Will Hill Books in Order

Will Hill has written 10 books, published between 2011 and 2017. The first book is Department 19 (2011) and the newest is After the Fire (2017). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
10
Published
2011–2017
Pages on record
1,758 in 3 of 10 books

Vampires, secret service work and horror run through Will Hill's catalogue, which centres on Department 19, an imaginary organisation, and names Count Dracula among its recorded characters. Two series carry the Hill name: Department 19 and Department 19 Files. The 10 catalogued books open with Department 19 (2011) and continue through The Rising (2012), Battle Lines (2013), Zero Hour (2014) and Darkest Night (2015), with several shorter Files entries published in 2013. After the Fire (2017) closes the listing.

How many Will Hill books are there?

Will Hill has 10 books, released between 2011 and 2017. They include 2 series and 1 title listed outside any series.

Will Hill Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 10 Will Hill 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. 1
    Department 19Department 19 #12011 · confirmed 1/4
    2011
  2. 2
    The RisingDepartment 19 #22012 · 704 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2012704
  3. 3
    The Devil in No Man's LandDepartment 19 Files #12013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013
  4. 4
    The Secret History of a Teenage VampireDepartment 19 Files #22013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013
  5. 5
    Battle LinesDepartment 19 #32013 · 590 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013590
  6. 6
    Undead in the Eternal CityDepartment 19 Files #32013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013
  7. 7
    The New BloodDepartment 19 Files #42013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013
  8. 8
    Zero HourDepartment 19 #42014 · confirmed 1/4
    2014
  9. 9
    Darkest NightDepartment 19 #52015 · confirmed 1/4
    2015
  10. 10
    After the Fire2017 · 464 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017464

Will Hill 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.

Department 19 in order

5 books
  1. 1. Department 19
  2. 2. The Rising
  3. 3. Battle Lines
  4. 4. Zero Hour
  5. 5. Darkest Night

Department 19 Files in order

4 books
  1. 1. The Devil in No Man's Land
  2. 2. The Secret History of a Teenage Vampire
  3. 3. Undead in the Eternal City
  4. 4. The New Blood

Standalone books

1 book

1 Will Hill title here is not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Will Hill books in order?

You only need to read Will Hill 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 Will Hill

Start with Department 19 (2011), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Will Hill book?

After the Fire (2017) is the newest Will Hill book released so far.

Is there a new Will Hill book coming?

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

Will Hill at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Will Hill title on record dates from 2017, 9 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Will Hill books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
1,758 pages across the 3 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 590 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Will Hill books, 10 of 10, were published in the 2010s.

What the Will Hill books are about

6 of the 10 Will Hill books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 4 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.