David Blake Books in Order

Capstan’s second outing pits him against Cate Jakebury, a mild mannered academic and crime novelist who decides to research her book by committing real crimes. After murdering her husband, she recruits student pirates, steals HMS Victory and sails for France, leaving the baffled inspector always one step behind.

In Capstan’s first recorded case, a glamorous criminal nicknamed Cocaine Claire drags him into a tangle of drug deals, bungled heists and social satire. The more he chases her, the more it becomes clear that Claire may understand the system better than the police do.

Inspector Capstan tackles a wildly escalating case in the city of Zenopolis, starting with a murder at Bath’s eccentric Basin Museum. Botched robberies, stolen Roman weapons and a self styled conqueror named Becky Philips soon have him trying to stop an invasion nobody else is taking seriously.

A new nemesis known as Genocide Jill draws Capstan into a spree of over the top mayhem involving politics, media stunts and improbable body counts. As the city lurches from crisis to crisis, he stumbles after her trail, hoping dim luck will make up for poor policing.

Now working in London on a scrappy YouTube news channel, Abigail and Will are juggling a fragile relationship with the pressure to deliver viral stories. When ratings crash and a larger than life figure called McDongle storms into their lives, Abigail has to decide how far she will go for love and headlines.

TV reporter Abigail Love is horrified to discover that her new cameraman, Will Wankett, is the boy she once teased into therapy at school. A decade later they fall for each other again, but old pranks and new scandals threaten both their romance and their show.

In the twenty fifth century the American President rules the world and Detective Inspector Capstan is accidentally thawed from four centuries of cryogenic sleep. Reinstated as a space cop with Sergeant Dewbush’s distant descendant, he is sent after a missing cow and stumbles into a far bigger alien threat.

In the twenty sixth century, Earth’s elite Galaxy Squad are accidentally poisoned by their own interns. Desperate to hide what they have done, the rookies steal their heroes’ identities and set out to retrieve Voyager Two, only to run straight into Drackonian trouble.

The President of Earth may be about to be assassinated, but Capstan and Dewbush are sent to find the Mayor of London’s missing cat. An ancient cat flap doubles as a gateway to another world, turning a routine lost pet case into a planetary conspiracy.

Humour and sarcasm are illegal in the twenty fifth century, which makes a joking retail-bot deeply suspicious. When Dewbush falls hopelessly for the robot Jenny and she is recalled for decommissioning, Capstan uncovers a plot that reaches from the shop floor to the President’s love life.

Capstan and Dewbush face their biggest assignment yet when a new crisis threatens the stability of Earth itself. As political chaos collides with cosmic disaster, the Space Police duo have to bungle their way toward saving the planet one more time.

Earth has almost run out of fish and the President is taking the blame. Fresh from saving the world, Capstan and Dewbush visit the British Museum to see the last surviving fish finger, only to chase its theft to Ganymede and a scheming Gorgnome.

As tax investigators close in on the President of Earth, Capstan is ordered to recapture a furious scientist who has escaped a prison asteroid. Armed with a time machine built from a toaster, the fugitive plans to rewrite his own past unless the Space Police can stop him.

A young woman is found raped, strangled and mutilated by a boat propeller deep in the Norfolk Broads, and newly arrived DI John Tanner is brought in. When a second body surfaces and an alibi shatters the obvious motive, he must hunt a killer driven by revenge.

A decorated war veteran and boatyard owner is found drowned in his own bath, and suspicion immediately falls on his two estranged children. As one son dies beneath a toppled yacht and a shady developer circles the yard, Tanner and Evans uncover a buried family secret worth killing for.

An old man is discovered with his throat cut among the ruins of St Benet's Abbey, a knife resting in his hand, and Tanner and Jenny Evans are pushed toward an easy verdict. When the body disappears and priests start dying in bizarre rituals, the investigation spirals back to a girl who fell from a church tower decades earlier.

As Tanner and DS Evans try to plan their wedding, the remains of a seventeenth century witch are found near Horsey Mere. When an MP is discovered hanging above a five pointed star and three young girls seem to share strange powers, the case veers into dark folklore and obsession.

During a violent gale on Barton Broad, DS Jenny Evans joins an old friend to rescue a capsized yacht, only to find a corpse snagged on the mast. When a second killing follows fast, DI Tanner must prove the obvious suspect is being framed.

With a category four storm bearing down on the Norfolk Broads, DI John Tanner is handed a high profile murder. As more bodies and several missing women are linked to the case, he must untangle rival grudges before the weather wipes away the truth.

After two years at sea, John Tanner returns to the Norfolk Broads and moors beside a boat holding a dead man and a missing five year old. Rumours of a ghostly wherry with a blood red sail pull him into a case tied to vanished children.

When the heir to a crumbling marshland mansion shoots an intruder, the body seems to vanish into thin air. At the same time an escaped killer is on the loose, leaving Tanner to search flooded marshes and decaying corridors for a corpse that refuses to stay put.

Days before DCI Tanner’s wedding, an unruly dog discovers a man hanging in a local wood. A retired historian is then found with his throat cut, and a lost manuscript and hidden cottage draw Tanner into the secrets buried in Bluebell Wood.

A newly promoted DCI Tanner is warned that a dangerous psychopath is about to be released, then finds a wealthy couple butchered on their boat. With their twelve year old son missing and the family’s stately home full of secrets, he races to uncover who is really hunting whom.

On the day a notorious thief and murderer is due for release, the prisoner is snatched at gunpoint and later found tortured to death. As museum officials demand a long missing masterpiece, Tanner probes the links between a murdered policewoman, an old robbery and a painting that may never have been lost.

Back from honeymoon with a new baby, Tanner returns to work to find a man insisting he is being framed for murder. When a body turns up in an open church grave and a by election candidate emerges as a better suspect, politics and justice collide on the Broads.

An ambitious young reporter is found tied to a mud weight at the bottom of Blackfleet Broad, rumoured to be chasing a story that could topple powerful people. As more bodies appear and Tanner is haunted by recurring dreams, he must decide whether to trust his instincts or follow the safer line of enquiry.

When a local artist is discovered mutilated inside a five pointed star in a church crypt, whispers of satanic ritual sweep the Broads. Tanner follows the trail from a bullied schoolboy to the dead man’s eccentric will, where five uneasy beneficiaries may hold the key to the curse.

A forthcoming DI Tanner novel that returns DCI John Tanner to the waterways and villages of the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads. Expect another self contained murder investigation that tests his team, his family and the uneasy peace of the landscape he calls home.