DS Grace Allendale Books in Order

The DS Grace Allendale series follows a detective who returns to her home city of Stoke-on-Trent with a past that is anything but straightforward. Grace grew up connected by blood to the Steele crime family, and those ties make her both uniquely placed and uniquely vulnerable when her new cases start to brush against old loyalties.
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In Hush Hush, a killer is attacking people in the places they should feel safest  their homes and workplaces. As Grace tries to prove herself to a new team, the investigation points toward the Steeles, leaving her torn between doing her job and facing the relatives she has tried hard to distance herself from.
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Tick Tock opens with a teenage girl strangled in broad daylight behind her school while running cross-country. Two days later, a young mother is abducted and found murdered in a city park. With no obvious link between the victims, Grace and her team have to work fast to spot the emerging pattern before another woman is targeted.
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In Liar Liar, a toddler called Tyler falls from a balcony in a block of flats known as Harrison House. Grace and her colleague Frankie are first on the scene, but everyone insists it was an accident and no one claims to have seen anything. As Grace digs deeper, the book moves between past and present, revealing how coercion, debt and fear have kept residents quiet for years.
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Good Girl sees Grace investigating the stabbing of sixteen-year-old Erin Ellis, who dies in the arms of her best friend just yards from home. What looks at first like a random mugging soon begins to resemble something more targeted, and the case stirs memories of an earlier investigation that still haunts Graces conscience.
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Throughout the series, the crimes are dark but the focus stays on people: Graces relationships with her boyfriend Simon and his teenage daughter, her complicated history with the Steeles, and the way past decisions echo into new cases. The books are rich with Stoke detail, from parks and housing estates to the police station, giving them a strong sense of place.
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If youre new to Grace Allendale, start with Hush Hush to see how she first walks back into a city that remembers her surname as well as her badge.
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