Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Cutting Room | 2002 | Louise Welsh | Buy |
| 2 | Tamburlaine Must Die | 2004 | Louise Welsh | Buy |
| 3 | The Bullet Trick | 2006 | Louise Welsh | Buy |
| 4 | Naming the Bones | 2010 | Louise Welsh | Buy |
| 5 | The Girl on the Stairs | 2012 | Louise Welsh | Buy |
| 6 | The Second Cut | 2022 | Louise Welsh | Buy |
| 7 | To the Dogs | 2024 | Louise Welsh | Buy |
Louise Welsh’s standalone novels span from The Cutting Room (2002) to To the Dogs (2024). Her debut follows a Glasgow auctioneer into a mystery involving hidden photographs and old secrets, and it remains her most well-known book. Tamburlaine Must Die (2004) takes a historical turn, imagining the last days of playwright Christopher Marlowe.
Later novels include The Bullet Trick (2006), set in the Berlin magic scene, Naming the Bones (2010), about an academic obsessed with a dead poet, and The Girl on the Stairs (2012), a psychological thriller set in a Berlin apartment building. The Second Cut (2022) returns to the Glasgow auction world of her debut, and To the Dogs (2024) is her most recent novel.