David Pearson Books in Order

Before dawn on Bertra Beach, a burned-out car still smoulders in the sea air, a young woman's body trapped inside. Her red shoes are the only clear identifier, and O'Shea and Maguire must follow scant forensic traces and a fragment of phone footage to uncover who wanted her erased.

A charred car on the Mayo coast, a young woman dead inside and little left to examine suggest a killer who planned ahead. Working the case on their home ground, O'Shea and Maguire probe local loyalties, old resentments and coastal nightlife to reveal what happened on Bertra Beach.

On a quiet Mayo farm, Pat Nevin and his son Conor are shot dead in their own yard, shattering a close family. DI Martin O'Shea and DS Deirdre Maguire trace clues from phone messages to hidden grudges, racing to solve the case before grief pushes another son toward revenge.

After taking the fall for a senior officer's mistake, DI Vikki Kirkby is exiled from Dublin to Wexford and treated as an outsider. When an elderly couple die in suspicious circumstances, she refuses to accept an easy answer, following the trail through Rosslare's busy ferry port to something far larger.

A building society manager is found murdered in her flat above the branch, the safe below cleaned out. To prove the killing is more than a simple heist, DI Vikki Kirkby follows the missing money through Wexford's streets while fending off a superintendent determined to clip her wings.

When Gerard McCarthy fails to arrive for Christmas dinner, his sister calls the Garda and Sergeant Mulholland drives out to his clifftop caravan. Days later a brutally beaten body is discovered nearby, and Maureen Lyons's team must work out who wanted McCarthy gone and why the case keeps shifting.

Clifden's annual arts festival takes a grim turn when a man is found murdered in a bizarre way among the exhibits. Maureen Lyons soon learns the victim interests the British security services, and untangling why he was in Galway may matter as much as catching the local killer.

After a Spanish student is found strangled in a shed beside Dublin's Royal Canal, suspicion falls on a nearby language school. With DI Aidan Burke under scrutiny, DS Fiona Moore takes the lead, battling evasive staff and anxious classmates before the killer strikes again.

When hotel worker Aoife Gilpin stops on a lonely Connemara road to move an obstacle, she never makes it home. DI Maureen Lyons must dig into the victim's job, friendships and secrets by the bay to learn why an apparently ordinary woman was targeted.

A routine flight from London to Dublin lands with one passenger already dead in his seat. Forensics finds a lethal drug cocktail, and DS Fiona Moore must pick apart the victim's legal practice and personal life while her boss is distracted by the glamorous co-pilot.

A passing remark about a missing farmer turns sinister when his body is discovered wrapped and dumped in a bog. DI Maureen Lyons and her team probe family tensions over rough grazing land, drug grows and outside business interests to uncover who gained most from his death.

Gunfire shatters the quiet of Clifden one night, leaving rare book dealer Ann Sweeney dead in her seaside home. With no clear motive, DI Maureen Lyons must untangle Sweeney's eccentric, gun loving relatives and her secretive trade in valuable books to expose a calculating killer.

A man dies in a suburban house fire, but the bullet in his chest tells a different story. Identified as an airport worker, he pulls Burke and Moore toward suspicious freight flights from Shanghai, disputed development land and a mysterious US agent who complicates an already political case.

A body pulled from the Atlantic near Galway looks at first like an accident, until pathology proves otherwise. DI Maureen Lyons traces the victim to a remote coastal hamlet running a smooth bootleg operation, where tight-lipped locals and a vanished associate suggest darker currents offshore.

When an elderly care-home resident dies overnight, DS Fiona Moore is the only one who feels uneasy. A second suspicious death confirms her fears of a killer inside the system, and she must pursue the truth even after her boss sidelines her from the official inquiry.

Two men are found dead in the Dublin mountains, one a wealthy developer, the other a mystery. As Burke and Moore follow links between them, they stumble into organised crime, money laundering and suspects racing for ferries and flights before the detectives can close in.

After a young banker is beaten to death in a Dublin alley, DI Aidan Burke and DS Fiona Moore suspect a targeted hit rather than street violence. When the victim's colleague girlfriend is attacked at home, the trail leads deep into his secretive workplace and its guarded accounts.

A car half buried by the tide on Ballyconneely Beach hides the body of a young woman and a clue to council corruption. When a second girl is abducted and the culprit starts taunting DI Maureen Lyons, the case becomes a race to stop a very public predator.

During the Galway Races, a successful bookmaker is robbed and shot, a crime that should have a simple motive. But when the missing cash turns up untouched and a disruptive officer undermines the team, DI Maureen Lyons must solve a knot of grudges on and off the track.

A woman's body is discovered in a holiday cottage on Ireland's west coast, a tiny gold ingot clutched in her hand. DI Maureen Lyons follows a cold trail from a flashy local shop owner to a web of cross border corruption worth millions, where witnesses have a habit of disappearing.

Maureen Lyons's first case as a newly promoted detective inspector goes badly wrong when a clumsy kidnap attempt turns into murder and the prime suspect slips away. A manhunt from Galway across Ireland forces her and Mick Hays to expose a wider extortion ring before it claims more lives.

On a stormy winter night a driver discovers a woman's body in a roadside ditch after clearing stones from a damaged bridge. As Hays and Lyons investigate, they uncover the victim's life as a sex worker and a long list of locals with reasons to keep quiet.

On the same winter day Galway detectives hear of a body found at the foot of a cliff and a tip about a major wages heist. With resources stretched, Mick Hays has to juggle a possible murder scene and a looming robbery before both crimes blow up in his face.

When a small plane carrying developer Gerald Fortune and two passengers crashes into bogland, it first looks like pilot error. Forensics revealing tampering turns it into homicide, and Maureen Lyons must sift Fortune's risky deals and bitter enemies to learn who wanted everyone on board dead.

The annual Connemara Pony Show grinds to a halt when a man is found dead in a horsebox. As Lyons and Hays investigate, they collide with powerful show organisers, a frightened teenage groom and a linked kidnapping that suggests the victim's respectable life was not what it seemed.

A home-care worker finds a reclusive pensioner dead in his armchair, his cottage ransacked and his body showing signs of torture. With nothing apparently stolen, Hays and Lyons must look beyond a bungled burglary to Ireland's criminal underworld and old deals finally coming due.