Dan Waddell Books in Order
Dan Waddell has written 13 books, published between 2001 and 2017. The first book is Survivor: Trust No One (2001) and the newest is Blood Underground (2017). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 13
- Published
- 2001–2017
- Pages on record
- 1,084 in 4 of 13 books
Dan Waddell's 13 catalogued books span 2001 to 2017 and cross several subjects. Early titles include Survivor: Trust No One (2001) and Who Do You Think You Are? (2004), and subject tags include the Survivor television programme, genealogy, police and serial murderers. Blood Detective is the named series, and the list also holds The Blood Detective (2008), Blood Atonement (2009), Blood Reckoning (2014) and Blood Underground (2017). How To Be a Detective, How To Be a Spy and The Wit and Wisdom of Test Match Special are also on the list.
How many Dan Waddell books are there?
Dan Waddell has 13 books, released between 2001 and 2017. 4 of them belong to the Blood Detective series.
Dan Waddell Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 13 Dan Waddell 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.
- 1Survivor: Trust No One2001 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/420012561/4
- 2Survivor - Panama2002 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/420022561/4
- 3Who Do You Think You Are?2004 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/420041921/4
- 420083801/4
- 52009–1/4
- 6How To Be a Detective2012 · confirmed 1/42012–1/4
- 72014–1/4
- 8Field of Shadows2014 · confirmed 1/42014–1/4
- 9How To Be a Spy2014 · confirmed 1/42014–1/4
- 10The Wit and Wisdom of Test Match Special2015 · confirmed 1/42015–1/4
- 11We Had Some Laughs2016 · confirmed 1/42016–1/4
- 12The Test Match Special Quiz Book2016 · confirmed 1/42016–1/4
- 132017–1/4
Dan Waddell 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.
Blood Detective in order
4 booksStandalone books
9 books9 Dan Waddell titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Dan Waddell books in order?
You only need to read Dan Waddell books in order within the Blood Detective series, which holds 4 of the 13 Dan Waddell books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Dan Waddell
Start with Survivor: Trust No One (2001), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Dan Waddell book?
Blood Underground (2017) is the newest Dan Waddell book released so far.
Is there a new Dan Waddell book coming?
No next Dan Waddell 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 Waddell at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Dan Waddell title on record dates from 2017, 9 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Dan Waddell books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 1,084 pages across the 4 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 256 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Dan Waddell books, 8 of 13, were published in the 2010s.