Sparkle Hayter Books in Order
Sparkle Hayter has written 9 books, published between 1994 and 2023. The first book is What's a Girl Gotta Do? (1994) and the newest is A Goddamned Christmas Miracle (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 9
- Published
- 1994–2023
- Pages on record
- 1,682 in 6 of 9 books
- Reading time
- 28–42 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,682 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 9 titles with a page count on record.
Sparkle Hayter, born in 1958, is a Canadian journalist, author and stand-up comedian. Hayter took the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for best first crime novel in 1995, and in 1998 became the first winner of the UK Sherlock award for best comic detective. Robin Hudson is the recurring character on record, with women journalists, women television journalists and New York City among the subjects. Nine books run from What's a Girl Gotta Do? (1994) to A Goddamned Christmas Miracle (2023).
How many Sparkle Hayter books are there?
Sparkle Hayter has 9 books, released between 1994 and 2023. 5 of them belong to the Robin Hudson series.
Sparkle Hayter Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 9 Sparkle Hayter 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.
- 119942882/4
- 219962562/4
- 319972242/4
- 419982722/4
- 52000–2/4
- 6Naked Brunch2002 · 322 pages · confirmed 2/420023222/4
- 7Bandit Queen Boogie2004 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/420043202/4
- 8Deus Ex Machina2013 · confirmed 2/42013–2/4
- 9A Goddamned Christmas Miracle2023 · confirmed 2/42023–2/4
Sparkle Hayter 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.
Robin Hudson in order
5 booksStandalone books
4 books4 Sparkle Hayter titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Sparkle Hayter books in order?
You only need to read Sparkle Hayter books in order within the Robin Hudson series, which holds 5 of the 9 Sparkle Hayter books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Sparkle Hayter
Start with What's a Girl Gotta Do? (1994), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Sparkle Hayter book?
A Goddamned Christmas Miracle (2023) is the newest Sparkle Hayter book released so far.
Is there a new Sparkle Hayter book coming?
No next Sparkle Hayter book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Sparkle Hayter at a glance
- Paused
- No new Sparkle Hayter title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
- Release pace
- Sparkle Hayter books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
- Length
- 1,682 pages across the 6 of 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 280 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Sparkle Hayter books, 4 of 9, were published in the 1990s.
What the Sparkle Hayter books are about
7 of the 9 Sparkle Hayter books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: hudson, robin (fictitious character) is tagged on 5 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Hudson, robin (fictitious character) 5 of 7 books
- Mystery & detective 3 of 7 books
- Mystery & detective, women sleuths 3 of 7 books
- New York (N.Y.) 3 of 7 books
- Robin Hudson (Fictitious character) 3 of 7 books
- Women journalists 2 of 7 books