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Will Trent Books in Order

Will Trent appears in 15 books, published between 2006 and 2024: 14 in the Will Trent series and 1 related title. The first book is Triptych (2006) and the newest main-line book is This is Why We Lied (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
15
Published
2006–2024
Confirmed
15 of 15 titles
Pages on record
3,919 in 9 of 15 books
Reading time
65–98 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,919 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 9 of 15 titles with a page count on record.

See all 15 books in order Printable Will Trent checklist

Triptych (2006) opens a Georgia crime series by Karin Slaughter that runs to 15 books, ending for now with This is Why We Lied (2024). Atlanta and the wider state supply the settings, and the investigations bring in government investigators, policewomen and medical examiners. Sara Linton and the Grant County cast recur across the Trent novels. One book was co-written with Lee Child and carries Jack Reacher into the series.

How many Will Trent books are there?

Will Trent appears in 15 books, released between 2006 and 2024. 14 of them belong to the Will Trent series, and 1 related title sit outside it: other titles.

Will Trent Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 15 Will Trent 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.

  1. Cover of Triptych by Karin Slaughter, book 1 of the Will Trent series (2006)
  2. Cover of Fractured by Karin Slaughter, book 2 of the Will Trent series (2008)
  3. Cover of Genesis / Undone by Karin Slaughter, book 3 of the Grant County series (2009)
  4. Cover of Broken by Karin Slaughter, book 4 of the Will Trent series (2010)
  5. Cover of Snatched by Karin Slaughter, book 6 of the Will Trent series (2012)
  6. Cover of Criminal by Karin Slaughter, book 7 of the Will Trent series (2012)
  7. Cover of Busted by Karin Slaughter, book 8 of the Will Trent series (2013)
  8. Cover of Unseen by Karin Slaughter, book 9 of the Will Trent series (2013)
  9. Cover of Cleaning the Gold by Lee Child, book 12 of the Will Trent series (2019)
  10. Cover of The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter, book 12 of the Will Trent series (2019)
  11. Cover of The Silent Wife by Karin Slaughter, book 13 of the Will Trent series (2020)
  1. 1
    TriptychWill Trent #12006 · 512 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2006512
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  2. 2
    FracturedWill Trent #22008 · 528 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2008528
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  3. 3
    Genesis / UndoneGrant County #32009 · confirmed 4/4
    2009–
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  4. 4
    BrokenWill Trent #42010 · 464 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2010464
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  5. 5
    FallenWill Trent #52011 · 400 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2011400
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  6. 6
    SnatchedWill Trent #62012 · 1 pages · confirmed 4/4
    20121
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  7. 7
    CriminalWill Trent #72012 · 576 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2012576
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  8. 8
    BustedWill Trent #82013 · confirmed 4/4
    2013–
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  9. 9
    UnseenWill Trent #92013 · 382 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2013382
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  10. 10
    The Kept WomanWill Trent #102016 · 560 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2016560
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  11. 11
    Cleaning the GoldWill Trent #122019 · confirmed 4/4
    2019–
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  12. 12
    The Last WidowWill Trent #122019 · confirmed 3/4
    2019–
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  13. 13
    The Silent WifeWill Trent #132020 · 496 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2020496
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  14. 14
    After That NightWill Trent #142023 · confirmed 3/4
    2023–
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  15. 15
    This is Why We LiedWill Trent #152024 · confirmed 3/4
    2024–
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Will Trent Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the books of the Will Trent series run from Triptych (2006) to This is Why We Lied (2024), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Will Trent in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Will Trent books in order?

You should read the Will Trent series in publication order, the order of the numbered table above; the 1 related title (other titles) sit outside that sequence. The catalogue does not record whether each Will Trent book also stands alone.

What order should you read Will Trent books in?

Read them in publication order, starting with Triptych (2006), the earliest published book in the Will Trent series. After it come Fractured (2008), Broken (2010), Fallen (2011) and Snatched (2012); the numbered table above continues from there.

What is the newest Will Trent book?

This is Why We Lied (2024) is the newest book in the Will Trent series.

Is there a new Will Trent book coming?

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

Printable Will Trent Books in Order Checklist

A printable checklist of all 15 books in publication order is on the Will Trent reading checklist, with a tick box beside each title.

Will Trent at a glance

Still running
Will Trent is still running, with a main-line title published as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Will Trent books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
3,919 pages across the 9 of 15 books with a recorded length, a median of 496 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Will Trent books, 9 of 15, were published in the 2010s.
Corroboration
9 of the 15 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.
Attribution
Of the 15 titles, 14 are credited to Karin Slaughter and 1 to Lee Child.

What the Will Trent books are about

12 of the 15 Will Trent books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: thrillers is tagged on 6 of 12. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.