Crib sheet: The Regicide Report

The Regicide Report came out in January 2026. Traditionally I wait for the paperback before writing one of these spoiler-laden crib sheets, but there won't be a US paperback edition and the UK one isn't until the end of the year: if you don't want to wait, you don't have to. So here it is. The Laundry Files main story arc runs through nine novels, not including A Conventional Boy, a number of novellas and short stories (of which ACB was originally intended to be one—it over-ran), and the New Management trilogy (which was originally going to be a separate successor series to The Laundry Files: it starts 18 months after the end of The Regicide Report—it turned out to be a marketing train-wreck, which I blame on COVID19 induced mix-ups on the publishing end of things). There may eventually be a short story collection, as most of the shorts have never been published in paper editions, but this is it for the main story, which was (since The Fuller Memorandum) intended to end with the final…