Kia Abdullah Books in Order
Kia Abdullah has written 9 books, published between 2006 and 2025. The first book is Life, Love and Assimilation (2006) and the newest is What Happens in the Dark (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 9
- Published
- 2006–2025
- Pages on record
- 1,668 in 5 of 9 books
- Reading time
- 28–42 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,668 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 9 titles with a page count on record.
Kia Abdullah writes courtroom dramas and crime thrillers set in London. Born in 1982, Abdullah is an English novelist, journalist and travel writer whose journalism has run in The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph, The Financial Times and The New York Times, and at the BBC. The 9 catalogued books open with Life, Love and Assimilation (2006) and reach What Happens in the Dark (2025). Take It Back, Truth Be Told, Next of Kin and Those People Next Door are the HarperCollins courtroom novels, published across 2019 to 2023. Abdullah remains actively publishing.
How many Kia Abdullah books are there?
Kia Abdullah has 9 books, released between 2006 and 2025.
Kia Abdullah Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 9 Kia Abdullah 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.
- 1Life, Love and Assimilation2006 · 172 pages · confirmed 1/420061721/4
- 2Child's Play2009 · 344 pages · confirmed 1/420093441/4
- 3Don't Offer Papaya2016 · confirmed 1/42016–1/4
- 4Take It Back2019 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/420193841/4
- 5Truth Be Told2020 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/420203841/4
- 6Next of Kin2021 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/420213841/4
- 7Those People Next Door / Perfectly Nice Neighbors2023 · confirmed 1/42023–1/4
- 8Those People Next Door2024 · confirmed 1/42024–1/4
- 9What Happens in the Dark2025 · confirmed 1/42025–1/4
Kia Abdullah 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
9 books9 Kia Abdullah titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Kia Abdullah books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 9 Kia Abdullah books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Kia Abdullah
Start with Life, Love and Assimilation (2006), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Kia Abdullah book?
What Happens in the Dark (2025) is the newest Kia Abdullah book released so far.
Is there a new Kia Abdullah book coming?
No next Kia Abdullah book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Kia Abdullah at a glance
- Still publishing
- Kia Abdullah published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Kia Abdullah books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 1,668 pages across the 5 of 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 384 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Kia Abdullah books, 5 of 9, were published in the 2020s.
What the Kia Abdullah books are about
4 of the 9 Kia Abdullah books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: english literature is tagged on 3 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- English literature 3 of 4 books
- Child molesters 1 of 4 books
- Crime 1 of 4 books
- Entrapment (Criminal law) 1 of 4 books
- Legal stories 1 of 4 books
- London (England) 1 of 4 books
- Rape 1 of 4 books
- Thrillers 1 of 4 books
- Undercover operations 1 of 4 books