David J Gatward Books in Order

Harry Grimm is still adjusting to Dales life when a crushed farmer turns out not to be an accident victim. A second death and an old wound in the village suggest someone has waited years to strike back.

A savaged body on the moors looks straightforward at first, until Harry Grimm spots signs of planning and a far longer trail of victims. The hunt becomes personal, tense, and frighteningly methodical.

Sent from Bristol to rural Wensleydale, scarred ex-paratrooper Harry Grimm expects boredom and exile. Instead, a missing teenager drags him into a grim case that shows the Dales can hide very modern evil.

Alex Carter's war with the occult reaches its wildest scale yet, with Nazis, demonic forces, and the threat of human extinction in play. The mission is brutal, fast, and only gets darker from there.

Ex-SAS soldier turned army padre Alex Carter survives an ambush only to find something far worse than gunfire has been unleashed. This opener mixes battlefield action, faith, and full-bore supernatural horror.

Alex Carter is back, battered, furious, and facing a rising tide of demonic chaos. With children kidnapped and dark forces gathering, he leads a desperate fight that pushes the Padre series even further into horror.

Harry Grimm uncovers signs of an illegal gambling ring after a brutal crime in a remote part of the Dales. A feud between gamekeepers offers suspects, but the violence suggests something worse is moving underneath.

A farmer's death in a hay-baler looks like a terrible accident until the post-mortem says otherwise. Harry Grimm's team follows a trail of threats, family strain, and disappearance through one of the series' darker cases.

When a celebrated singer is found hanging from a church tower, Harry Grimm is pulled into a case full of performance, obsession, and staged evil. Satanic symbols point one way, but the truth is messier and deadlier.

A widower says his dead wife is haunting the house, and Harry Grimm expects grief, not murder. But after a fire and a shocking discovery, the case turns into a dark hunt through family secrets and fear.

A famous author's launch party ends in murder, leaving Harry Grimm with a crowd of suspects and plenty of grudges. Under media pressure, he has to work out which secret was worth killing for.

When vigilantes start patrolling the Dales, Harry Grimm is already worried. Then blood-soaked scenes start appearing with no bodies, followed by human remains tied to a grisly local tradition.

A poacher dies in a carefully laid trap just as Harry Grimm is settling into his new home. What looks like one ugly feud soon widens into a revenge trail that threatens to turn the countryside into a hunting ground.

A decomposed body pulls Harry Grimm back from a break, and the crime scene explodes before he can gather all the evidence. As more bodies appear, old patterns point toward a criminal he thought was finished.

Harry Grimm's new house becomes a nightmare when a mutilated corpse is found in his living room. The markings drag him back toward Afghanistan, forcing him to chase a killer while his own past closes in.

A newly wealthy young couple vanish after sharing too much of their lives online, leaving behind an abandoned camper and a growing media storm. Harry Grimm's search turns urgent when one of his own team disappears.

A property developer is found dead without his hands, and almost nobody in the village seems sorry to see him gone. Harry Grimm faces a long suspect list shaped by housing pressures, resentment, and hidden grudges.

An elderly detectorist's strange claims and a missing young couple seem unrelated until a battered corpse links the cases. Harry Grimm must decide which clues are confusion, and which point straight to murder.

A murder mystery weekend becomes the real thing when a body turns up in a storm-bound house. Cut off by blizzard conditions, Harry Grimm must sort suspects, stranded guests, and rising danger before the night turns even worse.

A warehouse fire uncovers a charred body and sends Harry Grimm after missing workers, missing owners, and a motive that reaches beyond Yorkshire. The case sprawls fast, with fresh deaths and betrayal at its core.

A decapitated body found near Harry Grimm's favorite local pub shatters the calm of Wensleydale. With another death at a famous beauty spot, he suspects local resentment has tipped into serial murder.

When a well-liked PCSO is found murdered with an axe, Gordy Haig is drawn into whispers of sacrifice and the occult. Her investigation digs into old beliefs, local secrets, and grief that still has teeth.

Ill, short-handed, and already stretched, Harry Grimm is called to a field where a corpse has been posed as a scarecrow. Another death follows, and he has to keep the case moving before sickness and confusion do the killer's work.

Grieving and new to Somerset, DI Gordy Haig is barely unpacked when a body turns up displayed in a ruined castle. The murders seem to echo old horror films, pushing her into a case full of history and spite.

A troubling road accident and a poisoning in Muker convince Harry Grimm that someone is nudging village life toward disaster on purpose. He has to uncover the hidden hand behind a campaign of malice before it turns fully lethal.

A wild swimming group's peaceful routine turns sinister when one member is found dead in a remote woodland pool. Gordy Haig must decide whether eerie visions are a distraction, or a clue to the next attack.

A fatal crash on a quiet Somerset road might have been written off as bad luck, if not for the ghostly dress left hanging nearby. Gordy Haig follows the case back to an earlier death and the lies around it.

A blizzard hits Wensleydale just as thefts begin to spread through Hawes, from the market hall to the food bank. Harry Grimm takes on a smaller but deeply personal mystery during a Christmas that could change his life.

Harry Grimm wakes up trapped in a cave with no clear idea who took him or why. While his team searches desperately, a separate murder in the Dales suggests his disappearance may be part of something much larger.

A mutilated hedgelayer is found in a field on the spring equinox, with rumors of ritual sacrifice spreading fast. Gordy Haig stays skeptical, but the village's silence makes the case stranger by the hour.

Newly married and long settled in the Dales, Harry Grimm is pulled back toward Bristol by family ties and fresh violence. It promises a case where the old life he left behind refuses to stay buried.

Harry and Grace plan a quiet double wedding, but nothing in Hawes stays small for long. This warm novella leans into community, celebration, and a small thread of unease from Harry's past.

A body hanging from a viaduct looks wrong from the first moment Harry Grimm sees it. When more deaths follow in bleak, isolated places, he faces a case built from old connections and carefully staged violence.

The sixth DI Haig novel continues Gordy Haig's Somerset investigations, where grief, folklore, and local secrets keep tangling with hard police work. If you like the series' darker rural mood, this is the next case in line.