Nicholas Rhea Books in Order: All 70 books (1979

How many Nicholas Rhea books are there?

Nicholas Rhea has 70 books, released between 1979 and 2020. They include 6 series and 10 titles listed outside any series.

Nicholas Rhea Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 70 Nicholas Rhea 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.

Cover of Constable on the Hill by Nicholas Rhea, book 1 of the Constable Nick Mystery series (1979)

Cover of Portrait Of The North York Moors by Nicholas Rhea (1985)

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Nicholas Rhea characters in order

The character linked below has its own reading-order page.

Constable books in order 38 books

Nicholas Rhea 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.

Constable Nick Mystery in order

38 books

1. Constable on the Hill
2. Constable On The Prowl
3. Constable Around the Village
4. Constable Across the Moors
5. Constable in the Dale
6. Constable by the Sea
7. Constable Along the Lane
8. Constable at the Double
9. Constable Through the Meadow
10. Constable in Disguise
11. Constable Among the Heather
12. Constable by the Stream
and 26 more in the table above

Detective Superintendent Mark Pemberton in order

8 books

2. Grave Secrets
3. Family Ties
4. Suspect
5. Confession
6. Death of a Princess
7. The Sniper
8. Dead Ends
9. Murder Under the Midnight Sun

Montague Pluke in order

7 books

1. Omens of Death
2. Superstitious Death
3. A Well-Pressed Shroud
4. Garland for a Dead Maiden
5. The Curse of the Golden Trough
6. Prize Murder
7. A Full Churchyard

Assured in order

4 books

1. Some Assured
2. Rest Assured
3. Self-Assured
4. Life Assured

Maddleskirk Abbey in order

2 books

1. Murder at Maddleskirk Abbey
2. Confession at Maddleskirk Abbey

Constable Files in order

1 book

1. Constable Around the Houses

Standalone books

10 books

10 Nicholas Rhea titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Nicholas Rhea books in order?

You only need to read Nicholas Rhea books in order within each series: the books listed here span 6 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Nicholas Rhea

Start with Constable on the Hill (1979), the first Constable book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.

What is the newest Nicholas Rhea book?

Heartbeat: The Story Behind the Series (2020) is the newest Nicholas Rhea book released so far.

Is there a new Nicholas Rhea book coming?

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

Nicholas Rhea at a glance

No recent titles: The newest Nicholas Rhea title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace: Nicholas Rhea books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length: 13,157 pages across the 49 of 70 books with a recorded length, a median of 270 pages each.
Busiest decade: Most Nicholas Rhea books, 27 of 70, were published in the 1990s.

What the Nicholas Rhea books are about

38 of the 70 Nicholas Rhea books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: police is tagged on 23 of 38. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

Police 23 of 38 books
England 13 of 38 books
Aidensfield (England : Imaginary place) 9 of 38 books
Mystery & detective, police procedural 7 of 38 books
Nick Parish (Fictitious character) 7 of 38 books
Country life 6 of 38 books
Mystery & detective 6 of 38 books
Montague Pluke (Fictitious character) 4 of 38 books
Crime 3 of 38 books
Insurance agents 3 of 38 books
Manners and customs 3 of 38 books
Mark Pemberton (Fictitious character) 3 of 38 books