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Merritt & Blunt Mystery Books in Order

2 books so far (book 3 is due June 22, 2027). They run from The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant (2025) to The Forty-Year Grudge (2026). Rated 4.0 across 73 listener reviews.

Next Merritt & Blunt Mystery book

Hot Pastrami and Cold-Blooded Murder

Book 3 · out June 22, 2027 · preorder now

Reading order

  1. The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant

    Book 1 2025 4.0 (62)

    A brilliant Boomer detective and her ambitious Gen Z assistant try to get along in this delightful feel-good mystery. Olivia Blunt is thrilled to be hired as assistant to the nationally renowned investigator Aubrey Merritt.

  2. The Forty-Year Grudge

    Book 2 2026 4.2 (11)

    When the World’s Greatest Detective reunites with her college friends, she discovers that time doesn’t heal all wounds. It's been four decades since the women of Sigma Delta Tau were last together.

  3. Hot Pastrami and Cold-Blooded Murder

    Book 3 Out June 22, 2027

    When a Broadway producer is found stabbed in her elegant Upper East Side brownstone, the spotlight falls on the World’s Greatest Detective to solve the case.

About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for Merritt & Blunt Mystery is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.