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Gene Kerrigan Books in Order

Gene Kerrigan has written 12 books, published between 1984 and 2015. The first book is Round Up the Usual Suspects (1984) and the newest is The Scrap (2015). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
12
Published
1984–2015
Total pages
3,608 across 12 books
Reading time
60–90 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,608 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute.

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Gene Kerrigan, an Irish journalist and novelist, grew up in Cabra, Dublin. Kerrigan has written political commentary on Ireland since the 1970s for Magill magazine and the Sunday Independent, and has covered Ireland for International Socialism magazine. The Rage (2011) received the 2012 Gold Dagger as the year's best crime novel. The catalogue holds 12 books from Round Up the Usual Suspects (1984) to The Scrap (2015), including Hard Cases (1995), Little Criminals (2005), The Midnight Choir (2006) and Dark Times in the City (2009). Recorded subjects include crime, Dublin and social conditions.

How many Gene Kerrigan books are there?

Gene Kerrigan has 12 books, released between 1984 and 2015.

Gene Kerrigan Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 12 Gene Kerrigan 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 Round Up the Usual Suspects by Gene Kerrigan (1984)
  2. Cover of Another Country by Gene Kerrigan (1998)
  3. Cover of This Great Little Nation by Gene Kerrigan (1999)
  4. Cover of Never Make a Promise You Can't Break by Gene Kerrigan (2002)
  5. Cover of Little Criminals by Gene Kerrigan (2005)
  6. Cover of The Midnight Choir by Gene Kerrigan (2006)
  7. Cover of Dark Times in the City by Gene Kerrigan (2009)
  8. Cover of The Rage by Gene Kerrigan (2011)
  9. Cover of The Big Lie by Gene Kerrigan (2012)
  10. Cover of The Scrap by Gene Kerrigan (2015)
  1. 1
    Round Up the Usual Suspects1984 · 272 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1984272
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  2. 2
    Nothing But the Truth1990 · 245 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1990245
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  3. 3
    Hard Cases1995 · 333 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1995333
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  4. 4
    Another Country1998 · 223 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998223
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  5. 5
    This Great Little Nation1999 · 316 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1999316
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  6. 6
    Never Make a Promise You Can't Break2002 · 183 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002183
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  7. 7
    Little Criminals2005 · 388 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005388
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  8. 8
    The Midnight Choir2006 · 356 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006356
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  9. 9
    Dark Times in the City2009 · 316 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009316
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  10. 10
    The Rage2011 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011336
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  11. 11
    The Big Lie2012 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2012256
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  12. 12
    The Scrap2015 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015384
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Gene Kerrigan 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.

Standalone books

12 books

12 Gene Kerrigan titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Gene Kerrigan books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 12 Gene Kerrigan books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Gene Kerrigan

Start with Round Up the Usual Suspects (1984), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Gene Kerrigan book?

The Scrap (2015) is the newest Gene Kerrigan book released so far.

Is there a new Gene Kerrigan book coming?

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

Gene Kerrigan at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Gene Kerrigan title on record dates from 2015, 11 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Gene Kerrigan books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
3,608 pages across all 12 books with a recorded length, a median of 316 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Gene Kerrigan books, 4 of 12, were published in the 2000s.

What the Gene Kerrigan books are about

All 12 Gene Kerrigan books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: crime is tagged on 4 of 12. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.