Betty Webb Books in Order
Betty Webb has written 18 books, published between 2001 and 2024. The first book is Desert Noir (2001) and the newest is The Clock Struck Murder (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 18
- Published
- 2001–2024
- Pages on record
- 3,892 in 14 of 18 books
- Reading time
- 65–97 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,892 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 14 of 18 titles with a page count on record.
Betty Webb, a former journalist, writes detective fiction set in Arizona, and has said that each book started from a real case. The Lena Jones series opens the catalogue with Desert Noir (2001) and gives every title the word Desert; the Gunn Zoo mysteries run alongside, from The Anteater of Death (2008) to The Llama of Death (2013). Eighteen books span 2001 to 2024, with women private investigators, zoos and Scottsdale among the subjects.
How many Betty Webb books are there?
Betty Webb has 18 books, released between 2001 and 2024. They include 3 separate series.
Betty Webb Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 18 Betty Webb 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.
- 120012662/4
- 220033122/4
- 320042882/4
- 420063462/4
- 520082502/4
- 620082772/4
- 7200912/4
- 82010–2/4
- 92012–2/4
- 102013–2/4
- 1120143922/4
- 1220152722/4
- 1320172732/4
- 1420182652/4
- 1520193282/4
- 1620202882/4
- 1720233342/4
- 182024–2/4
Betty Webb characters in order
The character linked below has its own reading-order page.
- Lena Jones books in order 10 books
Betty Webb 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.
Lena Jones Mystery in order
10 books- 1. Desert Noir
- 2. Desert Wives
- 3. Desert Shadows
- 4. Desert Run
- 5. Desert Cut
- 6. Desert Lost
- 7. Desert Wind
- 8. Desert Rage
- 9. Desert Vengeance
- 10. Desert Redemption
Gunn Zoo Mystery in order
6 booksLost in Paris in order
2 booksDo you have to read Betty Webb books in order?
You only need to read Betty Webb books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Betty Webb
Start with Desert Noir (2001), the first Lena Jones book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.
What is the newest Betty Webb book?
The Clock Struck Murder (2024) is the newest Betty Webb book released so far.
Is there a new Betty Webb book coming?
No next Betty Webb book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Betty Webb at a glance
- Still publishing
- Betty Webb published a book as recently as 2024.
- Release pace
- Betty Webb books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 3,892 pages across the 14 of 18 books with a recorded length, a median of 282 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Betty Webb books, 8 of 18, were published in the 2010s.
What the Betty Webb books are about
15 of the 18 Betty Webb 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 15. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Mystery & detective 8 of 15 books
- Crime 7 of 15 books
- Investigation 6 of 15 books
- Murder 6 of 15 books
- Mystery & detective, women sleuths 5 of 15 books
- Arizona 4 of 15 books
- Private investigators 4 of 15 books
- Zoo animals 4 of 15 books
- Zoo keepers 4 of 15 books
- Zoos 4 of 15 books
- Scottsdale (ariz.) 3 of 15 books
- Women private investigators 3 of 15 books