DCI Craig Gillard Books in Order

A young man who recently clashed with Gillard's pregnant partner Sam is found dead under a motorway flyover. At the same time the Flying Squad hears whispers of a planned half billion pound heist, and Gillard must prove how the killing and the robbery crew connect.

With a new home and a baby on the way, Gillard hopes for calm until retired sergeant Ken Stapleford is stabbed in his living room. The next day Gillard witnesses a jogger's murder in nearby Nightingale Park, and eerie forensic links suggest a single killer closing in on his family.

Property lawyer and money launderer Jonathan Hale has just returned from a brutal spell in a United States prison and knows a gangster called the Reptile wants him dead. When the protection around Hale starts to unravel, Gillard races to stop an international vendetta spilling into quiet Surrey streets.

Workmen excavating an Anglo Saxon burial site on the River Wey uncover a modern corpse with dental fillings and a shard of ancient dagger in his neck. Gillard's search for the dead man's identity leads into local family feuds and a lethal mix of greed and history.

After defending a violent enforcer in a major drug case, junior barrister Julia McGann suffers a break in and a scared young girl arrives at her door. Months later a respected headmaster is found murdered in his car, and Gillard must link blood spattered gloves to events buried on the moors decades ago.

Russian oligarch Alexander Volkov is shot in the library of his Surrey mansion during a lavish party, his ex wife wounded and her new partner killed beside him. With no sign of an intruder and every guest holding an alibi, Gillard confronts a locked room puzzle on a global scale.

When a talented musician vanishes from a train, it first looks like stage fright. Then Gillard learns her father is Germany's Justice Minister and political pressure soars. As he investigates, the missing woman becomes bait in a much larger game that soon targets Gillard himself.

A body is discovered on a small island in the Thames, asphyxiated and marked with strange symbols. While Gillard struggles to identify the victim, a notorious serial killer he once helped catch prepares for parole, and old crimes begin to bleed into the new case.

A young detective out jogging on a winter morning witnesses the drive by murder of Tanvi Roy, head of a hugely successful food empire. Gillard's inquiry into the wealthy Roy family exposes rivalries, secrets and dangers that follow him back into his own home life.

Promising architect Peter Young is shot dead at his desk in what looks like a professional hit. Two weeks later an unidentified, branded corpse washes up on a windswept beach, drawing Gillard into a case that links commuter belt respectability with dangerous forces willing to kill children.

On a foggy Exmoor lane, a man with no ID is killed in a brutal hit and run. When the car is traced to Gillard's aunt, he finds himself unpicking old family tensions and a present day conspiracy that turns the case painfully personal.

DCI Craig Gillard is called in when criminologist Martin Knight's wife, Liz, disappears and Martin flees. Liz is Gillard's former girlfriend, and as he investigates he uncovers secrets that suggest this is far more than a routine missing person case.