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

10 books (1996–2021)

Start with Giant Book of Fantasy Tales, the first of 10 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Giant Book of Fantasy Tales 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 7 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Sounds Of Crime 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	No Rest for the Dead 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Killer Cookbook 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	FaceOff 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	OxCrimes: 27 Killer Stories from the Cream of Crimewriters 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	MatchUp 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Ten Year Stretch 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Afraid of the Shadows 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

37 books (2010–2024)

Start with The History Book(By: R.G. Grant), the first of 37 books in the Big Ideas Simply Explained series.

#	Title
1	The History Book(By: R.G. Grant) 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Psychology Book(By: Marcus Weeks,Catherine Collin,Joannah Ginsburg,Nigel C. Benson,Voula Grand,Merrin Lazyan) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Economics Book(By: Niall Kishtainy) 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Religions Book(By: Neil Philip,Michael D. Coogan,Paul Freedman,Shulamit Ambalu,Eve Levavi Feinstein,Andrew Stob) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Business Book(By: Sam Atkinson) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Science Book(By: Dan Green,David John,Rob Scott Colson,Camilla Hallinan) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Philosophy Book(By: Will Buckingham) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Politics Book(By: Kate Johnsen,Sam Atkinson) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Shakespeare Book(By: Stanley Wells) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Sociology Book(By: Marcus Weeks,Megan Todd,Mitchell Hobbs,Sam Atkinson,Sarah Tomley,Christopher Thorpe,Chris Yuill) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Literature Book(By: Sam Atkinson) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Art Book(By: Caroline Bugler) 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Crime Book 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Bible Book(By: DK Publishing) 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Classical Music Book(By: Katie Derham) 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Mythology Book(By: Shulamit Ambalu) 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Crime Book(By: Shanna Hogan) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Ecology Book(By: DK Publishing) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	The Marvel Book(By: DK Publishing) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	The Maths Book(By: DK Publishing) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	The Sherlock Holmes Book(By: David Stuart Davies,Barry Forshaw) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	The Islam Book(By: DK Publishing) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	The Law Book(By: DK Publishing) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	The Movie Book(By: Danny Leigh) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	The Physics Book(By: Jim Al-Khalili,Ben Still) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	The Star Wars Book(By: Pablo Hidalgo,Cole Horton,Dan Zehr) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	The Biology Book(By: DK Publishing) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	The DC Book(By: Grant Morrison,Stephen Wiacek) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	The Medicine Book(By: DK Publishing) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	The Chemistry Book(By: DK Publishing) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	The World War II Book(By: DK Publishing) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	El libro de la historia LGBTQ+(By: DK Publishing) 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	The LGBTQ+ History Book(By: DK Publishing) 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	The Poetry Book(By: DK Publishing) 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	The Design Book(By: DK Publishing) 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	The Psychology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained(By: DK Publishing) 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	The World War I Book(By: DK Publishing) 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2015–2019)

Start with The House on Cold Hill and read in order.

#	Title
1	The House on Cold Hill 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Secret of Cold Hill 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (1981–1983)

Start with Dead Letter Drop and read in order.

#	Title
1	Dead Letter Drop 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Atom Bomb Angel 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2016–2020)

Start with Death Comes Knocking(With: Graham Bartlett) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Death Comes Knocking(With: Graham Bartlett) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Babes In The Wood(With: Graham Bartlett) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

22 books (2005–2025)

Start with Dead Simple, the first of 22 books in the Roy Grace series.

#	Title
1	Dead Simple 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Looking Good Dead 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Not Dead Enough 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Dead Man's Footsteps 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Dead Tomorrow 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Dead Like You 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Dead Man's Grip 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Not Dead Yet 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Dead Man's Time 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Want You Dead 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	You Are Dead 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Love You Dead 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Need You Dead 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Dead If You Don't 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Dead at First Sight 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Find Them Dead 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Left You Dead 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Picture You Dead 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Stop Them Dead 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	One of Us Is Dead 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	They Thought I Was Dead: Sandy's Story 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	The Hawk is Dead 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2019–2021)

Start with Footloose(With: Val McDermid) and read in order.

5 books (2010–2026)

Start with The Perfect Murder, the first of 4 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	The Perfect Murder 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Christmas is for the Kids 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	In the Nick of Time(With: Ian Rankin) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Footloose(With: Val McDermid) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	John Grebble Is Gone 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (2013–2014)

Start with Short Shockers: Collection One and read in order.

16 books (1983–2020)

Start with Billionaire, the first of 16 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Billionaire 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Biggles The Storybook 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Possession 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Dreamer 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Sweet Heart 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Twilight 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Prophecy 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Host 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Alchemist 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Getting Wired! 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Truth 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Denial 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Faith 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Perfect People 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Absolute Proof 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	I Follow You 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

11 books (2017–2019)

Start with Deserves to Be Dead(By: John Sandford,Lisa Jackson), the first of 11 books in the The MatchUp Collection series.