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DI Mike Nash Books in Order

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See the DI Mike Nash books in order by Bill Kitson, with short case summaries, reading order, and tips on where to start this Yorkshire crime series.

Last updated: June 9, 2026

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21 books

1

Chosen / Vanish without Trace

by Bill Kitson

2010

When Sarah Kelly disappears after a night out, Nash spots eerie parallels with other missing women. With no bodies and no witnesses, he must get inside a serial predator's mind before more vanish.

2

Depth of Despair / What Lies Beneath

by Bill Kitson

2010

Two skeletons dragged from Lamentation Tarn lead DI Mike Nash from North Yorkshire into an international trafficking network. With little evidence and time running out, he needs a survivor to break the case open.

3

Minds That Hate / Playing with Fire

by Bill Kitson

2010

A convicted rapist and killer is due out of prison and insists on returning to Helmsdale, where racial tension is already rising. As Nash protects a hated man, serious doubts grow about the original verdict.

4

Altered Egos / Killing Christmas

by Bill Kitson

2011

Nash investigates a suspicious house fire, a bizarre murder, and a missing scientist's daughter while animal rights protests turn violent. The trail points to revenge, but the truth is murkier than it seems.

5

Back-Slash / Slash Killer

by Bill Kitson

2011

A killer with a brutal trademark stalks the Winfield Estate, and suspicion falls on a reclusive forester. With resources stretched thin, Nash digs through years of corruption and deceit to find the real culprit.

6

Identity Crisis / Alone with a Killer

by Bill Kitson

2012

A young wife vanishes from an isolated cottage during a storm, leaving only fear behind. With Nash away, Clara Mironova must decide whether a husband is lying, or a sadistic killer has struck again.

7

Snow Angel / False Witness

by Bill Kitson

2012

This Mike Nash volume pairs two shorter cases, one about gangs bringing drugs into North Yorkshire, the other about an escaped strangler and the doubts surrounding his guilt.

8

Buried in the Past / Blood Diamond

by Bill Kitson

2014

A stolen diamond shipment, a tortured gangster, and a man fresh out of prison pull Nash into old London crimes with new victims in Helmsdale. An unidentified skeleton suggests the truth has been buried for years.

9

Dead and Gone

by Bill Kitson

2015

Old fraud allegations, vanished money, email scams, and murder collide when Nash reopens the collapse of Wilson Macaulay Industries. Soon nobody is sure who is guilty, who is innocent, and who is missing.

10

Picture of Innocence / Hide & Seek

by Bill Kitson

2017

On a stag trip to Madrid, Nash saves a young Spanish painter from a baffling attack. When further attempts follow, her flight to England pulls him into a far darker web tied to her past.

11

Running Scared

by Bill Kitson

2018

With Mike Nash away, Clara Mironova must hold Helmsdale together through gang warfare, multiple murders, and contaminated heroin on the streets. The whole region feels close to tipping over.

12

The Bleeding Heart Killer

by Bill Kitson

2020

Four victims are dead, their hearts surgically removed, and there seems to be no link between them. Nash must find the pattern before the killer reaches the one victim still to come.

13

Chain Reaction

by Bill Kitson

2021

Two severed fingers found at an upscale hotel pull Mike Nash into a dark mystery on the Harland Estate. Then brutal street attacks escalate and local women start vanishing.

14

Cut-Throat

by Bill Kitson

2021

A convicted double killer escapes prison and panic spreads fast. But when questions about his memory and trial start to surface, Nash has to work out who is really on the loose.

15

Burial Grounds

by Bill Kitson

2022

A pregnant woman is mowed down in a hit-and-run, and months later a naked body is found face down on a grave. As a second cemetery victim appears, Nash closes in on a ruthless killer with a grim agenda.

16

Skeletons in the Closet

by Bill Kitson

2022

A woman's long-dead body is found in a ruined cottage, then another in the well. When a solicitor dies, Nash realizes someone is still killing to keep the cottage's secrets buried.

17

Guilty as Sin

by Bill Kitson

2023

Sixteen years after Demetra Sinclair vanished in Layton Woods, remains are found and more skeletons surface nearby. Nash reopens the case and hunts a killer from the past, with a missing baby at the center.

18

Death Sentence

by Bill Kitson

2024

Four bodies in an abandoned lead mine and the killings of the Country House Bandits seem unrelated at first. Nash must find the missing fourth man and the link before the death toll rises again.

19

Dead Or Alive

by Bill Kitson

2025

Two execution-style bodies appear in the mortuary of a long-closed hospital. The deeper Nash digs, the more the case points back to an old enemy and a past investigation he cannot forget.

20

Network Of Evil

by Bill Kitson

2025

A caller tells Nash where to find a hanging body, and soon another corpse turns up below Black Fell cliffs. At the same time a teenage gymnast disappears, and a patient killer begins to tighten the net.

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Valley of Death

by Bill Kitson

2026

A woman's body is found in the bogs of Stark Ghyll, known locally as the Valley of Death. Nash identifies her, only to realize her name opens a case that should have been closed twenty years ago.

Series background & context

The DI Mike Nash books are classic Yorkshire police procedurals with a hard edge and a strong sense of place. Mike has returned to North Yorkshire after time with the Metropolitan Police, only to find that the fictional market town of Helmsdale is anything but quiet. Bodies turn up in tarns, cottages, graveyards, woods, and disused buildings. What looks rural and peaceful on the surface usually hides old violence, local grudges, or organized crime.

Mike is the center of the series, but these books are never just about one detective having flashes of genius. He works as part of a small team, and that matters. DS Clara Mironova is especially important, sometimes carrying the investigation herself when Mike is away, and the strain on the whole unit is part of the story. Limited resources, bad weather, local politics, and the pressure of knowing the community all shape the way cases unfold.

Helmsdale feels lived in.

That setting is a big part of the appeal. The series uses North Yorkshire moors, estates, villages, back roads, tarns, and old family homes to full effect. Some cases reach out to London or Europe, but the emotional weight nearly always lands back in Helmsdale and nearby Netherdale. The result is crime fiction that feels grounded in local life, even when the plots involve trafficking rings, serial killers, prison escapees, or crimes buried for decades.

Most books give you a complete case, so you can dip in almost anywhere, but there is still a clear thread from one novel to the next. Mike's relationships with colleagues deepen. Clara grows into a bigger role. Old cases cast long shadows. Books such as Burial Grounds, Guilty as Sin, Dead Or Alive, and Network Of Evil show how often the past refuses to stay buried, and how present-day murder is tangled up with events that seemed finished years earlier.

In tone, these are brisk, serious investigations rather than cozy puzzles. There is violence, but the books stay focused on method, motive, and the human fallout. Kitson likes moral uncertainty too. The person who looks guilty often is not, and the real danger may come from institutions, family loyalties, or truths people have spent years hiding. If you like police series where the landscape matters as much as the clues, Mike Nash is built for that.

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