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Dan Smith Books in Order

Dan Smith has written 18 books, published between 2009 and 2025. The first book is Ghosts of Cincinnati (2009) and the newest is The Night House Files - The Wintermoor Lights (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
18
Published
2009–2025
Pages on record
3,048 in 10 of 18 books
Reading time
51–76 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,048 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 10 of 18 titles with a page count on record.

See all 18 books in order Printable Dan Smith checklist

Dan Smith is credited with thrillers and suspense fiction alongside children's fiction. Subject headings across the catalogued books cover survival, terrorism, travellers, clergy, and settings in Brazil and Indonesia. Dry Season (2010), Dark Horizons (2011), The Child Thief (2012), My Friend the Enemy (2013) and Big Game (2015) sit among the listed titles, and the Crooked Oak Mysteries series carries the Dan Smith name. The listing runs through to 2025 and stays open.

How many Dan Smith books are there?

Dan Smith has 18 books, released between 2009 and 2025. 4 of them belong to the Crooked Oak Mysteries series.

Dan Smith Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 18 Dan Smith 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 Dry Season by Dan Smith (2010)
  2. Cover of Dark Horizons by Dan Smith (2011)
  3. Cover of The Child Thief by Dan Smith (2012)
  4. Cover of My Friend the Enemy by Dan Smith (2013)
  5. Cover of My Brother's Secret by Dan Smith (2014)
  6. Cover of Big Game by Dan Smith (2015)
  7. Cover of Boy X by Dan Smith (2016)
  1. 1
    Ghosts of CincinnatiHaunted America #622009 · confirmed 2/4
    2009–
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  2. 2
    Dry Season2010 · 389 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2010389
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    Dark Horizons2011 · 438 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011438
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    The Child Thief2012 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2012336
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    My Friend the Enemy2013 · 305 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013305
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    Red Winter2013 · confirmed 2/4
    2013–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    Ghosts of Bobby Mackey's Music WorldHaunted America #1772013 · confirmed 2/4
    2013–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    My Brother's Secret2014 · confirmed 2/4
    2014–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    The Darkest Heart2014 · 480 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014480
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  10. 10
    Big Game2015 · 267 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015267
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  11. 11
    Boy X2016 · 289 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016289
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  12. 12
    Below Zero2018 · confirmed 2/4
    2018–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  13. 13
    She Wolf2019 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019320
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  14. 14
    The Invasion of Crooked OakCrooked Oak Mysteries #12021 · 104 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2021104
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  15. 15
    The Beast of Harwood ForestCrooked Oak Mysteries #22021 · 120 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2021120
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  16. 16
    The Horror of Dunwick FarmCrooked Oak Mysteries #32022 · confirmed 2/4
    2022–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  17. 17
    The Terror of Hilltop HouseCrooked Oak Mysteries #42023 · confirmed 2/4
    2023–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  18. 18
    The Night House Files - The Wintermoor Lights2025 · confirmed 2/4
    2025–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK

Dan Smith 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.

Crooked Oak Mysteries in order

4 books
  1. 1. The Invasion of Crooked Oak
  2. 2. The Beast of Harwood Forest
  3. 3. The Horror of Dunwick Farm
  4. 4. The Terror of Hilltop House

Haunted America in order

2 books
  1. 62. Ghosts of Cincinnati
  2. 177. Ghosts of Bobby Mackey's Music World

Standalone books

12 books

12 Dan Smith titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Dan Smith books in order?

You only need to read Dan Smith books in order within the Crooked Oak Mysteries series, which holds 4 of the 18 Dan Smith books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Dan Smith

Start with Ghosts of Cincinnati (2009), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Dan Smith book?

The Night House Files - The Wintermoor Lights (2025) is the newest Dan Smith book released so far.

Is there a new Dan Smith book coming?

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

Dan Smith at a glance

Still publishing
Dan Smith published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Dan Smith books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
3,048 pages across the 10 of 18 books with a recorded length, a median of 312 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Dan Smith books, 12 of 18, were published in the 2010s.

What the Dan Smith books are about

10 of the 18 Dan Smith books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 4 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.