Roy Lewis Short Story Collections books in order

Reading order

Roy Lewis’s two short story collections, Skin Deep and The Chill of Death, were both published in 2013. They gather his shorter fiction into single volumes for readers who enjoy his crime writing in a more compact format.

Skin Deep collects stories with a focus on appearances and the ways people conceal their true nature. The Chill of Death leans more heavily into the darker side of crime fiction. Both collections came out the same year as several of Lewis’s individual short stories, suggesting a concentrated effort to make his shorter work available to readers.

Lewis had been writing crime novels since the 1960s, so by 2013 he had decades of material to draw from. These collections give a condensed look at his strengths as a storyteller without requiring readers to work through any of his novel-length mystery series first.