DCI Harry McNeil Books in Order

DCI Harry McNeil thinks he was right to end a serious relationship, given the danger of his job, until a mutilated female body is dragged from a canal carrying a dead officer’s ID. The victim’s real identity as a software engineer probing classified self driving car projects points Harry toward a web of government secrets, corporate greed and very determined killers.

On his first day running Edinburgh’s cold case unit, Harry McNeil is faced with a fresh murder in a cemetery that mirrors the decades old killing he has been asked to review. With a film crew underfoot and suspects on all sides, he and Frank Miller must work out whether a gravestone killer has been active for twenty years or if someone new is copying an old crime.

Newly promoted to lead a Major Investigation Team after years chasing corrupt cops, DCI Harry McNeil is tested when a wealthy bride vanishes from a Highland castle on her wedding night. A burned corpse in a wedding dress and echoes of a fifteen year old murder suicide force him to reopen an old case before another ceremony ends in a mass funeral.

A prison transport van explodes and two convicted killers vanish into the Scottish countryside. Pulled back into the job just when he was enjoying time off, Harry McNeil teams with Glasgow detectives to track the escapees as their murderous trail grows longer and the manhunt turns into a race against mounting casualties.

In the middle of a brutal Edinburgh winter, a woman’s frozen body is found hidden inside a snowman. As Harry McNeil connects the case to an older unsolved killing, he is suddenly accused of misconduct, forcing him to clear his name while tracking a murderer who uses the storm to cover their trail.

Visiting his late father’s dementia stricken former colleague, Harry McNeil is shown unsettling photographs that seem to tie the old detective to a long dormant serial case. When fresh bodies appear in Glasgow and Edinburgh with eerie similarities, Harry is forced to ask whether a once trusted cop is a killer, and why the new murders are circling closer to him.

Harry McNeil barely has time to process his stepfather’s death before he is called to an upscale street where an apparently ordinary man has been stabbed on his own doorstep. When the victim’s widow begins seeing a shadowy stranger near her home, Harry realises the hit may be tied to something closer to his own family than he wants to admit.

Decades after millionaire Murdo Wolf’s plane vanished over the sea, his remains and aircraft are finally discovered. When one of his grandsons is murdered during a family gathering on the old island estate, Harry McNeil and a Glasgow team must untangle an old disappearance and a present day killing on an isolated island where the murderer may still be moving among the guests.

In a Highland town gearing up for its Christmas Land festival, a woman is found hanging in the woods and a hearse crashes into a church carrying the decades old body of a missing girl. With tourists flooding in and Hogmanay approaching, Harry McNeil has only days to catch a killer who is using the celebrations to showcase both old and new victims.

When a teenager who vanished five years earlier is found freshly murdered near Portobello Beach, DCI Harry McNeil sees disturbing links to two recent abductions. As another young girl is snatched, his team races to stop a predator who keeps victims hidden for years before killing them.

On leave after a personal tragedy, Harry McNeil hides in a half renovated cottage and the local bar, convinced he is done with big cases. When a woman begs him to find her missing brother and a body surfaces in Loch Lomond with the man’s name in its pocket, Harry is dragged into a small town mystery where a killer has been hiding in plain sight.

Childhood legend Nightmare was supposed to scare children, until a killer carved his name into three victims and then disappeared. Years later, fresh graffiti and a murdered journalist drag Harry McNeil to the Highlands, where he must untangle superstition from a very real predator.

As Edinburgh prepares for New Year, Harry McNeil juggles single fatherhood, a new Major Investigation Team and the body of a woman pulled from the Water of Leith. The killer’s escalating signature suggests he is not just taunting the police, he is steering the investigation straight toward Harry himself.

Back from leave and shunted into a temporary post, DCI Harry McNeil joins Frank Miller on a Major Investigation Team when a mutilated body echoes an old unsolved murder. As new bosses circle and Glasgow detectives weigh in, reopening the case stirs secrets that some people will kill to keep buried.

When a body is discovered strapped to a carousel horse at a fair in Edinburgh’s Meadows, Harry McNeil recognises the victim as a charismatic politician he arrested years earlier. As he digs into the man’s past threats and buried scandals, Harry’s team is pulled into the sights of a killer whose vendetta is about to change Harry’s own life forever.

A respected Edinburgh psychiatrist is beaten to death, and Harry McNeil’s team struggles to find anyone who truly knew the man behind the professional mask. As witnesses close ranks and motives multiply, Harry pushes through a wall of silence, while Frank Miller fights to clear his own name, both men facing enemies who would rather see them ruined than see the truth come out.

Settling into a new rhythm at work and at home, Harry McNeil is jolted when a Member of the Scottish Parliament is found slaughtered in an empty house, the scene matching an old murder almost detail for detail. Someone is recreating past killings with insider precision, forcing Harry to revisit earlier investigations before the copycat turns historic crime scenes into a modern hit list.

A serial killer Harry McNeil helped cage dies in prison, but the post mortem reveals a final message addressed to him and hints at more victims than anyone knew. As new bodies appear and an apparent protégé continues the dead man’s work, Harry must chase a legacy killer while a separate investigation in the Cairngorms tests one of his colleagues to breaking point.

When a bestselling author is found dead in what looks like a publicity stunt gone wrong, Harry McNeil quickly realises it is murder and that not everyone admired the victim. While short staffed and under pressure, he chases a killer who understands storytelling, as DCI Angie Fisher in Fife investigates a suspicious family death that refuses to stay off Harry’s radar.

A young man’s body is found in an abandoned caravan, and at first it looks like a tragic accident. When his real identity emerges and an ugly crime from his past resurfaces, Harry McNeil is drawn into a revenge plot that the public seems to welcome, even as a hidden accomplice and fresh violence reveal how little anyone really knows about what justice should look like.