Patricia Finney Books in Order
Patricia Finney has written 34 books, published between 1977 and 2017. The first book is A Shadow of Gulls (1977) and the newest is Priced above Rubies (2017). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 34
- Published
- 1977–2017
- Confirmed
- 6 of 34 titles
- Pages on record
- 4,683 in 17 of 34 books
- Reading time
- 78–117 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,683 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 17 of 34 titles with a page count on record.
Patricia Finney is an English author and journalist who has published twenty-one novels, many set in Elizabethan times, across spy thrillers, crime novels and children's books. A Shadow of Gulls, written when Finney was 18, won the 1977 David Higham Award for Best First Novel, and BBC Radio 3 broadcast her play The Flood the same year. Finney writes as P.F. Chisholm and as Grace Cavendish, the name on the Lady Grace Mysteries. The David Becket and Simon Ames novels - Firedrake's Eye (1992), Unicorn's Blood (1998), Gloriana's Torch (2003) - sit beside the Jack books about a dog. Twenty-eight titles are catalogued.
How many Patricia Finney books are there?
Patricia Finney has 34 books, released between 1977 and 2017. They include 7 separate series.
Patricia Finney Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 34 Patricia Finney 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.
- 119773502/4
- 219783372/4
- 319922722/4
- 419942683/4
- 519952313/4
- 619962463/4
- 719984542/4
- 819982523/4
- 920001922/4
- 1020022082/4
- 1120034522/4
- 122004–2/4
- 132004–2/4
- 1420052082/4
- 1520052002/4
- 1620051882/4
- 172005–2/4
- 1820062562/4
- 1920062562/4
- 202008–2/4
- 212008–2/4
- 222009–2/4
- 232010–3/4
- 242010–2/4
- 252012–2/4
- 262013–2/4
- 272013–2/4
- 282013–2/4
- 292013–2/4
- 302013–2/4
- 312014–2/4
- 322014–2/4
- 3320143133/4
- 342017–2/4
Patricia Finney series in order
Each series linked below has its own reading-order page.
Patricia Finney 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.
David Becket and Simon Ames in order
3 booksJack in order
3 booksPatricia Finney Non-Fiction
3 books3 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Lugh Mac Romain in order
2 booksJames Enys Mysteries in order
2 booksPatricia Finney in order
1 bookPatricia Finney Standalone Novels
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Patricia Finney Short Stories/Novellas
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Do you have to read Patricia Finney books in order?
You only need to read Patricia Finney books in order within each series: the books listed here span 7 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Patricia Finney
Start with the first book of the Patricia Finney series you want to read: Lady Grace Mysteries Series as Grace Cavendish starts with Assassin (2004) and Sir Robert Carey starts with A Famine of Horses (1994). The earliest catalogued title overall is A Shadow of Gulls (1977).
What is the newest Patricia Finney book?
Priced above Rubies (2017) is the newest Patricia Finney book released so far.
Is there a new Patricia Finney book coming?
No next Patricia Finney book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Patricia Finney at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Patricia Finney title on record dates from 2017, 9 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Patricia Finney books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 4,683 pages across the 17 of 34 books with a recorded length, a median of 256 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Patricia Finney books, 14 of 34, were published in the 2000s.
What the Patricia Finney books are about
22 of the 34 Patricia Finney books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: history is tagged on 15 of 22. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- History 15 of 22 books
- Children's fiction 9 of 22 books
- Historical fiction 8 of 22 books
- Great Britain 6 of 22 books
- Diaries 5 of 22 books
- Kings and rulers 4 of 22 books
- Mystery & detective, traditional 4 of 22 books
- Mystery & detective 3 of 22 books
- Ladies-in-waiting 3 of 22 books
- Nobility 3 of 22 books