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DCI Logan Crime Thrillers Books in Order

Part ofJD Kirk Books in Order

Explore the DCI Logan thrillers by JD Kirk in order, with book summaries, series background, and guidance on where to start this Highland-set mystery series.

Last updated: December 25, 2025

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23 books

1

One For the Ages

by JD Kirk

2023

2

Here Lie the Dead

by JD Kirk

2022

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.

3

City of Scars

by JD Kirk

2022

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.

4

City of Scars

by JD Kirk

2022

5

Come Hell or High Water

by JD Kirk

2021

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.

6

Colder than the Grave

by JD Kirk

2021

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.

7

An Isolated Incident

by JD Kirk

2021

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.

8

Ahead of the Game

by JD Kirk

2021

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.

9

The Last Bloody Straw

by JD Kirk

2020

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.

10

The Big Man Upstairs

by JD Kirk

2020

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.

11

The Big Man Upstairs

by JD Kirk

2020

12

A Whisper of Sorrows

by JD Kirk

2020

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.

13

A Snowball's Chance in Hell

by JD Kirk

2020

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.

14

A Death Most Monumental

by JD Kirk

2020

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.

15

A Death Most Monumental

by JD Kirk

2020

16

Thicker than Water

by JD Kirk

2019

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.

17

Thicker than Water

by JD Kirk

2019

18

The Killing Code

by JD Kirk

2019

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.

19

The Killing Code

by JD Kirk

2019

20

Blood and Treachery

by JD Kirk

2019

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.

21

Blood and Treachery

by JD Kirk

2019

22

A Litter of Bones

by JD Kirk

2019

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.

23

A Litter of Bones

by JD Kirk

2019

Series background & context

The DCI Logan Crime Thrillers follow Detective Chief Inspector Jack Logan as he chases killers across the Scottish Highlands, from rain soaked city streets to tiny villages on the edge of nowhere. The books blend police procedure with dark humour, sharp dialogue, and a strong sense of place.

When readers first meet Jack in A Litter of Bones, he is a Glasgow cop still haunted by the child murder case that made his name. Ten years earlier he put away a killer known to the press as Mister Whisper, and the fallout left him with a broken marriage, a drinking problem, and the kind of nightmares that do not fade just because the file is closed.

A new missing child investigation drags him north, and from there the series settles around Inverness and the wider Highlands. Logan’s Major Investigations Team tackles everything from gangland executions in Glencoe to vigilante killings in midwinter, influencer kidnappings, cold cases, castle murders, and the long running Mister Whisper storyline that resurfaces in A Whisper of Sorrows.

Jack himself is a familiar kind of detective, stubborn, battered, and secretly softer than he wants people to believe, but he never works alone. Over the books you get to know DI Ben Forde, DS Hamza Khaled, DC Tyler Neish, DC Sinead Bell, and the rest of the team, along with pathologist Shona Maguire and an ever expanding cast of witnesses, suspects, and recurring friends and foes.

The cases can be brutal, but the banter and affection inside the team keep the stories from turning bleak.

One of the series’ strengths is how it balances standalone plots with a bigger emotional arc. Each novel gives you a complete mystery, yet relationships shift, old traumas resurface, and characters grow older and more complicated. Logan’s personal life, from his messy past in Glasgow to his attempts at something like happiness in the Highlands, matters just as much as catching the killer.

Readers who enjoy long series will also notice the wider universe building around these books. Former police boss Bob Hoon steps out of Logan’s shadow into his own action heavy thrillers, and DI Heather Filson anchors a separate Glasgow based series, while crossovers and cameos reward anyone who reads across them all. Even so, the DCI Logan novels remain the heart of JD Kirk’s crime world, and starting here gives you a front row seat as it all unfolds.

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