Order of Oz Blackstone Books

Order of Oz Blackstone Books

Oz Blackstone by Quintin Jardine


Oz Blackstone is the lead character in a series of crime fiction novels by Scottish novelist Quintin Jardine (originally writing as Matthew Reid). Blackstone is a private investigator who often partners with Primavera Phillips – a childhood sweetheart of his. The series is connected to the Primavera Blackstone series.

Quintin Jardine began his Oz Blackstone series in 1996 with the novel Blackstone’s Pursuits. The series concluded in 2005 with the novel For the Death of Me after 9 novels. Below is a list of Quintin Jardine’s Oz Blackstone books in order of when they were originally published (which is the same as their chronological order):

Publication Order of Oz Blackstone Books

Blackstone’s Pursuits / Dangerous Pursuits

(1996)

A Coffin for Two

(1997)

Wearing Purple

(1999)

Screen Savers

(2000)

On Honeymoon with Death

(2001)

Poisoned Cherries

(2003)

Unnatural Justice

(2003)

Alarm Call

(2004)

For the Death of Me

(2005)

Publication Order of Oz Blackstone Short Stories/Novellas

Born to Be Wild

(2016)

The Quasimodo Trunk

(2017)

Miller Time

(2018)

Resurrection

(2018)

Green Bananas and Oz

(2018)

Note: The first two books in this series, Blackstone’s Pursuits and A Coffin for Two, were written under the pen name of Matthew Reid, but have since been re-released as by Quintin Jardine.