Andy Maslen Books in Order

Detective Kat Ballantyne faces a new case in the series, confronting another knot of crime and secrets that will test her judgement, her relationships and how far she is willing to go in pursuit of the truth.

When single mother Annie receives a video of herself sobbing at her teenage daughter’s funeral, she races upstairs to find the girl alive. The hoax is a warning: if Annie refuses the blackmailer’s demands, the staged death will become real.

A bomb threat at a packed music venue leaves DS Kat Ballantyne terrified for her husband and son inside. When a journalist probing a controversial football club takeover is murdered, she follows a trail of corruption and royal money while trying to keep her family alive.

At a crime writing festival, DS Kat Ballantyne hopes for a quiet weekend but ends up at a locked room murder when a famous novelist is found dead before his panel. Surrounded by rivals and resentful colleagues, she must untangle ego, envy and lies to find the killer.

Retired from operations and teaching martial arts to kids in Paris, Gabriel Wolfe intervenes in a street mugging and meets the mother of a missing girl. With help from an unlikely ally and his sister Tara, he races to stop traffickers auctioning children to the highest bidder.

When a woman’s body is found among standing stones known as the Three Sisters, apparently the victim of a fall, DS Kat Ballantyne spots an infinity symbol branded on her skin. As more women die, she juggles a shattering family revelation with the hunt for a possible serial killer.

Under investigation after £50,000 appears in her bank account, DS Kat Ballantyne is banished to cold cases. Then a close friend calls, confessing to strangling a gangster’s wife, and Kat defies orders to prove someone else has staged the perfect frame.

Fifteen years after the Origami Killer’s last victim, DS Kat Ballantyne is called when a young woman is found with the same lavender scent and folded paper heart. With her best friend among the original victims, she must stop the killer before he strikes again.

Trying to build a quiet life in a coastal Honduran village, Gabriel Wolfe is dragged back into conflict when a billionaire tech magnate uses hired guns to seize the shoreline and whatever lies hidden in a sunken Soviet submarine offshore.

Senior government minister Christopher Goodenough, architect of ruthless health service cuts, finds himself in a crowded waiting room with a blinding headache. Forced to take a number, he slips into a surreal, nightmarish journey that turns bureaucracy into punishment.

Shattered by a disastrous firefight on a remote Scottish island, Gabriel Wolfe decides on a final act of vengeance against the woman who betrayed him. As he builds a bomb and sails toward his target, he weighs whether revenge is worth the cost of his own life.

Suspended from Stockholm Homicide, Stella Cole is pulled back when a killer begins staging murders that mimic the work of imprisoned serial killer Ulrik Ahlgren. As the trail leads into biker gangs and Sweden’s death metal scene, she may have to seek help from monsters to catch one.

Career criminals Randall and Sturgis have turned home invasions into a profitable sideline, until they target a suburban family with two young daughters. What should be an easy score twists into a night of escalating violence and a final shock neither man sees coming.

Therapist Mel Porter treats a young mother who claims she killed her own child, only to discover the confession is a lie. As police turn their attention to Mel, her memories, marriage and identity fracture in a courtroom battle for the truth.

In Sweden, Kriminalinspektor Stella Cole tracks a serial killer who leaves victims posed in grotesque tableaux, while a relentless internal affairs chief and a returning ex boyfriend threaten to expose the vigilante past she thought she had buried.

Kidnapped as a baby and raised in rural China as Wei Mei, Tara Wolfe is dragged into a brutal Party run assassin school, then risks everything to escape, protect the woman who raised her and uncover the truth about who she really is.

Disgraced ex Chicago cop Art Zeffer scrapes by as a private eye until a mobster’s glamorous wife hires him to prove her husband is cheating. The job offers revenge and big money, but drags Zeffer and his daughter into a violent gang war.

On the eve of a new life with his Mossad partner Eli, Gabriel Wolfe is targeted by someone bent on avenging an old betrayal, turning their wedding day into a globe spanning hunt for a sniper who refuses to miss.

When a young female soldier is discovered on Salisbury Plain with her throat cut and a knife in her hand, everyone calls it suicide. DI Ford sees a staged scene and must fight the army and his bosses to prove murder before the regiment ships out.

After human remains are found in a badger sett and a second body surfaces in a nearby pond, DI Ford and CSI Hannah Fellowes probe links to a grand country estate, uncovering eco protests, old money and a blackmail threat tied to Ford’s own past.

In a snowbound Swedish town, Stella Cole investigates brides left dead on a church altar, dressed in wedding gowns and clutching cornflowers. As bodies mount and extremists exploit the fear, she races to stop a killer who believes he is righteous.

Suspended from duty after a serious crash, Gabriel Wolfe goes rogue to hunt the corrupt police officer who destroyed his family. Alone and off the books, he follows a cold trail of bribery and murder toward a brutal personal reckoning.

When a former Swedish ambassador is found murdered in his Mayfair flat, his tongue torn out and left on a Bible, DCI Stella Cole follows the trail to Sweden, unearthing buried atrocities and a killer determined to keep old crimes from surfacing.

Newly promoted DI Stella Cole’s first case is the killing of a wealthy woman’s husband during a supposed burglary. Pressured to accept an easy answer, she digs into a tangle of secrets, marriages and betrayals that someone is desperate to hide.

A wealthy industrialist obsessed with Nazi memorabilia discovers a strange antique shop on his route home. Inside, a gaunt proprietor offers him a grotesque relic beyond anything he has ever collected, drawing him into a short, brutal tale of supernatural revenge.

Still grieving his wife’s death, newly promoted DI Ford catches a shocking double murder when a nurse and her young son are found drained of blood. Convinced a serial killer is at work, he must decipher the bloody clues before more families are destroyed.

A butchered elephant on the African savannah and a shooting at a royal wedding pull Gabriel Wolfe and Eli Schochat into a web of poachers, warlords and ambitious politicians, where blood ivory finances a dangerous grab for power on the world stage.

When a Russian crime boss’s botched hit kills Gabriel Wolfe’s closest friend, vengeance becomes his only mission. Caught between a Colombian cartel, a Chinese triad and the Russian Mafiya, he follows a trail of drugs and money toward a devastating showdown.

A senior Chinese official asks triad boss Fang Jian to deal with a problem: a renegade colonel has carved out his own fiefdom around a missile base in western China. Dropped into hostile territory, Gabriel Wolfe must topple the tyrant while chasing secrets about his stolen sister.

A glamorous CEO of an anti abortion charity is found mutilated and strangled in her own kitchen, then more prominent Christians die the same way. DCI Stella Cole must untangle faith, hypocrisy and old grudges to catch a serial killer with chilling logic.

A five word text about a dead friend pulls Gabriel Wolfe out of exile in Hong Kong and into the Texan desert, where he uncovers a covert plan to test a new bioweapon on Cambodian orphans and risks everything to shut it down.

Tasked with eliminating a hostile nuclear scientist inside Iran, Gabriel Wolfe finds himself hunted by mercenaries, tortured by security services and forced to uncover a traitor within British intelligence before a secret weapons programme crosses a deadly line.

On a covert mission in Cambodia, Gabriel Wolfe and partner Eli Schochat attempt to assassinate a former Khmer Rouge warlord. When a mine blast leaves Eli captured, Gabriel must cross a jungle laced with explosives and gunmen to rescue her and finish the job.

With only one conspirator left to kill, the boss who ordered the hit and run that wiped out her family, DI Stella Cole is sectioned and marked for assassination. Her violent alter ego, Other Stella, may be the only thing standing between her and annihilation.

Lawyer Caroline Murray dismisses vampires as fiction until her scientist fiancé’s work draws the attention of a ruthless lamia clan. Guided by hunter Ariane Van Helsing, Caroline must decide what she is willing to sacrifice to stop a predator who feeds on the living.

Now fully committed to vengeance, Stella Cole hunts the powerful figures behind her family’s deaths, including her own boss, Adam Collier. As he unleashes gangland allies and her fractured psyche spawns a darker self, her war stretches from London to Spain and beyond.

Detective Inspector Stella Cole was a rising star until a hit and run killed her husband and baby daughter. After a year lost in drink and pills, she secretly reopens the case, uncovering a conspiracy that turns her search for justice into a quest for revenge.

Life finally seems stable for Gabriel Wolfe until his best friend is murdered and he is framed. Hunted across continents by a woman calling herself Erin Ayers, he battles PTSD and a ruthless enemy determined to destroy everyone he loves before revealing her motive.

Sent to Africa to recover the body of a fallen SAS comrade, Gabriel Wolfe is ordered to carry out one more assassination for the British prime minister. The job drags him into a tangle of blood diamonds, land deals and betrayal that reaches back to his last SAS mission.

After a young girl detonates a suicide vest on a London bus, Gabriel Wolfe tracks the order back to a sadistic cult leader in the Brazilian rainforest. Captured and brainwashed, he is forced into his own suicide mission and must escape before he becomes the next bomber.

Recovering in a military hospital after a truck crash, Gabriel Wolfe hears of RAF test flights sabotaged with a lethal performance enhancing drug. When Chechen separatists kidnap two British women and an airshow looms, he must expose the saboteur and stop a catastrophic attack.

Haunted ex SAS captain Gabriel Wolfe takes a job inside the campaign of billionaire Sir Toby Maitland, who is running for Parliament. When he uncovers Maitland’s plan for an armed coup, Gabriel races from Westminster to the US underworld to stop a homegrown dictatorship.

In this short Gabriel Wolfe story, a seemingly routine assignment turns into a deadly confrontation, giving a glimpse of his life between major missions as he relies on nerve and SAS training to walk away alive.