DI Frank Miller Books in Order

A decomposed body is discovered in an old nuclear bunker being converted into a museum, carrying belongings linked to a woman who vanished six years earlier. As DI Frank Miller reopens the case that sent her husband to prison, he uncovers new victims, buried secrets and a truth someone was desperate to keep sealed underground.

When a woman is crushed beneath a toppled gravestone during a TV shoot in a cemetery, DI Frank Miller finds unnerving similarities to a twenty year old murder in the same spot. Working alongside newly promoted DCI Harry McNeil and a visiting detective, Miller has to pick apart old evidence, on set egos and buried grudges before another staged death turns the production into a genuine body count.

Edinburgh gangster Adrian Jackson returns home after twenty five years in an American prison, determined to reclaim his old territory. Tasked with overseeing Jackson’s release, DI Frank Miller is caught between rival criminals and a string of executions, as hired killers start erasing anyone with ties to the past and Miller becomes the one obstacle they cannot ignore.

Called to the Borders when a woman is found crucified in a graveyard, DI Frank Miller discovers the town is hosting a festival for a long dead poet and wartime agent. As a lost aircraft, missing documents and a vicious snowstorm trap actors and locals together, Miller must unmask a killer determined that buried wartime secrets stay buried.

A lucrative redevelopment in Edinburgh’s New Town turns deadly when an architect is found dead in an empty office, followed by a senior city official. Miller’s investigation into rival developers and city power brokers shows that some white collar battles are as lethal as gang wars, and someone is willing to kill their way to the top.

In his first month in CID, Frank Miller faces a killer dubbed The Surgeon, who removes organs from victims and leaves their IDs stitched inside them. Balancing the case, a voyeur escalating to murder and girlfriend Carol’s promotion to CID, Miller has to learn fast before the next body falls and someone close to him pays the price.

Years after jailing a notorious serial killer, Frank Miller is horrified to learn the man has escaped a secure hospital and wants to play one final game. Suspended and on the run after being framed, Miller must solve a hidden murder and prove his own innocence while colleagues hunt him like any other fugitive.

After a man kills his boss and jumps from a rooftop and a hotel worker murders colleagues before leaping from North Bridge, Frank Miller is left asking why ordinary people are snapping. An undercover trip to a glossy wellness centre suggests someone is pushing desperate clients into deadly choices, and the mastermind is not finished yet.

A young lawyer is murdered at home and her body removed, leaving only a photograph of the corpse behind. When other women disappear and similar photos are left for police, Frank Miller must link victims that seem unrelated while a priest who holds vital information struggles with what he can reveal.

During the Edinburgh Festival, a killer uses the crowds to make women vanish without a trace, until he chooses a local American instead of a tourist. With a key witness more interested in cashing in than talking to police, Miller chases a predator who is eliminating anyone who might connect him to his last victim.

Two weeks before Christmas, a young woman with expensive earrings is found stabbed on an Edinburgh beach, followed by a local woman killed the same way in a cemetery. As Miller traces the stolen jewellery to a past robbery and helps protect a domestic abuse survivor, he realises the cases are linked in ways nobody expected.

The body of ten year old kidnap victim Terry White is discovered three years after his abduction, reopening the case that left Miller a widower when a ransom drop went wrong. While a violent robbery crew plans one last heist, Miller races to stop them before they disappear with the key to Terry’s murder.

Twenty five years after a woman was murdered on the opening night of a grand hotel and her killer escaped custody, Frank Miller investigates the death of a former detective tied to that old case. As more bodies appear, he uncovers a web of betrayal that suggests the original killer never really left.