Detective Rutherford Barnes Mysteries Books in Order

Returning from suspension, Rutherford Barnes investigates a seemingly straightforward fatal punch. When the accused firefighter vanishes before the verdict and a body appears beneath Beachy Head, Barnes discovers that the case conceals something far darker.

Police constable Rutherford Barnes finds a threatening message after a burglary at his partner Harriet’s home. When her battered body is discovered in a seafront hotel, the newly promoted detective vows to identify her killer.

A potential witness to a deeply personal murder case dies in a fire, then a terrified woman flees through Eastbourne. Detective Barnes connects the incidents, exposing criminal secrets that threaten both him and his new superintendent.

Two brutal killings are followed by an anonymous note listing five names, including the dead men. Detective Barnes must locate the remaining three people before a killer can carry out the rest of the threat.

While investigating a body near the seafront, Detective Barnes watches people collapse around him. Then his stepdaughter disappears, drawing his family into a crisis that forces him to confront a terrifying suspicion about the culprit.