Stuart Neville Books in Order
Stuart Neville has written 11 books, published between 2009 and 2025. The first book is The Twelve / The Ghosts of Belfast (2009) and the newest is Blood Like Ours (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
Stuart Neville also publishes as Haylen Beck books in order.
- Books
- 11
- Published
- 2009–2025
- Pages on record
- 3,379 in 9 of 11 books
- Reading time
- 56–84 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,379 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 9 of 11 titles with a page count on record.
Stuart Neville writes crime fiction set in Northern Ireland, catalogued under political violence, paramilitary forces and revenge. His 11 books open with The Twelve, issued in the United States as The Ghosts of Belfast (2009), and continue through Collusion (2010), Stolen Souls (2011) and Ratlines (2013). Jack Lennon is a recurring character, and the DCI Serena Flanagan novels form a second sequence. Blood Like Ours (2025) is the most recent title.
How many Stuart Neville books are there?
Stuart Neville has 11 books, released between 2009 and 2025. They include 2 series and 4 titles listed outside any series.
Stuart Neville Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 11 Stuart Neville 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.
- 120094802/4
- 220104162/4
- 320113842/4
- 4Ratlines2013 · 368 pages · confirmed 2/420133682/4
- 520143422/4
- 620153842/4
- 720163362/4
- 8The Traveller and Other Stories2020 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/420203362/4
- 9The House of Ashes2021 · confirmed 2/42021–2/4
- 10Blood Like Mine2024 · confirmed 2/42024–2/4
- 1120253332/4
Stuart Neville 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.
Jack Lennon in order
4 booksDCI Serena Flanagan in order
2 booksBlood Trilogy in order
1 bookStandalone books
4 books4 Stuart Neville titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Stuart Neville books in order?
You only need to read Stuart Neville books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Stuart Neville
Start with The Twelve / The Ghosts of Belfast (2009), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Stuart Neville book?
Blood Like Ours (2025) is the newest Stuart Neville book released so far.
Is there a new Stuart Neville book coming?
No next Stuart Neville book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Stuart Neville at a glance
- Still publishing
- Stuart Neville published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Stuart Neville books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 3,379 pages across the 9 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 368 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Stuart Neville books, 6 of 11, were published in the 2010s.
What the Stuart Neville books are about
10 of the 11 Stuart Neville books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: suspense is tagged on 4 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Suspense 4 of 10 books
- Crime 3 of 10 books
- English literature 2 of 10 books
- Ireland 2 of 10 books
- Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction 2 of 10 books
- Mystery & detective 2 of 10 books
- Northern ireland 2 of 10 books