DI Carol Ashton Books in Order

At a Sydney high school, a teacher is found murdered with shocking precision, and Carol Ashton steps into a web of grudges, letters, and deceit. Her strongest suspect is also the woman she cannot stop thinking about.

Four women have been strangled and arranged with ritual care, and Sydney is terrified by the Orange Strangler. Carol hunts a serial killer while her private life grows harder to hide.

Carol's settled life is disrupted when an old lover asks for help after her husband dies. The unofficial investigation pulls Carol into a world of money, bad choices, and dangerous loyalties.

A wealthy businessman is murdered, his sister confesses, and everyone wants the case wrapped up. Carol sees too many cracks, and the deeper she goes, the more family secrets and social pressures emerge.

Convinced opera star Collis Raeburn did not kill himself, Carol reopens a case that powerful people want closed. Her instincts may be right, but they come at a cost.

Still recovering from a near-fatal shooting, Carol is assigned to protect visiting feminist firebrand Marla Strickland. When a staff member dies, the unwanted duty turns into a deadly conspiracy.

TV star Madeline Shipley says a stalker is after her, while Carol investigates a possible suicide that may be murder. Soon the threats spread, and Carol's own family is in the firing line.

Execution-style killings and a bombing pull Carol toward an extremist underground group waging its own private war. She is closer to the danger than she knows.

A murdered police officer and a string of unsolved killings seem linked by ominous letters promising death to anyone who breaks the chain. Carol takes the threat seriously, especially when it reaches someone close to her.

When scandal-hit fertility specialist Dr. Brin Halstead is found beaten and burned, Carol follows a trail of greed, genetic ambition, and murder. The case turns on who stood to gain from Halstead's fall.

While hunting a hired killer, Carol is drawn to a magnetic stranger whose secrets may be part of the trap. Work and desire collide in a case where trust could be fatal.

Carol travels to the United States for FBI training and ends up accused of murder after clashing with an instructor. Far from home and short on allies, she has to clear her name fast.

At a glittery women's golf tournament backed by a rich and ruthless hostess, rivalries explode into murder. Carol Ashton has to sort through money, ego, and old grudges before the score gets deadlier.

A fatal fall at North Head looks like one more tragedy until Carol notices a pattern in several similar deaths. If she is right, someone is disguising murder as bad luck for profit.

After billionaire Thurmond Rule dies without a valid will, possible heirs begin dying one by one. Carol Ashton must work out whether she is protecting the next victim or helping a killer narrow the field.

Practical joker Milton Ryce dies in a skydiving accident, and almost nobody seems sorry. Carol Ashton faces a long suspect list and a case where the obvious answer may be a carefully staged setup.

Newly promoted Carol Ashton inherits a loaded case involving Greta Denby's controversial cancer treatment and a second death tied to the original investigation. The deeper Carol digs, the more the case shakes her faith in the job and herself.