Nancy Pickard 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 🇺🇸

27 books (1990–2018)

Start with Sisters in Crime 2, the first of 27 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Sisters in Crime 2 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	Deadly Allies 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dark Crimes 2 1993Buy 🇺🇸
4	Great Mystery Series: Top Female Sleuths 1993Buy 🇺🇸
5	Malice Domestic 3 1994Buy 🇺🇸
6	Funny Bones: 15 New Tales of Murder and Mayhem 1997Buy 🇺🇸
7	Murder, They Wrote 1997Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Plot Thickens 1997Buy 🇺🇸
9	Vengeance is Hers 1997Buy 🇺🇸
10	Eleventh Annual Collection 1998Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Night Awakens 1998Buy 🇺🇸
12	Death Cruise: Crime Stories on the Open Seas 1999Buy 🇺🇸
13	Diagnosis Dead 1999Buy 🇺🇸
14	Mom, Apple Pie and Murder 1999Buy 🇺🇸
15	The First Lady Murders 1999Buy 🇺🇸
16	The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 2000Buy 🇺🇸
17	Unholy Orders 2000Buy 🇺🇸
18	Malice Domestic 10 2001Buy 🇺🇸
19	Naked Came the Phoenix 2001Buy 🇺🇸
20	The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 2002Buy 🇺🇸
21	Thou Shalt Not Kill 2005Buy 🇺🇸
22	Deadly Housewives 2006Buy 🇺🇸
23	By Hook or By Crook and 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year 2010Buy 🇺🇸
24	Mysterious Writers: The Many Facets of Mystery Writing 2010Buy 🇺🇸
25	Manhattan Mayhem 2015Buy 🇺🇸
26	Silent Night, Deadly Night 2016Buy 🇺🇸
27	Malice Domestic 13: Mystery Most Geographical 2018Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1982–2001)

Start with The Cooking School Murders(By: Virginia Rich), the first of 6 books in the Eugenia Potter series.

#	Title
1	The Cooking School Murders(By: Virginia Rich) 1982Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Baked Bean Supper Murders(By: Virginia Rich) 1983Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Nantucket Diet Murders(By: Virginia Rich) 1985Buy 🇺🇸
4	The 27-Ingredient Chili Con Carne Murders 1992Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Blue Corn Murders 1998Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Secret Ingredient Murders 2001Buy 🇺🇸

10 books (1984–1996)

Start with Generous Death, the first of 10 books in the Jenny Cain series.

#	Title
1	Generous Death 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	Say No to Murder 1985Buy 🇺🇸
3	No Body 1986Buy 🇺🇸
4	Marriage Is Murder 1987Buy 🇺🇸
5	Dead Crazy 1988Buy 🇺🇸
6	Bum Steer 1990Buy 🇺🇸
7	I.O.U. 1992Buy 🇺🇸
8	But I Wouldn't Want to Die There 1993Buy 🇺🇸
9	Confession 1994Buy 🇺🇸
10	Twilight 1996Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2000–2002)

Start with The Whole Truth and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Whole Truth 2000Buy 🇺🇸
2	Ring of Truth 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Truth Hurts 2002Buy 🇺🇸

31 books (1992–2016)

Start with Catnap / Cat in an Alphabet Soup(By: Carole Nelson Douglas), the first of 31 books in the Midnight Louie series.

#	Title
1	Catnap / Cat in an Alphabet Soup(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
2	Pussyfoot / Cat in an Aqua Storm(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
3	Cat On A Blue Monday(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
4	Cat in a Crimson Haze(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
5	Cat in a Diamond Dazzle(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
6	Cat in a Flamingo Fedora(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
7	Cat in a Golden Garland(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
8	Cat with an Emerald Eye(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
9	Cat on a Hyacinth Hunt(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
10	Midnight Louie's Pet Detectives(With: J.A. Jance,Carole Nelson Douglas,Toni L.P. Kelner,Lilian Jackson Braun,Walter J. Stutzman) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
11	Cat in a Jeweled Jumpsuit(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
12	Cat in an Indigo Mood(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
13	Cat in a Kiwi Con(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
14	Cat in a Leopard Spot(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
15	Cat in a Midnight Choir(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
16	Cat in a Neon Nightmare(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
17	Midnight Louie In Something Fishy(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
18	Cat in an Orange Twist(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
19	Cat in a Hot Pink Pursuit(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
20	Cat in a Quicksilver Caper(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
21	Cat in a Red Hot Rage(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
22	Cat in a Sapphire Slipper(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
23	Cat in a Topaz Tango(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
24	Cat in an Ultramarine Scheme(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
25	Cat in a Vegas Gold Vendetta(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
26	Cat in a White Tie and Tails(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
27	Fruit of the Tomb(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
28	Cat in an Alien X-Ray(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
29	Cat in a Yellow Spotlight(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
30	Cat in a Zebra Zoot Suit(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
31	Cat in an Alphabet Endgame(By: Carole Nelson Douglas) 2016Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2003–2020)

Start with Seven Steps on the Writer's Path(With: Lynn Lott) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Seven Steps on the Writer's Path(With: Lynn Lott) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	Bigger Better Braver 2020Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1989–2008)

Start with Afraid All the Time, the first of 5 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Afraid All the Time 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dust Devil 1991Buy 🇺🇸
3	Out of Africa 1999Buy 🇺🇸
4	There is No Crime on Easter Island 2005Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Nice Old Guy 2008Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1999–1999)

2 books (2006–2010)

Start with The Virgin of Small Plains and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Virgin of Small Plains 2006Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Scent of Rain and Lightning 2010Buy 🇺🇸