Charmian Daniels Books in Order

In quiet Deerham Hills, Charmian Daniels investigates a tense case shaped by identity, intimacy and dangerous human dependencies. The mystery matters, but so do Charmian's own emotions.

Charmian Daniels' first case centers on Kathy, a dutiful young woman trapped in a poisonous home life. When disappearances and troubling signs build, what looks domestic starts to feel deadly.

An unidentified woman is pulled from the river, and somewhere nearby there is also a faceless murderer with a hatred of women. The case nearly overwhelms Charmian and threatens her career.

A missing girl, a suspicious death, terrifying letters and a Peeping Tom leave Charmian Daniels juggling more than one threat at once. Robert Ascham's reappearance only complicates things further.

While studying criminology and keeping watch over student trouble at Midport University, Charmian Daniels starts thinking about casual modern violence. Then the theory becomes a frighteningly local reality.

A mutilation murder and a run of burglaries push Charmian into a battle with an all-female criminal gang. To crack the case, she has to get dangerously close and let others think she has gone rogue.

After a wedding guest is poisoned, three career women in a London enclave find themselves surrounded by threatening calls, neighbor attacks and old resentments. Charmian Daniels has to cut through the friendship and fear.

Charmian takes a sabbatical in Windsor to research women and crime, hoping for quiet work and a change of pace. Instead, plastic bags of dismembered human limbs start turning up, one of them in her own yard.

Promotion leaves Charmian more exposed than ever when a young woman calling herself Nella Fisher is found murdered outside her friends' home. Threatening letters, watchers and police corruption make the case deeply unsettling.

When a woman from a witches' coven is found stabbed among occult objects, Charmian Daniels cuts through the superstition to find a human motive. The result mixes career politics, ritual trappings and psychological tension.

A coffin sent to a hospital pathology department becomes the start of a perplexing summer for Deerham Hills police. Charmian Daniels soon connects it to a troubling run of missing girls.

A strangled teenage girl, a missing married man, a boy who talks about doubles and another hit-and-run death give Charmian Daniels more than one mystery to solve. Windsor grows stranger the deeper she looks.

Set in the shadow of Windsor Castle, this mystery puts Charmian back in danger as one murder leads to another. Butler keeps the stakes personal as the threat widens around her.

The disappearance of eight-year-old Sarah Holt, a young man's corpse and a long-buried baby skeleton seem impossible to connect at first. Charmian races to find the hidden link before a killer closes the case for her.

Seeking rest in Brideswell, Charmian buys an old house and instead walks into a village full of buried demons. The discovery of a local beauty's dismembered body proves the place is anything but peaceful.

A murder that once closed a nursery school is not as finished as anyone thought. When a walled-off space reveals another corpse, Charmian is drawn into a gruesome case with roots going back a decade.

Wax models seem to take on lives of their own, and a woman believed dead appears to be killing again. Charmian Daniels has to sort performance from reality before the case turns even stranger.

A young man is found with his face painted in red, white and blue stripes and his heart cut out. Charmian Daniels investigates a sinister Windsor case driven by spectacle, anger and revenge.

Charmian expects nothing worse than a pleasant evening at a friend's bookshop opening. Then a stone coffin is uncovered in the garden, with a woman's body inside.

Charmian is assigned to protect a prisoner due for release when fresh murders begin to echo crimes from years earlier. The question is whether a killer has returned, or someone wants everyone to think so.

Now promoted, Charmian Daniels is told to tackle a wave of violent racial crime spreading from London toward Cheasey and Windsor. The assignment soon opens into a grislier, more dangerous case than anyone expected.

Living by herself in a big violent city, Nell is already exposed before an unidentified body turns up nearby. Her house, her friendships and even her own secrets begin to look unsafe.