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Ishmael Jones Books in Order

Ishmael Jones by Simon R. Green contains 11 books, published between 2015 and 2022. The first book is The Dark Side of the Road (2015) and the newest is Haunted by the Past (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
11
Published
2015–2022
Confirmed
11 of 11 titles
Pages on record
1,625 in 8 of 11 books
Reading time
27–41 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,625 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 8 of 11 titles with a page count on record.

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Ishmael Jones is a mystery series by Simon R. Green, and Ishmael Jones is a private investigator whose cases turn out to involve monsters. Eleven books run from The Dark Side of the Road (2015) through Dead Man Walking (2016), Very Important Corpses and Death Shall Come (2017), Murder in the Dark (2018), Night Train to Murder and The House on Widows Hill (2020) to Haunted by the Past (2022). The books are short at around 192 pages, and nothing has followed since 2022.

How many Ishmael Jones books are there?

Ishmael Jones has 11 books, released between 2015 and 2022.

Ishmael Jones Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 11 Ishmael 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.

  1. Cover of Dead Man Walking by Simon R. Green, book 2 of the Ishmael Jones series (2016)
  2. Cover of Very Important Corpses by Simon R. Green, book 3 of the Ishmael Jones series (2017)
  3. Cover of Till Sudden Death Do Us Part by Simon R. Green, book 7 of the Ishmael Jones series (2019)
  4. Cover of Night Train to Murder by Simon R. Green, book 8 of the Ishmael Jones series (2020)
  5. Cover of The House on Widows Hill by Simon R. Green, book 9 of the Ishmael Jones series (2020)
  6. Cover of Buried Memories by Simon R. Green, book 10 of the Ishmael Jones series (2021)
  7. Cover of Haunted by the Past by Simon R. Green, book 11 of the Ishmael Jones series (2022)
  1. 1
    The Dark Side of the Road2015 · confirmed 3/4
    2015–
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  2. 2
    Dead Man Walking2016 · 201 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2016201
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  3. 3
    Very Important Corpses2017 · 208 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2017208
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  4. 4
    Death Shall Come2017 · 185 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2017185
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  5. 5
    Into the Thinnest of Air2018 · 167 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2018167
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  6. 6
    Murder in the Dark2018 · 192 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2018192
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  7. 7
    Till Sudden Death Do Us Part2019 · 192 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2019192
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  8. 8
    Night Train to Murder2020 · confirmed 3/4
    2020–
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  9. 9
    The House on Widows Hill2020 · 192 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2020192
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  10. 10
    Buried Memories2021 · confirmed 3/4
    2021–
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  11. 11
    Haunted by the Past2022 · 288 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2022288
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Is there a chronological order for Ishmael Jones?

No separate chronological order is on record for Ishmael Jones, because none of the book listings this catalogue draws on publishes one; the publication order above is the only order given.

Do you have to read Ishmael Jones books in order?

You should read the Ishmael Jones books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Ishmael Jones book also stands alone.

Where to start with Ishmael Jones

Start with The Dark Side of the Road (2015), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Ishmael Jones book?

Haunted by the Past (2022) is the newest Ishmael Jones book released so far.

Is there a new Ishmael Jones book coming?

No next Ishmael 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.

Ishmael Jones at a glance

Paused
No new Ishmael Jones title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Ishmael Jones books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
1,625 pages across the 8 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 192 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Ishmael Jones books, 7 of 11, were published in the 2010s.

What the Ishmael Jones books are about

All 11 Ishmael Jones books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: english literature is tagged on 4 of 11. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Simon R. Green

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.

Other series by Simon R. Green

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