Colin Forbes Books in Order

Hired by a rich Parisian father, John Snow heads to Lake Garda to find a missing daughter before blackmailers sell compromising photographs. The case mixes glamour, time pressure, and a quietly tough investigator who knows when appearances lie.

John Snow, a recently retired Scotland Yard superintendent, takes on the first of his post-police cases in England. It is an early Sawkins mystery, measured, intelligent, and already drawn to the kind of danger that would define his later thrillers.

David Martini is asked to protect both a hunted man and the Corder Index, a list exposing an industrial espionage ring. It is a compact early thriller about pursuit, negotiation, and knowing exactly who can be trusted.

A wealthy Swiss client hires David Martini to look into a threat to Switzerland's neutrality. His inquiry soon draws hostile attention from American, British, and other operators circling a plot aimed at striking the United States.

John Snow returns to England for another careful, low-key investigation that slowly opens onto wider danger. The third Snow novel leans more on atmosphere and deduction than spectacle, but the tension is still there.

During the German advance through France in May 1940, a lone British tank behind enemy lines may be the last chance to disrupt an entire panzer division. It is a wartime thriller built on nerve, exhaustion, and impossible odds.

David Martini investigates after a jet-engine expert and friend is killed by a bomb in Switzerland. When similar attacks and an attack on Martini himself follow, he knows he has stumbled into a much larger plot.

In April 1941, British saboteur Ian Macomber reaches Greece with a near-impossible assignment, stop a German panzer division before it traps the British force. Forbes turns the mission into a lean World War II chase.

In wartime Italy, Major Petrie and explosives expert Johnson try to destroy a vital German troop ship running between Sicily and the mainland. Their plan depends on uneasy help from the Mafia and nerves that hold under pressure.

A Soviet oceanographer defects with submarine secrets, and polar veteran Keith Beaumont is sent to bring him in. The rescue becomes a brutal race across harsh terrain against a Russian strategist closing fast.

A sheikh and his hired terrorists plan to use oil and violence to destroy Israel. At the centre is Winter, an English adventurer whose real loyalties make the mission far more dangerous.

After an attempt on the French president and whispers of a coup, Paris police chief Marc Grelle chases a shadowy figure known only as the Leopard. It is a political thriller built on fear, secrecy, and a nation near rupture.

An important Soviet defector boards a train leaving Milan under British and American protection. Hidden enemies have already set a deadlier trap, an avalanche meant to wipe out the whole mission.

A terrorist and blackmail network called the Stockholm Syndicate has spent years terrorising the West. Forbes pits rival power groups against each other in a cold, large-scale thriller about coercion, money, and survival.

A British agent is murdered on Lake Constance with a neo-Nazi mark carved into his back. Major Martel must decide whether the killers are real extremists or Russian operators staging a deadly deception.

Bob Newman picks up a clue about a smuggled package and finds it linked to the secretive Berne Clinic and something called Terminal. Tweed's team must work out what that word hides before the damage spreads.

Built on the idea that Hitler was secretly replaced in 1943, this alternate-history thriller follows Martin Bormann's effort to control the endgame of the war. Forbes turns conspiracy into a grim what-if about power and deception.

A top Washington official is preparing to defect, but nobody knows which of several powerful people is the real target. Tweed must move fast through a fog of politics, false identities, and personal revenge.

Tweed hunts a traitor buried inside British intelligence as Cold War loyalties begin to crack. It is a classic mole-hunt thriller, driven by suspicion, treason, and the fear that the next betrayal is already under way.

Six fresh graves in a Norfolk churchyard signal the start of a manhunt with Soviet implications. Tweed, Bob Newman, and Paula Grey race to find a missing Russian master planner before the crisis deepens.

A murder committed decades earlier pulls Tweed, Paula Grey, and Newman into Devil's Valley on the trail of the Greek Key. Old grudges and vendettas turn the search into a dangerous, puzzle-like chase.

Framed for raping and murdering a young woman, Tweed goes on the run across snowbound Europe with Paula Grey. Hunted by former allies and a hired assassin, he must clear his name before he is killed.

Tweed returns as terror sweeps Europe and the trail runs from Britain through Scandinavia to a mysterious institute in Lapland. The case plays against the crumbling hopes of glasnost and the arrival of a hidden new enemy.

When a lone boater drifts ashore dead and other vessels start disappearing, Paula Grey and Tweed begin pulling at a strange chain of clues. The mystery builds quietly into a maritime conspiracy with real bite.

The murder of an SIS agent in Bordeaux draws Tweed and Paula Grey into a violent network tied to riots in France. The case mixes street unrest, political manipulation, and a steadily rising body count.

Tweed, Paula Grey, and Bob Newman meet an enemy so efficient that every move feels anticipated. The result is a tight, pressure-cooker thriller about identifying the hidden force behind a growing nightmare.

After the wife of a senior member of Tweed's staff is murdered, grief and vengeance tear through the team. While Tweed hunts the missing husband, a hidden manipulator and a female assassin push the case toward chaos.

Tweed dismisses the easy explanation of terrorism and follows a murkier threat across Europe. With Paula, Bob Newman, and Philip Cardon driven underground, the mystery turns on hidden motives and a woman who may hold the answer.

A body on the California coast and a ship vanishing into fog seem unrelated until Tweed senses catastrophe. The case escalates into one of Forbes's biggest disaster-driven thrillers, with danger spreading far beyond a single murder.

Paula Grey witnesses the aftermath of a political killing in Vienna and suspects a shadowy group called the Sisterhood. As more assassinations follow, Tweed sees a wider plan to reshape Europe by force.

After the British Prime Minister is assassinated, Tweed uncovers signs of a vast operation aimed at pulling Britain under outside control. National panic becomes a wide, urgent manhunt for whoever is really running the show.

Tweed faces Dr Goslar again, the scientist behind a terrifying supreme weapon. A past defeat hangs over the case as the team races to stop a catastrophe that could kill millions.

Five heads of state are secretly plotting unrest across the West, and Tweed knows only four of them. Finding the hidden fifth conspirator becomes the key to stopping a push toward chaos and dictatorship.

Two headless corpses found far apart point Tweed, Paula, and Newman toward a ruthless enemy in the heart of Europe. The investigation races toward a large-scale disaster with very little time left to stop it.

Tracking a highly capable killer sends Tweed, Paula Grey, and Bob Newman across Europe again, this time with Belgian ex-policeman Jules Beaurain. The chase turns into a grim pursuit of an enemy who is always one step ahead.

Tweed's team faces a lethal new enemy while betrayal keeps cutting across every move they make. The worst possibility soon emerges, the traitor may be frighteningly close to home.

A threat powerful enough to shake Europe puts Tweed and his team under relentless pressure. As loyalties crack and one of their own is drawn into danger, the hunt becomes a tense test of trust as much as survival.

Tweed visits Bella Main, head of a powerful private bank, after she turns down a predatory takeover offer. When Bella is murdered, he and Paula dig into family feuds, buried crimes, and a dangerous financier closing in.

When two women are brutally murdered, Tweed and Paula Grey step in and find links to a remote estate, more killings, and a much larger plot. A rural murder case quickly widens into one of Tweed's last big conspiracies.