Cover of The Bride Wore Black Leather

The Bride Wore Black Leather

core novel 2012 The Nightside / Secret Histories

Record

First published2012
Original language EN
Work typenovel
Canon statuscore
Reader rating4.17 (6,886 ratings, collected 2026-08-26)
Page count310
First-edition ISBN9780425256442
Internal chronology12

Synopsis

In the twelfth and final novel of the main Nightside sequence, private investigator John Taylor is preparing to marry his longtime partner Suzie Shooter and finally retire from detective work in the hidden London district. Before he can walk away for good, one last case goes badly wrong, and Taylor finds a substantial bounty placed on his own head as a result. With practically the entire Nightside now turning against him in pursuit of the reward, including, to his dismay, his own bride-to-be, Taylor is forced to fight for his life through the district he has called home for years, even as his planned wedding and retirement hang in the balance.

Where it sits

Notes

  • From the series record (The Nightside main sequence): No further main-sequence novel has been found published since The Bride Wore Black Leather (2012); a short-story collection, Tales from the Nightside (2015), exists in the same setting but is not catalogued in this admission. No confirmed major-award nomination was found for this series after a genuine search; this is an honest "none found," not an unresolved lead.

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.

  • Publication order, within the series The Nightside main sequence: position 12 of 12: previous A Hard Day's Knight (2011)
  • Internal chronology, within The Nightside / Secret Histories: position 23 of 24: previous Moonbreaker (2017) · next Night Fall (2018)

Sources

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