Mystery & Thriller Series in Reading Order
Mystery Sequels helps you find your way through crime, mystery and thriller series. It shows you in what order to read, how the books connect, and who wrote them when a series changed hands.
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Explore Series Reading-Order Guides
Follow complete reading orders for some of the major mystery, crime, and thriller series covered on Mystery Sequels.
Alex Delaware Series
Psychologist Alex Delaware helps LAPD detective Milo Sturgis investigate murders in Jonathan Kellerman’s long-running series.
Ruth Galloway Series
Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway is called in when bones and buried remains turn up around Norfolk.
Orphan X Series
Evan Smoak was trained as a government assassin. Now he uses those skills to help people with nowhere else to turn.
Lincoln Rhyme Series
Lincoln Rhyme works with the forensic evidence, while Amelia Sachs searches the crime scenes in Jeffery Deaver’s New York series.
Jack Reacher Series
Former military policeman Jack Reacher travels from place to place and always finds trouble waiting for him. The series is now co-written by Lee Child and Andrew Child.
Alex Cross Series
Washington, D.C. detective and forensic psychologist Alex Cross investigates violent crimes while juggling a complicated family life.
Pendergast Series
FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast takes on strange and often complicated cases in the Preston and Child series.
Kay Scarpetta Series
Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta investigates suspicious deaths through autopsies nad forensic evidence.
Featured Author Guides
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Reviews and Interviews from Mystery Sequels
Original reviews and conversations from the Mystery Sequels archive, including interviews with crime and thriller authors about their books, characters, and writing.
Book review: Out of the Ashes by M.J. Arlidge
Peter James on Roy Grace and writing crime fiction (2015)
David Khara on the Consortium Thriller series and Eytan Morgenstern (2014)
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Mystery Sequels is an independent reading-order reference site founded by Marika Charalambous in 2013. Guides are researched using official author websites, publishers, award organisations, library catalogues, and established bibliographic sources. Learn more about how Mystery Sequels is researched.