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Minette Walters Books in Order

Minette Walters has written 20 books, published between 1992 and 2024. The first book is The Ice House (1992) and the newest is The Players (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
20
Published
1992–2024
Pages on record
5,394 in 15 of 20 books
Reading time
90–135 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,394 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 15 of 20 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Minette Walters, author of the Black Death series

Minette Walters writes psychological crime fiction set in England: murder investigations, police work, and amateur sleuths including women journalists. The Ice House (1992) opens a catalogue of 20 books that reaches The Players (2024), by way of The Sculptress (1993), The Scold's Bridle (1994), The Shape of Snakes (2000), Acid Row (2001) and Fox Evil (2002). The Black Death series turns to historical fiction. Volumes median 369 pages, and the 2000s were Walters's heaviest decade.

How many Minette Walters books are there?

Minette Walters has 20 books, released between 1992 and 2024. 2 of them belong to the Black Death series.

Minette Walters Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 20 Minette Walters 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 The Ice House by Minette Walters (1992)
  2. Cover of The Sculptress by Minette Walters (1993)
  3. Cover of The Scold's Bridle by Minette Walters (1994)
  4. Cover of The Dark Room by Minette Walters (1995)
  5. Cover of The Breaker by Minette Walters (1998)
  6. Cover of The Tinder Box by Minette Walters (1999)
  7. Cover of The Shape of Snakes by Minette Walters (2000)
  8. Cover of Acid Row by Minette Walters (2001)
  9. Cover of The Devil's Feather by Minette Walters (2005)
  10. Cover of Chickenfeed by Minette Walters (2006)
  11. Cover of A Dreadful Murder by Minette Walters (2013)
  12. Cover of The Cellar by Minette Walters (2015)
  13. Cover of The Last Hours by Minette Walters, book 1 of the Black Death series (2017)
  14. Cover of The Turn of Midnight by Minette Walters, book 2 of the Black Death series (2018)
  1. 1
    The Ice House1992 · 306 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1992306
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  2. 2
    The Sculptress1993 · 308 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1993308
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  3. 3
    The Scold's Bridle1994 · 368 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1994368
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  4. 4
    The Dark Room1995 · 381 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1995381
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  5. 5
    The Echo1997 · 338 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1997338
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  6. 6
    The Breaker1998 · 464 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998464
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  7. 7
    The Tinder Box1999 · 124 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1999124
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  8. 8
    The Shape of Snakes2000 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2000384
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  9. 9
    Acid Row2001 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2001384
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  10. 10
    Fox Evil2002 · 379 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002379
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  11. 11
    Disordered Minds2003 · 533 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003533
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  12. 12
    The Devil's Feather2005 · 368 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005368
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  13. 13
    Chickenfeed2006 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006128
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  14. 14
    The Chameleon's Shadow2007 · 369 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007369
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  15. 15
    A Dreadful Murder2013 · confirmed 2/4
    2013–
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  16. 16
    The Cellar2015 · confirmed 2/4
    2015–
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  17. 17
    The Last HoursBlack Death #12017 · 560 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017560
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  18. 18
    The Turn of MidnightBlack Death #22018 · confirmed 2/4
    2018–
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  19. 19
    The Swift and the Harrier2021 · confirmed 2/4
    2021–
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  20. 20
    The Players2024 · confirmed 2/4
    2024–
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Minette Walters 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.

Black Death in order

2 books
  1. 1. The Last Hours
  2. 2. The Turn of Midnight

Standalone books

18 books

18 Minette Walters titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Minette Walters books in order?

You only need to read Minette Walters books in order within the Black Death series, which holds 2 of the 20 Minette Walters books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Minette Walters

Start with The Ice House (1992), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Minette Walters book?

The Players (2024) is the newest Minette Walters book released so far.

Is there a new Minette Walters book coming?

No next Minette Walters 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 Minette Walters has won

Wikidata records 3 awards and 3 nominations for Minette Walters. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Minette Walters at a glance

Still publishing
Minette Walters published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Minette Walters books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
5,394 pages across the 15 of 20 books with a recorded length, a median of 369 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Minette Walters books, 7 of 20, were published in the 2000s.

What the Minette Walters books are about

18 of the 20 Minette Walters books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: england is tagged on 6 of 18. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.