Adam Croft Books in Order

DS Wendy Knight's first murder case starts with a dead prostitute and quickly opens into a serial investigation. As the clues tighten, Wendy realizes the killer may be terrifyingly close to her own life.

Faded TV star Charlie Sparks dies on stage during a stand-up performance, and bystander Kempston Hardwick is not convinced it was natural. The deeper he looks, the stranger the questions become.

When teenager Danielle Levy disappears, Wendy Knight and Jack Culverhouse think they have a routine case. A murdered businessman soon exposes a disturbing link, and the truth is bigger and darker than either expected.

In this candid memoir, Adam Croft writes about living with severe clinical depression and the crises it brought into his life. Honest and often darkly funny, it offers a direct look at mental illness from the inside.

A TV psychic predicts his own death on live television, then is found murdered in a locked room. Kempston Hardwick and Ellis Flint arrive in Tollinghill and quickly discover the case is stranger than it looks.

A compact nonfiction guide that gathers Adam Croft's practical advice for writers. It is aimed at the everyday work of planning, drafting, and improving your writing without overcomplicating the process.

Kempston Hardwick reluctantly heads to a Greek party island for a holiday, only to find a murder waiting there too. Surrounded by fellow tourists with secrets, he has to solve the case far from home.

Nick Connor's daughter is kidnapped, and the ransom demand is monstrous, kill your wife. His past, his marriage, and his conscience collide as he tries to save his child without destroying everything else.

As Jack Culverhouse faces the return of the ex-wife who vanished years earlier, a killer begins copying the crimes of Jack the Ripper. Wendy Knight must help stop the body count before history repeats itself.

When a known paedophile is found mutilated, Wendy Knight wants a proper investigation, but Culverhouse sees the killing very differently. The case points toward vigilante justice and a possible killer in uniform.

A supposed suicide in room 13 at the Manor Hotel does not convince Kempston Hardwick. As another body turns up in the same room, talk of ghosts spreads and the real killer keeps moving in the dark.

When Stephen Lightfoot comes home to find his girlfriend Anya missing, he refuses to believe she simply left. His search pulls apart the little life he has built, and the truth is far worse than he imagines.

An anonymous tip leads Knight and Culverhouse to a closed religious community where people who want to leave do not come back. With no body and little evidence, they have to challenge a deadly secret.

With almost no leads, Knight and Culverhouse investigate a savage attack on a journalist who knew too much about Mildenheath's corrupt underworld. A comatose victim and a child witness leave them racing blind.

Alice Jefferson knows she is being stalked, even if nobody believes her. As the intrusions grow stranger and more personal, the hunt for the truth leaves her doubting everyone, including herself.

Cameron promises he would do anything for Leah, then learns she wants him to prove it by killing her grandmother. This brisk thriller turns teenage obsession into a very real moral trap.

Dan Cooper finds his wife dead in his hotel bathroom and every clue points to him. He runs across Europe trying to clear his name while an unseen enemy keeps tightening the trap.

Gabriella Stevenson enjoys luxury and has no problem using marriage to get it. When her current husband outlives his usefulness, she starts planning murder, only to discover that even clever schemes can unravel.

On his first day at Mildenheath CID in 1981, Jack Culverhouse walks into a department full of lies and corruption. Framed by his own boss, he has to solve the case alone to save his career.

A gangster's release from prison is followed by fire, death, and a long-delayed revenge plot. Knight and Culverhouse step into Mildenheath's criminal underworld and uncover something even worse than they expected.

Two bodies in the undergrowth lead Knight and Culverhouse to traffickers, kidnappers, and a brutal exploitation ring. The deeper they go, the clearer it becomes that someone powerful wants the truth buried.

Megan Miller's ordinary family life shatters when two boys are murdered and the signs seem to point to her husband, a beloved teacher. Digging into his secrets may put her daughter in danger.

Amy Walker is arrested for murdering her father-in-law, and every piece of evidence says the police are right. She knows she is innocent, but proving it means finding who framed her and why.

Sam Barker works in IT at the Home Office until a terrorist attack and a shadowy recruiter drag him into a conspiracy that could bring down the British government.

Armed robberies and a fatal jewellery store raid push Mildenheath CID toward an ugly truth. Knight and Culverhouse uncover corruption inside the police, and the danger reaches uncomfortably close to home.

A missing PA turns a routine book launch into a murder investigation. Kempston Hardwick suspects the police have grabbed the wrong culprit and starts picking apart the victim's tangled list of enemies.

In Edinburgh, Sam Barker investigates a major climate project that hides darker motives. The deeper he digs, the closer the conspiracy comes to his son, and to a rogue insider willing to kill.

Grace thinks Tom is the man she will spend her life with. But as his charm curdles into control and menace, she has to work out why he wants her gone, and how to escape.

A corpse hanging at a tunnel exit shocks Rutland and points to murder, not suicide. When a second death reveals a circle of friends with secrets, the killer is suddenly very close.

A body posed beside Normanton Church shatters a quiet Rutland morning. Caroline Hills and Dexter Antoine follow the case's religious symbolism into buried secrets before the killer can strike again.

A body beneath Welland Viaduct draws Caroline Hills and Dexter Antoine into lies, betrayal, and a case with missing witnesses and rising pressure. Rutland's quiet surface starts to crack in dangerous ways.

An execution-style killing in Mildenheath Woods looks like gangland business, except the victim was a decent young man with no criminal past. Knight and Culverhouse have to uncover the life he was really living.

An elderly woman dies during a church service, then more unexplained deaths follow across Rutland. Caroline Hills and Dexter Antoine race to find the hidden link before an unseen killer chooses the next victim.

A man is bludgeoned to death with a ceremonial horseshoe inside Oakham Castle. As Caroline Hills and Dexter Antoine investigate, charity, corruption, and a carefully managed public image start to fall apart.

After a storm cuts off Hambleton peninsula, Caroline Hills investigates a body that leaves the killer apparently trapped with everyone else. Then another death proves the danger is far from over.