DCI Tom Caton Books in Order

As Christmas approaches, a killer dressed as a clown stalks Manchester, blaming the city's transformation for old wrongs. Caton and profiler Kate Webb hunt him across the city before the reckoning claims more lives.

When a senior government education adviser is murdered, Caton finds more than a mugging gone wrong. MI5, Special Branch, and uncomfortable secrets in high places keep pushing the investigation in dangerous directions.

Barrister Rob Thornton is arrested on a rape charge that suddenly collapses when the accuser disappears. Then threatening messages and linked deaths begin to mount, pulling him into a dangerous search beneath Manchester itself.

While reeling from troubling news from his past, Caton is sent to a body unearthed at the Cutacre mine. Suspects multiply, pressure grows, and the case forces him toward an impossible personal choice.

After a lorry of Chinese migrants arrives in Hull, bodies are found near the M62 and two young people are missing. Caton follows the trail from Manchester's Chinatown to China in a race against time.

After Naimh Caton's aunt dies in a hit and run, a search into family roots becomes something much more dangerous. Relatives in England and Ireland are being murdered one by one, and Tom may be on the same list.

The death of football star Sunday Okowu-Bello pulls Caton into a knot of gambling cartels, security firms, extremists, and rival syndicates. When a second body turns up in the Ship Canal, it is clear the killing has only begun.

Caton's honeymoon in Venice is interrupted when a corpse rises from a watery grave. What looks like a disturbing holiday discovery follows him back to Manchester and into mafia business, shifting loyalties, and danger.

A young man's body in East Manchester draws Caton into the darker side of the internet. With his wedding to Kate Webb only days away, the case threatens both his future and the people closest to him.

A woman is found shot in Angel Meadow, once one of Victorian Manchester's harshest slums. Caton's investigation reaches back to the Troubles in Northern Ireland, into a past powerful people would rather leave buried.

In a blazing summer, teenager Chrissie vanishes after going in search of the boy she has fallen for. Back in charge of a major investigation, Caton must cut through false leads and social media noise before time runs out.

During lockdown in Manchester, a string of older women's deaths looks sadly ordinary at first. Caton suspects a killer is hiding murder inside the chaos of the pandemic, and the case soon edges uncomfortably close to home.

Three young Manchester games entrepreneurs find themselves trapped in a deadly contest of arson, kidnap, and escalating punishments. Caton must identify an enemy who hides in plain sight before the rules turn fatal.