Doug Richardson Books in Order
Doug Richardson has written 8 books, published between 1997 and 2019. The first book is Dark Horse (1997) and the newest is Hip Slick and Dead (2019). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 8
- Published
- 1997–2019
- Pages on record
- 2,600 in 7 of 8 books
- Reading time
- 43–65 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,600 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 8 titles with a page count on record.
Doug Richardson is an American screenwriter and novelist working in action and thriller territory. Richardson wrote the films Die Hard 2, Bad Boys and Hostage, and was the first Hollywood screenwriter to sell a spec script for a million dollars. The 8 catalogued books run from Dark Horse (1997) to Hip Slick and Dead (2019), with the Lucky Dey series among them. Subjects record thrillers, suspense and mystery and detective fiction. True Believers, The Safety Expert, Blood Money, 99 Percent Kill, The Smoking Gun and The Night is Never Black complete the list.
How many Doug Richardson books are there?
Doug Richardson has 8 books, released between 1997 and 2019. 4 of them belong to the Lucky Dey series.
Doug Richardson Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 8 Doug Richardson 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.
- 1Dark Horse1997 · confirmed 1/41997–1/4
- 2True Believers1999 · 528 pages · confirmed 1/419995281/4
- 3The Safety Expert2011 · 330 pages · confirmed 1/420113301/4
- 420133441/4
- 5The Smoking Gun2015 · 286 pages · confirmed 1/420152861/4
- 620153741/4
- 720183541/4
- 820193841/4
Doug Richardson 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.
Lucky Dey in order
4 booksStandalone books
4 books4 Doug Richardson titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Doug Richardson books in order?
You only need to read Doug Richardson books in order within the Lucky Dey series, which holds 4 of the 8 Doug Richardson books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Doug Richardson
Start with Dark Horse (1997), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Doug Richardson book?
Hip Slick and Dead (2019) is the newest Doug Richardson book released so far.
Is there a new Doug Richardson book coming?
No next Doug Richardson book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Doug Richardson at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Doug Richardson title on record dates from 2019, 7 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Doug Richardson books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 2,600 pages across the 7 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 354 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Doug Richardson books, 6 of 8, were published in the 2010s.
What the Doug Richardson books are about
5 of the 8 Doug Richardson books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: thrillers is tagged on 4 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Thrillers 4 of 5 books
- Suspense 2 of 5 books
- Mystery & detective 1 of 5 books