Stan Jones Books in Order
Stan Jones has written 9 books, published between 1999 and 2023. The first book is White Sky, Black Ice (1999) and the newest is The Sand Garden (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 9
- Published
- 1999–2023
- Pages on record
- 1,156 in 5 of 9 books
- Reading time
- 19–29 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,156 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 9 titles with a page count on record.
Stan Jones, born in 1947, is an American writer of mystery novels and co-author of a non-fiction oral history of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Jones was born in Anchorage and lives in Alaska, and every book to date is set there. Seven belong to the Nathan Active mystery series: White Sky, Black Ice (1999), Shaman Pass (2003), Frozen Sun (2008), Village of the Ghost Bears (2009), Tundra Kill (2016), The Big Empty (2018) and Ghost Light (2021). The catalogue holds 9 books in total, adding sHERlock: the screenplay (2022) and The Sand Garden (2023).
How many Stan Jones books are there?
Stan Jones has 9 books, released between 1999 and 2023. They include 2 series and 1 title listed outside any series.
Stan Jones Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 9 Stan Jones 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.
- 119992842/4
- 220032742/4
- 320082902/4
- 42009–2/4
- 520163072/4
- 6201812/4
- 72021–2/4
- 8sHERlock: the screenplay2022 · confirmed 2/42022–2/4
- 92023–2/4
Stan Jones 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.
Nathan Active Mystery in order
7 booksDana Forsythe Mysteries in order
1 bookStandalone books
1 book1 Stan Jones title here is not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Stan Jones books in order?
You only need to read Stan Jones 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 Stan Jones
Start with White Sky, Black Ice (1999), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Stan Jones book?
The Sand Garden (2023) is the newest Stan Jones book released so far.
Is there a new Stan Jones book coming?
No next Stan Jones book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Stan Jones at a glance
- Paused
- No new Stan Jones title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
- Release pace
- Stan Jones books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 1,156 pages across the 5 of 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 284 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Stan Jones books, 3 of 9, were published in the 2020s.
What the Stan Jones books are about
6 of the 9 Stan Jones books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: alaska is tagged on 3 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Alaska 3 of 6 books
- Mystery & detective, police procedural 3 of 6 books
- Inupiat 2 of 6 books
- Mystery & detective 2 of 6 books
- Police 2 of 6 books