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Spencer Kope Books in Order

Spencer Kope has written 6 books, published between 1995 and 2021. The first book is When the Drummer Falls (1995) and the newest is Echoes of the Dead (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
6
Published
1995–2021
Pages on record
1,266 in 4 of 6 books
Reading time
21–32 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,266 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 4 of 6 titles with a page count on record.

See all 6 books in order Printable Spencer Kope checklist

Spencer Kope writes crime fiction around the Special Tracking Unit, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, serial murder investigation, psychic ability and tracking among the catalogued subjects. The Dead sequence runs Collecting the Dead (2016), Whispers of the Dead (2018), Shadows of the Dead (2020) and Echoes of the Dead (2021). The catalogue holds 6 titles in all, opening with When the Drummer Falls (1995) and closing with Last Ride in the Bumblebee Jacket (2021); the Battle of Gettysburg and the American Civil War also sit among its subjects.

How many Spencer Kope books are there?

Spencer Kope has 6 books, released between 1995 and 2021. 4 of them belong to the Special Tracking Unit series.

Spencer Kope Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 6 Spencer Kope 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 When the Drummer Falls by Spencer Kope (1995)
  2. Cover of Whispers of the Dead by Spencer Kope, book 2 of the Special Tracking Unit series (2018)
  3. Cover of Shadows of the Dead by Spencer Kope, book 3 of the Special Tracking Unit series (2020)
  1. 1
    When the Drummer Falls1995 · 191 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1995191
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  2. 2
    Collecting the DeadSpecial Tracking Unit #12016 · 368 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016368
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    Whispers of the DeadSpecial Tracking Unit #22018 · 323 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018323
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  4. 4
    Shadows of the DeadSpecial Tracking Unit #32020 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020384
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  5. 5
    Last Ride in the Bumblebee Jacket2021 · confirmed 2/4
    2021–
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  6. 6
    Echoes of the DeadSpecial Tracking Unit #42021 · confirmed 2/4
    2021–
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Spencer Kope 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.

Special Tracking Unit in order

4 books
  1. 1. Collecting the Dead
  2. 2. Whispers of the Dead
  3. 3. Shadows of the Dead
  4. 4. Echoes of the Dead

Standalone books

2 books

2 Spencer Kope titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Spencer Kope books in order?

You only need to read Spencer Kope books in order within the Special Tracking Unit series, which holds 4 of the 6 Spencer Kope books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Spencer Kope

Start with When the Drummer Falls (1995), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Spencer Kope book?

Echoes of the Dead (2021) is the newest Spencer Kope book released so far.

Is there a new Spencer Kope book coming?

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

Spencer Kope at a glance

Paused
No new Spencer Kope title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
Release pace
Spencer Kope books have appeared about one every 5 years on average.
Length
1,266 pages across the 4 of 6 books with a recorded length, a median of 346 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Spencer Kope books, 3 of 6, were published in the 2020s.

What the Spencer Kope books are about

3 of the 6 Spencer Kope books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: psychics is tagged on 2 of 3. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.