Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Serialist | 2010 | David Gordon | Buy |
| 2 | Mystery Girl | 2013 | David Gordon | Buy |
| 3 | Behind Sunset | 2025 | David Gordon | Buy |
David Gordon’s standalone novels show his literary side. The Serialist, published in 2010, is about a writer who churns out genre fiction under pseudonyms and ends up corresponding with a convicted serial killer. The book plays with the relationship between fiction and reality, and it earned an Edgar Award nomination for Best First Novel.
Mystery Girl (2013) continues the literary-crime blend with a story about a man hired by a mysterious bedridden detective to follow his own wife. Behind Sunset (2025) is Gordon’s most recent standalone. All three books share his interest in characters on the margins of the literary and criminal worlds, and they reward readers who appreciate crime fiction that doesn’t take itself too seriously.