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Darkland Tales Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Darkland Tales books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Darkland Tales series? Start with "Rizzio (By: Denise Mina)" (2021) and follow publication order through all 30 books.
The complete Darkland Tales reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Rizzio (By: Denise Mina)
2021
Hex (By: Jenni Fagan)
2022
Nothing Left to Fear From Hell (By: Alan Warner)
2023
Columba's Bones (By: David Greig)
2023
Queen Macbeth
2024
Benbecula (By: Graeme Macrae Burnet)
2025
12 Days: A Modern Twist on The Twelve Days of Christmas
2000
Naked Came the Phoenix
2001
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3
2002
Tart Noir
2003
Like a Charm
2004
The Adventure of the Missing Detective and 19 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories
2005
Magnetic North
2005
Crime Scenes Revisited: Scottish Popular Fiction
2006
A Merry Band of Murderers
2006
Criminal Tendencies
2009
The Sounds Of Crime
2010
The Library Book
2012
The Killer Cookbook
2012
Inherit the Dead
2013
OxCrimes: 27 Killer Stories from the Cream of Crimewriters
2014
Out There: An Anthology of Scottish LGBT writing
2014
Crime Writers: A Decade of Crime
2016
Killer Women
2016
Crime Plus Music
2016
MatchUp
2017
Exit Wounds
2019
Bloody Scotland
2019
Imagine A Country
2020
Marple: Twelve New Mysteries
2022
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