Alex Walters Books in Order

When a major prosecution collapses, Nergui is sent to investigate while Doripalam faces a murder inquiry and signs of deep police corruption. Their target is a powerful crime boss, and trust becomes almost as dangerous as the killer.

A mutilated British geologist becomes the latest victim in what looks like a serial killer case in wintertime Ulaanbaatar. Nergui, Doripalam, and visiting British detective Drew McLeish follow the trail from city ruins to the Gobi.

In a sweltering Ulaanbaatar summer, suicides, bomb scares, museum deaths, and political violence pile up at once. Doripalam struggles to hold the line while Nergui follows his own path toward a reckoning rooted in Mongolia's past.

Deep-cover officer Marie Donovan breaks the rules when she begins an affair with an informer set to testify against a Manchester crime lord. When he is murdered and her cover is blown, she has nowhere safe to turn.

A hitman leaves bodies across North Wales, Stockport, and the Pennines, and undercover officer Marie Donovan is pulled into another dangerous role. Working with DI Jack Brennan, she starts to suspect police corruption runs right through the case.

Still haunted by the loss of his daughter, Alec McKay is consumed by a missing girl case when bodies begin appearing on the Black Isle surrounded by candles and roses. A local young woman starts asking questions of her own.

A missing child's body is discovered on the edge of the Peak District, and Kenny Murrain soon sees links to older crimes that never truly went away. The case becomes a race against time when another child disappears.

Kenny Murrain wakes to phantom screams before a murdered woman is found in a Stockport hotel. As more victims surface, the clues point toward a colleague's past and a case that hits uncomfortably close to Murrain's own team.

This short story collection offers three brief cases from Kenny Murrain's world. It is a good way to sample his unsettling intuition, his dry persistence, and the shadows that hang around his investigations.

When retired cop Jackie Galloway is found dead after years of threatening letters, Alec McKay is forced to revisit a corrupt past he knew firsthand. As more former officers die, suspicion starts to circle the police as much as the killer.

A blizzard traps Kenny Murrain in a remote Pennine village after a disgraced ex-cop is found dead in a churchyard. More bodies follow, and the snowbound house where the investigators shelter starts to feel like a trap.

A washed-up comic is garroted in Inverness, then a second victim with a similar past turns up near the Moray Firth. McKay suspects the obvious answer is too neat, and that a final killing is still to come.

A family outing turns grim when Alec McKay finds an unidentified corpse, then his brother-in-law dies in what looks like an accident. As Helena Grant receives threats, the case opens onto trafficking, violence, and buried family secrets.

In the bitter winter of 1947, DI Ivan Winterman returns to East Anglia and finds two long-dead children emerging from the frozen Fens. The postwar setting, mounting fear, and village secrets give this historical thriller a cold, haunting pull.

When businesswoman Michelle Wentworth finds her teenage son bludgeoned on her doorstep, Annie Delamere has no obvious suspect or motive. The investigation leads into workplace grudges, ruthless ambition, and a growing list of people with reason to hate.

Off duty on the Peak District moors, Annie Delamere and Zoe Everett stumble across a ritual-looking murder scene. As more bodies appear and Annie's partner faces violent political threats, the case widens into something uglier than it first seems.

What starts as a burglary killing soon links an astrologer, a stage medium's assistant, and a television show about the paranormal. For Kenny Murrain, the case becomes personal when it begins circling back to his own strange gifts.

A body burned in a solstice bonfire begins a brutal Christmas case for Alec McKay and his team. The victims all point back to an old investigation, and the trail leads dangerously close to Helena Grant's past.

An elderly woman's peaceful death is followed by more apparently unrelated killings, and Kenny Murrain soon realizes someone is choosing victims with care. With his team fraying after earlier events, he faces a murderer who may already be watching them.

The slaughter of the Dawson family looks like murder-suicide, but DI Alec McKay spots too many loose ends. A mystery car, more deaths, and toys sent from the crime scene turn a family tragedy into something far darker.

When builders uncover a skeleton tied to a girl who vanished in 1976, Annie Delamere is pulled into a case that reaches from a boarding school death to old village loyalties. The deeper she digs, the closer the truth comes to home.

Former police officer Emma Raven travels to Cambridge to collect her dead son's belongings and finds his room has been ransacked. What follows is a fast-moving chase through the secrets he left behind.

A woman disappears from a snowbound pub and is found dead outside, then a young boy vanishes the next day. Annie Delamere's team must connect two very different cases before the cold closes in for good.

After a disastrous stakeout, former detective Jack Mellor retreats to the northern Highlands looking for quiet. A missing young woman pulls him back into investigation, and soon his hard-won isolation starts to collapse.

A run of fatal accidents on the A9 draws Alec McKay into a decades-old conspiracy that should have stayed buried. As witnesses start dying, every answer puts him deeper into danger.