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Penny Brannigan Books in Order

Penny Brannigan by Elizabeth J. Duncan contains 11 books, published between 2009 and 2020. The first book is The Cold Light of Mourning (2009) and the newest is On Deadly Tides (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
11
Published
2009–2020
Confirmed
11 of 11 titles
Total pages
3,110 across 11 books
Reading time
52–78 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,110 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute.

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Penny Brannigan is Elizabeth J. Duncan's mystery series, set in a Welsh town and built on an amateur investigator of that name. Beauty salon work and painting are among the recurring subjects. Eleven books run from The Cold Light of Mourning (2009) to On Deadly Tides (2020), through A Brush with Death (2010), A Killer's Christmas in Wales (2011), Slated for Death (2015) and The Marmalade Murders (2018), at a median length of 288 pages.

How many Penny Brannigan books are there?

Penny Brannigan has 11 books, released between 2009 and 2020.

Penny Brannigan Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 11 Penny Brannigan 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 The Cold Light of Mourning by Elizabeth J. Duncan, book 1 of the Penny Brannigan series (2009)
  2. Cover of A Brush with Death by Elizabeth J. Duncan, book 2 of the Penny Brannigan series (2010)
  3. Cover of A Killer's Christmas in Wales by Elizabeth J. Duncan, book 3 of the Penny Brannigan series (2011)
  4. Cover of A Small Hill to Die On by Elizabeth J. Duncan, book 4 of the Penny Brannigan series (2012)
  5. Cover of Never Laugh As a Hearse Goes By by Elizabeth J. Duncan, book 5 of the Penny Brannigan series (2013)
  6. Cover of Slated for Death by Elizabeth J. Duncan, book 6 of the Penny Brannigan series (2015)
  7. Cover of Murder on the Hour by Elizabeth J. Duncan, book 7 of the Penny Brannigan series (2016)
  8. Cover of Murder Is for Keeps by Elizabeth J. Duncan, book 8 of the Penny Brannigan series (2017)
  9. Cover of Remembering the Dead by Elizabeth J. Duncan, book 10 of the Penny Brannigan series (2019)
  10. Cover of On Deadly Tides by Elizabeth J. Duncan, book 11 of the Penny Brannigan series (2020)
  1. 1
    The Cold Light of Mourning2009 · 277 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2009277
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  2. 2
    A Brush with Death2010 · 304 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2010304
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  3. 3
    A Killer's Christmas in Wales2011 · 274 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2011274
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  4. 4
    A Small Hill to Die On2012 · 259 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2012259
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  5. 5
    Never Laugh As a Hearse Goes By2013 · 293 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2013293
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  6. 6
    Slated for Death2015 · 291 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2015291
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  7. 7
    Murder on the Hour2016 · 293 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2016293
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  8. 8
    Murder Is for Keeps2017 · 259 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2017259
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  9. 9
    The Marmalade Murders2018 · 276 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2018276
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  10. 10
    Remembering the Dead2019 · 296 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2019296
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  11. 11
    On Deadly Tides2020 · 288 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2020288
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Is there a chronological order for Penny Brannigan?

No separate chronological order is on record for Penny Brannigan, 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 Penny Brannigan books in order?

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

Where to start with Penny Brannigan

Start with The Cold Light of Mourning (2009), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Penny Brannigan book?

On Deadly Tides (2020) is the newest Penny Brannigan book released so far.

Is there a new Penny Brannigan book coming?

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

Penny Brannigan at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Penny Brannigan title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Penny Brannigan books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
3,110 pages across all 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 288 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Penny Brannigan books, 9 of 11, were published in the 2010s.

What the Penny Brannigan books are about

All 11 Penny Brannigan books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: investigation is tagged on 8 of 11. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Elizabeth J. Duncan

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

Characters in the Penny Brannigan books

The character linked below has its own reading-order page.