Diana J Febry Books in Order

Family man Bob's financial troubles expose him to blackmail, while Sarah struggles to protect a quiet life from her violent past. Their difficulties converge in a small town where old decisions create increasingly dangerous consequences.

A storm exposes a teenage girl's buried remains beneath an uprooted tree in Birkbury. DCI Peter Hatherall and DI Fiona Williams investigate village secrets while the disappearance of another girl brings urgency to the case.

After her marriage ends, Penny Jackson tries to rebuild her life and becomes involved with hotelier Robert Carver. Secrets within his family threaten her new beginning, forcing her to navigate a relationship increasingly shadowed by danger.

The murder of a mechanic near horse-training gallops leads DCI Peter Hatherall into a guarded racing community. Trainer Ben Halloway closes ranks as the investigation encounters disappearing witnesses and secrets someone wants to protect.

Securities trader Dan questions the apparent accidental death of a young woman he helped raise. His search for answers becomes entangled with a missing student, drawing him into circumstances far more dangerous than he expected.

A noose appears outside James Palmer's home, where a young man died two years earlier. DCI Peter Hatherall investigates a vendetta whose elusive perpetrator uses disguise to pursue people blamed for the earlier tragedy.

An elderly nursing-home resident offers journalist Megan Roach information about a murder. Her pursuit of the story collides with troubling gaps in her own memory, while Peter Hatherall investigates a conspiracy connecting past and present.

Social worker Vivien Morse is found battered to death in Silver Lady Woods. Peter Hatherall investigates her husband, a missing supervisor, and a troubled client whose account of a lost baby complicates the search for truth.

A young mother is stabbed in a busy park, with her son witnessing the attack. Peter Hatherall connects the crime to a paperboy's murder decades earlier, raising uncomfortable questions about his own involvement in that investigation.

Simon Morris investigates after a neighbour tries to kill her former partner. Village politics and online predators complicate a campaign against a new family, while a more immediate threat places the community in danger.

Detective Fiona Williams investigates a murdered man discovered in a burning van and a second body nearby. When a witness is killed, links to a missing teenager draw her toward powerful men and a wider conspiracy.

Simon and Kate’s farm-sitting assignment turns dangerous when a neighbour is murdered in circumstances resembling an older crime. Simon disappears as troubling evidence about his past emerges, leaving Kate to investigate and decide whom to trust.

A single mother’s murder leaves DI Fiona Williams questioning whether her own relationship history clouds her instincts. With colleagues reading the evidence differently and three children’s futures at stake, she must decide whether to trust her interpretation of the crime.

Three apparently unrelated murders strain an understaffed police station and divide its investigators. DI Fiona Williams suspects a connection between a poisoned pensioner and a landowner’s murdered wife, but proving it may require risking her life for an old enemy.

While house-sitting at a clifftop manor, Kate feels watched and becomes involved with a young groom. Simon investigates a grandmother’s death and an apparent sighting of someone supposedly dead, as Kate’s situation grows increasingly dangerous.

A pupil’s drowning at a private boarding school leads DI Fiona Williams to suspect a secret society’s initiation went wrong. When another student dies, staff, influential parents and pupils maintain a wall of silence that protects more than the school’s reputation.

A woman’s fatal fall down cellar stairs proves suspicious, drawing DI Fiona Williams into disputes over hunting and a questionable police appointment. A second murder and a missing officer complicate the investigation while a family crisis threatens Fiona’s concentration.

Simon agrees to protect a developer’s eldest daughter from threats without involving the police, but his decision has fatal consequences. When her younger sister later seeks his help, he faces a chance to redeem himself.

Five students are shot dead, but one young woman survives unharmed. DI Fiona Williams focuses on the survivor’s unsettling indifference while conflicting evidence, further deaths and public pressure force her team to question the assumptions guiding their investigation.

DI Fiona Williams investigates a burglar who steals personal trinkets rather than valuables, then reviews a suspected suicide. Another unexplained death and a secret shared by former teenagers connect the cases, forcing her to choose between an arrest and protecting a colleague.