DCI Daley Books in Order

DCI Jim Daley is sent from Glasgow to the remote coastal town of Kinloch when a young woman's body is washed up on the beach. As more deaths follow, he uncovers a tangle of small-town secrets, drug money and buried grudges.

When a body is unearthed in a whisky barrel buried beneath Dalintober beach, Daley reopens a century-old feud. Digging into the town's past, he finds that old violence still shapes loyalties, and that some ghosts refuse to stay quiet.

Five years after crime boss James Machie was supposedly assassinated, those who put him away start dying. In Kinloch, Daley must protect his colleague Brian Scott and a hidden witness while working out how a dead man can take revenge.

A senior civil servant throws himself into Kinloch harbour and two local dealers are found ritually murdered. Drawn into high-level politics and shadowy forces, Daley fights to keep his team together as a small-town case threatens national consequences.

In 1986, young beat cop Jim Daley is pulled into CID when a woman is found dead in her rundown flat. Partnered with sharp-tongued Brian Scott, he chases a possible serial killer through Glasgow's streets in his first major case.

In 1968, Kinloch skipper Sandy Hoynes faces an empty sea, a looming wedding bill and a new supersonic jet that seems to scare away the herring. His crew's scheme to fix things soon tangles with officials, smugglers and island politics.

By 1989, Jim Daley is a detective constable in Glasgow, investigating the stabbing of a feared gangster's accountant in a grim car park. As Brian Scott is pushed back toward dangerous old associates, Daley races to expose corruption and keep him alive.

Snow cuts off the Kintyre peninsula just as the powerful Shannon family gather at their clifftop estate near Kinloch. Guarding them from threats inside and out, Daley uncovers occult rites, old sins and a family curse that may be turning murderous.

This collection of DCI Daley stories follows Jim from his early days pounding the Glasgow beat to later cases in Kinloch. Tales of murder, whisky smuggling and local legends fill in the gaps between the novels with humour and plenty of atmosphere.

As war nears its end, a man is stabbed on Kinloch's shoreline. Decades later, a farming family vanishes from a nearby island, leaving food on the table and no trace behind. Guided by an old inspector's journal, Daley unpicks the island's buried secrets.

When archaeologists uncover the remains of three women on a remote Kintyre hillside, Daley recognises a nightmare from his early career, the unsolved Midweek Murderer killings. As cold-case detectives descend on Kinloch, past mistakes and old loyalties resurface with lethal force.

A luxury cruise ship carrying influential guests anchors off Kinloch, putting Daley under intense pressure to keep everyone safe. When a crew member and a local birdwatcher vanish, political stakes mix with personal danger, and Brian Scott must face the sea he dreads.

Decades after vanishing as a teenager, wealthy hotelier Alice Wenger returns to Kinloch, stirring up old memories. On a remote corner of the peninsula, the secretive Doig family begin to fall apart, exposing tales of stolen gold, shipwrecks and violence that refuse to stay buried.

A light aircraft comes down at Machrie airport, but the two men aboard were killed before the crash. As Hamish stumbles into danger at sea and secrets reach from Kinloch to County Antrim, Daley and Scott confront terrorists, spies and painful choices.