DS Karen Hart Books in Order

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Karen Hart investigates after her former mentor, Sophie Jones, is attacked near a workshop. The case becomes more complicated when mobster Quentin Chapman asks for protection following associates’ deaths, forcing Karen to question whom she can trust.

A boy disappears from Tattershall Castle, leaving a blue bear that echoes three murders fifteen years earlier. Karen Hart must determine whether a copycat is responsible or whether the convicted killer’s imprisonment conceals a deeper mistake.

Teenagers discover a murdered woman in a trench at an archaeological dig. Karen Hart questions colleagues, a television crew, and the victim’s family, but a young witness’s secrets and another killing make uncovering the truth increasingly urgent.

Karen Hart’s future mother-in-law is found murdered with her eyes sewn shut. Excluded from the investigation because of her personal connection, Karen probes her fiancé’s family history as another relative dies and the danger moves closer.

Arnie Hodgson’s childhood friend turns up murdered after being presumed dead for thirty-five years. A strange brand and secrets surrounding their old fairground group draw Karen Hart into a case that threatens other friends and Arnie himself.

A university student is found strangled beside a porcelain angel. Karen Hart investigates professors, students, blackmail, and a secret society, but another victim carrying the same symbol raises the stakes as Karen prepares for her wedding.