Robin Stevens Books in Order
Robin Stevens has written 17 books, published between 2014 and 2023. The first book is Murder Most Unladylike / Murder is Bad Manners (2014) and the newest is The Body in the Blitz (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 17
- Published
- 2014–2023
- Confirmed
- 17 of 17 titles
- Pages on record
- 4,674 in 14 of 17 books
- Reading time
- 78–117 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,674 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 14 of 17 titles with a page count on record.
Robin Stevens writes historical murder mysteries for children, and the catalogue counts 17 books from 2014 to 2023. Murder Most Unladylike (2014), also titled Murder is Bad Manners, is the first. Arsenic for Tea, First Class Murder, Jolly Foul Play and Mistletoe and Murder followed, and The Body in the Blitz (2023) is the newest. The Wells and Wong Mysteries, the Ministry of Unladylike Activity and the mini mysteries make up the Stevens series list, with schools and friendship among the subjects.
The Wells and Wong Mysteries are set in a girls' boarding school, where two young detectives investigate a murder on campus while navigating school life.
How many Robin Stevens books are there?
Robin Stevens has 17 books, released between 2014 and 2023. They include 3 separate series.
Robin Stevens Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 17 Robin Stevens 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.
- 1Murder Most Unladylike / Murder is Bad MannersWells and Wong Mysteries #12014 · 322 pages · confirmed 3/420143223/4
- 220153523/4
- 320153364/4
- 4The Case of the Blue VioletMurder Most Unladylike Mini Mysteries Short Stories/Novellas #12016 · 192 pages · confirmed 3/420161923/4
- 5The Case of the Deepdean VampireMurder Most Unladylike Mini Mysteries Short Stories/Novellas #22016 · confirmed 3/42016–3/4
- 620163363/4
- 720164004/4
- 820173363/4
- 920172563/4
- 1020183683/4
- 1120184163/4
- 1220194003/4
- 13The Case of the Drowned PearlMurder Most Unladylike Mini Mysteries Short Stories/Novellas #42020 · 96 pages · confirmed 4/42020964/4
- 1420204003/4
- 152021–3/4
- 162022–3/4
- 1720234643/4
Robin Stevens series and characters in order
Each link below opens a reading-order page with every book in publication order.
Robin Stevens 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.
Wells and Wong Mysteries in order
10 booksMurder Most Unladylike Mini Mysteries Short Stories/Novellas
3 books3 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Ministry of Unladylike Activity in order
2 booksLondon Eye Mysteries in order
1 bookDo you have to read Robin Stevens books in order?
You only need to read Robin Stevens books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Robin Stevens
Start with the first book of the Robin Stevens series you want to read: Murder Most Unladylike starts with Once Upon a Crime (2021) and Wells and Wong Mystery starts with Murder Most Unladylike / Murder is Bad Manners (2014). The earliest catalogued title overall is Murder Most Unladylike / Murder is Bad Manners (2014).
What is the newest Robin Stevens book?
The Body in the Blitz (2023) is the newest Robin Stevens book released so far.
Is there a new Robin Stevens book coming?
No next Robin Stevens book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Robin Stevens at a glance
- Paused
- No new Robin Stevens title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
- Release pace
- Robin Stevens books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 4,674 pages across the 14 of 17 books with a recorded length, a median of 344 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Robin Stevens books, 12 of 17, were published in the 2010s.
- Corroboration
- 3 of the 17 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.
What the Robin Stevens books are about
14 of the 17 Robin Stevens 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 8 of 14. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Mystery & detective 8 of 14 books
- Children's fiction 7 of 14 books
- Series:The-Murder-Most-Unladylike 6 of 14 books
- Murder 5 of 14 books
- Friendship 3 of 14 books
- Mystery & detective, historical 3 of 14 books
- Fiction - Mystery/ Detective 2 of 14 books
- Schools 2 of 14 books