Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Private Nose | 1989 | Andrew Taylor | Buy |
| 2 | Snapshot | 1989 | Andrew Taylor | Buy |
| 3 | Double Exposure | 1990 | Andrew Taylor | Buy |
| 4 | Raven On the Water | 1991 | Andrew Taylor | Buy |
| 5 | Negative Image | 1992 | Andrew Taylor | Buy |
| 6 | The Barred Window | 1994 | Andrew Taylor | Buy |
| 7 | The Invader | 1994 | Andrew Taylor | Buy |
| 8 | The American Boy / An Unpardonable Crime | 2003 | Andrew Taylor | Buy |
| 9 | A Stain on the Silence | 2006 | Andrew Taylor | Buy |
| 10 | Bleeding Heart Square | 2008 | Andrew Taylor | Buy |
| 11 | The Anatomy of Ghosts | 2010 | Andrew Taylor | Buy |
| 12 | The Scent of Death | 2013 | Andrew Taylor | Buy |
| 13 | The Silent Boy | 2014 | Andrew Taylor | Buy |
| 14 | A Schooling in Murder | 2025 | Andrew Taylor | Buy |
Andrew Taylor’s standalone novels span from 1989 to 2025 and cover a wide range of settings and time periods. Several of these books are historical fiction, including The American Boy (set in the 1810s with a young Edgar Allan Poe as a minor character), Bleeding Heart Square (set in 1930s London), and The Anatomy of Ghosts (set in eighteenth-century Cambridge). Others, like A Stain on the Silence and The Barred Window, are contemporary psychological thrillers.
The American Boy is the best known of the standalone titles. It won the CWA Historical Dagger and became a bestseller after being selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club. The Scent of Death, set in New York during the American Revolution, and The Silent Boy, set during the French Revolution, show Taylor’s ability to bring different historical periods to life with equal confidence.
These fourteen novels demonstrate the breadth of Taylor’s interests as a writer. Whether working with historical settings or contemporary suspense, he brings the same attention to character, place, and psychological tension that marks all his fiction. Each book stands on its own, so they can be read in any order.