DI Marjory Fleming Books in Order

Years after a hard-partying student group shattered when one member overdosed and another vanished, a long-missing man's body is found in a car swept onto the Solway mud flats. DI Marjory Fleming must navigate obstructive colleagues and old loyalties to uncover how youthful indulgence turned into murder.

Marnie Bruce can remember every day of her life except the night she was found injured in an isolated cottage and her mother vanished. When she returns to Galloway seeking answers, DI Marjory Fleming reopens a painful cold case that still divides the village and hides a monstrous crime.

A skeleton chained in a sea cave off the Scottish coast looks like a relic of old smuggling feuds, until a modern watch on its wrist says otherwise. As vandalism and fires spread through the nearby village, DI Marjory Fleming races to connect past and present before hatred explodes again.

Accused of killing the baby in her care, outwardly calm nanny Lisa Stewart insists she is innocent, yet changes her name and tries to disappear when mobs turn on her. When threats follow her to rural Galloway, DI Marjory Fleming must decide whether Lisa is victim, murderer or something more complicated.

Twenty years after a pregnant teenager's body washed up on the rocks, the case that broke local police morale is reopened and handed to DI Marjory Fleming. As she digs into the original investigation, she uncovers shameful secrets about the victim, the town and her own family.

In the market town of Kirkluce, a proposed superstore has split the community, youth vandalism is turning vicious and a bloodied sheep's carcass is left in the street. When an elderly landowner and then a teenager are shot, DI Marjory Fleming must unpick the town's tangled loyalties to stop a sniper.

On a quiet May morning in the hamlet of Drumbreck, a young woman is found brutally bludgeoned, her ringing phone the only sound in the woods. When a second body appears, DI Marjory Fleming uncovers the jealousies simmering beneath a picture-postcard community of weekend homes and old resentments.

After a lifeboat mysteriously smashes on the rocks, killing all three crew, the small fishing port of Knockhaven is plunged into grief and anger. DI Marjory Fleming suspects sabotage tied to the new drug trade that has taken root in a town already gutted by the loss of its fishing industry.

During a devastating livestock disease outbreak in rural Galloway, pyres burn across the fields and tensions between farmers and police are raw. When human remains are discovered and a woman from New York arrives searching for her missing sister, DI Marjory Fleming finds that old obsessions and new grief are dangerously linked.