DCI James Craig Books in Order

After literary agent Sarah Matthews is murdered in her St Andrews office, DCI James Craig discovers pages from an unpublished manuscript describing her death in exact detail. When further chapters arrive predicting more killings in the publishing world, he must unmask a killer who is using fiction as a script and seems determined to write Craig into the final act.

A series of brutal attacks on serving and former detectives pulls James Craig into a joint investigation with DCI Harry McNeil. As ex members of an elite police unit are picked off with chilling precision, the two teams uncover a buried scandal inside the force and realise that all of them may be on the killer’s list.

In a remote hotel far from help, staff discover a man murdered in a room and a dead woman posed in an armchair watching him, the scene partially burned. Craig’s investigation reveals a killer who carefully stages victims before dousing the flames, leaving him chasing a meticulous planner whose motives are rooted in trauma that refuses to stay buried.

When teenager Heather Ross disappears in rural Fife, whispers about the Shadow Watchers, eerie figures from local folklore, resurface in the hills. As Craig and his team follow leads involving land deals, stolen artefacts and buried grudges, the disappearances turn lethal and the line between old legend and modern violence grows dangerously thin.

Forensic pathologist Annie Keller visits her uncle, retired judge William Hawthorne, who in a moment of clarity claims to know the identity of a killer. When a new body turns up matching his hazy description, DCI James Craig must decide how seriously to take the words of a man with dementia while powerful figures work to keep old decisions hidden.

A well liked man is found bludgeoned to death in his own home, a jigsaw piece clenched in his hand. As DCI James Craig and his new team dig into the victim’s carefully managed life, they uncover a darker alter ego and realise the killer may be working through a list of targets connected to old sins.

Returning to Fife for his wife’s uncle’s funeral, London detective James Craig is uneasy with the tidy explanation that the old man simply fell downstairs. When small details refuse to add up, Craig joins the inquiry and uncovers links to a long ago serial case from his probationer days, forcing him to face a killer he thought he had left in the past.

At the Burntisland carnival, two teenage girls enjoy the rides, unaware one of them is being stalked. The next morning, her body is discovered in a cemetery with a symbol carved into her forehead that Craig recognises from an unsolved case. When more victims appear echoing other investigations from his past, he realises someone is recreating the murders he never quite closed.