Charlie Priest Books in Order

In Heckley, Charlie Priest suspects a respectable businessman is still mixed up in serious crime. His hunt through art fraud, heroin deaths, and local corruption sets the tone for a sharp, funny Yorkshire police series.

Officially on sick leave, Charlie Priest is dragged back when a chauffeur is killed and the wife of an American tobacco tycoon vanishes. What looks like separate trouble soon links to drug smuggling and far more dangerous people.

Charlie Priest dreads cases involving children, so the disappearance of eight-year-old Georgina hits hard. While he searches for her, murdered clergymen and a sinister mushroom calling card point to a killer with a strange obsession.

A disgraced financial adviser is found dead with a flowerpot by his chair, and plenty of ruined clients want revenge. Charlie Priest follows the trail into fraud, hidden valuables, and crimes that are messier than the confession suggests.

A popular doctor is shot dead over Christmas, and Charlie Priest is asked to take charge of the inquiry. At the same time, he is determined to build a solid case against a suspected rapist who nearly slipped justice once before.

A suicide note sends Charlie Priest back to an unsolved arson case from his early days in Leeds. Reopening the fire disturbs people who thought time had buried the truth, and puts Charlie in the path of a desperate killer.

When Tony Silkstone calmly confesses to killing the man who murdered his wife, Charlie Priest suspects the scene is too neat. Another death, a hitman, and a reckless young car thief make the truth harder to pin down.

Two women with seemingly nothing in common are found murdered, and Charlie Priest struggles to spot the pattern. With Heckley closed in by the foot-and-mouth crisis and an old rock star lurking in the case, he must move fast.

Charlie Priest expects a quiet spell until contaminated supermarket food nearly kills two people. The case widens into a decades-old murder, family secrets, and trouble for Charlie's new relationship with a teacher whose past refuses to stay buried.

Two murders hit close to home, one victim an old school friend, and Charlie Priest has to untangle past grudges, bad reputations, and nightclub money. As the cases converge, his own relationships become almost as fraught as the investigation.

A bizarre death and a second killing point Charlie Priest toward industrial espionage, mistaken identity, and an enemy with a grudge. When his girlfriend is kidnapped, the case stops being professional and turns painfully personal.

When allegations force a senior officer to resign and an MP ends up dead, Charlie Priest senses a larger setup. His investigation leads into blackmail, fake romance, and a speed-dating racket preying on Heckley's respectable faces.

On gardening leave, Charlie Priest is pulled into a petty scandal at a flashy new shopping centre when a plaque is defaced. Then the mayor turns up dead, and a case involving horse racing, burglary and old secrets turns far more dangerous.