Chris Ould Books in Order
Chris Ould has written 7 books, published between 1987 and 2018. The first book is Road Lines (1987) and the newest is The Fire Pit (2018). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 7
- Published
- 1987–2018
- Pages on record
- 1,759 in 5 of 7 books
- Reading time
- 29–44 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,759 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 7 titles with a page count on record.
Chris Ould writes police mysteries. Seven catalogued books span thirty years, from Road Lines in 1987 and A Kind of Sleep in 1988 to the Faroes trilogy of The Blood Strand (2016), The Killing Bay (2017) and The Fire Pit (2018). Knock Down in 2012 and The Killing Street in 2013 belong to Street Duty. Murder, gangs, family secrets, whaling and animal rights activists appear among the subjects. Nothing new has appeared since 2018.
How many Chris Ould books are there?
Chris Ould has 7 books, released between 1987 and 2018. They include 2 series and 2 titles listed outside any series.
Chris Ould Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 7 Chris Ould 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.
- 1Road Lines1987 · 243 pages · confirmed 2/419872432/4
- 2A Kind of Sleep1988 · 254 pages · confirmed 2/419882542/4
- 32012–2/4
- 420133342/4
- 52016–2/4
- 620174642/4
- 720184642/4
Chris Ould 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.
Faroes in order
3 booksStreet Duty in order
2 booksStandalone books
2 books2 Chris Ould titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Chris Ould books in order?
You only need to read Chris Ould books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Chris Ould
Start with Road Lines (1987), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Chris Ould book?
The Fire Pit (2018) is the newest Chris Ould book released so far.
Is there a new Chris Ould book coming?
No next Chris Ould book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Chris Ould at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Chris Ould title on record dates from 2018, 8 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Chris Ould books have appeared about one every 5 years on average.
- Length
- 1,759 pages across the 5 of 7 books with a recorded length, a median of 334 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Chris Ould books, 5 of 7, were published in the 2010s.
What the Chris Ould books are about
All 7 Chris Ould books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: police is tagged on 4 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Police 4 of 7 books
- Murder 3 of 7 books
- Investigation 2 of 7 books
- Mystery & detective 2 of 7 books