DI Tanner Books in Order

A forthcoming DI Tanner novel that returns DCI John Tanner to the waterways and villages of the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads. Expect another self contained murder investigation that tests his team, his family and the uneasy peace of the landscape he calls home.

When a local artist is discovered mutilated inside a five pointed star in a church crypt, whispers of satanic ritual sweep the Broads. Tanner follows the trail from a bullied schoolboy to the dead man’s eccentric will, where five uneasy beneficiaries may hold the key to the curse.

An ambitious young reporter is found tied to a mud weight at the bottom of Blackfleet Broad, rumoured to be chasing a story that could topple powerful people. As more bodies appear and Tanner is haunted by recurring dreams, he must decide whether to trust his instincts or follow the safer line of enquiry.

Back from honeymoon with a new baby, Tanner returns to work to find a man insisting he is being framed for murder. When a body turns up in an open church grave and a by election candidate emerges as a better suspect, politics and justice collide on the Broads.

On the day a notorious thief and murderer is due for release, the prisoner is snatched at gunpoint and later found tortured to death. As museum officials demand a long missing masterpiece, Tanner probes the links between a murdered policewoman, an old robbery and a painting that may never have been lost.

A newly promoted DCI Tanner is warned that a dangerous psychopath is about to be released, then finds a wealthy couple butchered on their boat. With their twelve year old son missing and the family’s stately home full of secrets, he races to uncover who is really hunting whom.

Days before DCI Tanner’s wedding, an unruly dog discovers a man hanging in a local wood. A retired historian is then found with his throat cut, and a lost manuscript and hidden cottage draw Tanner into the secrets buried in Bluebell Wood.

When the heir to a crumbling marshland mansion shoots an intruder, the body seems to vanish into thin air. At the same time an escaped killer is on the loose, leaving Tanner to search flooded marshes and decaying corridors for a corpse that refuses to stay put.

After two years at sea, John Tanner returns to the Norfolk Broads and moors beside a boat holding a dead man and a missing five year old. Rumours of a ghostly wherry with a blood red sail pull him into a case tied to vanished children.

With a category four storm bearing down on the Norfolk Broads, DI John Tanner is handed a high profile murder. As more bodies and several missing women are linked to the case, he must untangle rival grudges before the weather wipes away the truth.

During a violent gale on Barton Broad, DS Jenny Evans joins an old friend to rescue a capsized yacht, only to find a corpse snagged on the mast. When a second killing follows fast, DI Tanner must prove the obvious suspect is being framed.

As Tanner and DS Evans try to plan their wedding, the remains of a seventeenth century witch are found near Horsey Mere. When an MP is discovered hanging above a five pointed star and three young girls seem to share strange powers, the case veers into dark folklore and obsession.

An old man is discovered with his throat cut among the ruins of St Benet's Abbey, a knife resting in his hand, and Tanner and Jenny Evans are pushed toward an easy verdict. When the body disappears and priests start dying in bizarre rituals, the investigation spirals back to a girl who fell from a church tower decades earlier.

A decorated war veteran and boatyard owner is found drowned in his own bath, and suspicion immediately falls on his two estranged children. As one son dies beneath a toppled yacht and a shady developer circles the yard, Tanner and Evans uncover a buried family secret worth killing for.

A young woman is found raped, strangled and mutilated by a boat propeller deep in the Norfolk Broads, and newly arrived DI John Tanner is brought in. When a second body surfaces and an alibi shatters the obvious motive, he must hunt a killer driven by revenge.