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Nicola Upson Books in Order

Nicola Upson has written 13 books, published between 2008 and 2025. The first book is An Expert in Murder (2008) and the newest is The Christmas Clue (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
13
Published
2008–2025
Confirmed
13 of 13 titles
Pages on record
2,291 in 7 of 13 books
Reading time
38–57 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,291 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 13 titles with a page count on record.

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Nicola Upson is a British crime novelist known for the Josephine Tey mysteries, which cast a fictionalised version of the author Josephine Tey as the detective. The series opens with An Expert in Murder (2008) and runs through Two for Sorrow (2010), Fear in the Sunlight (2012), Nine Lessons (2017) and Sorry for the Dead (2019). Upson's 13 catalogued books reach The Christmas Clue (2025) and include standalone work such as Stanley and Elsie (2019).

How many Nicola Upson books are there?

Nicola Upson has 13 books, released between 2008 and 2025. 11 of them belong to the Josephine Tey series.

Nicola Upson Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 13 Nicola Upson 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 An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson, book 1 of the Josephine Tey series (2008)
  2. Cover of Angel with Two Faces by Nicola Upson, book 2 of the Josephine Tey series (2009)
  3. Cover of Two for Sorrow by Nicola Upson, book 3 of the Josephine Tey series (2010)
  4. Cover of Fear in the Sunlight by Nicola Upson, book 4 of the Josephine Tey series (2012)
  5. Cover of The Death of Lucy Kyte by Nicola Upson, book 5 of the Josephine Tey series (2013)
  6. Cover of London Rain by Nicola Upson, book 6 of the Josephine Tey series (2015)
  7. Cover of Sorry for the Dead by Nicola Upson, book 8 of the Josephine Tey series (2019)
  1. 1
    An Expert in MurderJosephine Tey #12008 · 320 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2008320
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  2. 2
    Angel with Two FacesJosephine Tey #22009 · confirmed 3/4
    2009–
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  3. 3
    Two for SorrowJosephine Tey #32010 · 488 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2010488
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  4. 4
    Fear in the SunlightJosephine Tey #42012 · confirmed 3/4
    2012–
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  5. 5
    The Death of Lucy KyteJosephine Tey #52013 · 346 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2013346
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    London RainJosephine Tey #62015 · confirmed 3/4
    2015–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    Nine LessonsJosephine Tey #72017 · 307 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2017307
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  8. 8
    Stanley and ElsieNicola Upson Standalone Novels #12019 · 366 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2019366
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    Sorry for the DeadJosephine Tey #82019 · 320 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2019320
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  10. 10
    The Secrets of Winter / Dead of WinterJosephine Tey #92020 · confirmed 3/4
    2020–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  11. 11
    Dear Little CorpsesJosephine Tey #102022 · confirmed 3/4
    2022–
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  12. 12
    Shot With CrimsonJosephine Tey #112023 · confirmed 3/4
    2023–
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  13. 13
    The Christmas ClueNicola Upson Standalone Novels #22025 · 144 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2025144
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Nicola Upson characters in order

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

Nicola Upson 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.

Josephine Tey in order

11 books
  1. 1. An Expert in Murder
  2. 2. Angel with Two Faces
  3. 3. Two for Sorrow
  4. 4. Fear in the Sunlight
  5. 5. The Death of Lucy Kyte
  6. 6. London Rain
  7. 7. Nine Lessons
  8. 8. Sorry for the Dead
  9. 9. The Secrets of Winter / Dead of Winter
  10. 10. Dear Little Corpses
  11. 11. Shot With Crimson

Nicola Upson Standalone Novels

2 books

2 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Do you have to read Nicola Upson books in order?

You only need to read Nicola Upson books in order within the Josephine Tey series, which holds 11 of the 13 Nicola Upson books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Nicola Upson

Start with An Expert in Murder (2008), the first Josephine Tey Mysteries book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.

What is the newest Nicola Upson book?

The Christmas Clue (2025) is the newest Nicola Upson book released so far.

Is there a new Nicola Upson book coming?

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

Nicola Upson at a glance

Still publishing
Nicola Upson published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Nicola Upson books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
2,291 pages across the 7 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 320 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Nicola Upson books, 7 of 13, were published in the 2010s.

What the Nicola Upson books are about

8 of the 13 Nicola Upson 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 4 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.