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NYPD Red Books in Order

NYPD Red contains 8 books, published between 2012 and 2025. The first book is NYPD Red (2012) and the newest is NYPD Red 8 (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
8
Published
2012–2025
Confirmed
8 of 8 titles
Pages on record
1,468 in 4 of 8 books
Reading time
24–37 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,468 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 4 of 8 titles with a page count on record.

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NYPD Red is a police procedural series by James Patterson, set among New York detectives. Eight books run from NYPD Red (2012) to NYPD Red 8 (2025), numbered in sequence apart from Red Alert (2018). Marshall Karp is credited as coauthor on two titles. Murder, criminal investigation and motion pictures recur as subjects, and the median book runs 360 pages.

How many NYPD Red books are there?

NYPD Red has 8 books, released between 2012 and 2025.

NYPD Red Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 8 NYPD Red 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. Cover of NYPD Red, book 1 of the NYPD Red series (2012)
  2. Cover of NYPD Red 2, book 2 of the NYPD Red series (2014)
  3. Cover of NYPD Red 3, book 3 of the NYPD Red series (2015)
  4. Cover of NYPD Red 4, book 4 of the NYPD Red series (2016)
  5. Cover of NYPD Red 6, book 6 of the NYPD Red series (2020)
  1. 1
    NYPD Red2012 · confirmed 4/4
    2012–
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  2. 2
    NYPD Red 22014 · confirmed 4/4
    2014–
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  3. 3
    NYPD Red 32015 · 352 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2015352
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  4. 4
    NYPD Red 42016 · 332 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2016332
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  5. 5
    Red Alert2018 · 368 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2018368
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  6. 6
    NYPD Red 62020 · 416 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2020416
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  7. 7
    NYPD Red 72022 · confirmed 4/4
    2022–
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  8. 8
    NYPD Red 82025 · confirmed 4/4
    2025–
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Do you have to read NYPD Red books in order?

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

Where to start with NYPD Red

Start with NYPD Red (2012), the earliest published title.

What is the newest NYPD Red book?

NYPD Red 8 (2025) is the newest NYPD Red book released so far.

Is there a new NYPD Red book coming?

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

NYPD Red at a glance

Still running
NYPD Red is still running, with a title published as recently as 2025.
Release pace
NYPD Red books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
1,468 pages across the 4 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 360 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most NYPD Red books, 5 of 8, were published in the 2010s.
Corroboration
8 of the 8 titles appear in all four independent book listings.
Attribution
Of the 8 titles, 7 are credited to Marshall Karp and 6 to James Patterson.

What the NYPD Red books are about

6 of the 8 NYPD Red books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: murder is tagged on 4 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

Other series by James Patterson

Each series linked below has its own reading-order page.