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Mercy Thompson
The Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs has 15 known books (15 published) and is best read in publication order, starting with Moon Called (2006). The latest book with a fully recorded publication date is Winter Lost.
- Books
- 15 known books (14 novels + 1 collection)
- Published
- 15
- First published
- 2006
- Status
- ongoing
- Shelved under
- Fantasy
- Last checked
Start here: Moon Called (2006) — then read straight through in publication order.
Reading order
The date order of published books and any announced future entries — the default way to read the series.
- Book 1:
Moon Called
Moon Called (2006) opens the Mercy Thompson series, introducing Mercy as a Volkswagen mechanic in Washington State's Tri-Cities who is secretly a walker -- a rare coyote-shifting skinwalker raised by werewolves after her father died before her birth. It runs 306 pages.
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Blood Bound
Blood Bound followed in 2007, the second entry, pulling Mercy further into the vampire seethe and werewolf pack politics of her Tri-Cities neighborhood. It runs 342 pages.
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Iron Kissed
Iron Kissed, published in 2008, is the third Mercy Thompson novel, continuing Patricia Briggs' densely political, rule-governed supernatural world of pack law and fae treaties.
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Bone Crossed
Bone Crossed was published in 2009 and runs 309 pages, the fourth entry, with Mercy navigating vampire and werewolf politics as an outsider with abilities of her own.
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Silver Borne
Silver Borne, arriving in 2010, is the fifth Mercy Thompson novel at 314 pages, continuing the slow-building romance between Mercy and werewolf Alpha Adam Hauptman alongside the book's own supernatural mystery.
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River Marked
River Marked (2011) is the sixth entry at 324 pages, keeping Mercy Thompson's mechanic's-eye practicality front and center against Patricia Briggs' rule-governed world of fae Grey Lords and werewolf pack law.
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Frost Burned
Frost Burned, published in 2013, is the seventh Mercy Thompson novel, continuing the overarching thread of pack and species politics that escalates across the series. It runs 331 pages.
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Night Broken
Night Broken followed in 2014 and runs 341 pages, the eighth entry, with Mercy's relationship to the local werewolf pack once again complicating a case she'd rather have avoided.
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Shifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson
Shifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson (2014) is a short story and novella anthology spanning the wider Mercyverse, written entirely by Patricia Briggs and best read after book 8, Night Broken, where it sits chronologically. It runs 457 pages.
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Fire Touched
Fire Touched was published in 2016 and runs 342 pages, the ninth novel in the series, continuing Mercy's supernatural-politics balancing act between werewolf pack, vampire seethe and fae neighbors.
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Silence Fallen
Silence Fallen, arriving in 2017, is the tenth Mercy Thompson novel at 371 pages, part of the long-running series Patricia Briggs has kept among the most consistently well-reviewed in urban fantasy.
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Storm Cursed
Storm Cursed (2019) is the eleventh entry at 368 pages, continuing the case-of-the-book supernatural mysteries layered over the series' escalating pack and species politics.
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Smoke Bitten
Smoke Bitten was published in 2020 and runs 336 pages, the twelfth Mercy Thompson novel, with Mercy still navigating the world of pack law and fae treaties as the series' grounded, blue-collar heroine.
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Soul Taken
Soul Taken, arriving in 2022, is the thirteenth entry at 352 pages, keeping Mercy's slow-building relationship with Adam Hauptman and the series' wider supernatural politics moving forward.
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Winter Lost
Winter Lost (2024) is the fourteenth and, as of this catalogue, most recent Mercy Thompson novel, running 416 pages, with no book 15 yet announced by Patricia Briggs.
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About the Mercy Thompson series
Mercy Thompson is a Volkswagen mechanic in the Tri-Cities of Washington State who also happens to be a walker -- a rare, coyote-shifting skinwalker raised by werewolves after her father died before her birth. She lives next door to the local werewolf pack's Alpha, counts a vampire seethe and a fae reservation among her neighbors, and gets pulled into supernatural politics she'd rather avoid, from pack succession fights to fae treaties to vampire power struggles. Patricia Briggs builds a densely political, rule-governed supernatural world -- werewolf pack law, fae Grey Lords, vampire seethes -- and lets Mercy navigate it as an outsider with her own non-wolf, non-vampire abilities and a mechanic's stubborn practicality.
The series is a first-person urban fantasy with a slow-building romance (Mercy and werewolf Alpha Adam Hauptman) layered under case-of-the-book supernatural mysteries and an overarching thread of pack and species politics that escalates across the books. Readers drawn to grounded, blue-collar heroines, tightly plotted pack politics, and a world where every supernatural faction has its own law and its own agenda will find a lot to like here. Now fourteen novels deep and still running, Mercy Thompson is one of the longest-running, most consistently well-reviewed series in urban fantasy, and shares a universe with Briggs's companion series Alpha and Omega.
Frequently asked questions
How many books are in the Mercy Thompson series?
There are 14 novels, from Moon Called (2006) through Winter Lost (2024), plus the short story/novella collection Shifting Shadows (2014).
What order should I read the Mercy Thompson books in?
Publication order, starting with Moon Called. The series builds continuously, so read the numbered novels in release order; slot Shifting Shadows in after book 8 (Night Broken) if you want the stories in their loose chronological place.
Is the Mercy Thompson series finished?
No, it's ongoing. Winter Lost (book 14) came out in June 2024. Patricia Briggs has not announced a title or date for book 15 as of this writing.
Do I need to read Alpha and Omega too?
No, Mercy Thompson stands alone. Alpha and Omega is a companion series in the same world whose events increasingly overlap with Mercy's from partway through both series -- worth reading alongside Mercy Thompson if you want the full picture, but not required.
Is Mercy Thompson a standalone or does it require reading other series first?
It's a standalone starting point into Briggs's shared Mercyverse -- no prior reading required.
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