Warhammer Crime Timeline

Chris Wraight

A Warhammer Crime entry point built around local investigation rather than galaxy-scale war, useful for readers who want everyday Imperial rot and noir pacing.

Guy Haley

A Warhammer Crime novel with industrial and institutional pressure at the foreground, good for readers who want a grounded city-level Imperium story.

Marc Collins

A Warhammer Crime novel set in the sprawling, decaying hive-city of Varangantua, following a probator (Imperial detective) drawn into a grisly investigation where a string of killings hints at something far worse festering beneath the city's underclass. It is a noir-flavoured mystery that uses the 41st millennium as a backdrop for grounded, street-level horror and corruption rather than battlefield action.

Alec Worley

A fast-paced Warhammer Crime caper featuring the unlikely duo of a sharp-tongued ratling and a hulking ogryn as they chase a legendary artefact while dodging the bounty hunters on their trail. Lighter and more comedic in tone than most 40k fiction, it blends heist hijinks with the grimy underworld of Varangantua, though darkness still lurks beneath the humour.

Jonathan D. Beer

A Warhammer Crime novel set in a derelict industrial district of Varangantua where the death of a feared gang boss threatens to ignite a brutal turf war. An info-broker is pulled into untangling the murder and the deeper conspiracy behind it, in a gritty story of organised crime, power, and survival in the lower depths of an Imperial hive-city.

Andy Chambers

Deep in the toxic depths of the hive world Necromunda, a hardened underhive survivor is hunted through the deadly sump and ash wastes by enemies who want her dead. Her past and a buried secret drive a brutal struggle for survival amid mutants, gangers, and the lethal environment itself. An early entry in Black Library's Necromunda line, it is a gritty underhive thriller rather than a battlefield epic.

C. S. Goto

On the hive world Necromunda, Zefer Tyranus uncovers an ancient artefact that may tie his bloodline to the planet's legendary founding fathers, setting him on a perilous descent. His quest pulls him into the dangers of the underhive, where rival interests and hidden truths await. A standalone Necromunda hive-world adventure built around buried history and gang-world peril.

Will McDermott

Set in the cutthroat hives of Necromunda, this tale follows a desperate scramble for power among the noble houses and the gangs caught in their schemes. Political treachery, assassination, and gang violence collide as control of the hive becomes the prize. A Necromunda noir of intrigue and bloodshed across the spire and the underhive.

Matthew Farrer

In the squalid settlement of Junktion at the bottom of a Necromunda hive, a crippling water shortage and a string of murders push an already brutal community toward the edge. A tense investigation winds through suspicion and intrigue as the killings mount. A suspenseful, fast-moving underhive crime thriller from Black Library's Necromunda range.

Lucien Soulban

Uriah Storm braves the lethal levels of Hive Primus to recover valuable bio-implants, plunging into the dangerous heart of Necromunda. His mission offers a stark view of life and death in the hive's grim depths, where flesh itself is a commodity. A grimy Necromunda thriller centered on scavenging, body-tech, and the perils of the underhive.

Will McDermott

The roguish bounty hunter Kal Jerico is forced to work off his debts for a hive crime boss, only to find his old arch-nemesis the Cardinal Crimson entangled in the job. As the cardinal launches a fresh crusade to silence a newcomer who knows his secrets, Kal and his ragtag companions are dragged into a deadly chase through the underhive.

Nick Kyme

A neural plague tears through the depths of Necromunda's underhive, turning its victims into mindless flesh-eaters. A disgraced, drug-addled ex-enforcer named Erik Bane finds a shot at redemption when he vows to protect a desperate girl, leading a band of survivors through the ruins while dodging the spreading horde.

Will McDermott

When the ageing ruler of Necromunda is assassinated, the bounty hunter Kal Jerico is coerced into claiming the throne of the Spire. Hounded by hired killers and scheming nobles, and pressured into a marriage he never wanted, Kal begins to suspect his sudden rise hides a far darker design.

Justin D. Hill

After a brutal Goliath warlord massacres her Escher gang, the young survivor Brielle is cast into the deepest, most lethal levels of the underhive. Burning for vengeance against those who slaughtered her family, she must endure years of darkness and horror before she can hope to reach her enemies.

Josh Reynolds

Kal Jerico chases the biggest payday of his career: a fanatical Redemptionist preacher fleeing downhive in a stolen, weapon-bristling mining hauler. With his long-suffering partner Scabbs and the volatile Yolanda in tow, Kal must outrun every other bounty hunter on the trail and survive the underhive's many horrors to claim his prize.

Mike Brooks

When his settlement burns and the children of those who saved him are stolen, the lapsed House Cawdor faithful Zeke takes up the guns he swore never to touch again. His hunt for the kidnappers carries him deep downhive on a grim quest that forces him to confront fanatical zealotry and the violent man he once was.

Denny Flowers

When a long-lost dome of Hive Primus is rediscovered, nobles, Guilders and underhive scum alike scramble for the forbidden archeotech and treasures within. But the fallen dome harbors flesh-hungry horrors and an insidious madness that spreads rage among all who enter, threatening to consume not just the underhive but the wider hive itself.