Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James Books in Order

On holiday at a Yorkshire time share, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid's rest ends when a fellow guest is found dead in the whirlpool. Surrounded by strangers with secrets and dismissed by the local police, he quietly investigates before another attack comes.

When Kincaid's terminally ill neighbor Jasmine Dent dies in her sleep, it looks like a peaceful suicide. Small inconsistencies and her private journals instead suggest murder, drawing Kincaid and Gemma into a quiet London mystery about old loyalties and hidden guilt.

The drowning of charming but troubled Connor Swann eerily echoes the earlier death of his wife's gifted brother. Investigating the powerful Asherton family, Kincaid and Gemma uncover rivalries, buried resentments, and a past tragedy that refuses to stay in the grave.

A high ranking but widely hated police commander is found bludgeoned to death in his Surrey village home. As Kincaid and Gemma probe his tangled past and the villagers' grudges, their own uneasy relationship collides with a case built on resentment and abuse of power.

Kincaid's ex wife asks him to revisit the supposed suicide of Cambridge poet Lydia Brooke, a case closed five years earlier. What begins as a favor turns into a labyrinth of literary rivalries, old betrayals, and a fresh murder that tears open Kincaid and Gemma's personal lives.

When tea heiress Annabelle Hammond is found strangled in an East London park, Kincaid and Gemma trace her lovers, her powerful family, and a wartime evacuee story rooted in the Isle of Dogs. Long buried choices still drive jealousy, loyalty, and present day violence.

A series of eerie events in Glastonbury, from automatic writing to unsettling visions, draws Kincaid and Gemma to architect Jack Montfort's ancient city. As spiritual messages turn deadly, they must separate genuine faith and history from manipulation, fear, and murder.

Newly promoted Inspector Gemma James leads the inquiry into the stabbing of Dawn Arrowood, a pregnant antiques dealer's wife in Notting Hill. When the crime mirrors an earlier unsolved killing, Gemma and Kincaid follow a trail through Portobello Road that tests both their partnership and sense of justice.

Gemma's weekend cooking course in the Scottish Highlands turns dark when a local chef is murdered near a historic distillery. As family feuds, old affairs, and village loyalties surface, she must clear her friend's name before suspicion hardens into a wrongful charge.

A warehouse fire on the South Bank reveals a murdered woman, a missing hospital administrator, and a kidnapped child. Working parallel leads through fire scenes, hospitals, and a shelter for abused women, Kincaid and Gemma uncover an arson spree hiding something far more personal.

Hoping for a quiet Christmas with his family in Cheshire, Kincaid instead faces a mummified infant discovered in a barn wall and the recent drowning of a local boy. Canal life, old grievances, and buried crimes converge on the Shropshire Union waterways.

When a diamond brooch stolen from refugee Erika Rosenthal decades ago resurfaces at a London auction house, Gemma agrees to help trace it. A clerk's hit and run death and an unsolved postwar murder force Gemma and Kincaid to confront what the war left behind.

Artist and young mother Sandra Gilles vanishes from London's East End, leaving her toddler behind. When her lawyer husband is murdered, Gemma and Kincaid delve into Brick Lane's galleries, markets, and immigrant communities to protect the missing couple's child and unmask a ruthless killer.

Detective and Olympic rowing hopeful Rebecca Meredith never returns from a solo training row on the Thames. Called to Henley, Kincaid and Gemma navigate the brutal world of elite sport and police politics, where ambition, jealousy, and buried accusations create dangerous currents.

In London's Crystal Palace neighborhood, a barrister is found strangled in a shabby hotel, soon followed by a second, identical killing. As Gemma and Melody investigate, the case loops back to a teenage guitarist and a widow whose choices years earlier shattered more than one life.

Recently transferred to Camden, Kincaid confronts the aftermath of a fiery attack at St Pancras station when a protest smoke bomb becomes something far more lethal. Untangling activist networks, missing witnesses, and troubling orders from above, he and Gemma face threats to both public safety and their own careers.

A young nanny is found dead in a locked Notting Hill garden, drawing Gemma into the complicated lives of its privileged residents. At the same time, Kincaid quietly investigates disturbing deaths within the police, as both cases hint at a conspiracy that could endanger their family.

Invited to a country weekend at Melody Talbot's family estate in the Cotswolds, Kincaid and Gemma are swept into a fatal crash outside a village pub. As a celebrity chef's death leads to more killings, they probe simmering rivalries in both Viv Holland's kitchen and the elegant house above.

Trainee doctor Sasha Johnson collapses in Russell Square after a seemingly random knife attack. Working with a knife crime task force, Kincaid and Gemma trace her hidden connections through hospitals, flatmates, and family until a second stabbing reveals a stalker moving far closer to home than they feared.