DI Andy Horton Books in Order

Juror Roxanne Keay is discovered stabbed on the shore of Tipner Lake soon after serving on a high profile smuggling trial. Days later the defendant is killed in the same way, and DI Andy Horton realises the pair shared a deadly secret that someone is willing to protect at any cost.

Professional celebrant Juliette Croft is found dead on her sofa in a scene arranged to look like a quiet overdose, complete with neatly lined-up bottles. When another body is discovered on the shore at Chidham Creek, DI Andy Horton suspects someone is stage-managing deaths to conceal a ruthless scheme involving money and identity.

A rusty metal box dredged from Sinah Lake lands on DI Andy Horton’s desk, stuffed with rare coins and still cuffed to whoever once carried it. A burned-out car with an unidentifiable victim and the return of Europol agent Harriet Ames turn the case into a tangle of old treasure, new bodies and painful family history.

An abandoned motor cruiser washes up on South Binness Island with a deck soaked in blood but no body on board. As DI Andy Horton searches for the missing owner, a Portsmouth refuse worker, he is also drawn into an audacious art gallery scam involving stolen paintings and ingenious forgeries.

DI Andy Horton is called to a remote log cabin above Luccombe Bay where an unidentified man lies dead, yet his fingerprints match those of a stranger who once approached Horton. A hidden landslip reveals a second body and drags Horton closer to the truth about his missing mother.

Skeletons uncovered on Rat Island include the remains of a woman murdered in the 1980s. When a politician’s daughter who begged for DI Andy Horton’s help vanishes, he is forced to probe ministry property, family scandals and an old conspiracy linked to the harbour.

A wealthy passenger is found dead in a locked cabin on the ferry from Portsmouth to Guernsey, and soon after a vagrant’s body turns up under an old houseboat near Langstone Harbour. DI Andy Horton must link two very different victims while his own family mystery gnaws at him.

Two fishermen haul a severed human hand from the waters off Thorney Island. The prints belong to a small-time thief, then one of the fishermen disappears and national investigators move in, leaving DI Andy Horton to work around them to expose a ruthless killer with wider plans.

Private investigator Jasper Kenton vanishes while tailing a cheating husband, and soon his naked body is found wrapped in sailcloth on a private Isle of Wight beach. As DI Andy Horton investigates, he is forced to conceal explosive personal information that could destroy his career.

Supposedly on holiday, DI Andy Horton follows flashing blue lights into Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and finds naval historian Douglas Spalding dead in a dry dock. When another body appears at Oyster Quays, Horton defies orders and risks his job to prove both deaths are murder.

Sergeant Cantelli’s nephew fails to show up for the prestigious Cowes Week yacht races, and a burned body is soon discovered in an abandoned tunnel at the old Hilsea Lines. What starts as a missing person search becomes a deadly hunt as DI Andy Horton tracks a remorseless killer.

Former con Daryl Woodley dies in puzzling circumstances, assaulted, discharged from hospital and later found dead on Farlington Marshes miles away. When a woman who attended his funeral is discovered stabbed on a wrecked yacht, DI Andy Horton races to connect the threads before more bodies surface.

An elderly watcher on the Isle of Wight reports strange lights out at sea that no one else takes seriously. After a woman’s decomposing body is dragged from the water in Victorian dress and another victim is found, DI Andy Horton fears a serial killer is using the coast as cover.

It is Friday the thirteenth and DI Andy Horton’s luck fails. His motorcycle is vandalised with a strange symbol, a convicted killer on licence goes missing and a decomposing corpse washes up in Portsmouth Harbour, soon followed by a new acquaintance found dead at her home near Portchester Castle.

On a bleak January morning, DI Andy Horton stumbles across a young woman holding a gun over a corpse on an abandoned Isle of Wight golf course. As more deaths follow, he must decide whether she is a traumatised witness or the centre of a deadly family drama.

Celebrity diver Perry Jackson is filming a TV series about Solent shipwrecks at Portsmouth’s grand Royal Hotel when he begins receiving sinister threats. A nursing home resident reports an intruder and a diver is found dead with fingers missing, leaving DI Andy Horton juggling cases that may share the same ruthless enemy.

A luxury boat burns at Horsea Marina, leaving a wealthy financier from Guernsey dead in the wreck. DI Andy Horton soon finds another body and suspects the victim’s return to Portsmouth is tied to old secrets, forcing him to confront echoes of his own mother’s disappearance.

The headmistress of a Portsmouth school is found brutally murdered on a wartime structure in the middle of Langstone Harbour, with a taunting note and money smeared in honey on her body. DI Andy Horton must sort through her many enemies before the killer strikes again.

On his second day back on duty after a damaging suspension, DI Andy Horton discovers a naked, bludgeoned corpse on a lonely Portsmouth beach. When a second body appears with the same injuries, he has to catch a calculating murderer while still fighting to clear his own name.