Rebecca Tope Books in Order
Rebecca Tope has written 56 books, published between 1999 and 2026. The first book is A Dirty Death (1999) and the newest is The Langdale Legacy (2026). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 56
- Published
- 1999–2026
- Confirmed
- 56 of 56 titles
- Pages on record
- 11,426 in 32 of 56 books
- Reading time
- 190–286 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 11,426 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 32 of 56 titles with a page count on record.
Rebecca Tope is a British crime novelist and journalist. Four detectives hold her series together: Den Cooper, a Devon police officer; Drew Slocombe, a nurse turned undertaker; Thea Osborne, a Cotswolds house sitter; and a Lake District florist. Tope also ghost-wrote the novels drawn from the ITV series Rosemary and Thyme. Her catalogue reaches 56 books, from A Dirty Death (1999) to The Langdale Legacy (2026), and remains ongoing.
How many Rebecca Tope books are there?
Rebecca Tope has 56 books, released between 1999 and 2026. They include 7 separate series.
Rebecca Tope Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 56 Rebecca Tope 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.
- 119995123/4
- 219992933/4
- 320004803/4
- 420005083/4
- 520013433/4
- 620024483/4
- 720034483/4
- 820043493/4
- 920042883/4
- 1020052883/4
- 1120052883/4
- 122006–3/4
- 1320072703/4
- 1420083253/4
- 152008–3/4
- 1620094073/4
- 1720093833/4
- 182010–3/4
- 192011–3/4
- 2020122883/4
- 2120123843/4
- 2220132883/4
- 2320133833/4
- 242014–3/4
- 252014–3/4
- 2620143523/4
- 272014–3/4
- 282015–3/4
- 2920153193/4
- 3020153563/4
- 312016–3/4
- 3220163523/4
- 3320163563/4
- 3420173523/4
- 3520173523/4
- 3620183203/4
- 3720183503/4
- 38Sabine Baring-Gould: The Man Who Told a Thousand StoriesRebecca Tope Non-Fiction #12019 · confirmed 3/42019–3/4
- 392019–3/4
- 4020193203/4
- 4120193523/4
- 4220203203/4
- 4320203523/4
- 442021–3/4
- 452021–3/4
- 462022–3/4
- 472022–3/4
- 482023–3/4
- 492023–3/4
- 502024–3/4
- 512024–3/4
- 522025–3/4
- 532026–3/4
- 542026–3/4
- 552026–3/4
- 562026–3/4
Rebecca Tope characters in order
Each character linked below has its own reading-order page.
Rebecca Tope books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. A group whose heading is a link has its own reading-order page; the other groups have no page of their own on this site.
Thea Osborne books in order
21 books by Rebecca Tope- 1. A Cotswold Killing
- 2. A Cotswold Ordeal
- 3. Death in the Cotswolds
- 4. A Cotswold Mystery
- 5. Blood in the Cotswolds
- 6. Slaughter in the Cotswolds
- 7. Fear in the Cotswolds
- 8. A Grave in the Cotswolds
- 9. Deception in the Cotswolds
- 10. Malice in the Cotswolds
- 11. Shadows in the Cotswolds
- 12. Trouble in the Cotswolds
- and 9 more in the table above
Lake District in order
16 books- 1. The Windermere Witness
- 2. The Ambleside Alibi
- 3. The Coniston Case
- 4. The Troutbeck Testimony
- 5. The Hawkshead Hostage
- 6. The Bowness Bequest
- 7. The Staveley Suspect
- 8. The Grasmere Grudge
- 9. The Patterdale Plot
- 10. The Ullswater Undertaking
- 11. The Threlkeld Theory
- 12. The Askham Accusation
- and 4 more in the table above
Drew Slocombe in order
4 booksDen Cooper in order
3 booksRosemary & Thyme in order
3 booksRebecca Tope Standalone Novels
3 books3 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Oregon Tales in order
2 booksScorer Family Memoirs in order
2 booksCotswold Short Story
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Rebecca Tope Non-Fiction
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Do you have to read Rebecca Tope books in order?
You only need to read Rebecca Tope 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 Rebecca Tope
Start with the first book of the Rebecca Tope series you want to read: Thea Osborne starts with A Cotswold Killing (2004), Lake District Mysteries (Rebecca Tope) starts with The Windermere Witness (2012) and Lake District Mysteries (Tope) starts with The Windermere Witness (2012). The earliest catalogued title overall is A Dirty Death (1999).
What is the newest Rebecca Tope book?
The Langdale Legacy (2026) is the newest Rebecca Tope book released so far.
Is there a new Rebecca Tope book coming?
No next Rebecca Tope book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Rebecca Tope at a glance
- Still publishing
- Rebecca Tope published a book as recently as 2026.
- Release pace
- Rebecca Tope books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 11,426 pages across the 32 of 56 books with a recorded length, a median of 352 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Rebecca Tope books, 24 of 56, were published in the 2010s.
What the Rebecca Tope books are about
39 of the 56 Rebecca Tope books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: mystery & detective is tagged on 33 of 39. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Mystery & detective 33 of 39 books
- England 17 of 39 books
- Crime 14 of 39 books
- Cotswold hills (england) 10 of 39 books
- Housesitting 10 of 39 books
- Investigation 10 of 39 books
- Murder 10 of 39 books
- English literature 5 of 39 books
- Florists 4 of 39 books
- Police 3 of 39 books
- Brown, Persimmon (Fictitious character) 2 of 39 books