Stephen Booth Books in Order
Stephen Booth has written 26 books, published between 2000 and 2019. The first book is Black Dog (2000) and the newest is Drowned Lives (2019). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 26
- Published
- 2000–2019
- Confirmed
- 21 of 26 titles
- Pages on record
- 7,175 in 17 of 26 books
- Reading time
- 120–179 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 7,175 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 17 of 26 titles with a page count on record.
Stephen Booth, an English crime writer born in 1952, is the author of the Cooper and Fry series, set in Derbyshire and built around Ben Cooper and Diane Fry. The catalogue holds 26 Booth books, from Black Dog (2000) through Dancing with the Virgins (2001), Blood on the Tongue (2002) and The Dead Place (2005) to Drowned Lives (2019). No title has been added since 2019, and the run is marked as likely complete. Policewomen, murder and England appear among the subjects.
How many Stephen Booth books are there?
Stephen Booth has 26 books, released between 2000 and 2019. 19 of them belong to the Ben Cooper & Diane Fry series.
Stephen Booth Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 26 Stephen Booth 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.
- 12000–4/4
- 220014164/4
- 320024004/4
- 420035814/4
- 520045604/4
- 620056084/4
- 720065924/4
- 820074084/4
- 92007964/4
- 102009–4/4
- 1120103364/4
- 122011–4/4
- 132011–4/4
- 14The Devil's Edge2012 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/420124001/4
- 1520123844/4
- 16Dead and Buried2013 · 432 pages · confirmed 1/420134321/4
- 1720133864/4
- 18Already Dead2014 · confirmed 1/42014–1/4
- 1920143924/4
- 20The Corpse Bridge2015 · confirmed 1/42015–1/4
- 212015–4/4
- 2220173684/4
- 232017–4/4
- 24Dead Dark2018 · confirmed 1/42018–1/4
- 2520183844/4
- 2620194324/4
Stephen Booth 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.
Ben Cooper & Diane Fry in order
19 books- 1. Black Dog
- 2. Dancing with the Virgins
- 3. Blood on the Tongue
- 4. Blind to the Bones
- 5. One Last Breath
- 6. The Dead Place
- 7. Scared To Live
- 8. Dying to Sin
- 9. Claws
- 10. The Kill Call
- 11. Lost River
- 12. The Devil's Edge
- and 7 more in the table above
Stephen Booth Standalone Novels
2 books2 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Standalone books
5 books5 Stephen Booth titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Stephen Booth Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the Stephen Booth books run from Black Dog (2000) to Drowned Lives (2019), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Stephen Booth in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Do you have to read Stephen Booth books in order?
You only need to read Stephen Booth books in order within the Ben Cooper & Diane Fry series, which holds 19 of the 26 Stephen Booth books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Stephen Booth
Start with Black Dog (2000), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Stephen Booth book?
Drowned Lives (2019) is the newest Stephen Booth book released so far.
Is there a new Stephen Booth book coming?
No next Stephen Booth book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Stephen Booth at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Stephen Booth title on record dates from 2019, 7 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Stephen Booth books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 7,175 pages across the 17 of 26 books with a recorded length, a median of 400 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Stephen Booth books, 16 of 26, were published in the 2010s.
- Corroboration
- 21 of the 26 titles appear in all four independent book listings.
What the Stephen Booth books are about
20 of the 26 Stephen Booth books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: cooper, ben (fictitious character) is tagged on 16 of 20. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Cooper, ben (fictitious character) 16 of 20 books
- Fry, diane (fictitious character) 16 of 20 books
- Mystery & detective, police procedural 15 of 20 books
- England 14 of 20 books
- Ben Cooper (Fictitious character) 13 of 20 books
- Diane Fry (Fictitious character) 12 of 20 books
- Police 8 of 20 books
- Crime 6 of 20 books
- Policewomen 4 of 20 books
- Murder 2 of 20 books
- Mystery & detective 2 of 20 books
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