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DC Smith Books in Order

by Peter GraingerMystery, Thriller & Suspense

13 books from An Accidental Death (2016) to Some Sort of Justice (2026). Rated 4.6 across 30,853 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. An Accidental Death

    Book 1 2016 4.3 (7.2k)

    The story opens with the apparently accidental drowning of a sixth form student in the Norfolk countryside. As a matter of routine, or so it seems, the case passes across the desk of Detective Sergeant Smith, recently returned to work…

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  2. But for the Grace

    Book 2 2016 4.5 (3.4k)

    So when another resident of the Rosemary House care home is found dead in her chair one Saturday evening in December, no one is very surprised - not until the results of a routine...

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  3. Luck and Judgement

    Book 3 2016 4.6 (3.1k)

    When a worker goes missing from a North Sea gas platform, there seem to be just two possible explanations - it was a tragic accident or a suicide.

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  4. Persons of Interest

    Book 4 2017 4.7 (2.5k)

    In the peace and tranquility of the woods at Pinehills on a Saturday afternoon, a mobile phone begins to ring. The phone belongs to DC Smith, and it isn't unusual that the call is from Kings Lake Central police station; what is unusual is…

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  5. In This Bright Future

    Book 5 2017 4.7 (2.6k)

    Two weeks of rest and recuperation - that's what the doctor ordered. Detective Sergeant DC Smith could listen to some music, make some of his own, and maybe even catch up on his reading; he is almost looking forward to it.

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  6. The Rags of Time

    Book 6 2017 4.7 (2.3k)

    Mark Randall lay dead in a field near Lowacre long before Smith had done what he had to do in Belfast. By the time he went back to work, the investigation was well underway.

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  7. Time and Tide

    Book 7 2018 4.7 (2.3k)

    Change is afoot at Kings Lake Central police station. A most unexpected new detective inspector takes up his post this Monday morning, and the oldest detective in the place takes a momentous decision.

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  8. A Private Investigation: A DC Smith Investigation

    Book 8 2018 4.8 (2.3k)

    When 14-year-old Zoe Johnson doesn't come home on a Monday night in early December, the alarm bells in Kings Lake Central police station do not ring straight away - after all, she's from the Dockmills, one of the toughest estates in the…

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  9. The Truth

    Book 9 2021 4.8 (1.9k)

    So I think you should call him, Charlie. Call him before you come home." Charlie Hills, former desk sergeant at Kings Lake Central, is in trouble. He hasn't told Smith, his old...

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  10. The Camera Man

    Book 10 2023 4.8 (1.4k)

    Jo told him the phone call had been about a woman who wanted to have her husband declared dead. Smith thought for a moment and then said, 'Hmm. There must be a few million women in this country who feel like that.

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  11. The Late Lord Thorpe

    Book 11 2024 4.8 (1.2k)

    This is DC Smith's third investigation with the Diver and Diver Associates agency. They have been asked by a member of Norfolk's aristocracy to look into the tragic death of her younger brother, Freddie, the late Lord Thorpe of the title.

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  12. Some Sort of Justice

    Book 12 2026 4.8 (41)

    Get ready to be hooked by the thrilling and atmospheric murder mystery from the million-copy-selling crime writer: an aristocratic fatality leaves behind no body, no forensics, and enemies in the highest places...

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  13. Some Sort of Justice

    Book 17 2026 4.8 (468)

    When Caroline Thorpe succeeded in casting doubt on the verdict of the inquest into her brother’s death, she could not have anticipated what would follow.

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for DC Smith is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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