Eva Wylie Books in Order

The Eva Wylie books follow one of the most unusual leads in crime fiction. Eva is a professional wrestler, a night guard at a wrecking yard, and a woman who has learned to expect very little kindness from the world. She lives in a trailer with her dogs, works odd jobs when she has to, and performs in the ring as the villainous London Lassassin. She is big, angry, funny, suspicious, and often a complete disaster.

Eva is unforgettable.

These books are set in a rougher, more physical London than the one Anna Lee moves through. Eva's world is made of scrapyards, cheap gyms, alleyways, pubs, lockups, wrestling halls, and gang territory. The city matters because Eva sees it from the bottom up. She is always close to people living hand to mouth, always one missed payment or one stupid choice away from real trouble, and the stories never let you forget that.

At first, Eva can seem hard to like. She is rude, impulsive, and full of defensive fury. But that voice is the point. She measures people by what they do, not how polite they sound, and beneath all the bluster she is lonely and fiercely loyal. Cody lets Eva be abrasive, frightened, vain, tender, and badly wrong, sometimes all in the same chapter. That makes the trilogy feel less like a puzzle series and more like life crashing into somebody who refuses to duck.

An ongoing thread links the books together. Eva wants to make something of herself in wrestling, and she also carries a deep need to reconnect with her lost sister, Simone. Around those wants, the plots bring gang wars, murdered women, dirty money, brutal family ties, and the kind of favors that never stay small for long. Eva does not solve neat whodunits. She gets dragged into danger, hits back, and tries to survive the consequences.

Anna Lee appears at the edges now and then, but this is Eva's series through and through. The tone is bruising, darkly funny, and surprisingly moving. The wrestling material is not just decoration either. It shapes how Eva thinks about performance, humiliation, pain, and power. The books are also interested in class, shame, bodies, and how badly society punishes women who do not know how to behave nicely.

If you want a polished detective with tidy methods, this is not that series. If you want a singular antihero whose world smells of sweat, metal, dog fur, cheap booze, and hard loyalty, start with Bucket Nut. From there the trilogy only gets stranger, sadder, and more interesting.