David Webb Books in Order

Kate moves to a new flat with her small son and starts work in an antiques shop, hoping for a fresh beginning. Instead she lands in a community overshadowed by a series of murders and rising fear.

A bitter New Year's party leaves plenty of people with reason to resent Nancy Pendrick. When she is later found strangled on a lonely lane, DCI David Webb must sort through old flames, fresh quarrels, and village secrets.

Housebound after breaking her leg, actress Jessica Randal thinks a rented village cottage will offer peace and recovery. Instead she finds herself trapped in a town stalked by a rapist and murderer obsessed with nursery rhymes.

When French student Arlette Picard vanishes from Broadshire University, DCI Webb is drawn into one of his most difficult cases. Jealousies, academic tensions, and a brilliant but troubling professor all complicate the search.

Jan Coverdale visits her half-brother in England and quickly senses something is wrong. When a dead man is found carrying his identification and talk turns to lost Incan treasure, DCI Webb is pulled into a strange and uneasy case.

A wealthy family's flower beds spelling out MURDER seem like a bad joke, until the matriarch is brutally killed. DCI Webb's investigation into the Walkers uncovers bitterness, revenge, and secrets that reach through the whole household.

A group calling itself the April Rainers sends death warnings to people it has judged guilty of moral crimes. As the bodies mount, DCI Webb must discover who they are and why they have decided to become executioners.

When houses in Beckworth are marked with grotesque gargoyle graffiti, the vandalism looks nasty but petty. Then a newly arrived woman is found dead, and DCI Webb begins to fear the symbols are marking victims, not properties.

The bodies of the twins once known as the Lily-White Boys are found in an abandoned van outside Monica Tovey's home. As burglaries, football violence, and strange calls spread through Shillingham, DCI Webb sees one grim pattern.

A recent murder in Webb's hometown may be tied to something a woman saw in the night forty years earlier. Forced to confront old resentments and his own childhood memories, Webb digs through a town built on long-kept lies.

A secretive religious group known as the Revelationists begins spreading through rural Shillingham. When an undercover officer is drawn in and a wine merchant is murdered, DCI Webb suspects the cult is hiding something deadly.

Bad weather strands Helen Campbell at the Seven Stars Guest House, where a suspicious hit and run and a series of country-house break-ins upset the quiet. DCI Webb investigates while Helen uncovers clues of her own.

DCI Webb and his friend Malcolm Bennett are already stretched by a wave of violent shop raids when Bennett's family is rocked by two sudden deaths. For Webb, the case becomes one of the most painful of his career.

Emily takes a temporary job as secretary to reclusive writer Matthew Haig, expecting a fresh start. Instead she steps into a tense household where attraction, secrets, and real danger are all waiting for her.

A body in a pub parking lot looks uncannily like a case DCI Webb handled years before. As a high-profile criminologist publicly disputes the link, Webb pursues a theory that may lead to another tragedy.

A publicity stunt brings together twenty men who all share the name Richard Vine. Hours later, nine are dead, and DCI David Webb realizes the bizarre event was no accident, but a carefully planned attempt to kill the right Richard.

When a dying clergyman whispers the words The Twelve Apostles to Verity Ryder, the phrase seems to point toward her nephew Adam. DCI David Webb must unravel an old mystery before the past claims another victim.