Series
Ishmael Jones
Simon R. Green · 11 novels · 2015–2022
Simon R. Green's Ishmael Jones mysteries pair a country-house murder-mystery format with a supernatural twist, opening with The Dark Side of the Road. The long-running series follows investigator Ishmael Jones through a string of impossible crimes across eleven books.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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By decade
- 2010s7
- 2020s4
Shape
11 novels
1 author
reads like:mystery & detectivemurder investigationbritish islescontemporarymysteriousadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 82% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book11 of 11 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The House on Widows Hilldarkest
- Till Sudden Death Do Us Partbrightest
- Very Important Corpsescalmest
- The Dark Side of the Roadmost intense