D.I. Bethany Smith Books in Order

DI Bethany Smith investigates a brutally mutilated man discovered by his wife at home. Threatening calls expose accusations against the victims, and another deadly telephone encounter suggests someone is turning private grievances into a campaign of murder.

A woman who attended a neighborhood party is found murdered near Le Huray Close. When another guest is killed the following day, DI Bethany Smith investigates the gathering and the hostility surrounding its residents before another death occurs.

DI Bethany Smith investigates bodies left at the bottoms of their own gardens, grotesquely arranged with insects and other disturbing decorations. As similar murders multiply, she must uncover the pattern while struggling with her own recent grief.

DI Bethany Smith discovers two burned bodies buried in shallow woodland graves and wrapped as macabre gifts. When Claire Ellis disappears, the investigation gains urgency as a neighbor's obsessive interest in her threatens to become something far worse.

A hand-drawn map guides DI Bethany Smith to the mutilated body of a minor royal on Shadwell Hill. Further maps and taunting letters promise more killings, forcing her team to decipher a murderer who deliberately directs them to victims.

DI Bethany Smith's Christmas plans are interrupted when Shamara reacts violently to an unwanted workplace Secret Santa gift. The new murder raises questions about Shamara's past, her sense of entitlement, and the earlier lives she has taken.

A homeless man accepts apparent kindness from a nun at Christmas, only to wake restrained with a bladed candy cane before him. His body is later found against a cemetery tombstone, bringing DI Bethany Smith into the investigation.

After Vicky North is found murdered in her baby's bedroom, her four-month-old child is missing. DI Bethany Smith and DS Mike Wilkins pursue the abductor, with a seemingly ordinary insurance call preceding the attack on the young mother.

DI Bethany Smith examines a disturbed grave containing a man's dismembered remains, but the woman originally buried there is missing. The investigation draws her toward a killer whose fascination with corpses turns a cemetery into the scene of further crimes.

DI Bethany Smith is worn down by a caller who claims to have bodies hidden beneath rubble. When he starts threatening her partner, Mike Wilkins, she must find the victims and identify the man tormenting her.