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Alex Marwood Books in Order

Alex Marwood has written 5 books, published between 2008 and 2023. The first book is The Wicked Girls (2008) and the newest is The Island of Lost Girls (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
5
Published
2008–2023
Pages on record
1,155 in 3 of 5 books
Reading time
19–29 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,155 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 3 of 5 titles with a page count on record.

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Alex Marwood writes literary suspense about serial murder, missing persons and the people living next door. Five books make up the catalogue: The Wicked Girls (2008), The Killer Next Door (2013), The Darkest Secret (2016), The Poison Garden (2019) and The Island of Lost Girls (2023). Roughly four years separate one from the next, at a median of 387 pages, and nothing new has followed 2023.

How many Alex Marwood books are there?

Alex Marwood has 5 books, released between 2008 and 2023.

Alex Marwood Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 5 Alex Marwood 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.

  1. Cover of The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood (2008)
  2. Cover of The Killer Next Door by Alex Marwood (2013)
  3. Cover of The Darkest Secret by Alex Marwood (2016)
  4. Cover of The Poison Garden by Alex Marwood (2019)
  1. 1
    The Wicked Girls2008 · 378 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008378
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  2. 2
    The Killer Next Door2013 · 387 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013387
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    The Darkest Secret2016 · 390 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016390
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    The Poison Garden2019 · confirmed 2/4
    2019–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    The Island of Lost Girls2023 · confirmed 2/4
    2023–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK

Alex Marwood 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.

Standalone books

5 books

5 Alex Marwood titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Alex Marwood books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 5 Alex Marwood books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Alex Marwood

Start with The Wicked Girls (2008), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Alex Marwood book?

The Island of Lost Girls (2023) is the newest Alex Marwood book released so far.

Is there a new Alex Marwood book coming?

No next Alex Marwood book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Alex Marwood at a glance

Paused
No new Alex Marwood title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
Alex Marwood books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
Length
1,155 pages across the 3 of 5 books with a recorded length, a median of 387 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Alex Marwood books, 3 of 5, were published in the 2010s.

What the Alex Marwood books are about

4 of the 5 Alex Marwood books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: suspense is tagged on 3 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.