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Isabella Rose
The Isabella Rose series by Mark Dawson has 6 known books (6 published) and is best read in publication order, starting with The Angel (2015).
- Books
- 6 known books (6 novels)
- Published
- 6
- First published
- 2015
- Status
- ongoing
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- Thriller
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Start here: The Angel (2015) — then read straight through in publication order.
Reading order
The date order of published books and any announced future entries — the default way to read the series.
- Book 1:
The Angel
The Angel (2015) opens the series at 311 pages, introducing Beatrix Rose's daughter as she's recruited from opera training into Michael Pope's clandestine world.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of The Angel - Book 2:
The Asset
The Asset , published in 2016 at 352 pages, continues Isabella's development from a talented but untested asset into a genuine field operative, a year after The Angel introduced her recruitment.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of The Asset - Book 3:
The Agent
The Agent , at 398 pages the longest of the six so far, arrived in 2017, continuing Isabella's training within Group Fifteen alongside occasional crossover contact with Michael Pope and other established characters from Dawson's wider universe.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of The Agent - Book 4:
The Assassin
The Assassin , published in 2018 at 364 pages, closes out the series' first four-year run of annual releases, pushing Isabella further along the question of whether she's repeating her mother's path by choice or by inheritance.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of The Assassin - Book 5:
The Avenger
The Avenger arrived in 2022, four years after The Assassin , at 472 pages -- the longest Isabella Rose novel yet, continuing Isabella's harder-edged evolution within the Group Fifteen world she shares with John Milton and her mother, Beatrix Rose.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of The Avenger - Book 6:
Pretty Face
Pretty Face , published in 2025 at 448 pages, is the sixth and most recent Isabella Rose novel, following a three-year gap since The Avenger and continuing her ongoing path within Mark Dawson's Group Fifteen universe.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Pretty Face
About the Isabella Rose series
Isabella Rose is the daughter of Beatrix Rose, once Group Fifteen's deadliest operative, and grew up believing her mother was dead. Mark Dawson's series, launched in 2015 with The Angel, finds Isabella training as an opera singer in Manhattan when the British intelligence officer Michael Pope -- who once ran her mother -- recruits the teenager into the same secretive world, spotting in her the same lethal instincts. The books follow Isabella's development from a talented but untested asset into a genuine field operative, shadowed throughout by the question of whether she's repeating her mother's path by choice or by inheritance.
The series sits alongside Dawson's John Milton and Beatrix Rose books in the same Group Fifteen universe, giving Isabella occasional crossover contact with Milton and other established characters, while keeping its own younger, coming-of-age-adjacent focus distinct from the other series' harder-edged tone.
Frequently asked questions
How many Isabella Rose books are there?
Six: The Angel, The Asset, The Agent, The Assassin, The Avenger, and Pretty Face.
Is Isabella Rose related to Beatrix Rose?
Yes -- Isabella is Beatrix Rose's daughter, and the series follows her being recruited into the same clandestine world her mother once worked in.
Does this series connect to John Milton?
Yes, loosely -- all three of Dawson's Rose/Milton series share the same Group Fifteen fictional universe and occasionally cross paths, though each is tracked separately in this catalogue.
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