Order of Laura Lippman Books

Laura Lippman is an American novelist of detective fiction. The daughter of a writer for the Baltimore Sun, she started out as a reporter, which became the inspiration for her Tess Monaghan series – a reporter turned private investigator. She is married to David Simon, creator of The Wire, who she met while working at the Baltimore Sun.

Laura Lippman made her fiction debut with Baltimore Blues, published in 1997. Below is a list of Laura Lippman’s books in order of when they were originally published (and in chronological order):

Publication Order of Tess Monaghan Books

Baltimore Blues	(1997)
Charm City	(1997)
Butchers Hill	(1998)
In Big Trouble	(1999)
The Sugar House	(2000)
In a Strange City	(2001)
The Last Place	(2002)
By a Spider's Thread	(2004)
No Good Deeds	(2006)
Another Thing to Fall	(2008)
The Girl in the Green Raincoat	(2008)
The Book Thing	(2012)
Hush Hush	(2015)

Publication Order of Tess Monaghan Collections

The Tess Chronicles

(2018)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Every Secret Thing	(2003)
To the Power of Three	(2005)
What the Dead Know / Little Sister	(2007)
Life Sentences	(2009)
I'd Know You Anywhere / Don't Look Back	(2010)
The Most Dangerous Thing / The Innocents	(2011)
And When She Was Good	(2012)
After I'm Gone	(2014)
Five Fires	(2014)
Wilde Lake	(2016)
Sunburn	(2018)
Lady in the Lake	(2019)
Dream Girl	(2021)

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

One True Love	(2008)
Black-Eyed Susan	(2008)
Scratch a Woman	(2008)
A Good Fuck Spoiled	(2008)
The Crack Cocaine Diet	(2008)
Easy as A-B-C	(2008)
What He Needed	(2008)
Dear Penthouse Forum	(2008)
Honor Bar	(2008)
The Shoeshine Man's Regrets	(2008)
Femme Fatale	(2008)
Pony Girl	(2008)
ARM and the Woman	(2008)
Ropa Vieja	(2008)
The Babysitter's Code	(2008)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Hardly Knew Her	(2008)
Hints of Heloise	(2012)
Different for Girls	(2018)
Nasty Girls	(2018)
The Weaker Sex	(2018)
Seasonal Work: Stories	(2022)

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

My Life as a Villainess

(2020)

Publication Order of Akashic Drug Chronicles Books

The Cocaine Chronicles (With: Lee Child,Ken Bruen,Jervey Tervalon)	(2005)
The Marijuana Chronicles (By: Jonathan Santlofer)	(2013)
The Nicotine Chronicles (By: Lee Child,Joyce Carol Oates,Hannah Tinti,,Cara Black,,,Jonathan Ames)	(2020)

Publication Order of Bibliomysteries Books

The Book of Virtue (By: Ken Bruen)	(2012)
Pronghorns of the Third Reich (By: C.J. Box)	(2012)
The Book Thing	(2012)
The Book Case (By: Nelson DeMille)	(2012)
An Acceptable Sacrifice (By: Jeffery Deaver)	(2012)
Death Leaves a Bookmark (By: William Link)	(2012)
The Final Testament (By: Peter Blauner)	(2013)
Rides a Stranger (By: David Bell)	(2013)
The Long Sonata of the Dead (By: Andrew Taylor)	(2013)
The Book of Ghosts (By: Reed Farrel Coleman)	(2013)
The Compendium of Srem (By: F. Paul Wilson)	(2014)
What's in a Name? (By: Thomas H. Cook)	(2014)
Remaindered (By: Peter Lovesey)	(2014)
The Sequel (By: R.L. Stine)	(2014)
The Gospel of Sheba (By: Lyndsay Faye)	(2014)
The Nature of My Inheritance (By: Bradford Morrow)	(2014)
It's in the Book (By: Mickey Spillane)	(2014)
The Scroll (By: Anne Perry)	(2014)
The Book of the Lion (By: Thomas Perry)	(2015)
The Little Men (By: Megan Abbott)	(2015)
Condor in the Stacks (By: James Grady)	(2015)
Mystery, Inc. (By: Joyce Carol Oates)	(2015)
Every Seven Years (By: Denise Mina)	(2015)
From the Queen (By: Carolyn Hart)	(2015)
The Travelling Companion (By: Ian Rankin)	(2016)
Citadel (By: Stephen Hunter)	(2016)
Reconciliation Day (By: Christopher Fowler)	(2016)
Dead Dames Don't Sing (By: John Harvey)	(2016)
The Haze (By: James W. Hall)	(2016)
Hoodoo Harry (By: Joe R. Lansdale)	(2017)
The Pretty Little Box (By: Charles Todd)	(2018)
Seven Years (By: Peter Robinson)	(2018)
The Hemingway Valise (By: Robert Olen Butler)	(2018)
The Last Honest Horse Thief (By: Michael Koryta)	(2018)
The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository (By: John Connolly)	(2018)

Chronological Order of Bibliomysteries Books

The Book of Virtue (By: Ken Bruen)	(2012)
The Scroll (By: Anne Perry)	(2014)
Pronghorns of the Third Reich (By: C.J. Box)	(2012)
An Acceptable Sacrifice (By: Jeffery Deaver)	(2012)
Death Leaves a Bookmark (By: William Link)	(2012)
Seven Years (By: Peter Robinson)	(2018)
The Book Thing	(2012)
The Book of Ghosts (By: Reed Farrel Coleman)	(2013)
The Long Sonata of the Dead (By: Andrew Taylor)	(2013)
The Final Testament (By: Peter Blauner)	(2013)
Rides a Stranger (By: David Bell)	(2013)
What's in a Name? (By: Thomas H. Cook)	(2014)
It's in the Book (By: Mickey Spillane)	(2014)
The Nature of My Inheritance (By: Bradford Morrow)	(2014)
Remaindered (By: Peter Lovesey)	(2014)
The Compendium of Srem (By: F. Paul Wilson)	(2014)
The Gospel of Sheba (By: Lyndsay Faye)	(2014)
The Sequel (By: R.L. Stine)	(2014)
The Book of the Lion (By: Thomas Perry)	(2015)
The Little Men (By: Megan Abbott)	(2015)
From the Queen (By: Carolyn Hart)	(2015)
Every Seven Years (By: Denise Mina)	(2015)
Citadel (By: Stephen Hunter)	(2016)
Condor in the Stacks (By: James Grady)	(2015)
Mystery, Inc. (By: Joyce Carol Oates)	(2015)
The Travelling Companion (By: Ian Rankin)	(2016)
The Haze (By: James W. Hall)	(2016)
Dead Dames Don't Sing (By: John Harvey)	(2016)
Reconciliation Day (By: Christopher Fowler)	(2016)
Hoodoo Harry (By: Joe R. Lansdale)	(2017)
The Pretty Little Box (By: Charles Todd)	(2018)
The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository (By: John Connolly)	(2018)
The Hemingway Valise (By: Robert Olen Butler)	(2018)
The Last Honest Horse Thief (By: Michael Koryta)	(2018)
The Book Case (By: Nelson DeMille)	(2012)

Publication Order of Akashic Noir Books

Bronx Noir (By: S J Rozan)	(2003)
Chicago Noir (By: )	(2005)
Baltimore Noir	(2006)
New Orleans Noir (By: Julie Smith)	(2007)
Los Angeles Noir (By: Denise Hamilton)	(2007)
Wall Street Noir (By: Peter Spiegelman)	(2007)
Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics (By: Joseph Hansen,Raymond Chandler,James Ellroy,Ross Macdonald,Margaret Millar,James M. Cain,Walter Mosley,William Gault,Leigh Brackett,Naomi Hirahara,Chester Himes,Jervey Tervalon,,Denise Hamilton)	(2010)
Mexico City Noir (By: Paco Ignacio Taibo II)	(2010)
Haiti Noir (By: Edwidge Danticat)	(2010)
Kingston Noir (By: Patricia Powell,,,,,Marlon James)	(2012)
Haiti Noir 2 (By: Edwidge Danticat)	(2013)
St. Louis Noir (By: Scott Phillips)	(2016)
Montana Noir (By: James Grady)	(2017)
Buenos Aires Noir (By: Ernesto Mallo)	(2017)
Speculative Los Angeles (By: Duane Swierczynski,Stephen Blackmoore,,,Ben H. Winters,Charles Yu,,,Denise Hamilton)	(2021)

Publication Order of Hush Collection Books

Treasure (By: Oyinkan Braithwaite)	(2020)
Snowflakes (By: Ruth Ware)	(2020)
Buried (By: Jeffery Deaver)	(2020)
Let Her Be (By: Lisa Unger)	(2020)
The Gift (By: Alison Gaylin)	(2020)
Slow Burner	(2020)

Publication Order of Anthologies

Tart Noir	(2003)
In the Shadow of the Master	(2003)
The Cocaine Chronicles	(2005)
Dangerous Women	(2005)
Damn Near Dead	(2006)
Mystery Writers of America Presents Death Do Us Part: New Stories About Love, Lust, and Murder	(2006)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2007	(2007)
Killer Year: Stories to Die For...	(2008)
Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading	(2009)
By Hook or By Crook and 30 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year	(2010)
A Study in Sherlock	(2011)
Mystery Writers of America Presents The Mystery Box	(2013)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2014	(2014)
Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold	(2014)
Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women	(2020)

Notes: What the Dead Know is alternatively titled Little Sister. I’d Know You Anywhere is also known as Don’t Look Back. The Most Dangerous Thing was also published as The Innocents. By Hook or By Crook also contains stories by Dana Cameron, Mary Higgins Clark, Max Allan Collins, Dennis Lehane, Marcia Muller, Kris Nelscott, Nancy Pickard, S.J. Rozan and Luis Alberto Urrea.

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