Roy Grace Books in Order
Peter James has written 24 Roy Grace books, published between 2005 and 2025: 22 in the Roy Grace series and 2 related titles. The first book is Dead Simple (2005) and the newest main-line book is The Hawk is Dead (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 24
- Published
- 2005–2025
- Confirmed
- 24 of 24 titles
- Pages on record
- 4,904 in 11 of 24 books
Roy Grace is a detective in the English police, and Peter James has written 24 catalogued books around him. Murder investigations, stalking and crimes against women supply the cases, worked as police procedure. Dead Simple (2005) opens the sequence, followed by Looking Good Dead (2006), Not Dead Enough (2007), Dead Man's Footsteps (2008), Dead Tomorrow (2009) and Dead Like You (2010). The Hawk is Dead is the newest entry, and short stories extend the run.
How many Roy Grace books are there?
Roy Grace has 24 books, released between 2005 and 2025. 22 of them belong to the Roy Grace series, and 2 related titles sit outside it: collections and short stories and novellas.
Roy Grace Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 24 Roy Grace books in the order they were released, 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.
- 120054804/4
- 220065264/4
- 320074854/4
- 42008–4/4
- 520095364/4
- 62010–4/4
- 72011–4/4
- 82012–4/4
- 920134094/4
- 1020144054/4
- 1120154084/4
- 1220164364/4
- 1320174194/4
- 1420184004/4
- 152019–4/4
- 1620194004/4
- 172020–3/4
- 182021–3/4
- 192021–3/4
- 202022–4/4
- 212023–3/4
- 222024–3/4
- 232024–3/4
- 242025–4/4
Roy Grace Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the books of the Roy Grace series run from Dead Simple (2005) to The Hawk is Dead (2025), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Roy Grace in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Do you have to read Roy Grace books in order?
You should read the Roy Grace series in publication order, the order of the numbered table above; the 2 related titles (collections and short stories and novellas) sit outside that sequence. The catalogue does not record whether each Roy Grace book also stands alone.
What order should you read Roy Grace books in?
Read them in publication order, starting with Dead Simple (2005), the earliest published book in the Roy Grace series. After it come Looking Good Dead (2006), Not Dead Enough (2007), Dead Man's Footsteps (2008) and Dead Tomorrow (2009); the numbered table above continues from there.
What is the newest Roy Grace book?
The Hawk is Dead (2025) is the newest book in the Roy Grace series.
Is there a new Roy Grace book coming?
No next Roy Grace book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Roy Grace at a glance
- Still running
- Roy Grace is still running, with a main-line title published as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Roy Grace books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 4,904 pages across the 11 of 24 books with a recorded length, a median of 419 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Roy Grace books, 11 of 24, were published in the 2010s.
- Corroboration
- 18 of the 24 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.
What the Roy Grace books are about
15 of the 24 Roy Grace books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: police is tagged on 11 of 15. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Police 11 of 15 books
- Mystery & detective, police procedural 8 of 15 books
- England 7 of 15 books
- Investigation 4 of 15 books
- Murder 4 of 15 books
- Crime 2 of 15 books
- Crimes against 2 of 15 books
- Mystery & detective 2 of 15 books
- Stalking 2 of 15 books
- Women 2 of 15 books
More books by Peter James
The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.
- Peter James books in order 56 books