Jeff Lindsay Books in Order
Jeff Lindsay has written 19 books, published between 1994 and 2023. The first book is Tropical Depression (1994) and the newest is The Fourth Rule (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.
Jeff Lindsay is the pen name of Jeffry P. Freundlich.
- Books
- 19
- Published
- 1994–2023
- Confirmed
- 19 of 19 titles
- Pages on record
- 4,435 in 16 of 19 books
- Reading time
- 74–111 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,435 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 16 of 19 titles with a page count on record.
Jeff Lindsay is the pen name of Jeffry P. Freundlich, an American crime novelist and playwright. His best known creation is Dexter Morgan, a Miami police forensic analyst who is himself a psychopath and who kills serial killers. The Dexter novels begin with Darkly Dreaming Dexter in 2004, and the first of them became the Showtime television series that ran from 2006 to 2013 with Michael C. Hall in the role. Lindsay also wrote the Billy Knight novels and the Riley Wolfe thrillers. The catalogue holds 19 titles, running from Tropical Depression in 1994 to The Fourth Rule in 2023.
How many Jeff Lindsay books are there?
Jeff Lindsay has 19 books, released between 1994 and 2023. They include 5 separate series.
Jeff Lindsay Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 19 Jeff Lindsay 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.
- 119942763/4
- 219953193/4
- 319972883/4
- 419982883/4
- 520043043/4
- 620053043/4
- 720063023/4
- 820083203/4
- 920103503/4
- 1020113373/4
- 1120123523/4
- 12201313/4
- 1320141123/4
- 1420152283/4
- 1520152863/4
- 162019–3/4
- 1720203683/4
- 182022–3/4
- 192023–3/4
Jeff Lindsay series and characters in order
The character linked below has its own reading-order page.
- Dexter books in order 10 books
Jeff Lindsay books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. A group whose heading is a link has its own reading-order page; the other groups have no page of their own on this site.
Dexter books in order
8 books by Jeff LindsayRiley Wolfe in order
4 booksJeff Lindsay Standalone Novels
3 books3 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Billy Knight in order
2 booksDexter : A Graphic Novel in order
1 book- 1. Dexter
Dexter Down Under in order
1 bookDo you have to read Jeff Lindsay books in order?
You only need to read Jeff Lindsay books in order within each series: the books listed here span 5 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Jeff Lindsay
Start with Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004), the first Dexter book. The earliest catalogued title overall is Tropical Depression (1994).
What is the newest Jeff Lindsay book?
The Fourth Rule (2023) is the newest Jeff Lindsay book released so far.
Is there a new Jeff Lindsay book coming?
No next Jeff Lindsay book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Awards Jeff Lindsay has won
Wikidata records 1 award for Jeff Lindsay. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Dilys Award2005Wonfor Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Jeff Lindsay at a glance
- Paused
- No new Jeff Lindsay title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
- Release pace
- Jeff Lindsay books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 4,435 pages across the 16 of 19 books with a recorded length, a median of 303 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Jeff Lindsay books, 8 of 19, were published in the 2010s.
What the Jeff Lindsay books are about
18 of the 19 Jeff Lindsay books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: forensic scientists is tagged on 8 of 18. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Forensic scientists 8 of 18 books
- Serial murders 7 of 18 books
- Dexter Morgan (Fictitious character) 5 of 18 books
- Thrillers 5 of 18 books
- Vigilantes 5 of 18 books
- Suspense 4 of 18 books
- American literature 3 of 18 books
- Crime 3 of 18 books
- Scientists 3 of 18 books
- Amerikanisches Englisch 2 of 18 books