The Recurring Cast
Character guide · 4 books · 1981 to 2006

Thomas Harris

Thriller and suspensePsychological suspense

Dr Hannibal Lecter, psychiatrist and cannibal, helps and haunts FBI profiler Will Graham and trainee agent Clarice Starling across four novels, the last of which tells his own origin.

Best estimate, compiled from series guides, publisher descriptions and reviews where available, and from memory otherwise. Book level only, not chapter level. Minor includes cameos and brief references. Each book carries a confidence rating in its tooltip. Black Sunday and Cari Mora are left out.

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Thomas Harris books in order

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Hannibal Lecter

4 books · Set in various places · story order differsPsychological suspense
  1. 1Red Dragon1981With Will GrahamBuy on Amazon
  2. 2The Silence of the Lambs1988With Clarice StarlingBuy on Amazon
  3. 3Hannibal1999With Hannibal Lecter and Clarice StarlingBuy on Amazon
  4. 4Hannibal Rising2006With Hannibal LecterBuy on Amazon

Characters

10 recurring and key characters, with the book each one first appears in.

Lecter and his hunters