Anna and Fin Books in Order

The Anna and Fin books throw two damaged, funny and unexpectedly resourceful people into high‑octane trouble. Anna McDonald lives in Glasgow under a stolen name, hiding from a notorious court case in her past. Fin Cohen is a washed‑up musician and minor celebrity whose glory days are long gone.

Conviction explodes Anna’s carefully managed life in a single morning. Her husband runs off with her best friend, taking her daughters. Reeling, she clings to the comfort of a favourite true‑crime podcast about a yacht disaster—only to recognise one of the supposed perpetrators from an earlier, secret chapter of her own life.

That recognition jolts her into action. She and Fin, who has just discovered his own marriage is over, hit the road across Scotland and mainland Europe, live‑recording their sleuthing in a guerrilla podcast that draws listeners and enemies in equal measure. The mystery is gripping, but so is the slow reveal of who Anna used to be and why powerful people would rather she stayed hidden.

In Confidence, the pair are meant to be doing something normal: a blended‑family holiday in a grim holiday park. When a little‑known YouTube urban explorer vanishes after filming an eerie abandoned chateau, Anna and Fin quickly fall off the wagon and back into investigation mode. The missing woman’s last video features a relic that fanatics will kill for.

The chase takes them through Paris auctions, cultlike religious groups and glossy fraudsters who use spiritual hunger as a business model. Once again, their amateur podcasting becomes both a shield and a liability, broadcasting the clues they uncover while making it harder to stay off the radar.

Underneath the chases and cons, both novels are about who gets believed, who gets silenced and what it costs to drag buried stories into the light.

Readers who enjoy contemporary thrillers with humour, social media, messy families and a strong sense of righteous anger will recognise a lot here. The books work on their own but gain extra kick read in order, as Anna and Fin’s uneasy partnership deepens and the past refuses to stay put.