Richard Jay Parker Books in Order

Richard Jay Parker has written 12 books, published between 2009 and 2022. The first book is Stop Me (2009) and the newest is The Removal Man (As: R.J. Parker) (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
12
Published
2009–2022
Pages on record
1,857 in 5 of 12 books

Richard Jay Parker writes suspense thrillers, with serial murders, missing persons, computer crimes, Louisiana and London among the recorded subjects. The catalogue lists 12 books from Stop Me (2009) to The Removal Man (2022), and Detective Tom Fabian is the series on record. Scare Me (2013), Stalk Me (2014), Hide and Seek (2017) and The Songbird Girls (2018) are other titles, while The Dinner Party (2019) and While You Slept (2020) carry the name R.J. Parker. Parker is marked as dormant.

How many Richard Jay Parker books are there?

Richard Jay Parker has 12 books, released between 2009 and 2022. 2 of them belong to the Detective Tom Fabian series.

Richard Jay Parker Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 12 Richard Jay Parker 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. 1
    Stop Me2009 · 386 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2009386
  2. 2
    Scare Me2013 · 361 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013361
  3. 3
    Stalk Me2014 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014384
  4. 4
    Follow You/Be My Killer2017 · confirmed 1/4
    2017
  5. 5
    Hide and Seek2017 · 326 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017326
  6. 6
    Never Say GoodbyeDetective Tom Fabian #12018 · confirmed 1/4
    2018
  7. 7
    The Songbird GirlsDetective Tom Fabian #22018 · confirmed 1/4
    2018
  8. 8
    Keep Her Safe/Truth or Dare2018 · confirmed 1/4
    2018
  9. 92019
  10. 10
    While You Slept (As: R.J. Parker)2020 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020400
  11. 112021
  12. 122022

Richard Jay Parker 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.

Detective Tom Fabian in order

2 books
  1. 1. Never Say Goodbye
  2. 2. The Songbird Girls

Standalone books

10 books

10 Richard Jay Parker titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Richard Jay Parker books in order?

You only need to read Richard Jay Parker books in order within the Detective Tom Fabian series, which holds 2 of the 12 Richard Jay Parker books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Richard Jay Parker

Start with Stop Me (2009), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Richard Jay Parker book?

The Removal Man (As: R.J. Parker) (2022) is the newest Richard Jay Parker book released so far.

Is there a new Richard Jay Parker book coming?

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

Richard Jay Parker at a glance

Paused
No new Richard Jay Parker title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Richard Jay Parker books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
1,857 pages across the 5 of 12 books with a recorded length, a median of 384 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Richard Jay Parker books, 8 of 12, were published in the 2010s.

What the Richard Jay Parker books are about

6 of the 12 Richard Jay Parker 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 3 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.