P.J. Parrish Books

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While a select few people still consider P.J. Parrish to be the name of a single author, P.J. Parrish is actually a pair of sisters. Kelly Nichols studied at Northern Michigan University. She then spent the next 15 years in the gaming industry before finding a role as an HR Manager in a Casino in Philadelphia.

Order of Louis Kincaid Series

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1 Dark of the Moon 1999 Description / Buy
2 Dead of Winter 2001 Description / Buy
3 Paint It Black 2002 Description / Buy
4 Thicker Than Water 2003 Description / Buy
5 Island of Bones 2004 Description / Buy
6 A Killing Rain 2005 Description / Buy
7 An Unquiet Grave 2006 Description / Buy
8 A Thousand Bones 2007 Description / Buy
9 South of Hell 2008 Description / Buy
10 The Little Death 2009 Description / Buy
11 Claw Back 2013 Description / Buy
12 Heart of Ice 2013 Description / Buy
13 The Damage Done 2018 Description / Buy

Order of P.J. Parrish Standalone Novels

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1 The Killing Song 2011 Description / Buy
2 She's Not There 2015 Description / Buy

Order of Harold Middleton Series

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1 The Chopin Manuscript 2007 Description / Buy
2 The Copper Bracelet 2009 Description / Buy
3 The Starling Project: An Audible Drama 2014 Description / Buy

Order of Akashic Noir Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 San Francisco Noir ( By: Peter Maravelis, David Henry Sterry) 2002 Description / Buy
2 Seattle Noir ( By: Curt Colbert) 2003 Description / Buy
3 Bronx Noir ( By: S J Rozan) 2003 Description / Buy
4 Brooklyn Noir ( By: Tim McLoughlin) 2004 Description / Buy
5 Chicago Noir ( By: Neal Pollack) 2005 Description / Buy
6 Los Angeles Noir ( By: Christopher Rice) 2007 Description / Buy
7 Wall Street Noir ( By: Peter Spiegelman) 2007 Description / Buy
8 Havana Noir ( By: Achy Obejas) 2007 Description / Buy
9 Detroit Noir 2007 Description / Buy
10 D.C. Noir 2 ( By: George Pelecanos) 2008 Description / Buy
11 Queens Noir ( By: Megan Abbott, Alan Gordon, K.J.A. Wishnia, , Jill Eisenstadt) 2008 Description / Buy
12 Las Vegas Noir ( By: Jarret Keene) 2008 Description / Buy
13 Trinidad Noir ( By: Elizabeth Nunez) 2008 Description / Buy
14 Istanbul Noir ( By: Tarkan Barlas) 2008 Description / Buy
15 Paris Noir ( By: Aurélien Masson) 2008 Description / Buy
16 San Francisco Noir 2 ( By: Peter Maravelis) 2009 Description / Buy
17 Portland Noir ( By: Monica Drake) 2009 Description / Buy
18 Delhi Noir ( By: Hirsh Sawhney, Irwin Allan Sealy) 2009 Description / Buy
19 Los Angeles Noir 2 ( By: Joseph Hansen, Raymond Chandler, James Ellroy, Ross Macdonald, Margaret Millar, James M. Cain, Walter Mosley, William Gault, Leigh Brackett, Naomi Hirahara, Chester Himes, Jervey Tervalon, , Denise Hamilton) 2010 Description / Buy
20 Mexico City Noir ( By: Paco Ignacio Taibo II) 2010 Description / Buy
21 Indian Country Noir ( By: Sarah Cortez) 2010 Description / Buy
22 Moscow Noir ( By: Irina Denezhkina) 2010 Description / Buy
23 Philadelphia Noir ( By: Carlin Romano) 2010 Description / Buy
24 Lone Star Noir ( By: Joe R. Lansdale) 2010 Description / Buy
25 Haiti Noir ( By: Edwidge Danticat) 2010 Description / Buy
26 Copenhagen Noir ( By: Gunnar Staalesen) 2010 Description / Buy
27 Barcelona Noir ( By: Achy Obejas) 2011 Description / Buy
28 Cape Cod Noir ( By: Dana Cameron) 2011 Description / Buy
29 Kingston Noir ( By: Patricia Powell, , , , , Marlon James) 2012 Description / Buy
30 Venice Noir ( By: Michael Gregorio) 2012 Description / Buy
31 St. Petersburg Noir ( By: Pavel Krusanov) 2012 Description / Buy
32 Kansas City Noir ( By: Steve Paul, Kevin Prufer) 2012 Description / Buy
33 Boston Noir 2 ( By: Jaime Clarke) 2012 Description / Buy
34 Staten Island Noir ( By: Bill Loehfelm) 2012 Description / Buy
35 New York City Noir: The Five Borough Set ( By: S J Rozan) 2012 Description / Buy
36 USA Noir ( By: Megan Abbott) 2013 Description / Buy
37 Haiti Noir 2 ( By: Edwidge Danticat) 2013 Description / Buy
38 Helsinki Noir ( By: James Thompson) 2014 Description / Buy
39 Prison Noir ( By: Joyce Carol Oates) 2014 Description / Buy
40 Tel Aviv Noir ( By: Assaf Gavron) 2014 Description / Buy
41 Chicago Noir: The Classics ( By: Joe Meno) 2015 Description / Buy
42 Zagreb Noir ( By: Nada Gaši?) 2015 Description / Buy
43 Buffalo Noir ( By: Kim Chinquee) 2015 Description / Buy
44 Marseille Noir ( By: Salim Hatubou) 2015 Description / Buy
45 Beirut Noir ( By: Abbas Beydoun) 2015 Description / Buy
46 Stockholm Noir ( By: Nathan Larson) 2016 Description / Buy
47 Rio Noir ( By: Tony Bellotto) 2016 Description / Buy
48 Brussels Noir ( By: Sara Doke) 2016 Description / Buy
49 St. Louis Noir ( By: Scott Phillips) 2016 Description / Buy
50 Prague Noir ( By: Martin Goffa, Pavel Mandys) 2016 Description / Buy
51 San Juan Noir ( By: Mayra Santos-Febres) 2016 Description / Buy
52 Oakland Noir ( By: Jerry Thompson) 2017 Description / Buy
53 Montana Noir ( By: James Grady) 2017 Description / Buy
54 Buenos Aires Noir ( By: Ernesto Mallo) 2017 Description / Buy
55 São Paulo Noir ( By: Tony Bellotto) 2018 Description / Buy
56 Hong Kong Noir ( By: Susan Blumberg- Kason) 2018 Description / Buy
57 Houston Noir ( By: Gwendolyn Zepeda) 2019 Description / Buy
58 Milwaukee Noir ( By: Reed Farrel Coleman) 2019 Description / Buy
59 Nairobi Noir ( By: Peter Kimani) 2020 Description / Buy
60 Alabama Noir ( By: Carolyn Haines, Tom Franklin, Ace Atkins, Winston Groom, , , Michelle Richmond) 2020 Description / Buy
61 Tampa Bay Noir ( By: Ace Atkins) 2020 Description / Buy
62 Addis Ababa Noir ( By: Maaza Mengiste) 2020 Description / Buy
63 Belgrade Noir ( By: Vesna Goldsworthy) 2020 Description / Buy
64 Accra Noir ( By: Nana Brew-Hammond) 2020 Description / Buy
65 Paris Noir: The Suburbs ( By: Cloé Mehdi) 2022 Description / Buy

P.J. Parrish Anthologies

# Read Title Published Details
1 Mystery Writers of America Presents Death Do Us Part: New Stories About Love, Lust, and Murder 2006 Description / Buy
2 Detroit Noir 2007 Description / Buy
3 Edgar & Shamus Go Golden 2022 Description / Buy
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Kristy Montee got her degree in Education from Eastern Michigan University. She worked as a reporter for some time before finally deciding to inject all her efforts into writing fiction.

The P.J. Parrish persona came about after Kristy Montee began writing fiction. Montee produced four novels in the romance genre before becoming bored with everything in that field. Kelly Nichols, on the other hand, had struggled to get a mystery novel manuscript together. With both sisters struggling to find their footing in the literary arena, Montee finally saw that joining forces with her sister to finish her mystery manuscript would yield greater results.

And she was right; under the P.J. Parrish name, the sisters have written a number of novels set in Michigan and Florida, following the adventures of characters like police detective Louis Kincaid and detective Joe Frye.

P.J. Parrish Awards

The Louis Kincaid series was P.J. Parrish’s first commercially successful creation, garnering an International Thriller Writers Award in the process, this along with a Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America and an Anthony Award.

P.J. Parrish has also been a finalist for the Edgar Award from the Mystery writers of America.

Best P.J. Parrish Books

The fact that P.J. Parrish books are the creation of two sisters rather than a single author creates an interesting dynamic, with readers often striving to determine if they can identify the two voices within the novels, the best of P.J. Parrish’s creations including the following:

Thicker than Water: It has been two decades since Jack Cade was convicted of Kitty Jagger’s murder. Cade could have fought the charges. He could have taken his chances with a trial. However, he would be risking the Florida Electric Chair in the process.

So he chose to plead guilty to manslaughter and for that, he was sentenced to twenty years in prison. Barely a few days out of prison, Cade is quickly arrested by the police, accused of the murder of Spencer Duvall, his defense attorney.

Louis Kincaid jumps into the fold when Jack’s son Ronnie hires him to find evidence to clear his father. It doesn’t take the unlicensed private investigator long to realize that Cade is not only innocent of Duvall’s murder but Kitty Jagger’s as well.

It falls on his shoulders to bring Kitty’s actual killer to light, saving Cade from an uncertain future and breaking the law he once swore to uphold in the process.

Thicker than Water is a good story. You cannot really say more than that. The core of the book is interesting enough, following a man who was previously convicted of raping and killing a young teen, and whose chance at redemption is shattered when he takes the blame for his defense attorney’s murder.

Louis Kincaid is the hero that must come to Cade’s rescue, taking it upon himself to save Cade from another injustice that just might end his life. There is no overwhelming love for this book. There is also very little in the way of hate.

Instead, the book seems to skirt that line in the middle, where it is good enough to kill a few hours of boredom but it is unlikely to blow everyone’s mind. Thicker than Water is a solid book: nothing more, nothing less.

Dark of The Moon: A man returns home to Black Pool, Mississippi and takes a job with the Sheriff’s department. A murder and lynching threaten to tear the town apart, and the man’s efforts to resolve things are not helped by the fact that he has a black mother and a white father.

The man contends with racial prejudice even as he comforts his dying mother.

The one thing for which you must praise P.J. Parrish is the manner in which the South is depicted. The atmosphere and tension of the day are perfectly captured. Louis Kincaid has been hired as a county detective to right some wrongs.

Had his superiors known of his parentage, they wouldn’t have hired him, not for such a position; Kincaid maneuvers the rage and discrimination of his hometown even while working to unravel the 30-year-old case of a missing 15-year-old black boy.

When Does The Next P.J. Parrish book come out?

P.J. Parrish doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is The Damage Done and was released on September, 7th 2018. It is the newest book in the Louis Kincaid Series.

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