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Maureen Jennings Books in Order

Maureen Jennings has written 19 books, published between 1997 and 2022. The first book is Except the Dying (1997) and the newest is Cold Snap (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
19
Published
1997–2022
Pages on record
5,754 in 17 of 19 books
Reading time
96–144 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,754 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 17 of 19 titles with a page count on record.

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Detective Murdoch, a Toronto policeman, is the character Maureen Jennings is best known for, and the novels became the television series Murdoch Mysteries, on which Jennings worked as creative consultant and occasional writer. The British-Canadian author also wrote the D.I. Tom Tyler mysteries, set during the Second World War, along with the Paradise Cafe and Christine Morris books. Her 19 catalogued titles run from Except the Dying in 1997 to Cold Snap in 2022, and nothing new has appeared since.

How many Maureen Jennings books are there?

Maureen Jennings has 19 books, released between 1997 and 2022. They include 4 series and 1 title listed outside any series.

Maureen Jennings Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 19 Maureen Jennings books in the order they were published, 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.

  1. Cover of Except the Dying by Maureen Jennings, book 1 of the Detective Murdoch series (1997)
  2. Cover of Under the Dragon's Tail by Maureen Jennings, book 2 of the Detective Murdoch series (1998)
  3. Cover of Poor Tom is Cold by Maureen Jennings, book 3 of the Detective Murdoch series (2001)
  4. Cover of Let Loose the Dogs by Maureen Jennings, book 4 of the Detective Murdoch series (2003)
  5. Cover of Does Your Mother Know? by Maureen Jennings, book 1 of the Christine Morris series (2006)
  6. Cover of Vices of My Blood by Maureen Jennings, book 6 of the Detective Murdoch series (2006)
  7. Cover of A Journeyman to Grief by Maureen Jennings, book 7 of the Detective Murdoch series (2007)
  8. Cover of The K Handshape by Maureen Jennings, book 2 of the Christine Morris series (2008)
  9. Cover of Season of Darkness by Maureen Jennings, book 1 of the D.I. Tom Tyler series (2011)
  10. Cover of Beware This Boy by Maureen Jennings, book 2 of the D.I. Tom Tyler series (2012)
  11. Cover of No Known Grave by Maureen Jennings, book 3 of the D.I. Tom Tyler series (2014)
  12. Cover of Let Darkness Bury the Dead by Maureen Jennings, book 9 of the Detective Murdoch series (2017)
  13. Cover of Heat Wave by Maureen Jennings, book 1 of the Paradise Cafe series (2019)
  1. 1
    Except the DyingDetective Murdoch #11997 · 360 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1997360
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  2. 2
    Under the Dragon's TailDetective Murdoch #21998 · 312 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998312
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  3. 3
    The Map of Your Mind: Journeys Into Creative Expression2001 · confirmed 2/4
    2001–
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  4. 4
    Poor Tom is ColdDetective Murdoch #32001 · 416 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2001416
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  5. 5
    Let Loose the DogsDetective Murdoch #42003 · 495 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003495
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  6. 6
    Night's ChildDetective Murdoch #52005 · 298 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005298
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  7. 7
    Does Your Mother Know?Christine Morris #12006 · 299 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006299
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  8. 8
    Vices of My BloodDetective Murdoch #62006 · 376 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006376
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  9. 9
    A Journeyman to GriefDetective Murdoch #72007 · 448 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007448
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  10. 10
    The K HandshapeChristine Morris #22008 · 296 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008296
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  11. 11
    ShipwreckGood Reads #12010 · 78 pages · confirmed 2/4
    201078
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  12. 12
    Season of DarknessD.I. Tom Tyler #12011 · 416 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011416
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  13. 13
    Beware This BoyD.I. Tom Tyler #22012 · 297 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2012297
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  14. 14
    No Known GraveD.I. Tom Tyler #32014 · 341 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014341
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  15. 15
    Dead Ground in BetweenD.I. Tom Tyler #42016 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016304
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  16. 16
    Let Darkness Bury the DeadDetective Murdoch #92017 · 330 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017330
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  17. 17
    Heat WaveParadise Cafe #12019 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019336
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  18. 18
    November RainParadise Cafe #22020 · confirmed 2/4
    2020–
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  19. 19
    Cold SnapParadise Cafe #32022 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2022352
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Maureen Jennings series and characters in order

The character linked below has its own reading-order page.

Maureen Jennings books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. A group whose heading is a link has its own reading-order page; the other groups have no page of their own on this site.

Detective Murdoch books in order

8 books by Maureen Jennings
  1. 1. Except the Dying
  2. 2. Under the Dragon's Tail
  3. 3. Poor Tom is Cold
  4. 4. Let Loose the Dogs
  5. 5. Night's Child
  6. 6. Vices of My Blood
  7. 7. A Journeyman to Grief
  8. 9. Let Darkness Bury the Dead

D.I. Tom Tyler in order

4 books
  1. 1. Season of Darkness
  2. 2. Beware This Boy
  3. 3. No Known Grave
  4. 4. Dead Ground in Between

Paradise Cafe in order

3 books
  1. 1. Heat Wave
  2. 2. November Rain
  3. 3. Cold Snap

Christine Morris in order

2 books
  1. 1. Does Your Mother Know?
  2. 2. The K Handshape

Good Reads in order

1 book
  1. 1. Shipwreck

Standalone books

1 book

1 Maureen Jennings title here is not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Maureen Jennings books in order?

You only need to read Maureen Jennings books in order within each series: the books listed here span 4 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Maureen Jennings

Start with Except the Dying (1997), the first Detective Murdoch book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.

What is the newest Maureen Jennings book?

Cold Snap (2022) is the newest Maureen Jennings book released so far.

Is there a new Maureen Jennings book coming?

No next Maureen Jennings book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Maureen Jennings at a glance

Paused
No new Maureen Jennings title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Maureen Jennings books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
5,754 pages across the 17 of 19 books with a recorded length, a median of 336 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Maureen Jennings books, 8 of 19, were published in the 2000s.

What the Maureen Jennings books are about

17 of the 19 Maureen Jennings books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: toronto (ont.) is tagged on 6 of 17. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.