Kate Summerscale Books in Order
Kate Summerscale has written 7 books, published between 1997 and 2024. The first book is The Queen of Whale Cay (1997) and the newest is The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 7
- Published
- 1997–2024
- Pages on record
- 1,745 in 5 of 7 books
- Reading time
- 29–44 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,745 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 7 titles with a page count on record.
Kate Summerscale writes narrative non-fiction, most of it drawn from British criminal and social history. Seven books are catalogued: The Queen of Whale Cay (1997), The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2008), Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace (2012), The Wicked Boy (2016), The Haunting of Alma Fielding (2020), The Book of Phobias and Manias (2022) and The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place (2024). The Suspicions of Mr Whicher was adapted as a television drama, and Summerscale took the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction in 2008. Murder, London history, eccentrics, detectives and biography recur as subjects. Summerscale, an English writer and journalist, was born in 1965.
How many Kate Summerscale books are there?
Kate Summerscale has 7 books, released between 1997 and 2024.
Kate Summerscale Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 7 Kate Summerscale 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.
- 1The Queen of Whale Cay1997 · 241 pages · confirmed 1/419972411/4
- 2The Suspicions of Mr Whicher2008 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/420084001/4
- 3Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace2012 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/420123201/4
- 4The Wicked Boy2016 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/420164001/4
- 5The Haunting of Alma Fielding2020 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/420203841/4
- 6The Book of Phobias and Manias2022 · confirmed 1/42022–1/4
- 7The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place2024 · confirmed 1/42024–1/4
Kate Summerscale 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
7 books7 Kate Summerscale titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Kate Summerscale books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 7 Kate Summerscale books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Kate Summerscale
Start with The Queen of Whale Cay (1997), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Kate Summerscale book?
The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place (2024) is the newest Kate Summerscale book released so far.
Is there a new Kate Summerscale book coming?
No next Kate Summerscale 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 Kate Summerscale has won
Wikidata records 2 awards for Kate Summerscale. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Edgar Awards2017Won
- Somerset Maugham Award1998Won
Kate Summerscale at a glance
- Still publishing
- Kate Summerscale published a book as recently as 2024.
- Release pace
- Kate Summerscale books have appeared about one every 5 years on average.
- Length
- 1,745 pages across the 5 of 7 books with a recorded length, a median of 384 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Kate Summerscale books, 3 of 7, were published in the 2020s.
What the Kate Summerscale books are about
5 of the 7 Kate Summerscale books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: biography is tagged on 2 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Biography 2 of 5 books
- London (england), history 2 of 5 books
- Murder, great britain 2 of 5 books
- Adultery 1 of 5 books
- Biographies & Memoirs 1 of 5 books
- Detectives, biography 1 of 5 books
- Divorce 1 of 5 books
- Divorce, great britain 1 of 5 books
- Eccentrics and eccentricities 1 of 5 books
- Ghosts 1 of 5 books
- Haunted houses 1 of 5 books
- History 1 of 5 books