Order of William Monk Books
William Monk is a fictional character created by British novelist Anne Perry. He is the protagonist in a series of detective novels set in the mid-19th century. Monk is clever, sarcastic and very emotional. Once he gets into a case, he becomes determined and then obsessed.
The William Monk series began with The Face of a Stranger in 1990. The series is currently ongoing. Below is a list of Anne Perry’s William Monk books in order of when they were originally released (and in chronological order):
Publication Order of William Monk Books
| The Face of a Stranger | (1990) |    |
| A Dangerous Mourning | (1991) | |
| Defend and Betray | (1992) | |
| A Sudden, Fearful Death | (1993) | |
| Sins of the Wolf | (1994) | |
| Cain His Brother | (1995) | |
| Weighed in the Balance | (1996) | |
| The Silent Cry | (1997) | |
| A Breach of Promise/The Whited Sepulchres | (1997) | |
| The Twisted Root | (1998) | |
| Slaves of Obsession | (2000) | |
| Funeral in Blue | (2001) | |
| Death of a Stranger | (2002) | |
| The Shifting Tide | (2004) | |
| Dark Assassin | (2005) | |
| Execution Dock | (2009) | |
| Acceptable Loss | (2011) | |
| A Sunless Sea | (2012) | |
| Blind Justice | (2013) | |
| Blood on the Water | (2014) | |
| Corridors of the Night | (2015) | |
| Revenge in a Cold River | (2016) | |
| An Echo of Murder | (2017) | |
| Dark Tide Rising | (2018) | |
Notes: The Whited Sepulchers is also known as A Breach of Promise.
Great series. I first started reading Anne Perry with her first book involving
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt in The Cater Street Hangman. It was a terrific series until Pitt got transferred from the police to the Special Investigations
about four books ago. I stopped reading those then as they were totally tiresome and more Victorian spy novels with none of the deep characterizations that made her books so good. So far that has not happened to this series.