Order of Charlie Peace Books

Order of Charlie Peace Books

Charlie Peace by Robert Barnard

Charlie Peace is the protagonist in a series of crime fiction/mystery novels by English novelist Robert Barnard. Charlie is a young black detective with Scotland Yard who starts out in London, but later moves to the North.

Robert Barnard began his Charlie Peace series in 1989 with the novel Death and the Chaste Apprentice. The series lasted 11 novels, ending with the 2012 novel A Charitable Body. Below is a list of Robert Barnard’s Charlie Peace books in order of when they were originally published (which is the same as their chronological order):

Publication Order of Charlie Peace Books

Death and the Chaste Apprentice

(1989)

A Fatal Attachment

(1992)

A Hovering of Vultures

(1993)

The Bad Samaritan

(1995)

No Place of Safety

(1997)

The Corpse at the Haworth Tandoori

(1998)

Unholy Dying / Turbulent Priest

(2001)

The Bones in the Attic

(2002)

A Fall from Grace

(2007)

The Killings on Jubilee Terrace

(2009)

A Charitable Body

(2012)

Note: The novel Unholy Dying was re-issued under the title of Turbulent Priest.