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

A missing boy drags DCI Jack Logan back into the shadow of Mister Whisper, the child killer who made his name and ruined his life. In the Highlands, he starts to fear he may have caught the wrong man ten years earlier.

Mountain rescuers in Glencoe find a body, just not the one they were searching for. Logan's team heads south into gangland violence, buried secrets, and a criminal ruthless enough to turn murder into massacre.

A nurse is murdered on her way home from a night shift, and more victims soon follow. Logan must track a killer driven by a chilling disorder, one that leaves him free to maim and kill without remorse.

When a mutilated body washes up on the shores of Loch Ness, Logan's hope for a quiet Highland life disappears fast. Media frenzy, old enemies, and a killer ready to strike again push the team into one of Jack's hardest cases.

A young woman's remains are found hanging from the Glenfinnan Monument, and the case first looks straightforward. Then Logan uncovers truths that threaten scandal, international fallout, and intense pressure from every direction.

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.

Nine months into self-imposed exile, Jack Logan is dragged back when a mother and child are murdered in a scene staged as suicide. To stop a calculating killer, he must find his place again among old allies and fraying loyalties.

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.

Just as life starts looking better for Jack Logan, a sadistic killer begins picking off victims in Inverness. A difficult new team member from Jack's past makes a brutal case even harder to keep under control.

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.