Sir Robert Carey Books in Order
Sir Robert Carey contains 10 books, published between 1994 and 2024. The first book is A Famine of Horses (1994) and the newest is A Taste of Witchcraft (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 10
- Published
- 1994–2024
- Confirmed
- 10 of 10 titles
- Pages on record
- 2,365 in 8 of 10 books
- Reading time
- 39–59 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,365 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 8 of 10 titles with a page count on record.
Sir Robert Carey is a historical mystery series catalogued under two credits: Patricia Finney on 6 books and P.F. Chisholm on 4. Ten titles run from A Famine of Horses (1994) to A Taste of Witchcraft (2024), taking in A Season of Knives (1995), A Surfeit of Guns (1996), A Plague of Angels (1998), A Murder of Crows (2010), An Air of Treason and A Chorus of Innocents (2014), A Clash of Spheres (2017) and A Suspicion of Silver (2018). Catalogue subjects record Great Britain, history, nobility, courts and courtiers, murder and investigation, and name Robert Carey, Earl of Monmouth, about 1560 to 1639.
How many Sir Robert Carey books are there?
Sir Robert Carey has 10 books, released between 1994 and 2024.
Sir Robert Carey Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 10 Sir Robert Carey 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.
- 1A Famine of Horses1994 · 268 pages · confirmed 3/419942683/4
- 2A Season of Knives1995 · 231 pages · confirmed 3/419952313/4
- 3A Surfeit of Guns1996 · 246 pages · confirmed 3/419962463/4
- 4A Plague of Angels1998 · 252 pages · confirmed 3/419982523/4
- 5A Murder of Crows2010 · confirmed 3/42010–3/4
- 6An Air of Treason2014 · 313 pages · confirmed 3/420143133/4
- 7A Chorus of Innocents2014 · 302 pages · confirmed 3/420143023/4
- 8A Clash of Spheres2017 · 464 pages · confirmed 3/420174643/4
- 9A Suspicion of Silver2018 · 289 pages · confirmed 3/420182893/4
- 10A Taste of Witchcraft2024 · confirmed 3/42024–3/4
Do you have to read Sir Robert Carey books in order?
You should read the Sir Robert Carey books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Sir Robert Carey book also stands alone.
Where to start with Sir Robert Carey
Start with A Famine of Horses (1994), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Sir Robert Carey book?
A Taste of Witchcraft (2024) is the newest Sir Robert Carey book released so far.
Is there a new Sir Robert Carey book coming?
No next Sir Robert Carey book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Sir Robert Carey at a glance
- Still running
- Sir Robert Carey is still running, with a title published as recently as 2024.
- Release pace
- Sir Robert Carey books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 2,365 pages across the 8 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 278 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Sir Robert Carey books, 5 of 10, were published in the 2010s.
- Attribution
- Of the 10 titles, 6 are credited to Patricia Finney and 4 to P.F. Chisholm.
What the Sir Robert Carey books are about
9 of the 10 Sir Robert Carey books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: great britain is tagged on 5 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Great Britain 5 of 9 books
- History 5 of 9 books
- Historical fiction 4 of 9 books
- Mystery & detective, traditional 4 of 9 books
- Mystery & detective, historical 3 of 9 books
- Nobility 3 of 9 books
- Courts and courtiers 2 of 9 books
- Crime 2 of 9 books
- Mystery & detective 2 of 9 books
Other series by Patricia Finney
The series linked below has its own reading-order page.