Below is the complete list of Steve Higgs books in order. For each series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Albert Smith’s Culinary Capers Books
Publication Order of Albert Smith’s Mystery Thrillers Books
Publication Order of Blue Moon Appalachia Books
with Barry Napier
Publication Order of Blue Moon Australia Books
with S.C. Stokes
Publication Order of Blue Moon Investigations Books
- A Typo, a Werewolf, and Two Dopey Dachshunds (2019)
Published in 2019, A Typo, a Werewolf, and Two Dopey Dachshunds is listed as book #12 in the Blue Moon Investigations series. 
Publication Order of Blue Moon Investigations: Boston Books
with Justin Herzog
Publication Order of Blue Moon Investigations: Sacramento Books
with Alex Gates
Publication Order of DS Tony Heaton Books
Publication Order of Felicity Philips Investigates Books
Publication Order of The Isle of Wesberrey Books
with Penelope Cress
Publication Order of Lost In Time Books
with Hunter Hemsworth Higgs
Publication Order of Patricia Fisher Cruise Mystery Books
Publication Order of Patricia Fisher Mystery Adventures Books
Publication Order of Patricia Fisher: Ship’s Detective Books
Publication Order of Raider and Rapier Books
with Joseph Daniel, Bryan Arneson
Publication Order of The Realm of False Gods Books
Publication Order of Collections Books
Publication Order of Mike Atwell Mysteries Books
with Penelope Cress
Publication Order of Novels and Needles Books
with Christina Rose
About Steve Higgs
Steve Higgs is an English author best known for humorous mystery fiction that blends crime, paranormal investigation, eccentric characters, and fast-moving adventure. His most prominent series include Blue Moon Investigations, Albert Smith’s Culinary Capers, the Patricia Fisher mysteries, and several Blue Moon spin-offs. Across a large and rapidly expanding bibliography, Higgs has built a connected body of lighthearted mysteries in which murder, supernatural claims, travel, food, and comedy frequently overlap.
Before becoming a full-time novelist, Higgs served in the British Army and reached the rank of captain. He did not begin his working life in the military, however; he has described starting out as a mechanic before moving through a varied career. Creative writing had interested him from childhood, and he won a writing award at the age of ten, but fiction remained secondary to his professional life for many years.
Higgs wrote his debut novel, Paranormal Nonsense, while still serving in the Army. Published in 2017, it introduced Tempest Michaels and launched the Blue Moon Investigations series. Tempest begins with a firm conviction that supposedly supernatural events have rational explanations, making him an unusual choice for a paranormal investigator. Ghosts, vampires, witches, werewolves, monsters, and other apparent phenomena repeatedly come his way, but the comedy often comes from his determination to explain them without accepting the supernatural at face value.
Blue Moon Investigations became the foundation of Higgs’s career and eventually expanded beyond Tempest’s original cases. Amanda Harper grows into an important investigator within the main sequence, while the wider Blue Moon concept has produced spin-off series set in locations including Appalachia, Australia, Boston, and Sacramento. This expansion turned the original premise into a broader franchise built around mysteries that sit somewhere between cozy crime, urban fantasy, and comic adventure.
Higgs developed another major readership with Albert Smith’s Culinary Capers, beginning with Pork Pie Pandemonium in 2020. The series follows retired detective superintendent Albert Smith as he travels around Britain with his dog Rex while investigating crimes associated with regional foods and destinations. The titles themselves reflect the playful tone, with mysteries built around dishes and specialties such as Bakewell tart, Stilton, Yorkshire pudding, Cumberland sausage, and Cornish pasties.
The Albert Smith books combine two of Higgs’s recurring interests: competent investigators and situations that never take themselves too seriously. Albert brings decades of policing experience to the cases, while the culinary-tour structure allows each installment to introduce a different British location, local specialty, and group of suspects. The series has grown into one of Higgs’s largest bodies of work and has also produced related culinary material.
Another extensive branch of his bibliography centers on Patricia Fisher. Her adventures include cruise-ship mysteries and later investigation series in which travel, luxury settings, murder, and comic complications repeatedly collide. Like many Higgs protagonists, Patricia is surrounded by recurring characters whose relationships become as important to the appeal of the books as the individual crimes.
Higgs has continued expanding into additional series, including mysteries featuring DS Tony Heaton, Felicity Philips, and Albert Smith in more conventional thriller-oriented investigations. He has also written fantasy and supernatural fiction through projects such as The Realm of False Gods. The result is a bibliography that crosses cozy mystery, crime thriller, paranormal comedy, and urban fantasy without abandoning the brisk pacing and irreverent humor associated with his name.
Dogs are another recurring feature of Higgs’s fiction and author persona. Animal companions frequently contribute humor, personality, and occasionally useful complications to his stories, particularly in the Blue Moon and Albert Smith books.
His writing is generally less concerned with grim realism than with entertainment. Murders and dangerous situations provide the structure, but witty exchanges, unusual suspects, eccentric communities, and comic misunderstandings prevent the stories from becoming oppressively dark. Even when he moves toward thrillers or supernatural threats, the emphasis remains on momentum and character chemistry.
After retiring from military service, Higgs settled in southeastern England, an area whose countryside, towns, and history have influenced parts of his fiction. What began with Paranormal Nonsense developed into an unusually prolific independent-writing career, with numerous continuing series and spin-offs. His defining achievement has been turning a simple comic premise—a skeptic investigating things everyone else thinks are supernatural—into a much wider mystery universe populated by detectives, retirees, travelers, dogs, criminals, and characters who rarely manage to encounter an ordinary day.