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Andrew Raymond Books in Order

Find all Andrew Raymond books in order, with series lists, short summaries, and tips on where to start with his political, spy, and Scottish crime thrillers.

Last updated: December 24, 2025

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The Long Isle

by Andrew Raymond

2026

On a remote Hebridean beach, a body draws Detective Constable Mairead Maclean back to the islands she once fled. As the tight-knit community closes ranks, Mairead must untangle old loyalties and buried grief to catch a killer hiding in plain sight.

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The Ferryman

by Andrew Raymond

2026

The sixth DCI Lomond novel finds John Lomond facing another high profile case that drags up old ghosts and forces his Major Investigations Team into dangerous waters, testing his loyalties to the job, his city, and the people he loves.

The Long Dark

by Andrew Raymond

2025

Still grieving a colleague's death, DCI Lomond is called to the set of a hit Scottish detective show after its beloved police adviser, retired legend Jack Beattie, is murdered. Digging into Beattie's spotless record exposes buried scandals that could end Lomond's career as well as his life.

The Last Albion

by Andrew Raymond

2024

Months after going off the grid to avenge a murdered ally, MI6 assassin Duncan Grant learns that members of Albion, the service's most secret kill team, are being hunted in retirement. Ordered to protect the last survivor, he uncovers establishment secrets that make him a target too.

Cold Open

by Andrew Raymond

2024

Construction workers uncover a young woman's remains at Glasgow's new Govan-Partick Bridge, apparently closing a twenty-year-old case from Lomond's early days. A disgraced former detective insists she was one of many, pulling Lomond into a cover up stretching through police and legal circles.

The Shortlist

by Andrew Raymond

2023

When legendary crime writer William MacRae is found murdered in his Glasgow home, DCI John Lomond narrows seven fellow authors down as suspects. Trapped with them at a storm-lashed Highlands festival, he must unmask a killer before anyone else dies.

The Bloody, Bloody Banks

by Andrew Raymond

2023

A dismembered banker washes up on the shores of Loch Lomond with a message carved into his skin, soon echoed on a tortured lawyer across the country. As bodies mount, Lomond teams with his ex from Edinburgh, knowing this vigilante's crusade is painfully personal.

Blood Money

by Andrew Raymond

2023

Gunmen storm the anti corruption unit overseeing Britain's intelligence agencies, leaving its director Rebecca Fox with only one play: call in Tom Novak and Stella Mitchell. Their final investigation ties a fresh conspiracy to Novak's father's death, forcing them to risk everything for the truth.

The Limits of the World

by Andrew Raymond

2022

In Pyongyang, party official Han guides foreign tourists by day and secretly collects banned books at night. Drawn into an underground reading group and a plot with undercover Western journalists, he risks everything to challenge North Korea's lies.

The Bonnie Dead

by Andrew Raymond

2022

Five years after a notorious Glasgow child killer escaped justice, DCI John Lomond is still haunted by the case. When a new abduction mirrors the Sandman's crimes, he must revisit old evidence and buried trauma before another child disappears.

True Republic

by Andrew Raymond

2021

When bestselling thriller writer Ian Ferguson is murdered after digging into the founder of a leaks website, his publisher drafts journalists Tom Novak and Stella Mitchell to finish his book. Their investigation uncovers royal scandal and secrets uncomfortably close to Stella's family.

Kill Day

by Andrew Raymond

2021

When an MI6 surveillance team is gunned down in Lyon, rookie operative Duncan Grant is the only survivor. Tracking the killer into a global conspiracy, he discovers his own agency is willing to sacrifice him to keep its secrets.

Dead Flags

by Andrew Raymond

2021

Coordinated assassinations rock intelligence agencies around the world, and MI6 operative Duncan Grant recognises the signature of an old enemy. To stop a charismatic arms dealer's plan to unleash mass terror, he must trust a deep cover ally who might be setting him up.

Traitor Games

by Andrew Raymond

2020

The British Prime Minister receives an ultimatum: resign, or face three days of escalating terror attacks. As Novak and Mitchell chase a traitor inside her protection team, a relentless assassin forces them into a final, dangerously personal showdown with the conspiracy they exposed.

Capitol Spy

by Andrew Raymond

2019

In Washington, Russian journalist Andrei Rublov dies after uncovering evidence that a US congressman is spying for the Kremlin. Tom Novak and Stella Mitchell follow his trail, confronting a ruthless assassin and a shadow network determined to keep a decades-old secret buried.

Official Secrets

by Andrew Raymond

2018

After a coordinated attack targets the British Prime Minister and the US Secretary of Defense, journalists Tom Novak and Stella Mitchell start spotting holes in the official story. Their reporting uncovers linked deaths, a deep-state conspiracy, and powerful enemies who would rather see them silenced.

Where should I start?

If you want Scottish crime to start with: The Bonnie DeadThe ShortlistThe Bloody, Bloody Banks
If you like political conspiracy thrillers: Official SecretsCapitol SpyTraitor GamesTrue Republic
If you prefer high-octane spy action: Kill DayDead FlagsThe Last Albion
If you enjoy standalones with a literary edge: The Limits of the World
If you want his newest Hebridean detective: The Long Isle

Author bio

Andrew Raymond writes crime and thriller novels that move between the back rooms of Westminster, the corridors of Washington, and the rain slicked streets and tenements of Glasgow. His work spans political conspiracy, high-octane espionage, and Tartan Noir, but it is always rooted in character and place.

He was born in Paisley in the west of Scotland and has spent much of his life in and around Glasgow. Growing up near a big, noisy city gave him a front row seat on the mix of grit, humour, and loyalty that now runs through his fiction.

Before he was an author, he was a bookseller. Raymond learned the trade on the shop floor, then went on to work as a commercial manager for a major city centre bookshop in Glasgow, championing new crime and thriller writers and seeing first hand what readers grabbed from the tables and talked about with friends.

All the while he was writing in the margins of that day job. Early thriller manuscripts went out to agents and came back with more than a hundred rejections. Rather than stop, he decided to publish his own work. His debut political thriller Official Secrets appeared on Amazon, found word of mouth support, and quietly turned into a bestseller, selling well over 100,000 copies and generating millions of pages read in digital subscription programmes.

The success of Official Secrets let him build the Novak and Mitchell series, following American reporter Tom Novak and British journalist Stella Mitchell as they chase conspiracies that cross the Atlantic. Raymond has talked about discovering political thrillers through films like All the President’s Men when he was far too young to understand the details, and you can feel that cinematic influence in the way his plots move and his scenes cut from newsroom to motorcade to safe house.

He then turned homeward. The Bonnie Dead introduced Police Scotland’s premier investigator DCI John Lomond and opened the DCI Lomond series. Set in Glasgow and the Scottish Highlands and islands, these novels mix dark Glaswegian humour with knotty investigations and the long shadow of past mistakes. The book went straight to the top of the Scottish crime charts and has sold in six figures, helping to establish Raymond as a new voice in Tartan Noir.

With the Duncan Grant books he shifted again, this time into full-blooded spy fiction. Kill Day, Dead Flags, and The Last Albion follow an MI6 covert operative whose legendary training cannot protect him from the emotional cost of his first kills or the realisation that the greatest threat may come from inside his own service. The series has been optioned for film and television, which suits their globe-trotting action and tight, suspense driven scenes.

Raymond has also written The Limits of the World, a standalone novel set in Pyongyang. Centred on a North Korean tour guide whose love of banned books draws him into danger alongside undercover Western journalists, it shows a more reflective, literary side to his writing while keeping the tension of his thrillers.

He now lives and writes in Glasgow with his wife and young son. The city’s streets, pubs, and riverfronts feed directly into his work, and he often talks about stealing overheard lines of dialogue or tiny details from everyday life and folding them into a scene the same day.

Whether you first meet him through journalists Novak and Mitchell unpicking a cover up, or through DCI John Lomond standing over a body on a cold Glasgow night, his books are built to move fast, ask awkward questions about power, and keep you turning pages later than you meant to.

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All 16 Andrew Raymond Books in Order (Complete List 2026)