Detective Gina Harte Books in Order

Decades after Ruth Pritchard's teenage daughter Elissa disappeared, another young woman goes missing from the same streets and a red scarf tied to Elissa turns up at the scene. When Ruth herself vanishes soon after contacting police, Gina Harte suspects a truth that has been buried for thirty years.

A silver car sits abandoned on a suburban street for days until police break in and find Kain Pickering dead inside. The vehicle once belonged to his late mother, and his estranged sister is far from the only person with a grudge, leaving Gina Harte chasing a killer tied tightly to one family's secrets.

At a church toddlers' group, a worried young mother leaves behind a note that simply says help me. When the vicar finds Nell later, dead in her garden and her baby son alone inside, Gina Harte uncovers a tangle of enemies, false identities and a killer who is not finished.

Four-year-old Cleo tells police she saw a man shove her mother into a car and drive away into the night. Darcie's friends and colleagues all seem to be hiding something, and Gina Harte must navigate messy loyalties and Darcie's own secret history to bring her home alive.

Sasha helps vulnerable people find housing and is proud of the new life she has built after a tragic accident. Anonymous night-time phone calls and a murder at a local shelter drag her past into the present, and Gina Harte must work out who is targeting everyone connected to Sasha.

After celebrating her engagement, Lauren returns to the cottage she shares with her fiancé to find the lights out and the house unnervingly silent. In the bedroom lies the body of her best friend instead of the man she loves, and someone is watching as Gina Harte investigates betrayals close to home.

When primary school teacher Annabel Braddock disappears after a night out, her little daughter wakes to find only a stranger at the door. DI Gina Harte must untangle Annabel's crumbling marriage, workplace tensions and one child's eerie memories before another family is destroyed.

Four-year-old Kayden waits outside his house for a mother who never returns. Inside, young single mum Billie Reeves lies dead behind her bright red front door. Gina Harte sifts through jealous lovers, feuding relatives and buried secrets to find who wanted Billie silenced.

Student Amber Slater heads out for dinner and never comes home. When her body is discovered in a park, her lips sealed and her past full of secrets, Gina Harte must pick apart jealous classmates, a nervous tutor and a talkative chef before another young woman vanishes.

A group of teenagers sneak into the woods for a night of camping, but only four walk out. As grief and fear tie the survivors together, Gina Harte suspects their perfect stories are hiding something, and that another of them could be marked to die next.

Kerstin lies awake replaying the awful confession her husband has just made, then spots a stranger in her garden lighting a memorial candle meant only she can understand. When violence follows, Gina Harte investigates a family whose quiet small-town life hides a dangerous past.

Two girls in Halloween costumes stumble across a freshly dug grave in the woods, then another burial site is found nearby. With a killer apparently staging a macabre game, Gina Harte races to link the victims and stop a serial predator before he chooses his next hiding place.

Flirtatious bridesmaid Holly Long is the centre of attention at her best friend's wedding, until she is found strangled in her hotel room. Everyone had an opinion about Holly, and Gina Harte must navigate tangled relationships and a hidden secret Holly planned to expose the night she died.

Seven years after Samantha disappeared on her way home from a party, her best friend receives a birthday card meant for her, containing a painted fingernail. Forensic tests link it to a recent murder, drawing Gina Harte into a case where old lies and new victims collide.

A malnourished red-haired girl falls from a speeding van onto a country road, whispering a plea to help another victim before she slips into unconsciousness. When a similar looking body is found in a shallow grave, Gina Harte must uncover who is hunting for fragile, perfect girls.

Devoted mother Susan Wheeler drops her children at preschool and simply never comes back. Her family insists she would not abandon them, yet her diary hints at long-buried trauma. As Gina Harte follows disturbing clues, she must decide whether Susan is in danger or running from something herself.

Four years after Deborah Jenkins vanished on a stormy walk home, an abandoned baby is left on a doorstep and DNA tests prove the child is hers. The discovery reignites Gina Harte's first major case and sends her hunting a captor who has held Deborah hidden for years.

In a quiet cul-de-sac, glamorous mother Melissa Sanderson seems to have it all, until she is found strangled in her own kitchen. Behind gossip about affairs and drinking lies a much darker history, and Gina Harte must link Melissa's secrets to a years-old assault.