Akashic Noir Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| San Francisco Noir |
2002 |
Buy |
| Seattle Noir |
2003 |
Buy |
| Bronx Noir |
2003 |
Buy |
| Brooklyn Noir |
2004 |
Buy |
| Hasidic Noir |
2004 |
Buy |
| Brooklyn Noir 2 |
2005 |
Buy |
| Chicago Noir |
2005 |
Buy |
| Dublin Noir |
2005 |
Buy |
| Manhattan Noir |
2006 |
Buy |
| Miami Noir |
2006 |
Buy |
| D.C. Noir |
2006 |
Buy |
| Baltimore Noir |
2006 |
Buy |
| Twin Cities Noir |
2006 |
Buy |
| London Noir |
2006 |
Buy |
| New Orleans Noir |
2007 |
Buy |
| Los Angeles Noir |
2007 |
Buy |
| Wall Street Noir |
2007 |
Buy |
| Havana Noir |
2007 |
Buy |
| Detroit Noir |
2007 |
Buy |
| Queens Noir |
2008 |
Buy |
| Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth |
2008 |
Buy |
| Toronto Noir |
2008 |
Buy |
| Las Vegas Noir |
2008 |
Buy |
| Trinidad Noir |
2008 |
Buy |
| D.C. Noir 2 |
2008 |
Buy |
| Manhattan Noir 2 |
2008 |
Buy |
| Paris Noir |
2008 |
Buy |
| Istanbul Noir |
2008 |
Buy |
| Boston Noir |
2009 |
Buy |
| Rome Noir |
2009 |
Buy |
| San Francisco Noir 2 |
2009 |
Buy |
| Portland Noir |
2009 |
Buy |
| Delhi Noir |
2009 |
Buy |
| Phoenix Noir |
2009 |
Buy |
| Los Angeles Noir 2 |
2010 |
Buy |
| Mexico City Noir |
2010 |
Buy |
| Richmond Noir |
2010 |
Buy |
| Orange County Noir |
2010 |
Buy |
| Indian Country Noir |
2010 |
Buy |
| Moscow Noir |
2010 |
Buy |
| Lone Star Noir |
2010 |
Buy |
| Philadelphia Noir |
2010 |
Buy |
| Haiti Noir |
2010 |
Buy |
| Copenhagen Noir |
2010 |
Buy |
| Pittsburgh Noir |
2011 |
Buy |
| San Diego Noir |
2011 |
Buy |
| Barcelona Noir |
2011 |
Buy |
| Cape Cod Noir |
2011 |
Buy |
| New Jersey Noir |
2011 |
Buy |
| Staten Island Noir |
2012 |
Buy |
| Mumbai Noir |
2012 |
Buy |
| Long Island Noir |
2012 |
Buy |
| Venice Noir |
2012 |
Buy |
| Kingston Noir |
2012 |
Buy |
| St. Petersburg Noir |
2012 |
Buy |
| Kansas City Noir |
2012 |
Buy |
| Boston Noir 2 |
2012 |
Buy |
| USA Noir |
2013 |
Buy |
| Manila Noir |
2013 |
Buy |
| Buffalo Noir |
2013 |
Buy |
| Dallas Noir |
2013 |
Buy |
| Haiti Noir 2 |
2013 |
Buy |
| Singapore Noir |
2014 |
Buy |
| Prison Noir |
2014 |
Buy |
| Tel Aviv Noir |
2014 |
Buy |
| Tehran Noir |
2014 |
Buy |
| Belfast Noir |
2014 |
Buy |
| Helsinki Noir |
2014 |
Buy |
| Rio Noir |
2014 |
Buy |
| Providence Noir |
2015 |
Buy |
| Chicago Noir: The Classics |
2015 |
Buy |
| Memphis Noir |
2015 |
Buy |
| Zagreb Noir |
2015 |
Buy |
| Marseille Noir |
2015 |
Buy |
| Beirut Noir |
2015 |
Buy |
| New Orleans Noir: The Classics |
2016 |
Buy |
| Stockholm Noir |
2016 |
Buy |
| Brussels Noir |
2016 |
Buy |
| Mississippi Noir |
2016 |
Buy |
| St. Louis Noir |
2016 |
Buy |
| Prague Noir |
2016 |
Buy |
| San Juan Noir |
2016 |
Buy |
| Oakland Noir |
2017 |
Buy |
| Trinidad Noir: The Classics |
2017 |
Buy |
| Atlanta Noir |
2017 |
Buy |
| New Haven Noir |
2017 |
Buy |
| Montana Noir |
2017 |
Buy |
| Buenos Aires Noir |
2017 |
Buy |
| Montreal Noir |
2017 |
Buy |
| Berlin Noir |
2018 |
Buy |
| São Paulo Noir |
2018 |
Buy |
| Santa Cruz Noir |
2018 |
Buy |
| Lagos Noir |
2018 |
Buy |
| Marrakech Noir |
2018 |
Buy |
| Baghdad Noir |
2018 |
Buy |
| Vancouver Noir |
2018 |
Buy |
| Sydney Noir |
2018 |
Buy |
| Hong Kong Noir |
2018 |
Buy |
| Amsterdam Noir |
2019 |
Buy |
| Milwaukee Noir |
2019 |
Buy |
| Houston Noir |
2019 |
Buy |
| Nairobi Noir |
2020 |
Buy |
| Columbus Noir |
2020 |
Buy |
| Santa Fe Noir |
2020 |
Buy |
| Alabama Noir |
2020 |
Buy |
| Berkeley Noir |
2020 |
Buy |
| Addis Ababa Noir |
2020 |
Buy |
| Tampa Bay Noir |
2020 |
Buy |
| Miami Noir: The Classics |
2020 |
Buy |
| Accra Noir |
2020 |
Buy |
| Belgrade Noir |
2020 |
Buy |
| Palm Springs Noir |
2021 |
Buy |
| Paris Noir: The Suburbs |
2022 |
Buy |
| Denver Noir |
2022 |
Buy |
| South Central Noir |
2022 |
Buy |
| Cleveland Noir |
2023 |
Buy |
| East Jerusalem Noir |
2023 |
Buy |
| West Jerusalem Noir |
2023 |
Buy |
| Honolulu Noir |
2024 |
Buy |
| Sacramento Noir |
2025 |
Buy |
| Hamburg Noir |
2025 |
Buy |
Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Best Science Fiction of the Year 15 |
1986 |
Buy |
| Snow White, Blood Red |
1993 |
N/A |
| The Seventh Omni Book of Science Fiction |
1989 |
Buy |
| Black Thorn, White Rose |
2008 |
N/A |
| The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection |
1990 |
Buy |
| Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears |
2014 |
N/A |
| Nebula Awards 25 |
1991 |
Buy |
| Black Swan, White Raven |
1997 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection |
1991 |
Buy |
| Silver Birch, Blood Moon |
1999 |
N/A |
| Fourth Annual Collection |
1991 |
Buy |
| Black Heart, Ivory Bones |
2000 |
N/A |
| Omni Best Science Fiction Three |
1993 |
Buy |
| The Norton Book of Science Fiction |
1993 |
Buy |
| Seventh Annual Collection |
1994 |
Buy |
| American Gothic Tales |
1996 |
Buy |
| The Science Fiction Century |
1997 |
Buy |
| Modern Classics of Fantasy |
1997 |
Buy |
| Future on Ice |
1998 |
Buy |
| The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology |
1999 |
Buy |
| Tails of Wonder and Imagination |
2001 |
Buy |
| Fourteenth Annual Collection |
2001 |
Buy |
| The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy |
2004 |
Buy |
| The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels |
2005 |
Buy |
| The Science Fiction Century: Volume 2 |
2006 |
Buy |
| Lightspeed Magazine, December 2014 |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Book of Magic: A Collection of Stories |
2018 |
Buy |
Charles Vess Short Stories/Novellas#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| An Earthly Mother Sits and Sings |
2000 |
Buy |
Collections#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Novelties and Souvenirs |
1989 |
Buy |
| Novelty |
1989 |
Buy |
| Antiquities |
1993 |
Buy |
| In Other Words |
2007 |
Buy |
| Totalitopia |
2017 |
Buy |
| And Go Like This |
2019 |
Buy |
Inspector John Crow Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| A Lover Too Many |
1969 |
Buy |
| Error of Judgment |
1971 |
Buy |
| A Secret Singing / The Woods Murder |
1971 |
Buy |
| Blood Money / Murder for Money |
1973 |
Buy |
| A Question of Degree / Murder in the Mine |
1974 |
Buy |
| A Part of Virtue / A Cotswolds Murder / A Dartmoor Murder |
1975 |
Buy |
| Nothing But Foxes / A Fox Hunting Murder |
1977 |
Buy |
Non-Fiction#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Rethinking Human Security |
2008 |
Buy |
| Perfect Copywriting |
2012 |
Buy |
| Reading Backwards |
2019 |
Buy |
Short Stories/Novellas#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Her Bounty to the Dead / Where Spirits Gat Them Home |
1978 |
Buy |
| The Reason for the Visit |
1980 |
Buy |
| Snow |
1985 |
Buy |
| Great Work of Time |
1989 |
Buy |
| In Blue |
1989 |
Buy |
| Gone |
1996 |
Buy |
| Lost and Abandoned |
1997 |
Buy |
| An Earthly Mother Sits and Sings |
2000 |
Buy |
| The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines |
2005 |
Buy |
| Conversation Hearts |
2008 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Deep |
1975 |
Buy |
| Beasts |
1976 |
Buy |
| Engine Summer |
1979 |
Buy |
| Little, Big |
1981 |
Buy |
| Lord Byron’s Novel: The Evening Land |
2005 |
Buy |
| Four Freedoms |
2009 |
Buy |
| The Translator |
2009 |
Buy |
| The Chemical Wedding |
2016 |
Buy |
| Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr |
2017 |
Buy |
| Flint and Mirror |
2018 |
Buy |
The Aegypt Cycle Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Aegypt / The Solitudes |
1987 |
Buy |
| Ægypt |
1987 |
N/A |
| Love & Sleep |
1994 |
Buy |
| Daemonomania |
2000 |
Buy |
| Endless Things |
2007 |
Buy |
John Crow is a British author whose career stretches from the late 1960s to the present day. He first gained attention with the Inspector John Crow mystery series, a run of seven police procedurals published between 1969 and 1977. These novels follow a Scotland Yard detective dispatched to handle murder investigations in rural communities across England and Wales. Many of the books were released under different titles in different markets, so A Secret Singing also appeared as The Woods Murder, and Blood Money was published as Murder for Money.
Beyond the mystery genre, Crow has written widely in speculative fiction. His standalone novels include Little, Big (1981), a World Fantasy Award winner that blends family saga with fairy-tale elements, and Engine Summer (1979), a post-apocalyptic story told through dream-like prose. The Aegypt Cycle, a four-volume series published between 1987 and 2007, traces the life of a history professor caught up in Hermetic mysteries. Crow has also published short story collections, non-fiction, and contributed to numerous anthologies over the decades.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has John Crow written?
John Crow has written 190 books across nine series.
What was John Crow's first book?
John Crow’s first book is A Lover Too Many, published in 1969.
What is the Inspector John Crow series about?
The Inspector John Crow series follows a thin, mild-mannered detective from Scotland Yard who is sent to investigate murder cases in rural England and Wales. Over seven novels published between 1969 and 1977, Crow clashes with local police officers who resent an outsider’s involvement. The books are classic British police procedurals set in the countryside, with titles that were often published under alternate names for the US and UK markets.