DI Nikki Galena and DS Joe Easter Books in Order

Three deaths in three days — an apparent overdose, a deliberate hit‑and‑run and a man found dead in his grand home — leave Nikki with no motive and no suspect. Every path seems to run through her own mother, turning the most complex case of her career painfully personal.

An airmail envelope addressed to Nikki arrives with three chilling words: "You failed me." More letters follow, naming four missing local women whose bodies were never found. When a fresh grave is uncovered on the marsh, Nikki realises someone is playing a deadly game just for her.

Two young lovers are found laid out on a blanket in the woods, the boy clutching a red rose. When another couple is staged in the same way, Nikki and Joseph realise they have a killer who turns romance into ritual — and will kill again to protect hidden truths.

In the elegant gardens of Shelley House, a gardener finds a charred human hand draped over a wheelbarrow. The trail leads back twenty years to a brilliant but toxic family, a murdered gardener and a brother who vanished. Nikki must expose the truth before anyone else dies.

Joseph Easter’s daughter discovers a derelict cottage hidden in a copse, clearly used in secret and filled with unsettling pagan artefacts. Old photos inside link it to a girl who vanished fifteen years earlier. With her convicted stalker recently freed, Nikki fears a killer has come home.

During the Dark Greenborough Festival, crowds flood the town to revel in folklore and the macabre. An anonymous letter warns that death is coming, and soon revellers begin dying from tainted drink. Nikki and her team race to unmask a poisoner hiding in plain sight.

An unknown arsonist is turning the Fens into a furnace, torching homes and businesses before leaving a corpse at one scene. As more fires claim single victims and a sinister fringe group tightens its grip on the town, Nikki faces a killer who uses flame and fear as weapons.

Anonymous callers give Nikki a series of cryptic warnings, naming a time, a place and the next to die in criminal slang only insiders understand. At the same time, designer burglaries sweep the area and a death close to Nikki’s family forces her to join the dots fast.

A young woman is discovered dead in a remote barn, one finger brutally removed after weeks in captivity. Another victim is found alive with similar injuries. As Nikki’s team tracks a ruthless crime boss trying to claim the Fens, the hunt for a kidnapper becomes a race to save lives.

A skeleton buried off the record in a churchyard and the savage murder of a wealthy businesswoman drag Nikki into the secrets of an elite drinking club. The trail leads to a village scarred by years of abuse — and a killer determined to keep that history underground.

After surviving a horrific accident, Nikki’s friend Helen swears a man was trapped with her, confessing to murder. No trace of him exists, yet she insists she’s now being watched. When notorious criminal Stephen Cox reappears in town, panic rises and Nikki faces a very personal threat.

Nikki’s dying father asks her to find a mysterious woman named Eve, a promise that drags up painful memories. At the same time a drug dealer is found dead on a haunted airfield. Following both trails leads Nikki and Joseph into the most shocking discovery of her career.

On rookie PC Danny Wilshire’s first day, a black 4x4 mounts the pavement outside a bakery and leaves him fighting for his life. More of Nikki’s officers are targeted, and a woman dies in an apparently impossible locked room. Someone is hunting her team one by one.

Nikki’s neighbour is found dead below a church tower in what looks like suicide, then a bound and mutilated man turns up on wasteland. As rumours swirl about DS Joseph Easter’s past, the pair chase two brutal killers and secrets that could tear their team apart.

DI Nikki Galena is burning out, driven by rage over her daughter’s drug‑induced coma and her crusade against local dealers. When masked gangs terrorise Greenborough and a student vanishes on the marsh, she and new sergeant Joseph Easter must somehow learn to work together.