Brad Frame Books in Order

Brad Frame by Ray Flynt contains 12 books, published between 2005 and 2022. The first book is Unforgiving Shadows (2005) and the newest is Secret Legacy (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
12
Published
2005–2022
Pages on record
2,082 in 7 of 12 books
Reading time
35–52 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,082 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 12 titles with a page count on record.

Brad Frame is a Ray Flynt mystery series with 12 books from 2005 to 2022. Catalogue subjects include private investigators, crime, murder victims' families and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Unforgiving Shadows (2005) is the first book, and Transplanted Death did not follow until 2011. Later titles include Final Juror (2015), Fatal Gambit (2018) and Deadly Fake (2020). Secret Legacy (2022) is the newest, and the series is dormant.

How many Brad Frame books are there?

Brad Frame has 12 books, released between 2005 and 2022.

Brad Frame Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 12 Brad Frame 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
    Unforgiving Shadows2005 · 312 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005312
  2. 2
    Transplanted Death2011 · 292 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011292
  3. 3
    Blood Porn2012 · 334 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2012334
  4. 4
    Lady on the Edge2014 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014272
  5. 5
    Final Juror2015 · 300 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015300
  6. 6
    Embalmed2015 · 294 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015294
  7. 7
    Yard Goat2017 · 278 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017278
  8. 8
    Fatal Gambit2018 · confirmed 1/4
    2018
  9. 9
    Code Rojo2019 · confirmed 1/4
    2019
  10. 10
    Deadly Fake2020 · confirmed 1/4
    2020
  11. 11
    Inkblot Killer2021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021
  12. 12
    Secret Legacy2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022

Is there a chronological order for Brad Frame?

No separate chronological order is on record for Brad Frame, because none of the book listings this catalogue draws on publishes one; the publication order above is the only order given.

Do you have to read Brad Frame books in order?

You should read the Brad Frame books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Brad Frame book also stands alone.

Where to start with Brad Frame

Start with Unforgiving Shadows (2005), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Brad Frame book?

Secret Legacy (2022) is the newest Brad Frame book released so far.

Is there a new Brad Frame book coming?

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

Brad Frame at a glance

Paused
No new Brad Frame title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Brad Frame books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
2,082 pages across the 7 of 12 books with a recorded length, a median of 294 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Brad Frame books, 8 of 12, were published in the 2010s.

What the Brad Frame books are about

2 of the 12 Brad Frame books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. No subject is tagged on more than one of them, so each one below describes a single book. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Ray Flynt

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.