DS Butler Books in Order

When a fellow counselling group member begs DS Karen Hart to find a missing friend, Phoebe Woodrow, a simple disappearance spirals into a case involving spiked drinks, risky medical research and a dangerous gangster who wants the truth buried.

After a woman is dragged into a white van on a quiet street, the only witness is a girl known for telling stories. DS Karen Hart follows a trail of playing cards, missing women and buried family secrets before the kidnapper escalates.

A winter scream inside Lincoln Cathedral leads DS Karen Hart to a body in the crypt and a killer calling himself the Cleanser. As ritual murders mount, she must untangle cryptic motives and rumours of police corruption while battling her own grief.

Two teenagers vanish from an educational retreat at eerie Chidlow House, and whispers of ghosts swirl as panic grows. DS Karen Hart must sift through staff rivalries, family tensions and local legends to find the girls before the house claims them.

When a man is found bludgeoned in woodland near the village of Canwick, DS Karen Hart senses more than a random attack. Her search uncovers a hidden modern slavery ring and a close knit community willing to protect its darkest secrets.

When decades old human remains are found locked away in an elderly man’s house, DS Karen Hart traces them to a teacher who vanished thirty years ago. As she uncovers the dead man’s crimes, almost everyone in the village looks complicit.

A young woman is left propped against a bin outside a London takeaway, discarded like rubbish and marked with strange symbols on her arms. DS Jack Mackinnon, newly acting SIO, races to decode the pattern before another victim disappears.

Abbie always thought her best friend Nicole had the perfect life, married to charming, wealthy Steve in a designer home. Five years later Nicole is dead, her little girl is missing, and Abbie starts pulling apart a marriage that was anything but perfect.

At Halloween in Abbott Cove, Grandma Grant is determined to win the pumpkin pie competition, even if Harper suspects a little magic has slipped into the recipe. When a taster collapses, Harper must clear her grandmother’s name and unmask a poisoner.

When two young girls disappear from their village primary school, DS Karen Hart is thrown back into a previous unsolved case and the loss of her own family. Digging into Heighington’s past, she discovers a close community built on dangerous lies.

Two years after three year old Jenna vanished from a crowded village fete, her aunt Beth Farrow is still consumed by guilt. When an anonymous photo suggests Jenna is alive, Beth returns home to investigate and quickly discovers someone will kill to stop her.

In the final East End showdown, Jimmy Diamond has grown up in the shadow of gangster Martin Morton, the father who wants him gone. Teaming up with rival boss Dave Carter, Jimmy sets out for revenge, but he is not the only one craving payback.

Trying to relax after a tough exam from the Witch Council, Harper Grant visits a local historical reenactment, only to watch one of the actors drop dead. With Grandma stirring up trouble and Joe warning her off, Harper chases a killer and a stubborn ghost.

Dave Carter rules the East End’s criminal world until ambitious upstart Martin Morton decides to take his place. As the Morton family pushes for power and the Carters fight back, ordinary relatives are dragged into a vicious turf war neither side can control.

With Martin Morton in prison, Dave Carter thinks their feud is over, but Martin’s wife Babs has other plans. Determined to prove herself, she builds her own operation while young Jimmy Diamond grows up unaware that his ruthless father is still alive.

For the Watson family, life shatters when their daughter Ruby is abducted. A text invites them into a twisted game against another set of parents, where only one child will live; DS Jack Mackinnon must stop the contest before it ends in murder.

Harper Grant is desperate to escape her sister’s yoga class when she stumbles on a gruesome discovery. With Grandma causing mischief, a difficult new ghost demanding answers and Joe McGrady again urging her to stay out of it, Harper hunts a killer anyway.

It is Christmas in Abbott Cove and Harper Grant is juggling a family feud, a temperamental grandmother and her usual ghostly visitors. When a new spirit appears linked to a fresh murder, Harper has to solve the case before the holidays are ruined.

In Abbott Cove, Harper Grant is a reluctant witch who would rather serve coffee at Archie’s Diner than practice spells. When a notorious busybody is murdered during the town festival and her ghost will not leave Harper alone, she is dragged into sleuthing.

When a top literary agent is found bloated and unrecognisable in a luxury London hotel, DS Jack Mackinnon’s unit catches the case. As more bodies appear, he must uncover what links the victims before the person orchestrating their deaths claims another target.

A murder victim is discovered with a carved wooden disc hidden in their mouth, sparking rumours of voodoo and occult rituals. DS Jack Mackinnon looks past the superstition, following a trail through the victims’ lives before the killer can stage another ceremony.

During a sweltering late summer, an unusual number of apparent suicides hit London. When similar farewell letters are found at each scene, DS Jack Mackinnon realises someone is staging the deaths and delivering their own form of justice from the shadows.

Still out of favour with his superiors and sidelined from the major investigation team, DS Jack Mackinnon is handed a case nobody wants. As he digs, he uncovers a chilling connection to a decade old crime that someone is finally settling in blood.

Ambitious student Anya Blonski vanishes after chasing fame through the slick Star Academy reality brand. As DS Jack Mackinnon investigates, he uncovers a culture of exploitation and obsession, and fears a second missing girl means a serial predator is at work.

A man is killed with the deadly plant toxin aconite, and a cryptic note points DS Jack Mackinnon toward an Oxford laboratory. Staff and students are desperate to hide their links to the victim, and as the truth surfaces, even Jack’s family may be in danger.