Liz Williams

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2001
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Detective Inspector Chen Novel

1 - Precious Dragon (Jun-2007)
2 - The Shadow Pavilion (Aug-2008)
3 - The Iron Khan (Mar-2010)

A Zhu Irzh & Inspector Chen Novel

Snake Agent (Aug-2005)
The Demon And The City (Aug-2006)

Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • The Ghost Sister

    The fate of a planet lies with an outcast woman and a mysterious visitor....

    In this richly imagined and thought-provoking novel, Liz Williams tells the story of a world engineered to preserve the precarious balance between animal and human. T...

  • Honeydark

    in Year's Best Fantasy 3

    The door to fantastic worlds, skewed realities, and breathtaking other realms is opened wide to you once more in this third anthology of the finest short fantasy fiction to emerge over the past year, compiled by acclaimed editor David G. Hartwell....

  • Empire of Bones

    From Liz Williams comes a bold and provocative novel of the future in which the vast Indian subcontinent, home to thousands of gods, is visited by all-powerful alien beings from a distant world of controlled, sterile perfection. But what is their pur...

  • The Poison Master

    Liz Williams is one of science fiction's boldest new writers and this novel is one of her most profound speculations on freedom, love, and human destiny. On a distant world ruled by an alien race, humanity is enslaved, having forgotten its own past a...

  • Nine Layers of Sky

    A former Soviet scientist, Elena Irinovna cleans office buildings. Ilya Muromyets is an eight-hundred-year-old remnant of Russia's glorious past. Now he's a broken man. They are brought together by a strange artifact made of an unknown metal that off...

  • Banquet of the Lords of Night

    In such novels as The Poison Master, Empire of Bones, and Nine Layers of Sky, Liz Williams sparked readers' imaginations by creating worlds at once strange and familiar. Now this bold new writer brings her best short fiction together in one stunning ...

  • Banner of Souls

    One of Spectra's most imaginative and talented authors now takes us on a phantasmagoric journey into a strange future fueled by haunt-tech: a technology which works by harnessing energy from of the realm of the dead. But who are the mysterious race k...

  • Snake Agent

    A Zhu Irzh & Inspector Chen Novel

    John Constantine meets Chow Yun-Fat in this near-future occult thriller! Detective Inspector Chen is the Singapore Three police department's snake agent - that is - the detective in charge of supernatural and mystical investigations. Chen has several...

  • The Demon And The City

    A Zhu Irzh & Inspector Chen Novel

    When Detective Inspector Chen goes on holiday, Chen's demonic partner Zhu Irzh finds himself alone in Singapore Three. The missing body of a brutally murdered socialite and the strange experiments of a well-connected, beautiful young heiress leads Zh...



  • Precious Dragon

    A Detective Inspector Chen Novel - 1

    The spell-casting detective and his demonic partner go to Hell on a fact-finding mission in this “pleasantly suspenseful . . . fantastical mystery” (Publishers Weekly).
     For years, the embarrassing secret of the Singapore Three po...

  • The Shadow Pavilion

    A Detective Inspector Chen Novel - 2

    Detective Inspector Chen is back! The Snake Agent returns in The Shadow Pavilion, the fourth Detective Inspector Chen novel from Liz Williams. When Chen’s partner, the demon Seneschal Zhu Irzh, disappears, Chen must enlist all of his allies and ass...

  • Winterborn

    in Other Earths

    ROBERT CHARLES WILSON * JEFF VANDERMEER STEPHEN BAXTER * THEODORA GOSS LIZ WILLIAMS * GENE WOLFE GREG VAN EEKHOUT * ALASTAIR REYNOLDS PAUL PARK * LUCIUS SHEPARD BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Alternate history explores the many possible directions our wo...

  • The Iron Khan

    A Detective Inspector Chen Novel - 3

    A supernatural mystery set in Singapore featuring a “detective whose beat reaches to the fringes of Heaven and Hell,” by the author of Snake Agent (Booklist).
     No mortal has ever heard of the Book, and few in Heaven even believe it ...

  • Necrochip

    “Sure, you can sleep with me,” she said, with a small, cool smile. “But only after I’m dead.”A thrilling short story set in Singapore Three, the home of Inspector Chen....

  • A Glass of Shadow

    A collection of 19 stories personally selected by the author, including two original to the collection, tales that draw aside the veils of mundane reality to reveal the hidden truths of this world and beyond. Stories that transport the reader from t...

  • Five Foot and Fearless

  • Worldsoul

    • What if being a librarian was the most dangerous job in the world? Worldsoul, a great city that forms a nexus point between Earth and the many dimensions known as the Liminality, is a place where old stories gather, where forgotten legends c...

  • Phosphorus: A Winterstrike Story

    Far across the sands of Mars, deep within the walls of a dead city, something stirs; an awakening that threatens to return a malice so ancient it is no longer remembered, except in darkest legend…  

    Winterstrike is at war and the target o...

  • Winterstrike



  • Comet Weather

    This tale of four fey sisters is “a golden slice of British rural fantasy in the tradition of Diana Wynne Jones and Tanith Lee. . . . I loved it” (Paul Cornell, New York Times"bestselling author of Witches of Lychford). Levelhead...

  • Blackthorn Winter

    Four sisters are drawn from their ordinary lives into darker realms: “Combines stellar character work with exploration of British folklore and fairy tales.” -- The Fantasy Hive Bee, Stella, Serena, and Luna are preparing for Christmas, but all i...

  • Shadows on the Hillside

    An anthology featuring stories that take the reader deep into the strangeness of the landscape, where reality flickers like summer's heat. An empty car with a door hanging open by an endless field of wheat; shimmering heat at midsummer, when somethin...

  • Bloodmind

  • Embertide

    The Fallow sisters encounter a mystery in the distant past in “another time-slipping and spirit-battling adventure. . . . Entertaining” (SciFi Mind). As the air begins to hint of spring and the Fallow sisters recover from the event...

  • The Junk-Bike Crew and Mattie's Match

    A book of enduring hope for families and children facing blood cancers like leukemia and bone marrow or stem cell transplant, The Junk-Bike Crew and Mattie's Match tells the story of a creative and tough girl named Mattie and how her community of bik...

  • WHAT'S THAT FUNNY SMELL?

    Ten-year-old James and his family worry about the stigma that surrounds cannabis and the legal implications that come with growing medicine at home but, like many children his age, James just wants to invite his friends over to play. How can James an...

  • Salt on the Midnight Fire

    “The coolest sisters in contemporary fantasy” get caught up in an otherworldly battle on the Cornish coast in this thrilling series finale (Locus). The Fallow Sisters are used to straddling the line between their ordinary lives and the magical re...

  • Rough Music

    Taking in a range of traditions from ancient Britain to the present day, a revealing look at the bristly underside of British folkloric culture.  Rough Music explores transgression and shame in British folklore and customs. It takes in a wide ar...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Liz Williams has published 28 books.

The next book by Liz Williams, Rough Music, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by Liz Williams, The Ghost Sister, was published in June 2001.

Yes. Liz Williams has 2 series.
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