Cara Black Books in Order
Cara Black has written 25 books, published between 1999 and 2025. The first book is Murder in the Marais (1999) and the newest is Huguette (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 25
- Published
- 1999–2025
- Confirmed
- 25 of 25 titles
- Pages on record
- 5,856 in 18 of 25 books
- Reading time
- 98–146 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,856 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 18 of 25 titles with a page count on record.
Paris is the setting for Cara Black's crime fiction. Murder in the Marais (1999) opens the Aimee Leduc Investigations, a series of private-investigator mysteries named for the districts they take place in, from Belleville and the Sentier to the Bastille, Clichy and Montmartre. Black's 25 catalogued books also include the Kate Rees novels and non-fiction, running to Huguette in 2025.
How many Cara Black books are there?
Cara Black has 25 books, released between 1999 and 2025. They include 2 separate series.
Cara Black Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 25 Cara Black books in the order they were released, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 119993723/4
- 220003683/4
- 320023253/4
- 420033043/4
- 520052843/4
- 620063063/4
- 720073043/4
- 820083053/4
- 920093523/4
- 1020102913/4
- 112011–3/4
- 122011–3/4
- 132012–3/4
- 1420133193/4
- 1520143103/4
- 1620153073/4
- 1720163283/4
- 1820173263/4
- 1920182763/4
- 2020203603/4
- 2120204193/4
- 222022–3/4
- 232023–3/4
- 242024–3/4
- 252025–3/4
Cara Black characters in order
The character linked below has its own reading-order page.
- Aimee Leduc books in order 21 books
Cara Black books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Aimee Leduc Investigations in order
21 books- 1. Murder in the Marais
- 2. Murder in Belleville
- 3. Murder in the Sentier
- 4. Murder in the Bastille
- 5. Murder in Clichy
- 6. Murder in Montmartre
- 7. Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis
- 8. Murder in the Rue de Paradis
- 9. Murder in the Latin Quarter
- 10. Murder in the Palais Royal
- 11. Murder in Passy
- 12. Murder at the Lanterne Rouge
- and 9 more in the table above
Kate Rees in order
2 booksCara Black Non-Fiction
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Cara Black Standalone Novels
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Cara Black Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the Cara Black books run from Murder in the Marais (1999) to Huguette (2025), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Cara Black in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Do you have to read Cara Black books in order?
You only need to read Cara Black books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Cara Black
Start with Murder in the Marais (1999), the first Aimee Leduc book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.
What is the newest Cara Black book?
Huguette (2025) is the newest Cara Black book released so far.
Is there a new Cara Black book coming?
No next Cara Black book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Cara Black at a glance
- Still publishing
- Cara Black published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Cara Black books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 5,856 pages across the 18 of 25 books with a recorded length, a median of 314 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Cara Black books, 10 of 25, were published in the 2010s.
What the Cara Black books are about
20 of the 25 Cara Black books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: mystery & detective, women sleuths is tagged on 18 of 20. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Mystery & detective, women sleuths 18 of 20 books
- Leduc, aimee (fictitious character) 17 of 20 books
- Paris (France) 14 of 20 books
- Private investigators 14 of 20 books
- Aimee Leduc (Fictitious character) 9 of 20 books
- Women private investigators 9 of 20 books
- Crime 5 of 20 books
- Investigation 2 of 20 books
- Murder 2 of 20 books