Max Allan Collins Reading Order

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 🇺🇸

45 books (1986–2025)

Start with Mean Streets, the first of 45 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Mean Streets 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	An Eye for Justice 1988Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dick Tracy: The Secret Files 1990Buy 🇺🇸
4	Dante's Disciples 1991Buy 🇺🇸
5	Deadly Allies 1992Buy 🇺🇸
6	Dark Crimes 2 1993Buy 🇺🇸
7	Deadly After Dark 1994Buy 🇺🇸
8	Murder is My Business 1994Buy 🇺🇸
9	Vampire Detectives 1995Buy 🇺🇸
10	First Cases, Volume 1 1996Buy 🇺🇸
11	Kiss and Kill 1997Buy 🇺🇸
12	Vengeance is Hers 1997Buy 🇺🇸
13	Hot Blood X 1998Buy 🇺🇸
14	Private Eyes 1998Buy 🇺🇸
15	Diagnosis Dead 1999Buy 🇺🇸
16	Crafty Cat Crimes 2000Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Shamus Game 2000Buy 🇺🇸
18	...And the Dying is Easy 2001Buy 🇺🇸
19	Mystery Street 2001Buy 🇺🇸
20	A Century of Noir 2002Buy 🇺🇸
21	Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 2 2002Buy 🇺🇸
22	The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 2002Buy 🇺🇸
23	Fatal Attractions 2003Buy 🇺🇸
24	Flesh and Blood 2003Buy 🇺🇸
25	Greatest Hits 2005Buy 🇺🇸
26	Kolchak: The Night Stalker Chronicles 2005Buy 🇺🇸
27	My Lolita Complex and Other Tales of Sex and Violence 2006Buy 🇺🇸
28	These Guns for Hire 2006Buy 🇺🇸
29	At the Scene of the Crime 2008Buy 🇺🇸
30	Once Upon a Crime: An Anthology of Murder, Mayhem and Suspense 2009Buy 🇺🇸
31	By Hook or By Crook and 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year 2010Buy 🇺🇸
32	Crimes by Moonlight 2010Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 2011Buy 🇺🇸
34	In Pursuit of Spenser 2012Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Interrogator and Other Criminally Good Fiction 2012Buy 🇺🇸
36	Writing Crime Fiction 2012Buy 🇺🇸
37	Ghouls, Ghosts, and Ninja Rats 2013Buy 🇺🇸
38	Inherit the Dead 2013Buy 🇺🇸
39	The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs 2013Buy 🇺🇸
40	Chicago Blues 2014Buy 🇺🇸
41	Trust No One 2015Buy 🇺🇸
42	Silent Night, Deadly Night 2016Buy 🇺🇸
43	A Time For Violence 2019Buy 🇺🇸
44	Ink and Daggers 2023Buy 🇺🇸
45	Murderers' Row: Original Baseball Mysteries: Volume 1 2025Buy 🇺🇸

14 books (1999–2002)

Start with Elvgren Girls I, the first of 14 books in the Artist Archives Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Elvgren Girls I 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Elvgren Girls II 1999Buy 🇺🇸
3	Exotic Ladies 1999Buy 🇺🇸
4	Swimsuit Sweeties 1999Buy 🇺🇸
5	Varga Girls I 1999Buy 🇺🇸
6	Varga Girls II 1999Buy 🇺🇸
7	Indian Maidens 2001Buy 🇺🇸
8	Pin-Up Nudes 2001Buy 🇺🇸
9	Pirate & Gypsy Girls 2001Buy 🇺🇸
10	Seaside Sweethearts 2001Buy 🇺🇸
11	Cowgirl Pin-Ups 2002Buy 🇺🇸
12	Patriotic Pin Ups 2002Buy 🇺🇸
13	Pin-Up Nudes II 2002Buy 🇺🇸
14	Playful Pin-Ups 2002Buy 🇺🇸

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(With: 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 🇺🇸

1 book (2006–2006)

#	Title
1	Buried Deep 2006Buy 🇺🇸

20 books (2002–2011)

Start with Bad Rap(With: Jeffrey Mariotte), the first of 20 books in the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation series.

#	Title
1	Bad Rap(With: Jeffrey Mariotte) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
2	Double Dealer 2002Buy 🇺🇸
3	Sin City 2002Buy 🇺🇸
4	Body of Evidence 2003Buy 🇺🇸
5	Cold Burn 2003Buy 🇺🇸
6	Thicker Than Blood(By: Jeffrey Mariotte) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
7	Grave Matters 2004Buy 🇺🇸
8	Binding Ties 2005Buy 🇺🇸
9	Killing Game 2005Buy 🇺🇸
10	Snake Eyes 2006Buy 🇺🇸
11	Brass in Pocket(By: Jeffrey Mariotte) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
12	Nevada Rose(By: Jerome Preisler) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Killing Jar(By: Donn Cortez) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
14	Blood Quantum(By: Jeffrey Mariotte) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
15	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: The Insider's Guide to the TV Phenomenon(By: Titan Books) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
16	Dark Sundays(By: Donn Cortez) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
17	Headhunter(By: Greg Cox) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
18	Shock Treatment(By: Greg Cox) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
19	Skin Deep(By: Jerome Preisler) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Burning Season(By: Jeffrey Mariotte) 2011Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (2003–2008)

Start with Florida Getaway, the first of 8 books in the CSI: Miami series.

#	Title
1	Florida Getaway 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	Heat Wave 2004Buy 🇺🇸
3	Cult Following(By: Donn Cortez) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
4	Misgivings(By: Donn Cortez) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
5	Riptide(By: Donn Cortez) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
6	Heart Attack(By: Donn Cortez) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
7	Cut and Run(By: Donn Cortez) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
8	Right to Die(By: Jeffrey Mariotte) 2008Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2015–2021)

Start with The Legend of Caleb York, the first of 6 books in the Caleb York series.

#	Title
1	The Legend of Caleb York 2015Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Big Showdown 2016Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Bloody Spur 2018Buy 🇺🇸
4	Last Stage to Hell Junction 2019Buy 🇺🇸
5	Hot Lead, Cold Justice 2020Buy 🇺🇸
6	Shoot-Out at Sugar Creek 2021Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2007–2008)

Start with Jump Cut and read in order.

#	Title
1	Jump Cut 2007Buy 🇺🇸
2	Finishing School 2008Buy 🇺🇸
3	Killer Profile 2008Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2002–2003)

Start with Before the Dawn and read in order.

#	Title
1	Before the Dawn 2002Buy 🇺🇸
2	After the Dark 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	Skin Game 2003Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1930–2026)

Start with The Maltese Falcon(By: Dashiell Hammett) and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Maltese Falcon(By: Dashiell Hammett) 1930Buy 🇺🇸
2	Return of the Maltese Falcon 2026Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1991–1992)

Start with Dick Tracy Goes to War and read in order.

#	Title
1	Dick Tracy Goes to War 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dick Tracy and the Nightmare Machine 1991Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dick Tracy Meets His Match 1992Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2003–2005)

Start with Volume 1(With: Chester Gould,Rick Fletcher), the first of 4 books in the Dick Tracy: The Collins Case Files series.

#	Title
1	Volume 1(With: Chester Gould,Rick Fletcher) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	Volume 2(With: Rick Fletcher) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
3	Volume 3(With: Rick Fletcher) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
4	Volume 4 2005Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1999–2005)

Start with The Titanic Murders, the first of 6 books in the Disaster series.

#	Title
1	The Titanic Murders 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Hindenburg Murders 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Pearl Harbor Murders 2001Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Lusitania Murders 2002Buy 🇺🇸
5	The London Blitz Murders 2004Buy 🇺🇸
6	The War of the Worlds Murder 2005Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1987–1993)

Start with The Dark City, the first of 4 books in the Eliot Ness series.

#	Title
1	The Dark City 1987Buy 🇺🇸
2	Butcher's Dozen 1988Buy 🇺🇸
3	Bullet Proof 1989Buy 🇺🇸
4	Murder by the Numbers 1993Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2021–2021)

4 books (1993–2018)

Start with A Good Head on His Shoulders, the first of 4 books in the Fangoria Dreadtime Stories series.

11 books (1973–2021)

Start with Bait Money, the first of 11 books in the Frank Nolan series.

#	Title
1	Bait Money 1973Buy 🇺🇸
2	Blood Money 1973Buy 🇺🇸
3	Fly Paper 1981Buy 🇺🇸
4	Hard Cash 1981Buy 🇺🇸
5	Hush Money 1981Buy 🇺🇸
6	Scratch Fever 1982Buy 🇺🇸
7	Spree 1987Buy 🇺🇸
8	Mourn the Living 1988Buy 🇺🇸
9	Tough Tender 1991Buy 🇺🇸
10	Skim Deep 2020Buy 🇺🇸
11	Double Down 2021Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2009–2009)

Start with Above & Beyond and read in order.

#	Title
1	Above & Beyond 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Rise of Cobra 2009Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2003–2022)

Start with Road to Perdition 2: On the Road and read in order.

#	Title
1	Road to Perdition 2: On the Road 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	Quarry's War 2018Buy 🇺🇸
3	Deadly Beloved and Other Stories(With: Johnny Craig,Al Feldstein) 2022Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2007–2013)

Start with A Killing in Comics and read in order.

#	Title
1	A Killing in Comics 2007Buy 🇺🇸
2	Strip for Murder(With: Terry Beatty) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
3	Seduction of the Innocent 2013Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2020–2021)

Start with Come Spy With Me and read in order.

#	Title
1	Come Spy With Me 2020Buy 🇺🇸
2	Live Fast, Spy Hard 2021Buy 🇺🇸
3	To Live and Spy In Berlin 2021Buy 🇺🇸

22 books (1973–2016)

Start with The Night Stalker(By: Jeff Rice), the first of 22 books in the Kolchak: The Night Stalker series.

#	Title
1	The Night Stalker(By: Jeff Rice) 1973Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Night Strangler(By: Jeff Rice) 1974Buy 🇺🇸
3	Devil in the Details(By: Stefan Petrucha) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Fever Pitch(By: Stuart M. Kaminsky) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
5	Get of Belial(By: Joe Gentile) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
6	Lambs to the Slaughter(By: Joe Gentile) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
7	Kolchak the Night Stalker Volume 1(By: Stuart M. Kaminsky) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
8	Pain Without Tears(By: C.J. Henderson) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
9	Kolchak: The Night Stalker Chronicles(With: Stuart M. Kaminsky,Robert Weinberg) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
10	Bare Bones(By: Joe Gentile) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
11	Terror Within(By: C.J. Henderson,Stefan Petrucha) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
12	A Black & Evil Truth(By: C.J. Henderson) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Kolchak Papers(By: Jeff Rice) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Lovecraftian Horror(By: C.J. Henderson) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
15	Sound of Fear(By: Joe Gentile) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Rise & Fall of Carl Kolchak(By: Dave Ulanski) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
17	Cry Of Thunder(By: Joe Gentile) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
18	Compendium(With: Stuart M. Kaminsky,Christopher Golden) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
19	Kolchak and the Lost World(By: C.J. Henderson) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
20	Necronomicon(By: C.J. Henderson) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Lost World(By: C.J. Henderson) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
22	Passages of the Macabre(By: Ed Gorman,Nancy Holder,C.J. Henderson) 2016Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2019–2020)

Start with Girl Most Likely and read in order.

#	Title
1	Girl Most Likely 2019Buy 🇺🇸
2	Girl Can't Help It 2020Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1983–1986)

Start with No Cure for Death, the first of 5 books in the Mallory series.

#	Title
1	No Cure for Death 1983Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Baby Blue Rip-Off 1983Buy 🇺🇸
3	Kill Your Darlings 1984Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Shroud for Aquarius 1985Buy 🇺🇸
5	Nice Weekend for a Murder 1986Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1989–2017)

Start with The Killing Man(By: Mickey Spillane) and read in order.

2 books (2018–2018)

Start with Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer #1(With: Mickey Spillane) and read in order.

30 books (1947–2025)

Start with I, the Jury, the first of 30 books in the Mike Hammer series.

#	Title
1	I, the Jury 1947Buy 🇺🇸
2	My Gun Is Quick 1950Buy 🇺🇸
3	Vengeance is Mine 1950Buy 🇺🇸
4	One Lonely Night 1951Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Big Kill 1951Buy 🇺🇸
6	Kiss Me, Deadly 1952Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Girl Hunters 1962Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Snake 1964Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Twisted Thing 1966Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Body Lovers 1967Buy 🇺🇸
11	Survival... Zero 1970Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Killing Man 1989Buy 🇺🇸
13	Black Alley 1996Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Goliath Bone 2008Buy 🇺🇸
15	Kiss Her Goodbye 2009Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Big Bang 2010Buy 🇺🇸
17	Lady, Go Die! 2012Buy 🇺🇸
18	Skin 2012Buy 🇺🇸
19	Complex 90 2013Buy 🇺🇸
20	King of the Weeds 2014Buy 🇺🇸
21	Kill Me, Darling 2015Buy 🇺🇸
22	A Long Time Dead 2016Buy 🇺🇸
23	Murder Never Knocks 2016Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Will to Kill 2017Buy 🇺🇸
25	Killing Town 2018Buy 🇺🇸
26	Murder, My Love 2019Buy 🇺🇸
27	Masquerade for Murder 2020Buy 🇺🇸
28	Kill Me If You Can 2022Buy 🇺🇸
29	Dig Two Graves 2023Buy 🇺🇸
30	Baby, It's Murder 2025Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2008–2011)

Start with The New Adventures of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and read in order.

#	Title
1	The New Adventures of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer 2008Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Little Death 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	Encore for Murder 2011Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1997–1998)

Start with Mommy and read in order.

#	Title
1	Mommy 1997Buy 🇺🇸
2	Mommy's Day 1998Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2019–2022)

Start with One Mean Mother, the first of 4 books in the Ms. Tree series.

#	Title
1	One Mean Mother 2019Buy 🇺🇸
2	Skeleton in the Closet 2020Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Cold Dish 2021Buy 🇺🇸
4	Deadline 2022Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1999–2008)

Start with The Mummy, the first of 4 books in the Mummy series.

#	Title
1	The Mummy 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Mummy Returns 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Scorpion King 2002Buy 🇺🇸
4	Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 2008Buy 🇺🇸

33 books (2022–2025)

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

2 books (1995–1997)

Start with Blue Beginning and read in order.

#	Title
1	Blue Beginning 1995Buy 🇺🇸
2	Blue Blood 1997Buy 🇺🇸

19 books (1983–2023)

Start with True Detective, the first of 19 books in the Nathan Heller series.

#	Title
1	True Detective 1983Buy 🇺🇸
2	True Crime 1984Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Million-Dollar Wound 1986Buy 🇺🇸
4	Neon Mirage 1988Buy 🇺🇸
5	Stolen Away 1991Buy 🇺🇸
6	Carnal Hours 1994Buy 🇺🇸
7	Blood and Thunder 1995Buy 🇺🇸
8	Damned in Paradise 1996Buy 🇺🇸
9	Flying Blind 1998Buy 🇺🇸
10	Majic Man 1999Buy 🇺🇸
11	Angel in Black 2001Buy 🇺🇸
12	Chicago Confidential 2002Buy 🇺🇸
13	Bye Bye, Baby 2011Buy 🇺🇸
14	Target Lancer 2012Buy 🇺🇸
15	Ask Not 2013Buy 🇺🇸
16	Better Dead 2016Buy 🇺🇸
17	Do No Harm 2020Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Big Bundle 2023Buy 🇺🇸
19	Too Many Bullets 2023Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1991–2012)

Start with Dying in the Post-War World, the first of 4 books in the Nathan Heller Collections series.

#	Title
1	Dying in the Post-War World 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	Kisses of Death 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	Chicago Lightning 2011Buy 🇺🇸
4	Triple Play 2012Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (1984–2023)

Start with The Mystery Scene Movie Guide, the first of 12 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	The Mystery Scene Movie Guide 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Critics' Choice(With: John Javna) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
3	Gil Elvgren: The Wartime Pin-Ups 1996Buy 🇺🇸
4	Earl MacPherson: The Sketchbook Pin-Ups 1997Buy 🇺🇸
5	Pin-Up Poster Book: The Billy DeVorss Collection 1998Buy 🇺🇸
6	Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan 1998Buy 🇺🇸
7	For the Boys: The Racy Pin-Ups of World War II 2000Buy 🇺🇸
8	Calendar Girl 2003Buy 🇺🇸
9	Mickey Spillane on Screen(With: James L. Traylor) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
10	Scarface and the Untouchable(With: A. Brad Schwartz) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
11	Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher(With: A. Brad Schwartz) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
12	Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction(With: James L. Traylor) 2023Buy 🇺🇸

17 books (1976–2026)

Start with Quarry / The Broker, the first of 17 books in the Quarry series.

#	Title
1	Quarry / The Broker 1976Buy 🇺🇸
2	Quarry's Deal / The Dealer 1976Buy 🇺🇸
3	Quarry's List / The Broker's Wife 1976Buy 🇺🇸
4	Quarry's Cut / The Slasher 1977Buy 🇺🇸
5	Quarry's Vote / Primary Target 1988Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Last Quarry 2006Buy 🇺🇸
7	The First Quarry 2008Buy 🇺🇸
8	Quarry in the Middle 2009Buy 🇺🇸
9	Quarry's Ex 2011Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Wrong Quarry 2014Buy 🇺🇸
11	Quarry's Choice 2015Buy 🇺🇸
12	Quarry in the Black 2016Buy 🇺🇸
13	Quarry's Climax 2017Buy 🇺🇸
14	Killing Quarry 2019Buy 🇺🇸
15	Quarry's Blood 2021Buy 🇺🇸
16	Quarry's Return 2024Buy 🇺🇸
17	Quarry's Reunion 2026Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2003–2003)

#	Title
1	Quarry's Greatest Hits 2003Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2014–2017)

Start with Supreme Justice and read in order.

#	Title
1	Supreme Justice 2014Buy 🇺🇸
2	Fate of the Union(With: Matthew V. Clemens) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
3	Executive Order(With: Matthew V. Clemens) 2017Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1998–2011)

Start with Road to Perdition, the first of 4 books in the Road to Perdition series.

#	Title
1	Road to Perdition 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	On the Road to Perdition 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	Road to Purgatory 2004Buy 🇺🇸
4	Return to Perdition 2011Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1987–2026)

Start with Scrap, the first of 6 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Scrap 1987Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dying in the Post-War World 1991Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Blonde Tigress 2008Buy 🇺🇸
4	So Long, Chief(With: Mickey Spillane) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Dangerous Cat(With: Mickey Spillane) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
6	True Noir: The Assassination of Anton Cermak 2026Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2001–2021)

Start with Blue Christmas and Other Holiday Homicides, the first of 6 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Blue Christmas and Other Holiday Homicides 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	Early Crimes 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	Murderlized(With: Matthew V. Clemens) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
4	Reincarnal & Other Dark Tales 2021Buy 🇺🇸
5	Shoot The Moon 2021Buy 🇺🇸
6	Suspense—His & Hers: Tales of Love and Murder(With: Barbara Collins) 2021Buy 🇺🇸

24 books (1986–2024)

Start with Midnight Haul, the first of 24 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Midnight Haul 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	In the Line of Fire 1993Buy 🇺🇸
3	Maverick(With: Dewey Gram) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
4	Waterworld 1995Buy 🇺🇸
5	Daylight 1996Buy 🇺🇸
6	Air Force One 1997Buy 🇺🇸
7	American Gangster(With: Steve Zaillian) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
8	U.S. Marshals 1998Buy 🇺🇸
9	Regeneration(With: Barbara Collins) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
10	U-571 2000Buy 🇺🇸
11	The History of Mystery 2001Buy 🇺🇸
12	Windtalkers 2001Buy 🇺🇸
13	I Spy 2002Buy 🇺🇸
14	Bombshell(With: Barbara Collins) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Pink Panther 2005Buy 🇺🇸
16	Black Hats(As: Patrick Culhane) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
17	Deadly Beloved 2007Buy 🇺🇸
18	Red Sky in Morning(As: Patrick Culhane) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Consummata(With: Mickey Spillane) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
20	Flower for the Butcher 2012Buy 🇺🇸
21	Saving Private Ryan 2012Buy 🇺🇸
22	What Doesn't Kill Her 2013Buy 🇺🇸
23	USS Powderkeg 2018Buy 🇺🇸
24	Cutout(With: Barbara Collins) 2024Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2001–2003)

Start with Tales of the Slayer(By: Greg Rucka,Christie Golden,Nancy Holder,Christopher Golden,Yvonne Navarro,Doranna Durgin,Mel Odom,Joss Whedon) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Tales of the Slayer(By: Greg Rucka,Christie Golden,Nancy Holder,Christopher Golden,Yvonne Navarro,Doranna Durgin,Mel Odom,Joss Whedon) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 3(By: Nancy Holder,Christopher Golden,Yvonne Navarro,Mel Odom,Joss Whedon) 2003Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (1994–2024)

Start with Goblins(By: Charles L. Grant), the first of 12 books in the The X-Files series.

#	Title
1	Goblins(By: Charles L. Grant) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
2	Ground Zero(By: Kevin J. Anderson) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
3	Hunter(By: Charles L. Grant) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
4	Ruins(By: Kevin J. Anderson) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
5	Whirlwind(By: Charles L. Grant) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
6	Antibodies(By: Kevin J. Anderson) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
7	Fight the Future(By: Elizabeth Hand) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
8	Skin(By: Ben Mezrich) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
9	I Want to Believe 2008Buy 🇺🇸
10	Trust No One(With: Gayle Lynds,Heather Graham,Jonathan Maberry,Kevin J. Anderson,Tim Lebbon,Keith R.A. DeCandido,Brian Keene,Peter Clines,Gini Koch) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Truth Is Out There(By: Jonathan Maberry,Kelley Armstrong,David Farland,Rachel Caine,Hank Schwaeble,Kami Garcia,Jon McGoran,Hank Phillippi Ryan) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
12	Perihelion(By: Claudia Gray) 2024Buy 🇺🇸

23 books (2006–2025)

Start with Antiques Roadkill, the first of 23 books in the Trash 'n' Treasures Mystery series.

#	Title
1	Antiques Roadkill 2006Buy 🇺🇸
2	Antiques Maul 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	Antiques Flee Market 2008Buy 🇺🇸
4	Antiques Bizarre 2010Buy 🇺🇸
5	Antiques Knock-Off 2011Buy 🇺🇸
6	Antiques Disposal 2012Buy 🇺🇸
7	Antiques Chop 2013Buy 🇺🇸
8	Antiques Slay Ride 2013Buy 🇺🇸
9	Antiques Con 2014Buy 🇺🇸
10	Antiques Fruitcake 2014Buy 🇺🇸
11	Antiques St. Nicked 2015Buy 🇺🇸
12	Antiques Swap 2015Buy 🇺🇸
13	Antiques Fate 2016Buy 🇺🇸
14	Antiques Frame 2018Buy 🇺🇸
15	Antiques Ho-Ho-Homicides 2018Buy 🇺🇸
16	Antiques Wanted 2018Buy 🇺🇸
17	Antiques Ravin' 2019Buy 🇺🇸
18	Antiques Fire Sale 2020Buy 🇺🇸
19	Antiques Carry on 2021Buy 🇺🇸
20	Antiques Liquidation 2022Buy 🇺🇸
21	Antiques Foe 2023Buy 🇺🇸
22	Antiques Slay Belles 2024Buy 🇺🇸
23	Antiques Round-Up 2025Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2010–2011)

Start with You Can't Stop Me(With: Matthew Clemens) and read in order.

#	Title
1	You Can't Stop Me(With: Matthew Clemens) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
2	No One Will Hear You(With: Matthew Clemens) 2011Buy 🇺🇸