David Peace Books in Order

New crime reporter Eddie Dunford investigates a murdered girl in Yorkshire during the winter of 1974. Connections to earlier disappearances draw him into a world of corruption, obsession, and greed that makes his longed-for job increasingly dangerous.

As murders escalate in Yorkshire during the Jubilee summer, policeman Bob Fraser and journalist Jack Whitehead suspect more than one killer. Their relationships with women in Chapeltown make the investigation personal, pulling both deeper into a violent and compromised world.

Assistant Chief Constable Hunter investigates the Yorkshire Ripper murders as fear grips the county. Police corruption and threats against his family turn the inquiry into a personal struggle, leaving him increasingly isolated from the colleagues he needs to trust.

Three lives converge as Yorkshire’s buried corruption returns to the surface: BJ, lawyer John Piggott, and senior policeman Maurice Jobson. Their intersecting stories expose a system of brutality and distorted justice, bringing the Red Riding quartet toward a reckoning.

Set during Britain’s 1984 miners’ strike, this novel follows industrial conflict from government negotiations to confrontations in the coalfields. Competing interests, political maneuvering, and covert tactics expose the violence and divisions surrounding the struggle.

In occupied Tokyo in 1946, Detective Minami investigates the murders of women amid the destruction left by war. Hunting a serial killer forces him to confront his own haunting memories and the city’s pervasive moral disorder.

A man claiming to be a doctor poisons employees at a Tokyo bank in 1948 and escapes with money. This novel revisits the resulting investigation and the suspicions of conspiracy, complicity, and concealment surrounding the massacre.

This fictional portrait follows Bill Shankly as he transforms Liverpool’s struggling football team. Set against the city’s economic hardship, the novel examines his relentless work, the club’s revival, and the community that invests its hopes in him.

Twelve connected tales blend fact and invention to explore Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s life. His creative obsessions, mental distress, private relationships, and response to Japan’s Westernization form a portrait of an artist confronting profound personal and cultural uncertainty.

The disappearance of Japan’s railway president in 1949 haunts three men across several decades. An American detective, a Japanese private investigator, and an aging translator confront an unresolved case that exposes the unsettled legacy of occupied Tokyo.

After the 1958 Munich air disaster devastates Manchester United, survivors, families, and supporters struggle to recover. This novel revisits the crash and its aftermath through imagined voices, exploring grief, rebuilding, and the bonds of a wounded community.