Alan Russell Books in Order
Alan Russell has written 19 books, published between 1990 and 2021. The first book is No Sign of Murder (1990) and the newest is The Last Good Dog (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 19
- Published
- 1990–2021
- Confirmed
- 19 of 19 titles
- Pages on record
- 4,549 in 15 of 19 books
- Reading time
- 76–114 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,549 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 15 of 19 titles with a page count on record.
Alan Russell, born June 4, 1956, is an American novelist working in mystery and suspense. The catalogue lists 19 books from No Sign of Murder (1990) to The Last Good Dog (2021). Russell's series include Gideon and Sirius, Stuart Winter, Hotel Detective and Detective Orson Cheever, plus a group of standalone novels. Recorded subjects include private investigators, police procedure, missing persons, psychological thrillers, and settings in California and Los Angeles.
How many Alan Russell books are there?
Alan Russell has 19 books, released between 1990 and 2021. They include 4 separate series.
Alan Russell Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 19 Alan Russell books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 119902423/4
- 219922513/4
- 319943043/4
- 419952913/4
- 519963723/4
- 619983463/4
- 720023703/4
- 820033713/4
- 920041163/4
- 102012–3/4
- 1120132703/4
- 1220153334/4
- 1320153483/4
- 1420163204/4
- 152017–3/4
- 1620183034/4
- 172019–4/4
- 1820213123/4
- 192021–3/4
Alan Russell books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Alan Russell Standalone Novels
6 books6 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Gideon and Sirius in order
6 booksStuart Winter in order
2 booksHotel Detective in order
2 booksDetective Orson Cheever in order
2 booksNick "Deke" Deketomis in order
1 bookDo you have to read Alan Russell books in order?
You only need to read Alan Russell books in order within each series: the books listed here span 4 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Alan Russell
Start with No Sign of Murder (1990), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Alan Russell book?
The Last Good Dog (2021) is the newest Alan Russell book released so far.
Is there a new Alan Russell book coming?
No next Alan Russell book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Alan Russell at a glance
- Paused
- No new Alan Russell title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
- Release pace
- Alan Russell books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 4,549 pages across the 15 of 19 books with a recorded length, a median of 312 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Alan Russell books, 8 of 19, were published in the 2010s.
- Corroboration
- 4 of the 19 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.
What the Alan Russell books are about
13 of the 19 Alan Russell books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: mystery & detective is tagged on 8 of 13. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Mystery & detective 8 of 13 books
- California 2 of 13 books
- Caulfield, am (fictitious character) 2 of 13 books
- Los Angeles (Calif.) 2 of 13 books
- Missing persons 2 of 13 books
- Mystery & detective, police procedural 2 of 13 books
- Police 2 of 13 books
- Psychological fiction 2 of 13 books
- Thrillers 2 of 13 books
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