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 🇺🇸
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 🇺🇸

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

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

2 books (2015–2019)

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

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

2 books (1981–1983)

Start with Dead Letter Drop and read in order.

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

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 🇺🇸
2	Babes In The Wood(With: Graham Bartlett) 2020Buy 🇺🇸

22 books (2005–2025)

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

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

2 books (2019–2021)

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

4 books (2010–2019)

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

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

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

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.