DI Peter Shaw Books in Order

A man is stabbed inside his truck during a blizzard on the Norfolk coast, with no footprints and no clear escape route. DI Peter Shaw and DS George Valentine, an uneasy new pairing, must solve a locked-room style murder before more witnesses fall.

Eighteen years after a teenage girl vanished, her twin brother dies in a hospital incinerator in what is clearly no accident. Shaw and Valentine uncover a hidden criminal world in King's Lynn as the old disappearance starts to look newly dangerous.

During flood preparations at King's Lynn cemetery, workers open an old grave and find another corpse hidden inside. Shaw and Valentine dig into a family pub's long-buried secrets before the violence reaches into the present.

A cold case from an uninhabited Norfolk island returns when police reopen the murder of a holidaymaker who never came home. Then one survivor is found dead, and Shaw and Valentine discover the island's old secrets are still lethal.

Off Scolt Head Island, a body turns up with samphire in its pockets, pointing Shaw toward a brutal turf war on the north Norfolk coast. While Valentine chases a string of rich-home burglaries, a second death shows the whole community is under strain.

Reporters arriving for Ruby Bright's 100th birthday find her care home turned into a murder scene. Shaw and Valentine trace the case back to a decaying King's Lynn estate, where old secrets and fresh violence are tightly locked together.

A bomb explodes on a crowded Norfolk beach, and what looks like a wartime relic turns into a fresh murder case. Shaw and Valentine are pulled into a bitter local fight over a new pier, where someone is ready to kill to stop it.