Pete Brassett Books in Order

Pete Brassett has written 20 books, published between 2013 and 2022. The first book is Clam Chowder at Lafayette and Spring (2013) and the newest is Ruse (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
20
Published
2013–2022
Pages on record
1,700 in 8 of 20 books

DI Munro and DS West carry almost all of Pete Brassett's crime fiction, a Scottish police pairing working murder cases across a long series. Twenty books run from Clam Chowder at Lafayette and Spring (2013) to Ruse (2022), with Avarice (2017) among the earlier entries. No title has appeared since 2022, and the catalogue is dormant.

How many Pete Brassett books are there?

Pete Brassett has 20 books, released between 2013 and 2022. 13 of them belong to the DI Munro & DS West series.

Pete Brassett Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 20 Pete Brassett 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. 12013
  2. 2
    The Wilder Side of Chaos2014 · confirmed 2/4
    2014
  3. 3
    Kiss the Girls2014 · confirmed 2/4
    2014
  4. 4
    Yellow Man2014 · confirmed 2/4
    2014
  5. 5
    Prayer for the Dying2014 · confirmed 2/4
    2014
  6. 6
    Brown Bread2015 · confirmed 2/4
    2015
  7. 7
    The Girl From Kilkenny2015 · confirmed 2/4
    2015
  8. 8
    SheDI Munro & DS West #12017 · 177 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017177
  9. 9
    AvariceDI Munro & DS West #22017 · 215 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017215
  10. 10
    EnmityDI Munro & DS West #32017 · 209 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017209
  11. 11
    DuplicityDI Munro & DS West #42017 · 217 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017217
  12. 12
    TerminusDI Munro & DS West #52017 · confirmed 2/4
    2017
  13. 13
    TalionDI Munro & DS West #62018 · confirmed 2/4
    2018
  14. 14
    PerditionDI Munro & DS West #72018 · confirmed 2/4
    2018
  15. 15
    RancourDI Munro & DS West #82018 · 219 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018219
  16. 16
    PenitentDI Munro & DS West #92019 · 197 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019197
  17. 17
    TurpitudeDI Munro & DS West #102019 · 229 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019229
  18. 18
    HubrisDI Munro & DS West #112020 · 237 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020237
  19. 19
    PenuryDI Munro & DS West #122021 · confirmed 2/4
    2021
  20. 20
    RuseDI Munro & DS West #132022 · confirmed 2/4
    2022

Pete Brassett 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.

DI Munro & DS West in order

13 books
  1. 1. She
  2. 2. Avarice
  3. 3. Enmity
  4. 4. Duplicity
  5. 5. Terminus
  6. 6. Talion
  7. 7. Perdition
  8. 8. Rancour
  9. 9. Penitent
  10. 10. Turpitude
  11. 11. Hubris
  12. 12. Penury
  13. and 1 more in the table above

Standalone books

7 books

7 Pete Brassett titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Pete Brassett books in order?

You only need to read Pete Brassett books in order within the DI Munro & DS West series, which holds 13 of the 20 Pete Brassett books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Pete Brassett

Start with Clam Chowder at Lafayette and Spring (2013), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Pete Brassett book?

Ruse (2022) is the newest Pete Brassett book released so far.

Is there a new Pete Brassett book coming?

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

Pete Brassett at a glance

Paused
No new Pete Brassett title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Pete Brassett books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
1,700 pages across the 8 of 20 books with a recorded length, a median of 216 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Pete Brassett books, 17 of 20, were published in the 2010s.

What the Pete Brassett books are about

2 of the 20 Pete Brassett books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: murder is tagged on 2 of 2. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Murder 2 of 2 books
  • Meurtre 1 of 2 books
  • Murder -- Fiction 1 of 2 books
  • Romans, nouvelles 1 of 2 books