M.R. Hall Books in Order
M.R. Hall has written 10 books, published between 2009 and 2020. The first book is The Coroner (2009) and the newest is The Black Art of Killing (2020). Publication order is the reading order below. 8 of the 10 books listed here are in the Jenny Cooper series, which has its own page: Jenny Cooper books in order.
- Books
- 10
- Published
- 2009–2020
- Confirmed
- 10 of 10 titles
- Pages on record
- 2,925 in 7 of 10 books
- Reading time
- 49–73 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,925 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 10 titles with a page count on record.
M.R. Hall is the writing name of Matthew Hall, a British screenwriter and novelist born in 1967. Jenny Cooper, a coroner working in England, is the central figure of Hall's crime fiction, and the series opens with The Coroner (2009). Ten titles are catalogued through 2020, reaching The Black Art of Killing, and they take in suicide, criminal investigation and the work of the coroner's court. Writing Crime Fiction (2015) is Hall's short guide to the form.
How many M.R. Hall books are there?
M.R. Hall has 10 books, released between 2009 and 2020. 8 of them belong to the Jenny Cooper series.
M.R. Hall Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 10 M.R. Hall 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.
- 120094223/4
- 220094213/4
- 320114023/4
- 420124203/4
- 52012–3/4
- 620133893/4
- 720144073/4
- 8Writing Crime Fiction: An introduction: A 60-Minute MasterclassM.R. Hall Non-Fiction #12015 · confirmed 3/42015–3/4
- 920164643/4
- 102020–3/4
M.R. Hall series in order
The series linked below has its own reading-order page.
- Jenny Cooper books in order 8 books
M.R. Hall 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.
M.R. Hall Non-Fiction
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
M.R. Hall Standalone Novels
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Do you have to read M.R. Hall books in order?
You only need to read M.R. Hall books in order within the Jenny Cooper series, which holds 8 of the 10 M.R. Hall books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with M.R. Hall
Start with The Coroner (2009), the first Jenny Cooper book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.
What is the newest M.R. Hall book?
The Black Art of Killing (2020) is the newest M.R. Hall book released so far.
Is there a new M.R. Hall book coming?
No next M.R. Hall book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
M.R. Hall at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest M.R. Hall title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- M.R. Hall books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 2,925 pages across the 7 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 420 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most M.R. Hall books, 7 of 10, were published in the 2010s.
What the M.R. Hall books are about
7 of the 10 M.R. Hall books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: coroners is tagged on 6 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Coroners 6 of 7 books
- Mystery & detective 5 of 7 books
- Crime 4 of 7 books
- England 4 of 7 books
- Investigation 2 of 7 books
- Jenny Cooper (Fictitious character) 2 of 7 books