Nightside Books in Order
Part ofSimon R Green Books in OrderThis page shows the Nightside books in order by Simon R Green, with quick summaries, series background, and clear guidance on where to begin.
Last updated: July 1, 2026
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Publication Order
12 books
Agents of Light and Darkness
by Simon R Green
2003
John Taylor is hunting the Unholy Grail, an object of terrible power that angels, devils, and every other hungry player in the Nightside also want. Finding it may be the easy part.
Something from the Nightside
by Simon R Green
2003
John Taylor, a finder of lost things, is paid to track down a runaway girl. The trail leads back to the Nightside, the hidden part of London he swore he would never enter again.
Nightingale's Lament
by Simon R Green
2004
A famous singer in the Nightside has a voice people would die for, literally. John Taylor is hired to find out what is happening before beauty, obsession, and magic kill again.
Hex and the City
by Simon R Green
2005
Lady Luck hires John Taylor to uncover the origins of the Nightside. The deeper he digs, the more the case turns into a search for the truth about his vanished, dangerous mother.
Paths Not Taken
by Simon R Green
2005
To stop his mother before she can destroy the Nightside, John Taylor has to travel backward through time itself. The past holds answers, but it may be even more dangerous than the present.
Hell to Pay
by Simon R Green
2006
After war nearly wrecks the Nightside, the Griffin's granddaughter is kidnapped and John Taylor is called in. This time his gift is being blocked, so every step toward the truth comes the hard way.
Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth
by Simon R Green
2006
John Taylor learns that his long-vanished mother plans to destroy the Nightside she created. To save the place he hates and loves, he has to face the most personal enemy of all.
The Unnatural Inquirer
by Simon R Green
2007
A case tied to the Nightside's own scandal-hungry press pulls John Taylor into another maze of secrets. In a city where information is power, the truth can be deadlier than any weapon.
Just Another Judgement Day
by Simon R Green
2008
The Walking Man, heaven's unstoppable engine of judgement, comes to the Nightside. John Taylor is hired to stop him before holy justice wipes out everyone, guilty and otherwise.
The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny
by Simon R Green
2010
Walker, the unsettling power behind the Nightside's authorities, is dying and has one final job for John Taylor. In a place built on terrible choices, taking that job may change everything.
A Hard Day's Knight
by Simon R Green
2011
John Taylor discovers he has become the keeper of Excalibur. To learn why, he has to find King Arthur and survive a dangerous trip through London Proper and the remains of Camelot's old legends.
The Bride Wore Black Leather
by Simon R Green
2012
John Taylor is about to marry Shotgun Suzie, but first he takes one last case. It leaves him framed, hunted by friends and enemies alike, with the Nightside itself facing a final threat.
Series background & context
The Nightside books take place in the secret heart of London, a hidden quarter where it is always three in the morning and the rules are more suggestions than laws. It is a place where monsters drink beside myths, impossible shops do business on impossible streets, and every vice, miracle, or nightmare can be found if you know who to ask. Green treats that setting like a supernatural city, a noir playground, and a bad idea all at once.
John Taylor is your guide. He calls himself a private investigator, but what he really has is a gift for finding things, lost people, lost objects, lost truths that other people would much rather leave buried. John is sharp, weary, and usually more frightened than he lets on, which is sensible, because the Nightside is full of beings far older and worse than him. Even so, he keeps taking cases.
That is rarely good for his health.
The early books often look like standalone investigations, find a missing daughter, track a deadly relic, work out why a singer's voice is killing people. But the series builds a bigger arc under those cases. John's history with the Nightside, his vanished mother, and the question of what the Nightside really is become more important with every book. By the time the stakes go fully apocalyptic, the personal and the cosmic are tangled together.
A lot of the appeal comes from the supporting cast. Shotgun Suzie brings violence and loyalty in equal measure. Walker represents authority at its most unsettling. Around them are dead men, saints, sinners, monsters, and old friends who may still become enemies if the moment is bad enough. Green makes the Nightside feel crowded in a good way, like there is always one more strange alley or terrible legend just off the page.
If you want elegant urban fantasy with quiet magic, this is not that. Nightside is louder, darker, and happier to turn a joke into a horror image and back again in a paragraph. The books move fast, the worldbuilding is gleefully excessive, and the whole series runs on the feeling that no matter how much John already knows, there is always something in the Nightside that can still shock him.
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