Robert Barnard Reading Order

2 books (1994–1995)

Start with Dead, Mr. Mozart and read in order.

#	Title
1	Dead, Mr. Mozart 1994Buy 🇺🇸
2	Too Many Notes, Mr. Mozart 1995Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (1991–2011)

Start with A Suit of Diamonds, the first of 12 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	A Suit of Diamonds 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	2nd Culprit 1993Buy 🇺🇸
3	Fifty Best Mysteries 1993Buy 🇺🇸
4	Criminal Records 2000Buy 🇺🇸
5	Malice Domestic 9 2000Buy 🇺🇸
6	The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 2000Buy 🇺🇸
7	Much Ado About Murder 2002Buy 🇺🇸
8	The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 2002Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Detection Collection 2005Buy 🇺🇸
10	Thou Shalt Not Kill 2005Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 7 2010Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 8 2011Buy 🇺🇸

11 books (1989–2012)

Start with Death and the Chaste Apprentice, the first of 11 books in the Charlie Peace series.

#	Title
1	Death and the Chaste Apprentice 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Fatal Attachment 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Hovering of Vultures 1993Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Bad Samaritan 1995Buy 🇺🇸
5	No Place of Safety 1997Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Corpse at the Haworth Tandoori 1998Buy 🇺🇸
7	Unholy Dying / Turbulent Priest 2001Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Bones in the Attic 2002Buy 🇺🇸
9	A Fall from Grace 2007Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Killings on Jubilee Terrace 2009Buy 🇺🇸
11	A Charitable Body 2012Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1979–1988)

Start with Unruly Son / Death of a Mystery Writer and read in order.

#	Title
1	Unruly Son / Death of a Mystery Writer 1979Buy 🇺🇸
2	At Death's Door 1988Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1986–1991)

Start with Political Suicide and read in order.

#	Title
1	Political Suicide 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Scandal in Belgravia 1991Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (1974–2016)

Start with Imagery and Theme in the Novels of Dickens, the first of 7 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Imagery and Theme in the Novels of Dickens 1974Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Talent to Deceive: Appreciation of Agatha Christie 1980Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Short History of English Literature 1984Buy 🇺🇸
4	Emily Brontë 2000Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Bronte Encyclopedia(With: Louise Barnard) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Leisure Hour Improved: Or Moral Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, Original and Selected 2015Buy 🇺🇸
7	A Wreath from the Wilderness, a Selection from the Metrical Arrangements of Accola Montis-Am Ni 2016Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1981–1987)

Start with Death by Sheer Torture / Sheer Torture, the first of 5 books in the Perry Trethowan series.

#	Title
1	Death by Sheer Torture / Sheer Torture 1981Buy 🇺🇸
2	Death and the Princess 1982Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Case of the Missing Brontë / The Missing Brontë 1983Buy 🇺🇸
4	Bodies 1986Buy 🇺🇸
5	Death In Purple Prose / The Cherry Blossom Corpse 1987Buy 🇺🇸

10 books (1987–2006)

Start with Breakfast Television, the first of 10 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Breakfast Television 1987Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Woman in the Wardrobe 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	More Final Than Divorce 1988Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Habit of Widowhood 1991Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Gentleman in the Lake 1994Buy 🇺🇸
6	Nothing to Lose 2000Buy 🇺🇸
7	Dognapped 2002Buy 🇺🇸
8	Everybody’s Girl 2005Buy 🇺🇸
9	Provenance 2006Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Old Couple 2006Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1989–2011)

Start with Death of a Salesperson and Other Untimely Exits and read in order.

#	Title
1	Death of a Salesperson and Other Untimely Exits 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Habit of Widowhood and Other Murderous Proclivities 1996Buy 🇺🇸
3	Rogue's Gallery 2011Buy 🇺🇸

23 books (1974–2010)

Start with Death of an Old Goat, the first of 23 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Death of an Old Goat 1974Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Little Local Murder 1976Buy 🇺🇸
3	Blood Brotherhood 1977Buy 🇺🇸
4	Death on the High C's 1977Buy 🇺🇸
5	Posthumous Papers / Death of a Literary Widow 1979Buy 🇺🇸
6	Death in a Cold Climate 1981Buy 🇺🇸
7	Death of a Perfect Mother / Mother's Boys 1981Buy 🇺🇸
8	School for Murder / Little Victims 1983Buy 🇺🇸
9	A Corpse in a Gilded Cage 1984Buy 🇺🇸
10	Fete Fatale / The Disposal of the Living 1985Buy 🇺🇸
11	Out of the Blackout 1985Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Skeleton in the Grass 1988Buy 🇺🇸
13	A City of Strangers 1990Buy 🇺🇸
14	To Die Like a Gentleman 1993Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Masters of the House 1994Buy 🇺🇸
16	A Mansion and Its Murder 1998Buy 🇺🇸
17	A Murder in Mayfair / Touched by the Dead 1999Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Mistress of Alderley 2000Buy 🇺🇸
19	A Cry from the Dark 2003Buy 🇺🇸
20	Dying Flames 2005Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Graveyard Position 2005Buy 🇺🇸
22	Last Post 2007Buy 🇺🇸
23	A Stranger in the Family 2010Buy 🇺🇸