Terry Harknett Books in Order: All 146 books (1962

How many Terry Harknett books are there?

Terry Harknett has 146 books, released between 1962 and 2015. They include 8 series and 8 titles listed outside any series.

Terry Harknett Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 146 Terry Harknett 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.

Cover of Vengeance at Ventura by Terry Harknett, book 37 of the Edge series (1981)

Cover of The Runaway by Terry Harknett, book 34 of the Adam Steele series (1983)

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Terry Harknett series in order

Each series linked below has its own reading-order page.

Terry Harknett 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.

Steve Wayne in order

7 books

1. The Scratch on the Surface
2. Dead Little Rich Girl
3. Invitation to a Funeral
4. The Two-Way Frame
5. Death of an aunt
6. Softcover Kill
7. Upmarket Affair

Undertaker in order

6 books

1. Black as Death
2. Destined to Die
3. Funeral by the Sea
4. Three Graves to a Showdown
5. Back from the Dead
6. Death in the Desert

Edge: The Return in order

6 books

1. The Quiet Gun
2. The Deputy
3. The Outrage
4. Killing Time In Eternity
5. Return to Massacre Mesa
6. Name on the Bullet

Crown in order

3 books

1. The Sweet And Sour Kill
2. Macao Mayhem
3. Bamboo Shoot-Out

Edge Meets Steele in order

2 books

1. Two of a Kind
2. Matching Pair

Standalone books

8 books

8 Terry Harknett titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Terry Harknett books in order?

You only need to read Terry Harknett books in order within each series: the books listed here span 8 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Terry Harknett

Start with the first book of the Terry Harknett series you want to read: FORTUNE starts with Stopover for Murder (1970), Edge starts with The Loner (1972) and Adam Steele starts with The Violent Peace (1974). The earliest catalogued title overall is The Scratch on the Surface (1962).

What is the newest Terry Harknett book?

Death in the Desert (2015) is the newest Terry Harknett book released so far.

Is there a new Terry Harknett book coming?

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

Terry Harknett at a glance

No recent titles: The newest Terry Harknett title on record dates from 2015, 11 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace: Terry Harknett books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length: 5,353 pages across the 33 of 146 books with a recorded length, a median of 160 pages each.
Busiest decade: Most Terry Harknett books, 71 of 146, were published in the 1970s.

What the Terry Harknett books are about

18 of the 146 Terry Harknett books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: westerns is tagged on 9 of 18. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

Westerns 9 of 18 books