Luke Jennings Books in Order
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Last updated: July 14, 2026
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Luke Jennings books in publication order
15 books
Breach Candy
by Luke Jennings
1994
In Bombay, a recently retired ballerina and a television director researching a documentary move through the same uneasy world. Their separate disappointments, family pressures, and longings gradually pull their lives into contact.
Atlantic
by Luke Jennings
1995
In 1947, sixteen-year-old Cato Parkes crosses the Atlantic with his father for a dangerous heart operation in New York. On the liner Carmelia, he chases pleasure, connection, and a chance to understand the adults around him.
Beauty Story
by Luke Jennings
1998
Six months after young actress Dale Cooney disappears while filming a perfume commercial at an English castle, journalist Alison MacAteer revisits what happened. Her investigation uncovers old secrets, media pressure, and an unsettling echo from the castle's past.
Blood Knots
by Luke Jennings
2010
Luke Jennings traces a life in fishing, from childhood rivers and ponds to difficult adult expeditions. Along the way, he reflects on his father, a formative friendship with Robert Nairac, and the deeper reasons people keep returning to water.
Stars
by Luke Jennings
2013
When her father takes a job abroad, Jess is sent to the Arcadia School of Performing Arts. Away from home for the first time, she must make friends, face rivals, and discover whether she has what it takes to stay.
Stars Stealing the Show
by Luke Jennings
2013
The autumn term at Arcadia brings pantomime rehearsals and auditions for The Nutcracker. But when a series of thefts puts Jess's friend Ash under suspicion, Jess and her roommates set out to find the real culprit.
Villanelle: Hollowpoint
by Luke Jennings
2015
Villanelle is assigned to kill a Russian political firebrand whose ideas could trigger wider conflict. Waiting for her is Eve Polastri, a clever intelligence officer ready to turn one assassination into a relentless hunt.
Codename Villanelle
by Luke Jennings
2017
International assassin Villanelle kills a powerful Russian figure and draws the attention of Eve Polastri, a sharp British intelligence operative. Their pursuit races through criminal networks and political intrigue as Eve closes in on a target who refuses to be ordinary.
No Tomorrow
by Luke Jennings
2018
Eve Polastri and Villanelle are still circling each other after their worldwide chase. As powerful criminal groups and governments close in, Eve steps further into the field and toward a confrontation with the assassin she cannot forget.
Die for Me
by Luke Jennings
2020
Eve abandons her old life and heads for Russia with Villanelle, whose next targets are bigger than ever. Former hunter and assassin must face conspiracy, danger, and the far more difficult problem of building a relationship.
Panic
by Luke Jennings
2023
Four online friends and superfans of a hit television show travel to California to help its endangered star. Soon they are fleeing across the American South, pursued by police, the Russian mafia, and a violent far-right group.
Long Shot
by Luke Jennings
2025
Going freelance, Eve and Oxana investigate the theft of a prized racehorse from a Newmarket stable. What looks like a ransom job opens into a dangerous political game, while Oxana's hidden secret strains their already volatile bond.
Resurrection
by Luke Jennings
2025
Living off-grid in Russia, Eve and Oxana are pulled back toward the Twelve when Eve is taken. Villanelle's hunt leads from St Petersburg to Paris and London, where old enemies and unfinished business wait.
Blueblood
by Luke Jennings
2026
A forthcoming installment in the Killing Eve series, Blueblood returns to the high-risk world of Eve Polastri and Villanelle. Public plot details are limited, but the story continues their glamorous, dangerous run through international intrigue.
Medusa
by Luke Jennings
2026
After Eve leaves her, Oxana throws herself into a mission against a new European drug cartel. Disguised as a nanny aboard a crime boss's yacht, she heads into danger as the distance between her and Eve becomes harder to survive.
Where to start with Luke Jennings
For the original Killing Eve arc: Codename Villanelle → No Tomorrow → Die for Me
For Eve and Villanelle's later adventures: Resurrection → Long Shot → Medusa
For a contemporary standalone thriller: Panic
For quieter earlier work: Atlantic → Blood Knots
Luke Jennings sub-series and character series
Killing Eve books in order
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Villanelle: Hollowpoint
by Luke Jennings
2015Killing Eve, Book 1
Codename Villanelle
by Luke Jennings
2017Killing Eve, Book 2
No Tomorrow
by Luke Jennings
2018Killing Eve, Book 2
Die for Me
by Luke Jennings
2020Killing Eve, Book 3
Long Shot
by Luke Jennings
2025Killing Eve, Book 6
Resurrection
by Luke Jennings
2025Killing Eve, Book 5
Blueblood
by Luke Jennings
2026Killing Eve, Book 8
Medusa
by Luke Jennings
2026Killing Eve, Book 7
Killing Eve books in chronological order

Villanelle: Hollowpoint
by Luke Jennings
2015Killing Eve, Book 1
Codename Villanelle
by Luke Jennings
2017Killing Eve, Book 2
Resurrection
by Luke Jennings
2025Killing Eve, Book 5
Long Shot
by Luke Jennings
2025Killing Eve, Book 6
Medusa
by Luke Jennings
2026Killing Eve, Book 7
Blueblood
by Luke Jennings
2026Killing Eve, Book 8
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Author bio
Luke Jennings was born in 1953 and raised in Sussex, England, where lakes, rivers, and the slightly hidden worlds beneath their surfaces caught his attention early. That childhood fascination eventually fed Blood Knots, his memoir about fishing, family, friendship, and what people search for when they go quietly looking for a catch.
Before he became a novelist, Jennings trained at the Rambert School and worked as a dancer with classical and contemporary companies for about a decade. He also studied Indian languages, directed a documentary in Bombay, and developed the observational habits that would serve both his journalism and fiction.
He shifted toward writing around age 30, beginning a career that moved easily between reporting, criticism, memoir, and novels.
His journalism has appeared in The Observer, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Time, and he has worked as a dance critic. That experience shows up in his fiction through an eye for movement, performance, status, and the private calculations people make when everybody is watching.
Jennings's early novels ranged widely. Breach Candy brings a retired ballerina and a television director to Bombay. Atlantic follows a teenage boy crossing the ocean for heart surgery in 1947 and was nominated for the Booker Prize. Beauty Story turns a missing actress and an English castle into a knotty mystery.
Blood Knots, published in 2010, returns to the waters of his childhood and to his bond with his father and a mentor, Robert Nairac. It was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson and William Hill prizes. It is a book about fishing, patiently told, but it reaches well beyond tackle and technique.
Then came Villanelle. Jennings initially wrote a set of short digital episodes about a female assassin and the intelligence officer determined to track her. Those episodes became Codename Villanelle, introducing Oxana Vorontsova, known as Villanelle, and Eve Polastri, whose hunt turns into a dangerous personal connection.
The story grew into the Killing Eve novels, including No Tomorrow and Die for Me, and inspired the television series Killing Eve. Jennings has since returned to Eve and Villanelle in Resurrection, Long Shot, and Medusa. Readers come for the spy games and shifting alliances, but the uneasy bond between those two women is the real engine.
He has also written for younger readers. With his daughter Laura, he created the Stars books, set at a performing-arts boarding school. The series trades international danger for auditions, new friendships, and the nerve it takes to find your place in a crowded school.
More recently, Panic follows four online friends who are pulled from fandom into a real-world flight across America. It keeps Jennings's interest in outsiders, risky loyalties, and people refusing the roles assigned to them.
He is based in London and continues to write new Killing Eve adventures.
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