Ashley Dyer Books in Order

Six months after her daughter Melanie's murder, Kate Pearson receives a chilling computer message that appears to come from the dead girl. As more messages arrive, Kate is forced back into a killer's orbit to find the truth.

Two social workers with ties to a scandal-hit children's home are abducted. Psychologist Christine Radcliffe fears she may be next, while DCI Alan Jameson investigates a case that reaches into old abuse, buried secrets, and Christine's own past.

Two social workers connected to a disgraced children's home disappear without a trace. As DCI Alan Jameson investigates, psychologist Christine Radcliffe becomes both a possible witness and a woman with painful secrets of her own.

Professor Edward Wilkinson is dead, and his wife Helen cannot be sure whether she killed him or only imagined doing it. With plenty of people who wanted him gone, the case becomes a dark puzzle of memory, motive, and guilt.

A traumatised boy is found wandering Liverpool in his nightclothes and refuses to speak. Foster carer Jenny Campbell takes him in, but another child vanishes, and the silence around both boys points toward a terrible secret.

A gifted student is found dead in a burned-out house, and everyone calls it an overdose. Teacher Geri Simpson believes otherwise, but as another student disappears, her search for the truth draws a killer's attention.

Successful barrister Clara Pascal is abducted and chained in a dark cellar, stripped of every certainty in her life. Her fight to survive becomes a tense examination of captivity, fear, and the struggle to reclaim control.

Still recovering from her own abduction, barrister Clara Pascal takes what seems like a custody case. When the child's mother is revealed to have been murdered, Clara defends a suspect everyone else wants to condemn.

A woman's body is found discarded in a wheelie bin, and Detective Jeff Rickman soon becomes the police force's prime suspect. A deadly fire may hold the missing connection, forcing Rickman to solve the case from inside its crosshairs.

A woman's bloodless body is found dumped in a wheelie bin, and the police quickly identify a suspect, DCI Jeff Rickman. As another act of violence claims innocent lives, Rickman must clear his name and find the real link.

When Megan Ward disappears, Detective Jeff Rickman expects a difficult missing-person inquiry. Then basic facts about Megan's life begin to unravel, sending Rickman, Lee Foster, and Naomi Hart into a case shaped by false identities and murder.

Megan Ward has vanished, but the woman at the center of the case leaves barely any trace behind. DCI Jeff Rickman and his team must uncover whether she is a victim, a fiction, or the key to a more dangerous crime.

A compact, award-winning crime story with Cath Staincliffe's usual focus on ordinary lives and sudden consequence. Short, sharp, and unsettling, it leaves a lot of damage in a small space.

After Detective Greg Carver is shot while hunting the Thorn Killer, his partner Ruth Lake secretly alters the crime scene. Carver survives with fractured memories, while Ruth leads the case and fights to keep a dangerous secret buried.

Detectives Ruth Lake and Greg Carver investigate a killer who turns murder into public art. As a true-crime television craze grips Britain, a digital invitation leads Ruth to a grotesque scene and a murderer hungry for an audience.

A serial predator has attacked seven women on Liverpool's streets without leaving a trail. Detective Cassie Rowan goes undercover to stop him, knowing that getting close enough to catch him may make her his next target.

A young mother is murdered and her baby vanishes as a drugs war grips Liverpool. DCI Jeff Rickman reunites with Lee Foster and Naomi Hart, but the two investigations collide in a case of exploitation, betrayal, and urgent danger.

Driving home after night duty, Detective Cassie Rowan spots what appears to be a body swinging from a tree near the M62. The disturbing discovery leads to a hit-and-run, fearful rumours, and her most unsettling investigation yet.