Peter Robinson 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 🇺🇸

15 books (1990–2013)

Start with The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H., the first of 15 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	100 Great Detectives, Or, the Detective Directory 1991Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 1999Buy 🇺🇸
4	Opening Shots: Great Mystery and Crime Writers Share Their First Published Stories 2000Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Oxford Book of Detective Stories 2000Buy 🇺🇸
6	The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 2000Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Best American Mystery Stories 2001 2001Buy 🇺🇸
8	Like a Charm 2004Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction 2004Buy 🇺🇸
10	The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 5 2004Buy 🇺🇸
11	Thou Shalt Not Kill 2005Buy 🇺🇸
12	A Merry Band of Murderers 2006Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Penguin Book of Crime Stories 2007Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Blue Religion 2008Buy 🇺🇸
15	Deadly Pleasures 2013Buy 🇺🇸

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(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 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 🇺🇸

28 books (1987–2023)

Start with Gallows View, the first of 28 books in the Inspector Banks series.

#	Title
1	Gallows View 1987Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Dedicated Man 1988Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Necessary End 1989Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Hanging Valley 1989Buy 🇺🇸
5	Past Reason Hated 1992Buy 🇺🇸
6	Wednesday's Child 1992Buy 🇺🇸
7	Dry Bones That Dream/ Final Account 1994Buy 🇺🇸
8	Innocent Graves 1996Buy 🇺🇸
9	Dead Right / Blood at the Root 1997Buy 🇺🇸
10	In a Dry Season 1999Buy 🇺🇸
11	Cold is the Grave 2000Buy 🇺🇸
12	Aftermath 2001Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Summer That Never Was / Close to Home 2002Buy 🇺🇸
14	Playing with Fire 2003Buy 🇺🇸
15	Strange Affair 2004Buy 🇺🇸
16	Piece of My Heart 2006Buy 🇺🇸
17	Friend of the Devil 2007Buy 🇺🇸
18	All the Colors of Darkness 2008Buy 🇺🇸
19	Bad Boy 2010Buy 🇺🇸
20	Watching the Dark 2012Buy 🇺🇸
21	Children of the Revolution 2013Buy 🇺🇸
22	Abattoir Blues / In the Dark Places 2014Buy 🇺🇸
23	When the Music's Over 2016Buy 🇺🇸
24	Sleeping in the Ground 2017Buy 🇺🇸
25	Careless Love 2018Buy 🇺🇸
26	Many Rivers to Cross 2019Buy 🇺🇸
27	Not Dark Yet 2021Buy 🇺🇸
28	Standing in the Shadows 2023Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2009–2015)

Start with Blue Christmas, the first of 6 books in the Inspector Banks Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Blue Christmas 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	Going Back 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	Like a Virgin 2009Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Price of Love: And Other Stories 2009Buy 🇺🇸
5	Walking the Dog 2009Buy 🇺🇸
6	Summer Rain 2015Buy 🇺🇸

11 books (1998–2016)

Start with The Two Ladies of Rose Cottage, the first of 11 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	The Two Ladies of Rose Cottage 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	Missing in Action 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	Birthday Dance 2009Buy 🇺🇸
4	Cornelius Jubb 2009Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Cherub Affair 2009Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Eastvale Ladies' Poker Circle 2009Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Ferryman's Beautiful Daughter 2009Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Magic of Your Touch 2009Buy 🇺🇸
9	Fan Mail 2016Buy 🇺🇸
10	Innocence 2016Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Good Partner 2016Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1998–2009)

Start with Not Safe After Dark and read in order.

#	Title
1	Not Safe After Dark 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Price of Love: And Other Stories 2009Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1990–2011)

Start with Caedmon's Song / The First Cut and read in order.

#	Title
1	Caedmon's Song / The First Cut 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	No Cure For Love 1995Buy 🇺🇸
3	Before the Poison 2011Buy 🇺🇸