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Anne Perry Books in Order
Below is the complete list of Anne Perry books in order of publication. This is the recommended reading sequence for the series.
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Charlotte & Thomas Pitt Series
- The Cater Street Hangman (1979)
Buy on Amazon - Callander Square (1980)
Buy on Amazon - Paragon Walk (1981)
Buy on Amazon - Resurrection Row (1981)
Buy on Amazon - Rutland Place (1983)
Buy on Amazon - Bluegate Fields (1984)
Buy on Amazon - Death in The Devil’s Acre (1985)
Buy on Amazon - Cardington Crescent (1987)
Buy on Amazon - Silence in Hanover Close (1988)
Buy on Amazon - Bethlehem Road (1990)
Buy on Amazon - Highgate Rise (1991)
Buy on Amazon - Belgrave Square (1992)
Buy on Amazon - Farriers’ Lane (1993)
Buy on Amazon - The Hyde Park Headsman (1994)
Buy on Amazon - Traitors Gate (1995)
Buy on Amazon - Pentecost Alley (1996)
Buy on Amazon - Ashworth Hall (1997)
Buy on Amazon - Brunswick Gardens (1998)
Buy on Amazon - Bedford Square (1998)
Buy on Amazon - Half Moon Street (1998)
Buy on Amazon - The Whitechapel Conspiracy (2000)
Buy on Amazon - Southampton Row (2002)
Buy on Amazon - Seven Dials (2003)
Buy on Amazon - Long Spoon Lane (2005)
Buy on Amazon - Buckingham Palace Gardens (2008)
Buy on Amazon - Betrayal at Lisson Grove / Treason at Lisson Grove (2010)
Buy on Amazon - Dorchester Terrace (2011)
Buy on Amazon - Midnight at Marble Arch (2012)
Buy on Amazon - Death on Blackheath (2014)
Buy on Amazon - The Angel Court Affair (2015)
Buy on Amazon - Treachery at Lancaster Gate (2016)
Buy on Amazon - Murder on the Serpentine (2017)
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Christmas Stories Series
- A Christmas Journey (2003)
Buy on Amazon - A Christmas Visitor (2004)
Buy on Amazon - A Christmas Guest (2004)
Buy on Amazon - A Christmas Secret (2006)
Buy on Amazon - A Christmas Beginning (2007)
Buy on Amazon - A Christmas Grace (2008)
Buy on Amazon - A Christmas Promise (2009)
Buy on Amazon - A Christmas Odyssey (2010)
Buy on Amazon - A Christmas Homecoming (2011)
Buy on Amazon - A Christmas Garland (2012)
Buy on Amazon - A Christmas Hope (2013)
Buy on Amazon - A New York Christmas (2014)
Buy on Amazon - A Christmas Escape (2015)
Buy on Amazon - A Christmas Message (2016)
Buy on Amazon - A Christmas Return (2017)
Buy on Amazon - A Christmas Revelation (2018)
Buy on Amazon - A Christmas Gathering (2019)
Buy on Amazon - A Christmas Resolution (2020)
Buy on Amazon - A Christmas Legacy (2021)
Buy on Amazon - A Christmas Deliverance (2022)
Buy on Amazon - A Christmas Vanishing (2023)
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Elena Standish Series
- Death in Focus (2019)
Buy on Amazon - A Question of Betrayal (2020)
Buy on Amazon - A Darker Reality (2021)
Buy on Amazon - A Truth to Lie for (2022)
Buy on Amazon - A Traitor Among Us (2023)
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Tathea Series
- Tathea (1999)
Buy on Amazon - Come Armageddon (2001)
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Timepiece Series
- Tudor Rose (2011)
Buy on Amazon - Rose of No Man’s Land (2011)
Buy on Amazon - Blood Red Rose (2012)
Buy on Amazon - Rose Between Two Thorns (2012)
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William Monk Series
- The Face of a Stranger (1990)
Buy on Amazon - A Dangerous Mourning (1991)
Buy on Amazon - Defend and Betray (1992)
Buy on Amazon - A Sudden, Fearful Death (1993)
Buy on Amazon - Sins of the Wolf (1994)
Buy on Amazon - Cain His Brother (1995)
Buy on Amazon - Weighed in the Balance (1996)
Buy on Amazon - The Silent Cry (1997)
Buy on Amazon - A Breach of Promise/The Whited Sepulchres (1997)
Buy on Amazon - The Twisted Root (1998)
Buy on Amazon - Slaves of Obsession (2000)
Buy on Amazon - Funeral in Blue (2001)
Buy on Amazon - Death of a Stranger (2002)
Buy on Amazon - The Shifting Tide (2004)
Buy on Amazon - Dark Assassin (2005)
Buy on Amazon - Execution Dock (2009)
Buy on Amazon - Acceptable Loss (2011)
Buy on Amazon - A Sunless Sea (2012)
Buy on Amazon - Blind Justice (2013)
Buy on Amazon - Blood on the Water (2014)
Buy on Amazon - Corridors of the Night (2015)
Buy on Amazon - Revenge in a Cold River (2016)
Buy on Amazon - An Echo of Murder (2017)
Buy on Amazon - Dark Tide Rising (2018)
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World War I Series
- No Graves As Yet (2003)
Buy on Amazon - Shoulder the Sky (2004)
Buy on Amazon - Angels in the Gloom (2005)
Buy on Amazon - At Some Disputed Barricade (2006)
Buy on Amazon - We Shall Not Sleep (2007)
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Standalone Novels Series
- Fashionable Funeral (1992)
Buy on Amazon - A Dish Taken Cold (1999)
Buy on Amazon - The One Thing More (2000)
Buy on Amazon - Heroes (2007)
Buy on Amazon - The Sheen on the Silk (2010)
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Non-Fiction Series
- Letters from the Highlands (2004)
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Daniel Pitt Series
with Victoria Zackheim
- Twenty-One Days (2018)
Buy on Amazon - Triple Jeopardy (2018)
Buy on Amazon - One Fatal Flaw (2020)
Buy on Amazon - Death with a Double Edge (2020)
Buy on Amazon - Three Debts Paid (2022)
Buy on Amazon - The Fourth Enemy (2022)
Buy on Amazon - Death Times Seven (2026)
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About Anne Perry
Anne Perry built one of the most substantial bodies of historical crime fiction of the last several decades, and her work is best understood through the scale and consistency of that achievement. Writing under the name Anne Perry, she became especially known for two long-running Victorian mystery series: the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt novels, which began with The Cater Street Hangman in 1979, and the William Monk novels, launched with The Face of a Stranger in 1990. Together, those books established her as a major presence in historical suspense, with a readership drawn not only to murder plots but to the texture of the worlds she created around them.
What distinguished Perry from many other crime writers was her ability to make the social fabric of the nineteenth century feel central rather than decorative. In the Pitt novels, class tension is built into the series from the start. Thomas Pitt, a policeman of modest background, and Charlotte, who comes from a more privileged world, allow the books to move across social boundaries in a way that gives the mysteries unusual range. The novels are not simply puzzles placed in period costume. They are also studies of family structure, power, respectability, and the rules people use to protect themselves from scandal.
The Monk books work differently. Their central premise gives the series a darker, more psychologically uncertain tone. William Monk begins as a man recovering from memory loss, and that instability shapes the series from its opening stretch. If the Pitt novels often explore the pressures of Victorian society from multiple vantage points, the Monk novels can feel more inward, morally troubled, and emotionally exposed. Read together, the two series show Perry’s range within historical crime: one broad and socially observant, the other sharper-edged and more haunted.
Her bibliography extends well beyond those two pillars. She later developed the Daniel Pitt novels, shifting the focus to the next generation, and also wrote a World War I sequence, the Elena Standish books, numerous Christmas mysteries, short fiction, and a smaller number of standalone works. That matters because Perry was never simply repeating one formula. Even when she stayed within mystery conventions, she kept finding new historical angles, new investigative structures, and new emotional stakes. Her fiction consistently returned to questions of conscience, justice, loyalty, and the costs of silence.
Publication order matters with Perry more than it does for many mystery writers because her major series are cumulative. Character relationships deepen gradually, social roles evolve, and the emotional history of the protagonists becomes part of the reading experience. That is especially true in the Pitt and Monk books, where later installments carry more weight when the reader has seen the characters earn their authority, suffer losses, and change over time. The Daniel Pitt novels also make the most sense when read with some awareness of the earlier Pitt world, since part of their interest comes from generational continuity rather than a complete reset.
Perry’s life has often been discussed alongside her fiction because of the notoriety attached to her youth, when, under her birth name Juliet Hulme, she was involved in a murder case in New Zealand. That history became public knowledge long after her writing career was established. It remains part of any full account of her life, but it should not obscure what her bibliography shows on its own terms: remarkable discipline, enormous productivity, and a sustained command of historical crime storytelling.
The best way to understand Anne Perry’s work is to see it as more than a shelf of period mysteries. At her strongest, she wrote novels in which crime exposes the structure of a society. Her books are about guilt, secrecy, ambition, duty, and moral compromise, but also about the institutions people live inside, whether family, class, church, law, or empire. That is why her long publication history rewards reading in order. You are not just following detectives from case to case. You are watching an entire fictional world deepen across decades of work.