Laundry Files Books in Order

Government technician Bob Howard expects a quiet career restoring data for the secretive Laundry. Being noticed pulls him into fieldwork involving occult threats, hostile agents, and other dimensions, where technical expertise must serve a far more dangerous purpose.

Laundry agent Bob Howard is assigned to stop billionaire Ellis Billington from retrieving an ancient horror from the ocean's depths. Billington's scheme to exploit the entity for world domination turns computational demonology into a perilous espionage mission.

Laundry operative Bob Howard investigates unusual activity at an obscure government institution housing agents whose minds have broken. What appears to be another neglected bureaucratic facility draws him into the dangerous consequences of Britain's secret supernatural work.

Bob Howard travels to the English countryside to investigate a supernatural outbreak for the Laundry. The threat overturns comforting fairy-tale expectations: unicorns exist, but these creatures are predatory horrors from beyond spacetime rather than benevolent animals.

With the Laundry operating on minimal staffing over Christmas, one duty officer must respond when an otherworldly threat approaches. The Thing That Comes Down Chimneys turns an unappealing holiday shift into a battle to prevent humanity's destruction.

A secret dossier disappears from the Laundry's archives at the same time as Bob Howard's boss. Trying to uncover its contents and clear the missing man draws Bob into conflict with Russian agents, ancient demons, and a dangerous cult.

A televangelist's apparent miracles and connections to the prime minister force the Laundry to investigate discreetly. Bob Howard must supervise independent occult operatives infiltrating the preacher's ministry, testing his management skills while trying to prevent an international disaster.

London bank traders develop supernatural abilities and a thirst for blood, creating an outbreak the Laundry struggles to acknowledge. Junior manager Bob Howard investigates the bank's history while bureaucracy delays action, uncovering a conspiracy involving human and monstrous interests.

Dominique O'Brien helps police manage ordinary people suddenly acquiring disruptive superpowers. Her assignment is complicated by separation from Bob Howard and the sinister violin she carries, an instrument whose dangerous will increasingly threatens her colleagues and husband.

Newly vampiric banker Alex Schwartz joins the Laundry and is sent to assess a Leeds bunker. Returning to his hometown creates family complications, while an attractive drama student conceals secrets that make his undead condition seem ordinary.

After an invasion exposes the Laundry's existence, Bob Howard becomes its reluctant television spokesman. Public scrutiny brings a new threat as the British government considers privatizing the agency, forcing its operatives to navigate politics alongside supernatural dangers.

Under an elder god's government, Mhari Murphy leads former Laundry agents on a mission to America. The president has vanished and most citizens have forgotten the office exists, leaving her team to investigate a supernatural conspiracy threatening the country.

Government contractor Wendy Deere pursues a superpowered criminal gang and becomes entangled in a billionaire's hunt for a forbidden occult text. The resulting heist draws her through corruption, dangerous magic, and buildings connected to distant times.

Sent to Japan, Bob Howard works with the Miyamoto Group to inspect protections containing supernatural beings. The routine liaison assignment escalates as increasingly troublesome yokai culminate in a confrontation with a powerful pink entity offering a familiar greeting.

Eve Starkey inherits a corporation and a lethal trap, while Wendy Deere investigates unauthorized supernatural activity. Elsewhere, a disguised nanny and a grocery-chain manager face dangerous schemes, drawing their separate troubles together in Britain's increasingly magical society.

Eve Starkey believes she has defeated her dangerous billionaire employer, but an undisclosed marriage keeps her bound to him. Running his corporation offers little protection when Britain’s supernatural prime minister sends an emissary with an offer she cannot safely refuse.

Queen Elizabeth’s accumulated supernatural power makes her a threat to Britain’s eldritch prime minister and a target for a rebellious Laundry faction. Bob Howard and Mo O’Brien are drawn back into service to protect her from an occult assassin.

Imprisoned for decades after a government raid on his teenage role-playing game, Derek escapes to attend a convention. When a live-action game becomes a ritual summoning real evil, he and his fellow players must stop a threat beyond their imagined adventures.