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Caroline Graham Books in Order

Caroline Graham has written 10 books, published between 1982 and 2004. The first book is Fire Dance (1982) and the newest is A Ghost in the Machine (2004). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
10
Published
1982–2004
Confirmed
10 of 10 titles
Pages on record
2,677 in 8 of 10 books
Reading time
45–67 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,677 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 8 of 10 titles with a page count on record.

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Chief Inspector Barnaby, with Sergeant Troy alongside, is Caroline Graham's detective, working murder cases in England. The Killings at Badger's Drift (1987) begins that series, which continues through Death of a Hollow Man (1989), Death in Disguise (1992), Written in Blood (1995) and Faithful Unto Death (1996) to A Ghost in the Machine (2004). Ten titles are catalogued in all, standalone novels included, the earliest Fire Dance (1982).

How many Caroline Graham books are there?

Caroline Graham has 10 books, released between 1982 and 2004. 7 of them belong to the Chief Inspector Barnaby series.

Caroline Graham Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 10 Caroline Graham 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 Fire Dance by Caroline Graham, book 1 of the Caroline Graham Standalone Novels series (1982)
  2. Cover of The Envy of the Stranger by Caroline Graham, book 2 of the Caroline Graham Standalone Novels series (1984)
  3. Cover of The Killings at Badger's Drift by Caroline Graham, book 1 of the Chief Inspector Barnaby series (1987)
  4. Cover of Death of a Hollow Man by Caroline Graham, book 2 of the Chief Inspector Barnaby series (1989)
  5. Cover of Death in Disguise by Caroline Graham, book 3 of the Chief Inspector Barnaby series (1992)
  6. Cover of Faithful Unto Death by Caroline Graham, book 5 of the Chief Inspector Barnaby series (1996)
  7. Cover of A Place of Safety by Caroline Graham, book 6 of the Chief Inspector Barnaby series (1999)
  8. Cover of A Ghost in the Machine by Caroline Graham, book 7 of the Chief Inspector Barnaby series (2004)
  1. 1
    Fire DanceCaroline Graham Standalone Novels #11982 · 189 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1982189
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  2. 2
    The Envy of the StrangerCaroline Graham Standalone Novels #21984 · 320 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1984320
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  3. 3
    The Killings at Badger's DriftChief Inspector Barnaby #11987 · 272 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1987272
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  4. 4
    Death of a Hollow ManChief Inspector Barnaby #21989 · 300 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1989300
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  5. 5
    Murder at Madingley GrangeCaroline Graham Standalone Novels #31990 · confirmed 3/4
    1990–
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  6. 6
    Death in DisguiseChief Inspector Barnaby #31992 · 412 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1992412
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  7. 7
    Written in BloodChief Inspector Barnaby #41995 · confirmed 3/4
    1995–
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  8. 8
    Faithful Unto DeathChief Inspector Barnaby #51996 · 400 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1996400
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  9. 9
    A Place of SafetyChief Inspector Barnaby #61999 · 288 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1999288
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  10. 10
    A Ghost in the MachineChief Inspector Barnaby #72004 · 496 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2004496
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Caroline Graham characters in order

The character linked below has its own reading-order page.

Caroline Graham 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.

Chief Inspector Barnaby in order

7 books
  1. 1. The Killings at Badger's Drift
  2. 2. Death of a Hollow Man
  3. 3. Death in Disguise
  4. 4. Written in Blood
  5. 5. Faithful Unto Death
  6. 6. A Place of Safety
  7. 7. A Ghost in the Machine

Caroline Graham Standalone Novels

3 books

3 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Do you have to read Caroline Graham books in order?

You only need to read Caroline Graham books in order within the Chief Inspector Barnaby series, which holds 7 of the 10 Caroline Graham books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Caroline Graham

Start with The Killings at Badger's Drift (1987), the first Inspector Barnaby book. The earliest catalogued title overall is Fire Dance (1982).

What is the newest Caroline Graham book?

A Ghost in the Machine (2004) is the newest Caroline Graham book released so far.

Is there a new Caroline Graham book coming?

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

Awards Caroline Graham has won

Wikidata records 1 award for Caroline Graham. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Caroline Graham at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Caroline Graham title on record dates from 2004, 22 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Caroline Graham books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
2,677 pages across the 8 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 310 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Caroline Graham books, 5 of 10, were published in the 1990s.

What the Caroline Graham books are about

9 of the 10 Caroline Graham 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 7 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.