DI Winter Meadows Mystery Books in Order
Part ofCheryl Rees Price Books in OrderBrowse the DI Winter Meadows Mystery books by Cheryl Rees-Price in order, with summaries, series background, and helpful reading guidance.
Last updated: July 14, 2026
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DI Winter Meadows Mystery books in publication order
11 books
The Silent Quarry
by Cheryl Rees Price
2015
After Gwen Thomas begins recovering memories of the attack that killed her friend years ago, DI Winter Meadows reopens the cold case. Her recollections could identify the attacker, but someone will do anything to stop the past from being exposed.
Frozen Minds
by Cheryl Rees Price
2016
The manager of a residential home for adults with learning difficulties is found dead in a freezer. DI Winter Meadows uncovers troubling gaps in the home's finances, care, and witness accounts, then another suspicious death raises the danger.
Suffer the Children
by Cheryl Rees Price
2017
Eighteen-month-old Ella vanishes from her home, setting off an urgent search led by DI Winter Meadows. Suspicion soon turns toward her family and their party the night before, until a disturbing discovery transforms the missing-child case into something far more complicated.
A Knot of Sparrows
by Cheryl Rees Price
2021
When teenager Stacey Evans is found murdered, DI Winter Meadows faces a village full of motives and a baffling word left on the body. As further markings and another death appear, Gaer Fawr closes ranks around a darker secret.
Lies of Mine
by Cheryl Rees Price
2021
Youth worker David Harris is found dead in a tunnel beneath Dinas Rock, with no sign of a struggle. DI Winter Meadows links the murder to an old teenage tragedy, reopening wounds and putting pressure on someone determined to conceal the truth.
Rise to the Fly
by Cheryl Rees Price
2022
A retired couple are found murdered near a Welsh reservoir, with fishing flies placed in their mouths. As DI Winter Meadows investigates links to a local farm, an elderly resident disappears, and the case starts to look like a carefully laid trap.
Winter's Cry
by Cheryl Rees Price
2022
A farmer uncovers human remains near a secluded commune in the Welsh hills. When the body may be that of his father, who vanished years earlier, DI Winter Meadows is removed from the case but cannot stop searching for answers.
Harbour No Secrets
by Cheryl Rees Price
2023
When Alys Pugh is found murdered in Llyn y Fan after missing her own birthday surprise, DI Winter Meadows investigates her uneasy friendship group. Strange seaside objects found in their homes point toward secrets, suspicion, and another deadly threat.
The Crimson Harvest
by Cheryl Rees Price
2024
A string of cruel murders unsettles a rural Welsh community, and stick dolls left beside the victims are the only clear connection. DI Winter Meadows puts his wedding plans aside to identify a killer hiding among old homes, fields, and local grudges.
Buried Deep Within
by Cheryl Rees Price
2025
Baby Cora vanishes during a christening party, and DI Winter Meadows must search through a family gathering full of frayed relationships. Suspicion falls on the confused grandmother, while an earlier caving death reveals that the community has old wounds to hide.
Where Darkness Dwells
by Cheryl Rees Price
2026
Two teenage girls vanished from rural Wales twenty years ago, and neither case was solved. When true-crime investigator Nell Aubury disappears while looking into one of them, DI Winter Meadows reopens the files as a new body is discovered.
DI Winter Meadows Mystery books in chronological order

The Silent Quarry
by Cheryl Rees Price
2015DI Winter Meadows Mystery, Book 1
Frozen Minds
by Cheryl Rees Price
2016DI Winter Meadows Mystery, Book 2
Suffer the Children
by Cheryl Rees Price
2017DI Winter Meadows Mystery, Book 3
A Knot of Sparrows
by Cheryl Rees Price
2021DI Winter Meadows Mystery, Book 4
Lies of Mine
by Cheryl Rees Price
2021DI Winter Meadows Mystery, Book 5
Rise to the Fly
by Cheryl Rees Price
2022DI Winter Meadows Mystery, Book 6
Winter's Cry
by Cheryl Rees Price
2022DI Winter Meadows Mystery, Book 7
Harbour No Secrets
by Cheryl Rees Price
2023DI Winter Meadows Mystery, Book 8
The Crimson Harvest
by Cheryl Rees Price
2024DI Winter Meadows Mystery, Book 9
Buried Deep Within
by Cheryl Rees Price
2025DI Winter Meadows Mystery, Book 10
Where Darkness Dwells
by Cheryl Rees Price
2026DI Winter Meadows Mystery, Book 11
Series background & context
The DI Winter Meadows Mystery series follows Detective Inspector Winter Meadows as he investigates murder, disappearances, and long-buried wrongdoing in rural South Wales. The cases are rooted in villages and small communities where people have shared histories, old loyalties, and plenty of reasons not to tell the police everything they know.
Winter is a former London detective who has returned to the Welsh countryside, looking for a quieter life. He is reflective, intuitive, and not especially interested in playing the polished, by-the-book detective. He notices the details others dismiss, and he has a dry sense of humor alongside a serious commitment to victims and their families.
Quiet places can hold very loud secrets.
The series begins with The Silent Quarry, when Gwen Thomas starts to remember the attack that killed her friend years earlier. From there, the books move through care homes, housing estates, reservoirs, isolated farms, lakes, old mines, and communities marked by past loss. Each investigation has its own central crime, so the novels work as individual mysteries, but reading in order gives the clearest sense of Meadows's life and the changes around him.
The stakes usually come from more than identifying a killer. A case may force families to confront old betrayals, expose failures of care, or disturb a local peace that was built on silence. In Winter's Cry, Meadows's work becomes especially personal when a discovery near the commune where he grew up may be tied to his missing father. Other books keep the pressure on through missing children, cold cases, and murders that appear to have deep roots in the local past.
These are police procedurals with a strong sense of place. The Welsh setting matters because the landscape can be beautiful, remote, and hard to search, while the villages make privacy almost impossible. Meadows and his team have to sort gossip from evidence, listen to people who are frightened or grieving, and work out who benefits when a secret stays hidden.
The tone is tense but grounded. The crimes can be dark, yet the books spend time with ordinary people caught in difficult situations, and Meadows remains a steady presence at the center of the investigations.
Start with The Silent Quarry for the best introduction to Winter Meadows and his world. After that, the series builds through connected character details while continuing to deliver a complete new mystery in every book.
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