Boris Starling Books in Order

During a London heatwave, a killer leaves wealthy victims with silver spoons replacing their tongues. DCI Red Metcalfe searches for the pattern behind the murders as his own troubled past begins to undermine the investigation.

After surviving a ferry disaster, DCI Kate Beauchamp investigates a journalist murdered in Aberdeen. Her estranged father examines the sinking, and their separate inquiries draw them toward danger while Kate struggles with trauma and guilt.

An American banker arrives in post-Soviet Moscow to privatize a vodka distillery controlled by a powerful gangster. As murdered children are found and criminal rivals pursue revenge, her business assignment becomes entangled with a violent struggle.

A biochemist’s suspicious drowning draws Scotland Yard detective Herbert Smith into a struggle over world-changing knowledge. In 1950s London, intelligence agencies and figures from Smith’s own past compete for the information the dead man possessed.

Two stories explore unexpected acts of humanity during the Cold War. Yuri Gagarin behaves strangely toward those around him, while a discouraged Ron Clarke visits a friend in Prague and encounters something that changes his life.

As German forces approach Gibraltar, sixteen-year-old Rassie Elder and five friends discover a secret cave. Trapped inside after the territory falls, they must remain hidden while confronting dangers arising within their own frightened group.

Wounded, injured, and ill service personnel prepare to compete at the Invictus Games. Their individual stories follow the struggles behind reaching the starting line and the role of sport and companionship in rebuilding their lives.

Drawing on two centuries of censuses and national surveys, Boris Starling traces changes in British life. Work, families, housing, beliefs, and everyday habits reveal how a population has changed and what its statistics can explain.

A rollercoaster commission brings Theo to North Korea, where he falls for his tour guide, Min. Their growing attachment challenges her careful obedience and draws her grandmother’s buried history into a dangerous conflict between love and survival.