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Painted Turtle Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Painted Turtle 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 Painted Turtle series? Start with "Amos Walker's Detroit" (2007) and follow publication order through all 56 books.
The complete Painted Turtle reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Amos Walker's Detroit
2007
Travelin' Man (By: Gary Graff)
2009
Techno Rebels (By: Dan Sicko)
2010
MC5 Sonically Speaking (By: Brett Callwood)
2010
Reimagining Detroit (By: John Gallagher)
2010
The Stooges Head On (By: Alice Cooper,Brett Callwood)
2011
Revolution Detroit (By: John Gallagher)
2013
Images from the Arsenal of Democracy (By: Charles K. Hyde)
2014
The Art of Memory (By: Thomas R. Dilley)
2014
Great Lakes Island Escapes (By: Maureen Dunphy)
2016
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (By: Laurie Lanzen Harris,Paul Ganson)
2016
Saving Arcadia (By: Heather Shumaker,Jordan Wannemacher)
2017
Greetings from Detroit (By: Dan Austin)
2017
Brewed in Michigan (By: William Rapai)
2017
Building the Modern World (By: Michael H. Hodges)
2018
The Faygo Book (By: Joe Grimm)
2018
The Queen Next Door (By: Linda Solomon)
2019
Northern Harvest (By: Emita Brady Hill)
2020
Mean Streets
1986
Matter of Crime
1987
The Black Moon
1989
The New Frontier
1989
City Sleuths and Tough Guys
1989
100 Great Detectives, Or, the Detective Directory
1991
Invitation to Murder
1991
Deadly Allies
1992
Dark Crimes 2
1993
Deadly Allies II
1994
New Trails: Twenty-Three Original Stories
1994
First Cases, Volume 1
1996
How the West Was Read, Volume 2
1996
The Night Awakens
1998
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1999
The Best of the American West II
1999
The Best American Mystery Stories 1999
1999
American West
2000
The Shamus Game
2000
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1
2000
The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology: Celebrating 25 Years
2001
A Century of Great Western Stories
2001
Murder, My Dear Watson
2002
A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime
2003
Lost Trails
2007
At the Scene of the Crime
2008
Sherlock Holmes in America
2009
Ghost Towns
2010
The Best American Mystery Stories 2011
2011
Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe
2011
In Pursuit of Spenser
2012
Detroit Is Our Beat
2015
Bob Seger's House and Other Stories
2016
Silent Night, Deadly Night
2016
The Moores Are Missing & The Housewife
2017
Murder, They Wrote: Five Bibliomysteries by Edgar Award-Winning Authors
2018
The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe
2020
Hobnail and Other Frontier Stories
2020
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