Order of Kris Longknife Books
Kris Longknife is the protagonist in a series of military science fiction novels by American author Mike Shepherd. Born into wealth and royalty, Kris Longknife joined the marines to help fight for humanity against aliens and pirates in a system that has been colonized.
Mike Shepherd debuted his Kris Longknife series in 2004 with the novel Mutineer. The series is currently ongoing. Below is a list of Mike Shepherd’s Kris Longknife books in order of when they were first published (which is also their chronological order):
Publication Order of Kris Longknife Books
| Mutineer | (2004) |    |
| Deserter | (2004) | |
| Defiant | (2005) | |
| Resolute | (2006) | |
| Audacious | (2007) | |
| Intrepid | (2008) | |
| Undaunted | (2009) | |
| Redoubtable | (2010) | |
| Training Daze | (2011) | |
| Daring | (2011) | |
| Welcome Home / Go Away | (2012) | |
| Furious | (2012) | |
| Kris Longknife's Bloodhound | (2013) | |
| Defender | (2013) | |
| Kris Longknife's Assassin | (2014) | |
| Tenacious | (2014) | |
| Unrelenting | (2015) | |
| Bold | (2016) | |
| Ruth Longknife's First Christmas | (2016) | |
| Kris Longknife's Replacement | (2017) | |
| Among the Kicking Birds | (2017) | |
| Kris Longknife's Bad Day | (2017) | |
| Kris Longknife Emissary | (2017) | |
| Kris Longknife's Maid Goes on Strike | (2017) | |
| Kris Longknife's Relief | (2017) | |
| Emissary | (2017) | |
| Admiral | (2017) | |
| Kris Longknife's Successor | (2018) | |
| Commanding | (2018) | |
| Indomitable | (2019) | |
| Stalwart | (2019) | |
| Boot Recruit | (2021) | |
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Kris Longknife Synopsis: Mutineer is the first book in the Kris Longknife series by Mike Shepherd. Kris Longknife was born with the silver spoon. Her father is the Prime Minister of her home planet, her mother the consummate politician’s wife. She’s been raised only to be beautiful and to marry well. But the heritage of the military Longknifes courses through Kris’s blood – and, against her parents’ objections, she enlists in the marines. She has a lot to live up to and a lot to prove in the long-running struggle between her powerful family, a highly defensive – and offensive – Earth, and the hundreds of warring colonies. And then an ill-conceived attack brings the war close to home, putting Kris’s life on the line. Now she has only one choice: certain death on the front lines of rim space – or mutiny…