Adrian Magson Books in Order

Magson's young adult ghost novel leans into eerie atmosphere and a mystery from the past that will not stay quiet. It is a haunting story where fear builds steadily and the danger does not stay supernatural for long.

Riley Gavin teams with ex-military cop Frank Palmer to learn why three ageing gangsters have been executed. The trail runs from England to Spain, through grudges, double-crosses, and an underworld war that is not finished.

When a girl missing for ten years is found dead, Riley Gavin starts pulling at a case steeped in blackmail and deceit. Her search leads straight to a supposed refuge for runaways with something far darker underneath.

Riley Gavin's work is thin, Frank Palmer has vanished, and someone in dreadlocks is watching from the edges. When Frank resurfaces chasing justice for an old friend, both of them step into serious danger.

Frank Palmer is hired to protect a former ambassador while Riley Gavin investigates the same man's reputation. What looks like a society scandal grows into a knot of old violence, drugs, and political secrets.

A murdered young reporter drags Riley Gavin and Frank Palmer into a case with a very long reach. The trail leads to a too-good job offer, the Russian mafia, and a ruthless fight over telecom power.

After a botched drugs intercept leaves two civilians dead, MI5 officer Harry Tate is shipped to a remote posting called Red Station. It is supposed to make him disappear quietly, but the place is far deadlier than it looks.

On his first day in rural Picardie, Lucas Rocco finds a murdered woman in Gestapo uniform in a British military cemetery. The case opens onto wartime secrets, a powerful industrialist, and lies that never really ended.

Illegal workers are dumped by a canal near Poissons-les-Marais, and one of them turns up dead. Rocco's investigation leads into people smuggling, corruption, and a gang leader who badly wants him out of the way.

Harry Tate is asked to track the Protectory, former officers who exploit deserters and sell what they know. The case becomes personal when his old enemy Paulton resurfaces and a gifted young staff officer disappears.

A Baghdad bombing and an assassination in Norfolk seem unrelated until Harry Tate is hired to find a string of missing people. Each new lead shifts the ground beneath him, and the mission keeps turning darker.

A practical guide for new writers, built from Magson's long-running Beginners column. It covers getting started, solving story problems, keeping momentum, and pushing a draft all the way to the end.

A violent attack in open country pulls Lucas Rocco into what looks like another attempt on de Gaulle's life. Accused of corruption and suspended from duty, he has little time to stop a national disaster.

The first volume of Magson's crime shorts gathers quick, varied tales of bad choices, danger, and sudden reversals. The tone shifts from sly and wry to sharp-edged suspense, but the stories all move fast.

The second volume adds more compact crime stories, mixing revenge, misjudgment, and violence that arrives without much warning. It is a brisk set of mysteries and noir-flavoured turns in miniature.

A man is found drowned in the therapy pool of the exclusive Clos du Lac sanitarium, chained in place like an execution victim. Rocco's inquiry runs into silence, official obstruction, and a deeper political game.

After a Russian hit team murders a dissident in hospital, ex-MI6 officer Clare Jardine becomes their loose end. Harry Tate is sent to find her first, but old enemies and rival hunters are already on the move.

A massacre from Harry Tate's UN days in Kosovo comes back to life when someone begins killing everyone connected to it. To survive, Harry has to uncover what really happened before the past reaches him too.

Jake Foreman loses his job, house, and wife in a single brutal day, then stumbles into even shadier work. He is good at fixing other people's problems, but cleaning up his own mess could get him killed.

When two British agents head for a hostage mission on the Kenyan-Somali border, veteran MI6 man Tom Vane secretly hires Marc Portman to protect them. Portman soon realizes the operation has been fatally compromised from the start.

Marc Portman is hired to extract a US official from a volatile Ukraine sliding toward civil war. With gangsters, snipers, separatists, and corrupt cops in play, his most dangerous enemy may still be on his own side.

A village priest is found shot dead in the snow, reopening memories of wartime scandal around Poissons-les-Marais. For Rocco, the new killing leads straight into old loyalties, buried guilt, and a patient marksman.

Marc Portman is in Russia protecting a wealthy former KGB officer who hopes to ease tensions with the West. Powerful men want that effort buried, and Portman has to fight back when the mission turns violently public.

Nancy Hardman's daughter is kidnapped, and the kidnappers give her one instruction, tell her husband. The problem is that nobody can find him, leaving Ruth Gonzales and Andy Vaslik to untangle a nightmare before time runs out.

Back in Mogadishu, Marc Portman is sent to support a French agent recovering a hard drive. What it contains could topple governments, and Portman suddenly finds elite killers closing in from every side.

A country-lane murder should be Rocco's case, until he is pulled away to protect a deposed Gabonese minister hiding in France. Soon the murder, a kidnapping, and a contract on Rocco's life start to connect.

When drone expert James Chadwick vanishes, Cruxys investigators Ruth Gonzales and Andy Vaslik follow his trail from London to New York. Their hunt reveals stolen drones and a plot with catastrophic targets in the United States.

Three senior officials appear to have killed themselves, but Lucas Rocco sees a pattern that points to fraud and cover-up. Working for the Interior Ministry again, he digs deeper and draws deadly attention.

Harry Tate sets out to find missing former colleague Rik Ferris, who may be carrying dangerous secrets from MI6's archives. The search becomes a race against torture, betrayal, and a cyberattack aimed at the UK.

A routine pick-up in Lebanon turns into an ambush for deep-cover specialist Marc Portman. Cut loose and hunted, he suspects a leak inside the CIA and has to find it before he becomes the cleanup job.

Three Moroccans are executed in rural Picardie, and Lucas Rocco soon stumbles onto a second case tied to a powerful Paris lawyer. Both trails lead toward a fortified former asylum and secrets people will kill to protect.

When drone expert James Chadwick disappears, Ruth Gonzales and Andy Vaslik trace him from London to New York. The search uncovers stolen military hardware and a plan for a devastating attack on American soil.

Former undercover Customs investigator Isaac Jackson just wants a quieter life on the canals. Then bodies start turning up, a friend is murdered, and he is pulled into trafficking, corruption, and a dangerous defence scam.

Years after Riley Gavin and Frank Palmer stopped working together, questions about Riley's former lover send them back into action. The trail leads to Algeria, war crimes, and a cover-up powerful people are still protecting.