Andrew Taylor

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  • Bibliography:
    53 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1982
  • Latest Book:
    March 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Edgar Allan Pe

1 - An Unpardonable Crime (Mar-2004)

Lydmouth / Richard Thornhill

1 - An Air That Kills (Mar-1995)
2 - The Mortal Sickness (Jul-1996)
3 - The Lover of the Grave (Aug-1997)
4 - The Suffocating Night (Apr-2000)
5 - Where Roses Fade (Apr-2001)
6 - Death's Own Door (Jan-2003)
7 - Call the Dying (May-2020)
8 - Naked to the Hangman (Aug-2020)

Marwood and Lovett

1 - The Ashes of London (Apr-2016)
2 - The Fire Court (Apr-2018)
3 - The King's Evil (Apr-2019)
4 - The Last Protector (Apr-2020)
5 - The Royal Secret (Apr-2021)
6 - The Shadows of London (Mar-2023)

The Roth Trilogy

1 - The Four Last Things (Dec-1997)
2 - The Judgement of Strangers (Oct-1998)
3 - The Office of the Dead (Aug-2000)

William Dougal

1 - Caroline Minuscule (1982)
2 - Waiting for the End of the World (1984)
3 - Our Fathers' Lies (1985)
4 - An Old School Tie (Nov-1986)
5 - Freelance Death (1987)
6 - Blood Relation (1990)
7 - The Sleeping Policeman (1992)
8 - Odd Man Out (1993)

Multi-Author Series List

Bibliomysteries

10 - The Long Sonata of the Dead (Aug-2013)

Book List in Order: 53 titles

  • Caroline Minuscule

    William Dougal - 1

    A medieval script launches a modern treasure
    hunt lightly dusted with black humor...
    William Dougal is a postgraduate student of history with expensive tastes and low moral fibre. He is the sort who is as likely to commit murders as to solve ...

  • Waiting for the End of the World

    William Dougal - 2

    It’s a difficult time for William Dougal. He’s given up smoking and, to make matters worse, a touch of blackmail persuades him into doing a job for his old adversary, James Hanbury. Nothing complicated - all he has to do is keep an eye...

  • Caroline Miniscule

    Graduate student William Dougal and his girlfriend, Amanda, investigate the murder of a lecturer at the university who is a noted authority on Caroline Minuscule, a medieval script, and find themselves involved in a hunt for diamonds...

  • Our Fathers' Lies

    William Dougal - 3

  • An Old School Tie

    William Dougal - 4

  • Freelance Death

    William Dougal - 5

  • The Coal House

    Alison is 13. Her mother has recenty died; her dad has just bought a house in the North. Brimming with resentment, she is determined to dislike the rambling old Coal House. But as she becomes involved, the house and its unsolved mystery draws her in....

  • Blood Relation

    William Dougal - 6

  • The Raven on the Water

    When Peter Redburn stumbles across a secret hoard of childhood memories, his mind goes back to a golden summer that ended in tragedy. He remembers an innocent childhood game that turned into a nightmare, and decides that he must know the truth of wha...



  • The Sleeping Policeman

    William Dougal - 7

  • Odd Man Out

    William Dougal - 8

  • Private Nose

    Saturday Holmes and Jack Watson form a detective partnership and become involved in three mysteries, as they investigate the theft of Jack's teddy bear, outsmart a ghost, and use their sleuthing skills to solve a baffling problem....

  • An Air That Kills

    Lydmouth / Richard Thornhill - 1

    A new series of village mysteries begins as Jill Francis and Inspector Richard Thornhill, both newly arrived in Lydmouth, investigate a case involving the unearthed remains of a baby and some long-simmering secrets. By the author of Caroline Mini...

  • The Mortal Sickness

    Lydmouth / Richard Thornhill - 2

    As she investigates the murder of a woman found bludgeoned to death in a local church, journalist Jill Francis finds herself personally entangled in the lives of the residents of a small British village....

  • The Lover of the Grave

    Lydmouth / Richard Thornhill - 3

    Journalist Jill Francis and Detective Inspector Thornhill are unsure if a sheep farmer's death is an accident or murder, until they delve into the farmer's murky family history and discover more than they had bargained for....

  • The Four Last Things

    The Roth Trilogy - 1

    The first novel in Andrew Taylor’s ground-breaking Roth trilogy, which was adapted into the acclaimed drama Fallen Angel. A tense psychological thriller for fans of S J Watson.Little Lucy Appleyard is snatched from her child minder’s on a cold wi...

  • The Judgement of Strangers

    The Roth Trilogy - 2

    The second novel in Andrew Taylor’s ground-breaking Roth trilogy, which was adapted into the acclaimed drama Fallen Angel. A haunting thriller for fans of S J Watson.It is 1970. David Byfield, a widowed parish priest with a dark past and a darker f...

  • The Suffocating Night

    Lydmouth / Richard Thornhill - 4

    When squatters move into a disused military camp near Lydmouth, public opinion is divided: do they have a genuine and desperate need of shelter or are they merely unpatriotic scroungers and Communist sympathizers?...

  • The Office of the Dead

    The Roth Trilogy - 3

    The final novel in Andrew Taylor’s ground-breaking Roth trilogy, which was adapted into the acclaimed drama Fallen Angel. A powerful thriller for fans of S J Watson.Janet Byfield has everything Wendy Appleyard lacks: she’s beautiful; she has a ha...



  • Where Roses Fade

    Lydmouth / Richard Thornhill - 5

    From the number-one best-selling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the fifth instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth series.

    When Mattie Harris'' body is found drowned in the river, everyone in Lydmouth knows something i...

  • Death's Own Door

    Lydmouth / Richard Thornhill - 6

    Journalist Jill Francis and Inspector Richard Thornhill undertake a baffling investigation into a case of increasing complexity set against the background of the little border town of Lydmouth in the 1950s....

  • An Unpardonable Crime

    Edgar Allan Pe - 1

    England 1819. Two enigmatic Americans arrive in London and soon after a bank collapses. A man is found dead on a building site; another goes missing in the teeming stews of the city's notorious Seven Dials district. A deathbed vigil ends in an act of...

  • The Barred Window

    It is 1993 and Thomas Penmarsh has lived in Finisterre, the house by the sea, all his life, sleeping each night in the room with the barred window. He's only 48 but has been an old man since one evening in 1967 when he lost everything he valued ...Ho...

  • The Europeans

    one of a series of new editions of Henry James's most famous short stories and novels....

  • Bleeding Heart Square

    If Philippa Penhow hadn't gone to Bleeding Heart Square on that January day, you and perhaps everyone else might have lived happily ever after . . . It's 1934, and the decaying London cul-de-sac of Bleeding Heart Square is an unlikely place of refuge...

  • A Stain on the Silence

    There is no room for murder in James's life. He has a wife, a good job, a nice house in the country, all things he's worked very hard for and would like very much to keep. Which makes the appearance of Kate, the grown daughter he never knew he had, e...

  • Anatomy of Ghosts

    1786, Jerusalem College, Cambridge The ghost of Sylvia Whichcote is rumored to be haunting Jerusalem ever since student Frank Oldershaw claimed to have seen the dead woman prowling the grounds and was locked up because of his violent reaction to t...

  • The Songs and Travels of a Tudor Minstrel

    Richard Sheale, a harper and balladeer from Tamworth, is virtually the only English minstrel whose life story is known to us in any detail. It had been thought that by the sixteenth century minstrels had generally been downgraded to the role of mere ...

  • Blacklist

    During the bleak closing decade of the Cold War, there is no sign of a thaw between the opposing powers of East and West. But what if there is a common threat, which can only be faced with a common response? Unless, of course, the common threat itsel...



  • The Second Midnight

    From the international bestselling author comes a World War Two tale of one boy’s fight for survival in Nazi EuropeA secret mission…1939. As Europe teeters on the brink of war, Alfred Kendall is tasked with carrying out a minor mission for the Br...

  • Toyshop

  • The Scent of Death

    It is 1778 and Edward Savill, a London clerk from the American Department, is assigned to New York to investigate the claims of dispossessed loyalists caught on the wrong side of the American War of Independence. Surrounded by its enemies, British Ma...

  • The King & the Troublesome Sea

    Queen Phyliss wants something, and no matter how hard he tries, her husband, King Oscar, can't make it happen! Then one day, something happens to change all that -- a huge shell containing a note is found, then a strange looking boat arrives, and th...

  • The Long Sonata of the Dead

    Bibliomysteries - 10

    In pursuit of the find of a lifetime, an academic confronts an old rival Once visited by the likes of Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, and George Eliot, the London Library is a maze of books -- a jumble of first editions and forgotten texts. Fo...

  • Fallen Angel

    Like an archaeological dig, The Roth Trilogy strips away the past to reveal the menace lurking in the present: ‘Taylor has established a sound reputation for writing tense, clammy novels that perceptively penetrate the human psyche’ â€" Marcel Be...

  • The Silent Boy

    Paris, 1792. Terror reigns as the city writhes in the grip of revolution. The streets run with blood as thousands lose their heads to the guillotine. Edward Savill, working in London as agent for a wealthy American, receives word that his estranged w...

  • The Ashes of London

    Marwood and Lovett - 1

    A brand new historical thriller set during the time of the Great Fire of London. The first of an exciting new series of novels. London, September 1666. The Great Fire rages through the city, consuming everything in its path. Even the impregnable c...

  • The Adjusters

    Welcome to Newton, the perfect town: where the kids get perfect grades, lead perfect lives and never break the rules. But something is rotten at the heart of Newton, and Henry Ward is willing to break all the rules to discover the truth. The ruthless...

  • The American Boy

    England, 1819. Two enigmatic Americans arrive in London and soon after, a bank collapses. A man is found dead on a building site; another goes missing in the teeming stews of Seven Dials. A deathbed vigil ends in an act of theft and a beautiful heire...



  • Being Super

  • A Christmas Carol for Evie

    The night before Christmas is a time when magic happens, if only you know where to look for it... When snow inexplicably falls on Christmas Eve in Australia, young Evie's parents sense something unusual is in the air. A mysterious visitor raises t...

  • Fireside Gothic

    From the No.1 bestselling author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London comes a collection of three gothic novellas â€" Broken Voices, The Leper House and The Scratch â€" perfect for fans of The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley.Three dark tales to...

  • Broken Voices

    From the No.1 bestselling author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London comes a gothic novella â€" perfect for fans of The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley.It’s Christmas before the Great War and two lonely schoolboys have been forced into compa...

  • The Leper House

    From the No.1 bestselling author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London comes a gothic novella â€" perfect for fans of The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley.One stormy night in Suffolk, a man’s car breaks down following his sister’s funeral. Th...

  • The Scratch

    From the No.1 bestselling author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London comes a gothic novella â€" perfect for fans of The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley.Clare and Gerald live a perfect life in the Forest of Dean with their cat, Cannop. Then Ger...

  • The Fire Court

    Marwood and Lovett - 2

    From No.1 bestselling author Andrew Taylor comes the sequel to the phenomenally successful The Ashes of London Somewhere in the soot-stained ruins of Restoration London, a killer has gone to ground… The Great Fire has ravaged London, wreaking...

  • The King's Evil

    Marwood and Lovett - 3

    From the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court comes the next book in the phenomenally successful series following James Marwood. A royal scandal that could change the face of England forever… London 1667. In the C...

  • The Whisky Stories

    With plenty of vibrant and moody satire humour from a distinctive Scottish voice.This collection is sure to intrigue and entertain. Each piece offers something truly different to the reader’s pallet.A unique collection of short stories and musings ...

  • The Last Protector

    Marwood and Lovett - 4

    From the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Ashes of London comes the next book in the phenomenally successful series following James Marwood and Cat Lovett.Over 1 Million Andrew Taylor Novels Sold!A dangerous secret lies beneath Whitehall P...



  • Call the Dying

    Lydmouth / Richard Thornhill - 7

    From the number-one best-selling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the seventh instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth series

    Love and need make unexpected bedfellows, and both are blind. As the grip of a long hard winte...

  • Naked to the Hangman

    Lydmouth / Richard Thornhill - 8

    From the number-one best-selling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the final installment in the acclaimed Lydmouth series. As a young police officer in Palestine during the closing months of the Mandate - the cradle of Midd...

  • The Royal Secret

    Marwood and Lovett - 5

    From the No.1 bestselling author of The Last Protector and The Ashes of London comes the next book in the phenomenally successful series following James Marwood and Cat Lovett during the time of King Charles II.Over 1 Million Andr...

  • The Shadows of London

    Marwood and Lovett - 6

    Over 1 Million Andrew Taylor Novels Sold!A Times Historical Crime Novel of the year‘An absolute delight in a series that goes from strength to strength’ S. G. McLean, prize-winning author of the Seeker series‘This is Taylor at his unassailab...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Andrew Taylor has published 53 books.

Andrew Taylor does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Shadows of London, was published in March 2023.

The first book by Andrew Taylor, Caroline Minuscule, was published in January 1982.

Yes. Andrew Taylor has 5 series.
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