Barry J Hutchison Books in Order

Competition tightens as a football academy squad narrows and every young player feels the pressure. Places, friendships, and confidence are suddenly on the line at the same time.

A football academy story where blame can spread as quickly as gossip. To put things right, the team has to sort truth from rumor before the damage sticks.

Rivalry, football pressure, and sibling complications collide in this brisk academy adventure. Keeping a place in the team is hard enough before twins start making everything messier.

A trip away from familiar ground tests young academy players on and off the pitch. Nerves, homesickness, and team pressure matter just as much as the football.

Kyle thinks it might almost be funny that school bully Billy's old imaginary friend was a rag doll. Then Raggy Maggie comes back and makes him play a deadly game to find Billy before time runs out.

Kyle's search for his missing mother leads into hospitals, secrets, and growing panic as danger closes around him. The series' larger mystery deepens, and the Invisible Fiends feel closer than ever.

Sent to the countryside for safety, Kyle hopes to leave his nightmares behind. Instead he finds crows, a lurking figure in the woods, and fresh proof that nowhere is safe from the Invisible Fiends.

When the apocalypse starts going badly off schedule, an ordinary boy gets tangled up with the Horsemen who are supposed to bring it about. The result is a funny, frantic fantasy adventure with the end of the world hanging over everything.

Kyle's strange powers may help him fight back, but every time he uses them he weakens the barrier to the Darkest Corners. That makes his battle with the next fiend more dangerous for him, and for everyone else.

The final showdown forces Kyle to confront the monsters behind his whole nightmare and the father he fears most. It is the series' biggest, bleakest, and most explosive fight for survival.

A fast-moving horror story built around a place that should only be fun. Once the fear inside the tunnel turns real, getting out matters a lot more than pretending not to be scared.

A tie-in guide and adventure book that explores two of Skylands' core elemental forces, Fire and Water. It is a quick, accessible way for younger readers to spend more time inside the Skylanders world.

Heaven has misplaced the one book nobody can afford to lose. To save the world from both destruction and divine embarrassment, a teenage boy and his angelic guide are sent on a comic dash to get it back.

Competition and confusion build fast when doubles, on the pitch or off it, start causing trouble. It is another quick academy story about teamwork, pressure, and the mess young players can make.

This Skylanders companion turns to the Air and Earth elements, expanding the feel of the game world through fast, younger-reader storytelling and accessible lore.

Kyle's childhood imaginary friend is back, and this time Mr Mumbles is not imaginary at all. There is only one clear problem: if Kyle cannot work out why, he may not stay alive long enough to find out.

Teenager Frankie Stine wants answers, and the search brings comic horror close behind. The story mixes monsters, identity, and brisk younger-reader suspense.

An alphabet tour through the wonderfully odd world of *Adventure Time*. It is a playful tie-in built for fans who want familiar characters, jokes, and a quick visit back to Ooo.

The focus shifts to Kaos, one of the most memorable figures in Skylands. This tie-in leans into the villain's schemes while adding more flavor and background to the wider Skylanders setting.

Benjamin Blank is thrown into a creepy, comic fantasy packed with bizarre creatures and real danger. The monsters may sound ridiculous, but they are more than capable of ruining his day.

Benjamin's strange troubles continue as another impossible creature turns up to make life worse. The book keeps the series' mix of monster chases, dark laughs, and fast-moving fantasy chaos.

Small-time conman Cal Carver is abducted by aliens after the end of the world goes very wrong. Thrown in with the galaxy's least trustworthy crew, he stumbles into a mission that could save a civilization, and its god.

Parasitic bugs begin burrowing into people and driving them to shocking violence, and civilization starts to collapse. This collected season follows scattered survivors as they try to stay alive long enough to fight back.

Fresh from one miracle escape, Cal Carver and the crew become targets for Lady Vajazzle, the deadliest assassin in the galaxy. To save themselves and the Greyx, they must outthink a killer who has had centuries to get good at murder.

Beaky Malone's life turns upside down when a truth-telling machine robs him of his best talent, lying. Now he blurts out every awkward truth in his head, and school becomes a daily survival exercise.

This short story collection gathers extra adventures from the wider Space Team universe. It is the place for side trips, crossover fun, and more of the oddball chaos surrounding Cal Carver, Dan Deadman, and company.

Dan Deadman plans to relax after saving the city, but the universe has other ideas. Two murders, a cheating husband, and a threat to enslave the galaxy send the undead detective back into trouble with friends he may badly need.

In the alien city of Down Here, private eye Dan Deadman handles the cases nobody sane would touch. Being dead is inconvenient, but it does not stop him chasing monsters, portals, murders, and a far bigger conspiracy than he wanted.

A cyberattack on Space Team's money leads Mech to a hidden set of coordinates and a planet-sized theme park called Funworld. Inside, clownbots, buried secrets, and horrors at the core turn a mystery into a fight to survive.

A new threat to Earth pulls Cal back toward the ruins of home, only for aliens to abduct him yet again. Faced with impossible choices across parallel worlds, he may doom far more than one planet trying to save it.

Cal and the crew stumble into an interplanetary kidnapping plot after losing their ship. Returning a silent young captive to her home could make them rich, if pirates, bounty hunters, and a deranged warlord do not kill them first.

Beaky's truth problem follows him into the woods when he is forced to camp with a bully who wants revenge. One overnight trip becomes a frantic mix of embarrassment, danger, and very bad luck.

Trying to lie low during a galactic war, Space Team hides on a tiny moon and hopes events pass them by. That ends when Loren's brother is captured, forcing the crew into a choice that could break the team for good.

Cal Carver heads into fresh disaster when his friend Splurt is taken by Lady Vajazzle and Zertex. The rescue mission leads through a wormhole to a strange planet where survival is only the first problem.

Denzel's normal life ends the moment ghosts attack and a secret anti-paranormal organization notices he can see them. Training with the Spectre Collectors sounds safer than it turns out to be.

Still cursed with brutal honesty, Beaky heads off on a school trip with the class bully and no good way to stay out of trouble. Humiliation, panic, and one truly awful theme park do the rest.

Denzel and Smithy are called to the ghost-busting capital of New York for a bigger, louder supernatural mission. The city may be exciting, but its paranormal problems are not there for sightseeing.

Zac's weird new classmate, Ant, has bugs everywhere and some very unusual secrets behind his glasses. When men in white coats snatch Ant away, Zac and Tulisa decide friendship means trying to get him back.

When a suspect explodes mid-interrogation and his office is seized by a despot, undead detective Dan Deadman hits a new low. His next case drags him beneath Down Here and toward a plot that could plunge whole civilizations into war.

After a trip to a teddy bear shop, Lisa Marie and Vernon discover their new toys are alive. Worse, they are not the only ones, and an army of evil bears is about to make bedtime everyone's problem.

Cal Carver only wants a quiet spell after months of mayhem. Instead he and his crew end up escorting the weakened Symmorium Sentience across a dangerous galaxy while darker forces try to turn that power into a weapon.

A kid-friendly guide to the world of Skylands, packed with background on its heroes, places, and threats. It works best as a companion for readers who want to explore the setting beyond the games.

After meddling with time, Cal and his crew discover they may have made everything worse. Captured and condemned to slavery in the Mustard Mines of Moktar, they must escape before a sinister new enemy carries out a galaxy-wide scheme.

Geronimus Krone has rewritten time and crowned himself ruler of the galaxy. Reeling from loss, Cal Carver and a much bigger Space Team must gather allies, crush his armies, and face the King of Space himself.

When Earth's premier superhero team is wiped out, the government is forced to call up their middle-aged former sidekicks. Out of shape and out of practice, they are suddenly the planet's last line of defense.

A distress call from a luxury cruiser looks like easy money for Cal Carver's broke crew. Instead they walk into a shattered timeline, a terrifying new weapon, and a crisis that could enslave the galaxy.

Beaky still cannot lie, and life is still finding new ways to punish him for it. A trip tied to the world's strangest show sends him into another round of secrets, social disasters, and trouble he did not ask for.

Ten years after arresting a notorious child killer, DCI Jack Logan is sent north when a young boy vanishes in the Highlands. As the new case echoes the old one, he must confront the possibility he jailed the wrong man.

A missing hill walker leads Glencoe Mountain Rescue to the wrong corpse, a man executed and dumped in the Highlands. Investigating, DCI Jack Logan uncovers buried secrets and powerful criminals who would rather spill more blood than let the truth surface.

Just when Lisa Marie and Vernon think Grizz is gone for good, the evil teddy returns with a new army and a bigger plan. Saving the world again would be easier if bedtime were not getting so close.

The final Spectre Collectors adventure raises the stakes as Denzel faces a much larger supernatural threat. The ghosts are bigger, the pressure is worse, and the series heads for its largest showdown.

Tired of constant disasters, Cal Carver signs up for a hit game show to make quick money in a new corner of the galaxy. The catch is that contestants are hunted for public entertainment, and nobody is supposed to survive.

A nurse is murdered on her way home from a night shift, pulling DCI Jack Logan into a hunt for a killer whose rare psychosis leaves him free of guilt. As more victims appear, Logan is pushed to his limits in an unfamiliar city.

When a mutilated body washes up on the shores of Loch Ness, DCI Jack Logan’s hoped for quiet Highland posting disappears fast. With conspiracy theories and an old enemy circling, he has to uncover the human motives behind the horror.

A high-stakes superhero adventure throws battered would-be heroes into a fight against a threat big enough to level worlds. Old grudges and damaged loyalties matter, but survival matters more.

When the mutilated remains of a young woman are left hanging from the Glenfinnan Monument, DCI Jack Logan’s team expects a straightforward murder inquiry. Instead they stumble into international intrigue, with a furious billionaire, an ex FBI agent, and the world’s press all watching Jack’s every move.

A young man found frozen on a Highland street looks at first like a Christmas party gone wrong. Then DCI Jack Logan discovers signs of torture and realises a vigilante nicknamed the Iceman, a killer with a twisted sense of justice, has quietly returned to finish his list.

The child killer Jack Logan put away a decade ago, Mister Whisper, has escaped from prison. As bodies fall and old fears resurface, Logan is forced into a desperate chase against a nemesis who knows exactly how to hurt him.

After nine months of self imposed exile, former DCI Jack Logan is dragged back to work when a mother and daughter are found dead in a staged double suicide. To stop a calculating murderer, he must rebuild trust with his old team and a Highland community on the brink of tearing itself apart.

Still raw after the death of a colleague, DCI Jack Logan is sent to the storm lashed island of Canna when a widely disliked woman is found dead. Cut off from help with only DC Neish beside him, he must solve a murder where almost everyone had a motive.

A body discovered at the Well of the Seven Heads, missing a vital part, turns a Highland beauty spot into a crime scene. With hundreds of teenagers nearby and the media circling, DCI Jack Logan must decode a gruesome message before panic and anger boil over.

A brutal home invasion in remote Glen Coe leaves a family of four dead, including half of a once famous Glasgow comedy duo. The trail drags DCI Jack Logan back to his old city, where digging into the world of Scottish light entertainment proves more dangerous than he expected.

Just as DCI Jack Logan dares to believe life is finally going his way, a mutilated corpse sparks a series of vicious murders. With friends in danger and an enemy from the past resurfacing, he has to decide what he is willing to sacrifice to stop the most monstrous killer he has faced.

A charred body at the remote Ardnamurchan Lighthouse sends DCI Jack Logan’s team to the wild west coast. Between a loan shark, a slippery politician, and a bizarre fringe cult, they must navigate scandal and conspiracy before the case, and a certain giant squirrel costume, spins out of control.

Grizz finds a way into the wireless networks and launches his biggest scheme yet, bringing teddy bears everywhere to life. To stop a full-scale fuzzy invasion, Lisa Marie and Vernon may need their bear allies back.

Disgraced ex superintendent Bob Hoon is drinking his way through a dead end job when an old Special Forces friend asks him to find his missing teenage daughter. The search drags Hoon from the Highlands to London’s underworld and into a trafficking network that reignites his very dangerous sense of purpose.

Life in Inverness is finally looking good for DCI Jack Logan, until a revenge driven killer starts leaving bodies on his patch. With an old flame brought in to help and stirring up trouble at home, he must protect both his city and the fragile happiness he has built.

Bob Hoon's war with the Loop drags him into a violent new crisis, this time with civilians trapped in the firing line. The result is another bruising, foul-mouthed thriller where survival and revenge keep colliding.

Months after a teenage girl vanished, her body is found near Eilean Donan Castle, sending DCI Jack Logan into a tight knit rural community full of secrets. When a second girl goes missing in similar circumstances, the case becomes a race to stop history repeating itself.

After tearing into a trafficking ring, Bob Hoon finds himself hunted by the Loop, a secretive criminal organisation with friends in very high places. Rather than run, he decides to go undercover inside the cabal, planning to burn it down even if it costs him his life.

Having humiliated the Loop, Bob Hoon is marked for death by the Alphas, an elite squad of assassins. Outgunned and far from safety, he is forced back to the Highland home he swore never to see again, where a final, bloody confrontation is waiting.

A billionaire is found dead in the locked study of his Highland castle on Halloween night. Cut off by a savage storm and surrounded by suspects, Logan has to solve the case before the house turns deadlier still.

What begins as petty harassment of three former soldiers becomes something much darker when the killing starts. Logan faces a murderer who has been planning every move for a very long time.

A blood-soaked old man leads villagers to his murdered wife, and a remote fishing community learns its first killing will not be its last. Logan must break through silence and suspicion before a sadistic predator strikes again.

DI Heather Filson thinks a missing fifteen-year-old may be just another runaway, but a gangster grandfather insists something far worse has happened. As the case deepens, Heather fears a killer from her own past may have returned.

Eight influencers vanish after a Highland convention, and then their captor starts livestreaming their ordeal. Logan must hunt through wilderness and the darkest corners of the internet before the next victim dies on camera.

Bob Hoon heads to America when his friend, MI5 agent Miles Crabtree, goes missing. The trail runs through the Everglades and on to Vegas, with violence, conspiracy, and one very odd private investigator along the way.

A beloved constable is found beaten to death, and then another officer is killed on the street. With Glasgow tipping toward chaos, Heather Filson must stop a cop killer before the city tears itself apart.

A young offender finds a bag of human remains during a community clean-up, and Logan's team soon uncovers body parts scattered across the Highlands. To stop the killer, they must piece together a horror with no obvious picture.

When washed-up rock legend Johnny Freestone is found dead in a cave off the North Coast 500, police call it an accident. Logan is not convinced, and the star's last days hide rivalries, lies, and a comeback gone sour.

Fresh out of training in wintery Inverness, Tyler Neish is desperate to look like he belongs in uniform. When a missing girl turns the job personal, the rookie constable risks everything to do what the grown-ups will not.

After Sarah's husband dies, an AI program built from his voice and data lets her speak to him again. As the digital ghost draws her in, grief turns into a chilling search for the truth about his last days.

Elizabeth's nine-year-old daughter vanishes after school, and she refuses to call the police. She is certain the abduction is tied to a past she has spent years trying to hide.

A friendly new neighbor turns unsettling when her flat proves identical to the narrator's, right down to the decor. Then one detail breaks the mirror, a bloodied knife, and escape starts to feel urgent.

Old gangster Bosco Maximuke is out of prison and under suspicion when bodies linked to his former network begin piling up. Then he does the last thing Logan expects and asks him for help.

A standalone JD Kirk thriller built around the danger of what comes back when the past refuses to stay buried. Memory, old damage, and a fresh threat collide as hidden truths resurface.