Catherine Aird Books in Order
Catherine Aird has written 29 books, published between 1966 and 2023. The first book is The Religious Body (1966) and the newest is Constable Country (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 29
- Published
- 1966–2023
- Pages on record
- 4,677 in 22 of 29 books
- Reading time
- 78–117 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,677 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 22 of 29 titles with a page count on record.
Detective Inspector C.D. Sloan and Constable Crosby work the murders in Catherine Aird's English police procedurals. The Religious Body (1966) opens a catalogue of 29 titles, followed by A Most Contagious Game (1967), Henrietta Who? (1968), The Stately Home Murder (1969), A Late Phoenix (1971) and His Burial Too (1973). Short stories sit alongside the novels, and the last catalogued title is Constable Country, published in 2023.
How many Catherine Aird books are there?
Catherine Aird has 29 books, released between 1966 and 2023. 27 of them belong to the Sloan and Crosby series.
Catherine Aird Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 29 Catherine Aird 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.
- 119661592/4
- 2A Most Contagious Game1967 · confirmed 2/41967–2/4
- 319681592/4
- 419691602/4
- 51971–2/4
- 619731592/4
- 71975–2/4
- 819771592/4
- 919791592/4
- 101980–2/4
- 111982–2/4
- 1219841802/4
- 1319861772/4
- 1419901822/4
- 1519931672/4
- 1619951682/4
- 1719962152/4
- 1819992272/4
- 1920002012/4
- 2020021962/4
- 21Chapter and Hearse2003 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/420033042/4
- 2220052022/4
- 2320072882/4
- 242010–2/4
- 2520132872/4
- 2620142882/4
- 2720163202/4
- 2820193202/4
- 292023–2/4
Catherine Aird 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.
Sloan and Crosby in order
27 books- 1. The Religious Body
- 1. Last Writes
- 2. Henrietta Who?
- 3. The Stately Home Murder / The Complete Steel
- 4. A Late Phoenix
- 5. His Burial Too
- 6. Slight Mourning
- 7. Parting Breath
- 8. Some Die Eloquent
- 9. Passing Strange
- 10. Last Respects
- 11. Harm's Way
- and 15 more in the table above
Standalone books
2 books2 Catherine Aird titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Catherine Aird books in order?
You only need to read Catherine Aird books in order within the Sloan and Crosby series, which holds 27 of the 29 Catherine Aird books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Catherine Aird
Start with The Religious Body (1966), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Catherine Aird book?
Constable Country (2023) is the newest Catherine Aird book released so far.
Is there a new Catherine Aird book coming?
No next Catherine Aird book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Catherine Aird at a glance
- Died
- Catherine Aird died in 2024, according to Wikidata.
- Last book
- The newest book credited to Catherine Aird on record dates from 2023.
- Release pace
- Catherine Aird books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 4,677 pages across the 22 of 29 books with a recorded length, a median of 189 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Catherine Aird books, 5 of 29, were published in the 2010s.
What the Catherine Aird books are about
26 of the 29 Catherine Aird books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: c. d. sloan (fictitious character) is tagged on 22 of 26. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- C. D. Sloan (Fictitious character) 22 of 26 books
- Police 22 of 26 books
- England 17 of 26 books
- Sloan, c. d. (fictitious character) 16 of 26 books
- Mystery & detective, traditional 11 of 26 books
- Mystery & detective, police procedural 8 of 26 books
- Mystery & detective 6 of 26 books
- Crime 3 of 26 books
- Short stories 3 of 26 books
- Anthology 2 of 26 books
- Fiction in English 2 of 26 books
- Great Britain 2 of 26 books