Doyle and Acton Scotland Yard Books in Order

Rookie detective Kathleen Doyle is paired with brilliant, unsettling Chief Inspector Michael Acton to solve a racetrack murder. As bodies pile up across London, the case grows darker and their risky attraction becomes impossible to ignore.

Now secretly married, Doyle and Acton investigate a wave of underworld killings linked to rival criminal factions. The closer Doyle gets to the truth, the more she fears Acton may have his own stake in the violence.

A vigilante is killing criminals who once slipped through the system, and Doyle must connect the murders to long-buried cases. At the same time, a mysterious protector in the shadows may be part of a trap aimed at Acton.

Pregnant and supposed to be taking it easy, Doyle is pulled into a case that keeps bleeding into older scandals. A vigilante's unfinished business and threats inside Scotland Yard put Acton and the CID in real danger.

At Christmas, Scotland Yard is hunting a killer who murders pregnant women to steal their babies. Acton tries to keep Doyle away from the case, which only convinces her that the truth is even worse than it looks.

A fresh homicide opens into one of Doyle and Acton's more layered investigations, with danger pressing on both home and work. Doyle's growing family and Acton's talent for secrets make every step of the case more fraught.

While on maternity leave, Doyle cannot stay away from a body found in a burned-out church and the trouble surrounding it. Arson, corruption, blood money, and one of Acton's private schemes collide in dangerous ways.

What should have been a quieter trip to Ireland turns into another knot of violence, old grudges, and unfinished business. Doyle and Acton find that home ground can be just as dangerous as any London murder scene.

Back from maternity leave and working under Munoz, Doyle expects a dull return. Instead, an apparent suicide at a housing estate opens into a messier homicide that soon reaches far beyond the first dead body.

What begins as a seemingly simple killing turns into one of Doyle and Acton's most tangled investigations. Hidden ties and overlapping motives keep shifting the case every time they think they understand it.

A shocking death at St. Michael's Church sends Doyle into a case with no clear motive and too many secrets. As the investigation widens toward a larger criminal enterprise, Acton's hidden plans become impossible to ignore.

Doyle starts with assaults on doctors at a London free clinic and gets a witness whose story sounds impossible. Strange attacks, buried secrets, and a funeral at Trestles pull the case in several unsettling directions.

Lingering at Trestles after the holidays, Doyle stumbles into trouble through a prison ministry and the estate's long history of greed. A quiet country stay turns into another twisty case about ambition, secrets, and Acton's hidden maneuvers.

A string of killings committed by apparently unhinged murderers has Scotland Yard fearing something worse is at work. Doyle faces a bleak winter case while worrying that Acton's own state of mind may be shifting.

As the fentanyl murder trial begins, Doyle suspects the police may have missed the real killer. Arson fires, a dead MP, a missing nanny, and family chaos leave her trying to solve the truth between feedings and sleepless nights.

A supposed murder-suicide looks wrong from the start, especially when one victim ties back to a major public accounts investigation. Pregnant and sidelined, Doyle still sees a wider cover-up and someone who seems untouchable.

Doyle investigates what looks like a warning killing in a turf war, except nobody can say who the message is meant for. Even the cause of death is hard to pin down, which makes the case stranger by the hour.

In Dublin for a school ceremony, Doyle expects a brief family visit and finds a corpse in the orchard instead. The apparent revenge killing quickly becomes tangled with Irish history, family secrets, and one of Acton's plans.

Recovering from a collapsed marina balcony, Doyle wakes to find gaps in the story and an oddly docile Acton on leave. A vanished nurse and hospital trouble suggest something serious happened while she was unconscious.

A wealthy theatre patron appears to have taken her own life, but a peacock feather at the scene says otherwise. Doyle and Acton soon find that stage superstition is only the first clue in a far more deliberate crime.

A charity gala at Trestles gives Doyle every reason to suspect Acton is hiding something again. As an old case involving the Song fortune turns colder, strange echoes of The Hound of the Baskervilles begin to surface.

Mrs. Song's sudden death looks impossible to solve, with no clear suspect and a locked-room feel to the crime. Doyle and Acton have to work through money, family damage, and very old grudges to reach the truth.

After a school Career Day, Doyle cannot forget a little boy's troubling questions about his missing father. When the disappearance proves to have a connection to her own household, what looks like an error may be something far worse.