David Williams Books in Order

Arthur Moonlight asks Mark Treasure to stop the sale of his troubled family seat, but a hidden Shakespeare manuscript raises the stakes fast. Soon Mitchell Hall is crowded with suspicious visitors, odd accidents, and unmistakable murder.

A cash-strapped college becomes the prize in a battle between an eccentric American foundation and an Arab prince. Mark Treasure tries to keep the peace, then finds himself dealing with murder, bomb scares, and kidnapping.

On a sleepy British island in the West Indies, Mark Treasure's assistant is tied to a gruesome murder. Treasure arrives to clear him, only to find a chaotic case, a severed head, and suspects everywhere.

In a West Wales sailing village, a corporate takeover and a found body turn a weekend by the sea into a dangerous tangle. Mark Treasure faces assault, a second death, and suspects with money on their minds.

A retired major and an elderly cabbie stumble into chaos at a bankrupt charitable trust with assets worth millions. Mark Treasure is called in when their rescue plan brings kidnap, violence, and sudden death.

A shabby nineteenth-century Round House stands in the way of a rich south coast development, and plenty of people want it gone. When death enters the property fight, Mark Treasure follows the money through a very mixed cast of schemers.

The head of a London advertising agency appears to have taken his own life just as a takeover battle heats up. Mark Treasure looks past the verdict and finds money, ego, and old grudges all competing for the same corpse.

A battle over the sale of a cathedral's Magna Carta turns ugly when fire destroys the library and a verger is found murdered in the ruins. Mark Treasure arrives in Litchester expecting church politics and finds something far darker.

A rushed wedding at Marton Manor already looks suspicious when the bride stands to lose a fortune by marrying young. By the next day there are unexplained deaths, a disappearance, and far more at stake than family drama.

After a Hermitage painting is stolen in Leningrad, suspicion falls on an English cultural group visiting the city. When one of their party is murdered at the opera, Mark Treasure has to find the killer while navigating Soviet bureaucracy.

In a North Wales town, unrest at a sweet factory mixes with job fears, greed, and violence. Mark Treasure is drawn in as a banker, then has to solve a bizarre double murder before the situation turns even more bitter.

An Oxford dinner for the governors of an architectural library turns deadly when valuable Constable sketches point straight toward murder. Mark Treasure doubts the police arrest and starts probing the college's respectable inner circle.

A crumbling West London church becomes suddenly valuable when closure and redevelopment loom. Mark Treasure and Molly get drawn into parish politics, big money, and murder as rival groups fight to control the site.

A drug company's much-hyped migraine cure has directors dreaming of fortunes, until activists, kidnapping, and murder derail the float. Mark Treasure returns to find the business under attack from both inside and out.

A West Country convent with only three nuns and millions in assets looks like a financial puzzle, until suspicious deaths and arson follow. Mark Treasure fears the police are closing in on the wrong suspect and starts digging.

A plan to save an Elizabethan house by turning part of its park into a golf and hotel complex sparks local outrage. When murder follows the public meeting, Mark Treasure must cut through politics, scandal, and a suspicious suicide.

A disgraced banker's refusal to sell a football club ends in a death that looks like suicide and feels like murder. Mark Treasure steps into a crowded field of suspects, where money laundering, affairs, and sporting ambition all collide.

The market town of Tawrbach reels after the accidental death of wealthy widow Rhonwen Spencer Griffith, then her son Elwyn dies as well. Evidence of blackmail pulls Inspector Merlin Parry into the buried grudges of a seemingly quiet community.

Mervyn Davies returns to South Wales from Australia to collect a huge inheritance and stirs up old resentments at once. When his body is found in pieces, Merlin Parry and Gomer Lloyd have to look past the obvious family motives.

In a Cardiff suburb, a vicar's plan to divorce, remarry, and keep his post shocks his parish. When his fiancee, a hospital consultant, is found murdered with one of her own scalpels, Merlin Parry has suspects everywhere.

A family secret about an illegally acquired baby turns into blackmail years later, then erupts in murder in Cardiff's Central Market. Parry and Lloyd face a baffling public killing with thousands nearby and apparently no witnesses.

When schoolboy Freddy Gibbon falls from a dormitory window at Modlen Hall, the death looks like suicide. Merlin Parry and Gomer Lloyd uncover blackmail, bullying, drugs, and an older tragedy that refuses to stay buried.

This collection gathers David Williams's crime short stories, all built around neatly planted clues and sharp reversals. The cases range from family greed and insurance scams to club scandals and carefully planned killings.

At a private stroke clinic in Wales, well-liked auxiliary nurse Kevin Rees is murdered and everyone rushes toward the easy explanation. DCI Merlin Parry digs past appearances and finds a web of lies around both the victim and the clinic.