DCI Logan Crime Thrillers (Barry J Hutchison) Books in Order

Ten years after arresting a notorious child killer, DCI Jack Logan is sent north when a young boy vanishes in the Highlands. As the new case echoes the old one, he must confront the possibility he jailed the wrong man.

A missing hill walker leads Glencoe Mountain Rescue to the wrong corpse, a man executed and dumped in the Highlands. Investigating, DCI Jack Logan uncovers buried secrets and powerful criminals who would rather spill more blood than let the truth surface.

A nurse is murdered on her way home from a night shift, pulling DCI Jack Logan into a hunt for a killer whose rare psychosis leaves him free of guilt. As more victims appear, Logan is pushed to his limits in an unfamiliar city.

When a mutilated body washes up on the shores of Loch Ness, DCI Jack Logan’s hoped for quiet Highland posting disappears fast. With conspiracy theories and an old enemy circling, he has to uncover the human motives behind the horror.

When the mutilated remains of a young woman are left hanging from the Glenfinnan Monument, DCI Jack Logan’s team expects a straightforward murder inquiry. Instead they stumble into international intrigue, with a furious billionaire, an ex FBI agent, and the world’s press all watching Jack’s every move.

A young man found frozen on a Highland street looks at first like a Christmas party gone wrong. Then DCI Jack Logan discovers signs of torture and realises a vigilante nicknamed the Iceman, a killer with a twisted sense of justice, has quietly returned to finish his list.

The child killer Jack Logan put away a decade ago, Mister Whisper, has escaped from prison. As bodies fall and old fears resurface, Logan is forced into a desperate chase against a nemesis who knows exactly how to hurt him.

After nine months of self imposed exile, former DCI Jack Logan is dragged back to work when a mother and daughter are found dead in a staged double suicide. To stop a calculating murderer, he must rebuild trust with his old team and a Highland community on the brink of tearing itself apart.

Still raw after the death of a colleague, DCI Jack Logan is sent to the storm lashed island of Canna when a widely disliked woman is found dead. Cut off from help with only DC Neish beside him, he must solve a murder where almost everyone had a motive.

A body discovered at the Well of the Seven Heads, missing a vital part, turns a Highland beauty spot into a crime scene. With hundreds of teenagers nearby and the media circling, DCI Jack Logan must decode a gruesome message before panic and anger boil over.

A brutal home invasion in remote Glen Coe leaves a family of four dead, including half of a once famous Glasgow comedy duo. The trail drags DCI Jack Logan back to his old city, where digging into the world of Scottish light entertainment proves more dangerous than he expected.

Just as DCI Jack Logan dares to believe life is finally going his way, a mutilated corpse sparks a series of vicious murders. With friends in danger and an enemy from the past resurfacing, he has to decide what he is willing to sacrifice to stop the most monstrous killer he has faced.

A charred body at the remote Ardnamurchan Lighthouse sends DCI Jack Logan’s team to the wild west coast. Between a loan shark, a slippery politician, and a bizarre fringe cult, they must navigate scandal and conspiracy before the case, and a certain giant squirrel costume, spins out of control.

Life in Inverness is finally looking good for DCI Jack Logan, until a revenge driven killer starts leaving bodies on his patch. With an old flame brought in to help and stirring up trouble at home, he must protect both his city and the fragile happiness he has built.

Months after a teenage girl vanished, her body is found near Eilean Donan Castle, sending DCI Jack Logan into a tight knit rural community full of secrets. When a second girl goes missing in similar circumstances, the case becomes a race to stop history repeating itself.

A billionaire is found dead in the locked study of his Highland castle on Halloween night. Cut off by a savage storm and surrounded by suspects, Logan has to solve the case before the house turns deadlier still.

What begins as petty harassment of three former soldiers becomes something much darker when the killing starts. Logan faces a murderer who has been planning every move for a very long time.

A blood-soaked old man leads villagers to his murdered wife, and a remote fishing community learns its first killing will not be its last. Logan must break through silence and suspicion before a sadistic predator strikes again.

Eight influencers vanish after a Highland convention, and then their captor starts livestreaming their ordeal. Logan must hunt through wilderness and the darkest corners of the internet before the next victim dies on camera.

A young offender finds a bag of human remains during a community clean-up, and Logan's team soon uncovers body parts scattered across the Highlands. To stop the killer, they must piece together a horror with no obvious picture.

When washed-up rock legend Johnny Freestone is found dead in a cave off the North Coast 500, police call it an accident. Logan is not convinced, and the star's last days hide rivalries, lies, and a comeback gone sour.

Old gangster Bosco Maximuke is out of prison and under suspicion when bodies linked to his former network begin piling up. Then he does the last thing Logan expects and asks him for help.