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Quentin Bates Books in Order

Quentin Bates has written 11 books, published between 2001 and 2025. The first book is Life on the Edge (2001) and the newest is Historical Value (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
11
Published
2001–2025
Pages on record
1,573 in 5 of 11 books
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Quentin Bates writes Icelandic crime fiction in English, and is described as an English-Icelandic writer. Officer Gunnhildur is the one recorded series, built around a policewoman investigating murder in Iceland, with the country's financial crisis among the recurring subjects. Eleven books are catalogued, from Life on the Edge (2001) and Frozen Assets (2010) through Cold Comfort (2012), Chilled to the Bone (2013), Cold Steal (2014), Thin Ice (2016), Cold Breath (2018) and Cold Malice (2020) to Historical Value (2025).

How many Quentin Bates books are there?

Quentin Bates has 11 books, released between 2001 and 2025. 9 of them belong to the Officer Gunnhildur series.

Quentin Bates Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 11 Quentin Bates 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 Frozen Assets / Frozen Out by Quentin Bates, book 1 of the Officer Gunnhildur series (2010)
  2. Cover of Cold Comfort by Quentin Bates, book 2 of the Officer Gunnhildur series (2012)
  3. Cover of Chilled to the Bone by Quentin Bates, book 4 of the Officer Gunnhildur series (2013)
  4. Cover of Thin Ice by Quentin Bates, book 7 of the Officer Gunnhildur series (2016)
  1. 1
    Life on the Edge2001 · confirmed 2/4
    2001–
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  2. 2
    Frozen Assets / Frozen OutOfficer Gunnhildur #12010 · 330 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2010330
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  3. 3
    Cold ComfortOfficer Gunnhildur #22012 · confirmed 2/4
    2012–
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  4. 4
    WinterludeOfficer Gunnhildur #32013 · confirmed 2/4
    2013–
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  5. 5
    Chilled to the BoneOfficer Gunnhildur #42013 · 315 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013315
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  6. 6
    Cold StealOfficer Gunnhildur #52014 · confirmed 2/4
    2014–
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  7. 7
    SummerchillOfficer Gunnhildur #62015 · confirmed 2/4
    2015–
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  8. 8
    Thin IceOfficer Gunnhildur #72016 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016288
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  9. 9
    Cold BreathOfficer Gunnhildur #82018 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018320
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  10. 10
    Cold MaliceOfficer Gunnhildur #92020 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020320
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  11. 11
    Historical Value2025 · confirmed 2/4
    2025–
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Quentin Bates characters in order

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Quentin Bates 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.

Officer Gunnhildur in order

9 books
  1. 1. Frozen Assets / Frozen Out
  2. 2. Cold Comfort
  3. 3. Winterlude
  4. 4. Chilled to the Bone
  5. 5. Cold Steal
  6. 6. Summerchill
  7. 7. Thin Ice
  8. 8. Cold Breath
  9. 9. Cold Malice

Standalone books

2 books

2 Quentin Bates titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Quentin Bates books in order?

You only need to read Quentin Bates books in order within the Officer Gunnhildur series, which holds 9 of the 11 Quentin Bates books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Quentin Bates

Start with Frozen Assets / Frozen Out (2010), the first Gunnhildur book. The earliest catalogued title overall is Life on the Edge (2001).

What is the newest Quentin Bates book?

Historical Value (2025) is the newest Quentin Bates book released so far.

Is there a new Quentin Bates book coming?

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

Quentin Bates at a glance

Still publishing
Quentin Bates published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Quentin Bates books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
1,573 pages across the 5 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 320 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Quentin Bates books, 8 of 11, were published in the 2010s.

What the Quentin Bates books are about

6 of the 11 Quentin Bates books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: iceland is tagged on 5 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.