Series
Jack Nightingale
Stephen Leather, Alex Shaw, Andrew Fusek Peters, Conrad Jones, Lynne Waterman, Matt Hilton & Robert Waterman · 10 novels · 3 novellas · 15 novelettes · 8 short stories · 2 collections · 1 anthology · 2010–2025
Jack Nightingale opens as a former police negotiator turned private detective who inherits a mansion from a man claiming to be his real father — along with a warning that his soul was sold before birth and will be claimed on his 33rd birthday. Stephen Leather's series follows Nightingale as people around him start dying in increasingly inexplicable ways, forcing a skeptic into treating the occult threat as real. Later books, some co-written with other authors, keep Nightingale investigating supernatural cases across a long-running run of novels and short story collections.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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Stats
By decade
- 2010s36
- 2020s3
Shape
10 novels · 3 novellas · 15 novelettes · 8 short stories · 2 collections · 1 anthology
7 authors
reads like:urban fantasydemonsour worldcontemporarydarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book16 of 39 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Nightingale 2darkest
- Clawsbrightest · most intense
- The Undeadcalmest