
55	St. Petersburg Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
56	Staten Island Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
57	Venice Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
58	Buffalo Noir 2013Buy 🇺🇸
59	Dallas Noir 2013Buy 🇺🇸
60	Haiti Noir 2 2013Buy 🇺🇸
61	Manila Noir 2013Buy 🇺🇸
62	USA Noir 2013Buy 🇺🇸
63	Belfast Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
64	Helsinki Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
65	Prison Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
66	Rio Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
67	Singapore Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
68	Tehran Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
69	Tel Aviv Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
70	Beirut Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
71	Chicago Noir: The Classics 2015Buy 🇺🇸
72	Marseille Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
73	Memphis Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
74	Providence Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
75	Zagreb Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
76	Brussels Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
77	Mississippi Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
78	New Orleans Noir: The Classics 2016Buy 🇺🇸
79	Prague Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
80	San Juan Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
81	St. Louis Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
82	Stockholm Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
83	Atlanta Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
84	Buenos Aires Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
85	Montana Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
86	Montreal Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
87	New Haven Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
88	Oakland Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
89	Trinidad Noir: The Classics 2017Buy 🇺🇸
90	Baghdad Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
91	Berlin Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
92	Hong Kong Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
93	Lagos Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
94	Marrakech Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
95	Santa Cruz Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
96	Sydney Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
97	São Paulo Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
98	Vancouver Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
99	Amsterdam Noir 2019Buy 🇺🇸
100	Houston Noir 2019Buy 🇺🇸
101	Milwaukee Noir 2019Buy 🇺🇸
102	Accra Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
103	Addis Ababa Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
104	Alabama Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
105	Belgrade Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
106	Berkeley Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
107	Columbus Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
108	Miami Noir: The Classics 2020Buy 🇺🇸
109	Nairobi Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
110	Santa Fe Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
111	Tampa Bay Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
112	Palm Springs Noir 2021Buy 🇺🇸
113	Denver Noir 2022Buy 🇺🇸
114	Paris Noir: The Suburbs 2022Buy 🇺🇸
115	South Central Noir 2022Buy 🇺🇸
116	Cleveland Noir 2023Buy 🇺🇸
117	East Jerusalem Noir 2023Buy 🇺🇸
118	West Jerusalem Noir 2023Buy 🇺🇸
119	Honolulu Noir 2024Buy 🇺🇸
120	Hamburg Noir 2025Buy 🇺🇸
121	Sacramento Noir 2025Buy 🇺🇸

19 books (2003–2020)

Start with In the Shadow of the Master, the first of 19 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	In the Shadow of the Master 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	Tart Noir 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dangerous Women 2005Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Adventure of the Missing Detective and 19 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 2005Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Cocaine Chronicles 2005Buy 🇺🇸
6	Damn Near Dead 2006Buy 🇺🇸
7	Death Do Us Part 2006Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 2007Buy 🇺🇸
9	Killer Year: Stories to Die For... 2008Buy 🇺🇸
10	Pulp Fiction - The Dames 2008Buy 🇺🇸
11	Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading 2009Buy 🇺🇸
12	Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary 2009Buy 🇺🇸
13	By Hook or By Crook and 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year 2010Buy 🇺🇸
14	A Study in Sherlock 2011Buy 🇺🇸
15	Women of the Mean Streets 2011Buy 🇺🇸
16	Mystery Writers of America Presents The Mystery Box 2013Buy 🇺🇸
17	Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold 2014Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Best American Mystery Stories 2014 2014Buy 🇺🇸
19	Pretty Bitches 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 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(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 🇺🇸

6 books (2020–2020)

Start with Buried(By: Jeffery Deaver), the first of 6 books in the Hush Collection series.

33 books (2022–2025)

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

2 books (2020–2023)

Start with My Life as a Villainess and read in order.

#	Title
1	My Life as a Villainess 2020Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Summer of Fall 2023Buy 🇺🇸

18 books (2008–2013)

Start with A Good Fuck Spoiled, the first of 18 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	A Good Fuck Spoiled 2008Buy 🇺🇸
2	ARM and the Woman 2008Buy 🇺🇸
3	Black-Eyed Susan 2008Buy 🇺🇸
4	Dear Penthouse Forum 2008Buy 🇺🇸
5	Easy as A-B-C 2008Buy 🇺🇸
6	Femme Fatale 2008Buy 🇺🇸
7	Hardly Knew Her 2008Buy 🇺🇸
8	Honor Bar 2008Buy 🇺🇸
9	One True Love 2008Buy 🇺🇸
10	Pony Girl 2008Buy 🇺🇸
11	Ropa Vieja 2008Buy 🇺🇸
12	Scratch a Woman 2008Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Accidental Detective 2008Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Babysitter's Code 2008Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Crack Cocaine Diet 2008Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Shoeshine Man's Regrets 2008Buy 🇺🇸
17	What He Needed 2008Buy 🇺🇸
18	Waco 1982 2013Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2008–2022)

Start with Hardly Knew Her: Stories, the first of 6 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Hardly Knew Her: Stories 2008Buy 🇺🇸
2	Hints of Heloise 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	Different for Girls 2018Buy 🇺🇸
4	Nasty Girls 2018Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Weaker Sex 2018Buy 🇺🇸
6	Seasonal Work 2022Buy 🇺🇸

15 books (2003–2025)

Start with Every Secret Thing, the first of 15 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Every Secret Thing 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	To the Power of Three 2005Buy 🇺🇸
3	What the Dead Know / Little Sister 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	Life Sentences 2009Buy 🇺🇸
5	I'd Know You Anywhere / Don't Look Back 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Most Dangerous Thing / The Innocents 2011Buy 🇺🇸
7	And When She Was Good 2012Buy 🇺🇸
8	After I'm Gone 2014Buy 🇺🇸
9	Five Fires 2014Buy 🇺🇸
10	Wilde Lake 2016Buy 🇺🇸
11	Sunburn 2018Buy 🇺🇸
12	Lady in the Lake 2019Buy 🇺🇸
13	Dream Girl 2021Buy 🇺🇸
14	Prom Mom 2023Buy 🇺🇸
15	Murder Takes a Vacation 2025Buy 🇺🇸

13 books (1997–2015)

Start with Baltimore Blues, the first of 13 books in the Tess Monaghan series.

#	Title
1	Baltimore Blues 1997Buy 🇺🇸
2	Charm City 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	Butchers Hill 1998Buy 🇺🇸
4	In Big Trouble 1999Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Sugar House 2000Buy 🇺🇸
6	In a Strange City 2001Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Last Place 2002Buy 🇺🇸
8	By a Spider's Thread 2004Buy 🇺🇸
9	No Good Deeds 2006Buy 🇺🇸
10	Another Thing to Fall 2008Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Girl in the Green Raincoat 2008Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Book Thing 2012Buy 🇺🇸
13	Hush Hush 2015Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2018–2018)