Annie Jackson Mysteries Books in Order

The Annie Jackson Mysteries blend contemporary Scottish crime, gothic suspense, and the unsettling feeling that the dead may not be finished with the living. Annie is a young woman who begins to hear the murmurs, voices and visions that warn her when someone is close to death. What first seems like a terrifying breakdown is tied to a curse that has followed the women in her family for generations.

The series begins with The Murmurs. On Annie's first day working at Heartfield House, a care home for older people, she knows that one of the residents is going to die. She has no explanation for the certainty, only fear. The visions keep coming, and Annie realizes they are connected to fragments of a childhood she can barely remember after an accident that killed her mother.

The past has been waiting for her.

Annie's twin brother, Lewis, is central to the series. He is one of the few people she can trust as the siblings start looking into their family history and the buried events surrounding their childhood. Their search takes them into a Scottish Highland community where gossip, faith, fear, and old wrongs have shaped people's lives for generations. The mysteries are not only about what Annie can see. They are also about who benefited when others were silenced.

The tone is eerie rather than flashy. Malone uses lochs, old houses, isolated cottages, and the weight of local history to create an atmosphere of growing dread. Annie's gift is not a superpower she enjoys using. It leaves her frightened of other people and unsure whether she can protect anyone, including herself. The series keeps its focus on the emotional cost of knowing something terrible is coming.

In The Torments, Annie has withdrawn to a small cottage by a loch, where the voices are quieter inside its old stone walls. Her adoptive mother, Mandy McEvoy, asks for help when Mandy's nephew Damien goes missing after dropping off his young son. Annie cannot easily refuse, and she and Lewis are pulled into a case involving troubling histories and secrets that reach far beyond one disappearance.

These books suit readers who like mysteries with folklore and psychological tension woven through them. Expect family curses, unreliable memories, small communities with long memories, and cases that grow more dangerous as Annie learns where the murmurs came from. Start with The Murmurs, then continue with The Torments to follow Annie's struggle to understand the curse and decide how she can live with it.