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Caz Frear Books in Order

Caz Frear has written 4 books, published between 2017 and 2023. The first book is Sweet Little Lies (2017) and the newest is Five Bad Deeds (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
4
Published
2017–2023
Pages on record
1,184 in 3 of 4 books
Reading time
20–30 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,184 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 3 of 4 titles with a page count on record.

See all 4 books in order Printable Caz Frear checklist

Caz Frear is a British crime novelist. Sweet Little Lies won the Richard & Judy Search for a Bestseller competition in 2017 and opens a four-book catalogue, with Stone Cold Heart (2019), Shed No Tears (2020) and Five Bad Deeds (2023) following. The Cat Kinsella series runs through that catalogue. Police procedure, women sleuths, family secrets, murder, and fathers and daughters are the recurring subjects. No new Frear title has appeared since 2023.

How many Caz Frear books are there?

Caz Frear has 4 books, released between 2017 and 2023. 3 of them belong to the Cat Kinsella series.

Caz Frear Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 4 Caz Frear 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 Five Bad Deeds by Caz Frear (2023)
  1. 1
    Sweet Little LiesCat Kinsella #12017 · 480 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017480
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  2. 2
    Stone Cold HeartCat Kinsella #22019 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019336
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    Shed No TearsCat Kinsella #32020 · 368 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020368
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    Five Bad Deeds2023 · confirmed 2/4
    2023–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK

Caz Frear 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.

Cat Kinsella in order

3 books
  1. 1. Sweet Little Lies
  2. 2. Stone Cold Heart
  3. 3. Shed No Tears

Standalone books

1 book

1 Caz Frear title here is not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Caz Frear books in order?

You only need to read Caz Frear books in order within the Cat Kinsella series, which holds 3 of the 4 Caz Frear books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Caz Frear

Start with Sweet Little Lies (2017), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Caz Frear book?

Five Bad Deeds (2023) is the newest Caz Frear book released so far.

Is there a new Caz Frear book coming?

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

Caz Frear at a glance

Paused
No new Caz Frear title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
Caz Frear books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
1,184 pages across the 3 of 4 books with a recorded length, a median of 368 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Caz Frear books, 2 of 4, were published in the 2020s.

What the Caz Frear books are about

3 of the 4 Caz Frear books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: mystery & detective, police procedural is tagged on 2 of 3. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.