Nancy Grace Books in Order

Nancy Grace has written 6 books, published between 2004 and 2025. The first book is Objection! (2004) and the newest is What Happened to Ellen? (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
6
Published
2004–2025
Pages on record
1,693 in 5 of 6 books
Reading time
28–42 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,693 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 6 titles with a page count on record.

Nancy Grace is an American legal commentator and television journalist, and a former prosecutor in the Atlanta-Fulton County District Attorney's office in Georgia. Her 6 catalogued books begin with Objection!, co-written in 2004, and take in the Hailey Dean crime novels. Titles include The Eleventh Victim (2008), Death on the D-List (2010), Murder in the Courthouse (2016) and What Happened to Ellen? (2025). Subjects run to murder investigation, trials, celebrity defendants and women lawyers.

How many Nancy Grace books are there?

Nancy Grace has 6 books, released between 2004 and 2025. 3 of them belong to the Hailey Dean series.

Nancy Grace Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 6 Nancy Grace 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. 1
    Objection!2004 · 326 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004326
  2. 2
    The Eleventh VictimHailey Dean #12008 · 368 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008368
  3. 3
    Death on the D-ListHailey Dean #22010 · 342 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2010342
  4. 4
    Murder in the CourthouseHailey Dean #32016 · 273 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016273
  5. 5
    Don't Be a Victim2020 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020384
  6. 6
    What Happened to Ellen?2025 · confirmed 2/4
    2025

Nancy Grace 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.

Hailey Dean in order

3 books
  1. 1. The Eleventh Victim
  2. 2. Death on the D-List
  3. 3. Murder in the Courthouse

Standalone books

3 books

3 Nancy Grace titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Nancy Grace books in order?

You only need to read Nancy Grace books in order within the Hailey Dean series, which holds 3 of the 6 Nancy Grace books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Nancy Grace

Start with Objection! (2004), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Nancy Grace book?

What Happened to Ellen? (2025) is the newest Nancy Grace book released so far.

Is there a new Nancy Grace book coming?

No next Nancy Grace book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Nancy Grace at a glance

Still publishing
Nancy Grace published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Nancy Grace books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
Length
1,693 pages across the 5 of 6 books with a recorded length, a median of 342 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Nancy Grace books, 2 of 6, were published in the 2020s.

What the Nancy Grace books are about

5 of the 6 Nancy Grace books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: crime is tagged on 2 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.