Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Certain Blindness | 1980 | Roy Lewis | N/A |
| 2 | A Certain Blindness / The Sedleigh Hall Murder | 1980 | Roy Lewis | Buy |
| 3 | The Farming Murder | - | Roy Lewis | N/A |
| 4 | Dwell in Danger / The Farming Murder | 1982 | Roy Lewis | Buy |
| 5 | A Limited Vision / The Quayside Murder | 1983 | Roy Lewis | Buy |
| 6 | Once Dying, Twice Dead / The Diamond Murder | 1984 | Roy Lewis | Buy |
| 7 | The Geordie Murder | - | Roy Lewis | N/A |
| 8 | A Blurred Reality / The Geordie Murder | 1985 | Roy Lewis | Buy |
| 9 | Premium on Death / The Shipping Murder | 1986 | Roy Lewis | Buy |
| 10 | The Shipping Murder | 1988 | Roy Lewis | N/A |
| 11 | The Salamander Chill / The City of London Murder | 1988 | Roy Lewis | Buy |
| 12 | The Apartment Murder | - | Roy Lewis | N/A |
| 13 | A Necessary Dealing / The Apartment Murder | 1989 | Roy Lewis | Buy |
| 14 | A Kind of Transaction / The Spanish Villa Murder | 1991 | Roy Lewis | Buy |
| 15 | A Form of Death / The Marriage Murder | 2001 | Roy Lewis | Buy |
| 16 | The Nightwalker / The Wasteful Murder | 2002 | Roy Lewis | Buy |
| 17 | Phantom / The Phantom Murder | 2003 | Roy Lewis | Buy |
| 18 | Dead Man Running / The Slaughterhouse Murder | 2003 | Roy Lewis | Buy |
| 19 | Embers of the Dead / The Tattoo Murder | 2005 | Roy Lewis | Buy |
| 20 | The Football Murder | - | Roy Lewis | N/A |
| 21 | Death Squad / The Football Murder | 2007 | Roy Lewis | Buy |
| 22 | Guardian of the Dead / The Tutankhamun Murder | 2008 | Roy Lewis | Buy |
| 23 | Design for Murder / The Zodiac Murder | 2010 | Roy Lewis | Buy |
| 24 | The Tutankhamun Murder | 2025 | Roy Lewis | Buy |
The Eric Ward series is Roy Lewis’s longest-running crime fiction sequence, with 24 books published from 1980 through 2025. Ward is a solicitor whose professional life in northern England brings him into contact with criminals of all kinds, from local villains to international conspirators.
The series charts Ward’s career over decades, with each case reflecting the changing landscape of British crime and law. Several titles were reissued with alternate “murder” titles (e.g., A Certain Blindness became The Sedleigh Hall Murder) to give new readers a clearer sense of the mystery at the heart of each book.