Gerald Hammond Books in Order

Hammond's first novel already shows his taste for dry humor, practical detail, and trouble brewing beneath ordinary life. It is an early, lean suspense story that hints at the writer he would become.

What looks like a small irregularity grows into a larger problem in this terse suspense novel. Hammond builds tension through practical clues, uneasy relationships, and the suspicion that someone is tampering with more than machinery.

Country sport, pride, and personal rivalry collide in this compact mystery. Hammond brings his feel for outdoor life to a story where rough humor and real danger sit close together.

At a shoot in the Scottish Borders, gunsmith Keith Calder sees an apparent accident turn into a murder case. When his girlfriend's brother is charged, Keith starts digging and puts both of them in danger.

A dead body in Molly Calder's car and the promise of reward money send Keith and Molly hunting through fraud, missing valuables, and very dangerous lies. Country mystery soon spills into the city.

A skeleton turns up on a flooded canal bank, and Keith Calder gets caught in the deadly chain of events behind it. The wild Scottish Lowlands provide a fitting backdrop for the case.

Keith Calder looks into the death of wealthy sportsman Ray Grass, whose fatal gun accident does not feel accidental at all. A will, a fortune, and too many interested parties make the case increasingly dangerous.

Keith Calder is pulled into a case that leads away from sport and into corruption and blackmail. It is a lean Calder mystery with guns, suspicion, and trouble hiding behind respectable faces.

Family ties and country tensions drag Keith Calder into another investigation. What first seems like a personal matter turns into a knottier case, full of awkward connections and concealed motives.

A burnt-out Land Rover and a dead driver draw Keith Calder into a case that seems to point at his friend Jake Paterson. Calder has to prove the evidence is misleading before the wrong man takes the blame.

Keith Calder repairs a consignment of weapons for a shady dealer, then the shipment is hijacked and his young daughter is kidnapped. The case pushes him into one of his most personal battles.

A deal involving valuable goods goes wrong, and the people circling it are left sorting out theft, motive, and betrayal. Hammond keeps the suspense tight and the risks very human.

Death and what follows are at the heart of this Scottish mystery. What should have been a clean ending instead opens up suspicion, money trouble, and motives nobody wants to discuss.

Keith Calder gives ballistic evidence in an Aberdeen murder trial, only to help produce a Not Proven verdict. Asked to look again, he uncovers a case tangled up with oil-industry power and a missing gun.

As executor of a murdered friend's estate, Keith Calder tries to trace a valuable gun collection sold off at a suspicious price. The trail leads him into blackmail, family secrets, and another killing.

A wrong number sets a dangerous chain of events in motion. What starts as a small mistake becomes a brisk suspense story full of secrets, misdirection, and rising risk.

Simon Parbitter comes to Scotland to see the house his uncle left him, only to learn the old man's shooting death may have been murder. When Keith Calder is hurt in another accident, the case sharpens fast.

A widow's fears prove harder to dismiss than they first seem, drawing Keith Calder into a case full of half-truths and quiet threats. The investigation moves from domestic unease to real danger.

An apparently accidental shooting refuses to stay simple, and Keith Calder starts asking the questions others would rather avoid. Hammond turns country sport and old grudges into a tight, efficient mystery.

With Keith away, Deborah Calder fills in at the gunshop and is called to the Pentland Gun Club after a steward is found dead near a skeet trap. It is an excellent introduction to her sleuthing instincts.

Falklands veteran John Cunningham begins civilian life as a breeder and trainer of gun dogs, then is framed when a rival breeder is murdered. It is the sharp, dog-filled start of the Three Oaks stories.

Trouble comes close to home in this Keith Calder mystery, where familiar faces and local business turn unexpectedly dangerous. Calder's circle has to sort gossip from fact before the case worsens.

Solicitor Ralph Enterkin investigates a gamekeeper's death that at first looks accidental. His inquiries uncover a scheme aimed at framing the man's employer, and much more besides.

A quiet spell at Keith Calder's gunshop is broken when questions about a job applicant's references uncover a sinister past. Calder soon finds himself facing an assassination plot.

An unsolved murder, a killer still loose, and an unidentified dog give John Cunningham plenty to worry about. The case draws him back into the sharp rivalries of Scotland's dog-breeding world.

Money and opportunity make a dangerous mix in this compact crime story. A practical scheme begins to spiral as deception spreads and the people involved lose control.

John Cunningham is drawn into a complex case after wildlife painter George Muir, his wife's uncle, dies in what looks like an accidental explosion. The truth proves much less straightforward.

A slow-burning Scottish mystery about stalled lives and hidden tensions. What seems quiet on the surface gradually reveals danger, motive, and the cost of long-buried secrets.

A wealthy businessman arrives with a wounded spaniel, then fake evidence of dog cruelty starts appearing against John Cunningham. Before long, missing dogs and a careful frame-up point to something much uglier.

Deborah Calder expects married life and a temporary job at her godfather's pheasant packing company. Instead, a disappearance turns workplace irritation into a full-scale mystery.

When a cheerful springer spaniel returns to Three Oaks badly injured, John Cunningham starts sniffing around. Fraud, bad feeling, and murder lurk beneath the kennel's polished surface.

A hit-and-run death, an abandoned cocker spaniel, and blood on a friend's Land Rover push John Cunningham into a frightening case. What starts as help for a friend becomes a hunt for a ruthless killer.

A cranky old farmer is found dead, and the method is clever enough to stump the local police. Keith Calder steps in, using his firearms expertise to reconstruct how the murder was done.

Master fisherman Wallace James and his young pupil find a body in a river, a fishhook buried in the dead man's cheek. What looks accidental soon turns into a wider and stranger investigation.

When trouble turns up at Three Oaks, John Cunningham has to balance kennel life with yet another rural mystery. Hammond keeps the dogs, the people, and the local tensions equally important.

John Cunningham refuses to paper over an unwanted mating involving a champion dog, then corrupt official Ben Garnet is found half-dead. Cunningham quickly becomes a prime suspect in a nasty case.

Deborah Fellowes and her Uncle Ronnie think they are dealing with a fox-poaching problem in the Highlands. Then the trail turns darker, and the real quarry proves far more dangerous.

Another gun-centered mystery sends Keith Calder after the truth when a weapon points toward trouble instead of sport. Hammond blends firearms know-how, country life, and a brisk investigation.

After a heart attack, Wallace James tries to take life more gently, but a local landowner's apparent drowning is hard to ignore. Suspicion of foul play pulls him back toward danger.

A small disruption throws ordinary lives off key and grows into a sharper mystery than anyone expected. Hammond builds the case through timing, suspicion, and the slow discovery of what is really going on.

John Cunningham uncovers a dog-switching plot that leads straight to a mysterious death. Hammond mixes kennel know-how, odd characters, and a satisfying rural puzzle.

Fed up with her mother's dubious lovers, Polly Turnbull runs away and ends up working at a wrestler's gym. Her fresh start brings friendship and confidence, but trouble is never far behind.

What should have been a simple favor for Henry Kitts turns ugly when a suspicious death changes everything. John Cunningham and the Three Oaks circle have to sort out accident, motive, and a very deliberate crime.

When Evelyn Hill comes to John Cunningham with a problem that looks manageable, he is wary but willing to help. The favor soon pulls him into another knot of rural suspicion, secrets, and danger.

A destructive blaze leaves more questions than answers in this tense Scottish suspense novel. As the aftermath is picked over, older tensions and darker motives begin to show through.

When the widely disliked Jasmine Horner turns up dead, John Cunningham is drawn into the effort to clear a friend. Village resentments and dog-world rivalries make the truth harder to reach.

A seemingly ordinary outing turns into a deeper Scottish mystery as danger comes from an unexpected direction. Hammond lets the tension grow steadily, with practical clues and shifting loyalties driving the plot.

A reference guide to the jargon, slang, and technical terms of horse racing. Hammond explains the language of the sport clearly, from the track and stable yard to betting and breeding.

Scottish landowner Jeremy Carpenter and American Hazel Tripp both want revenge on local crook Gordon McKennerty. Their carefully planned scheme sounds simple, until payback proves far messier than expected.

A phishing-style fraud strips fortune heiress Elizabeth Ilwand of a huge sum, and Henry Kitts starts digging on behalf of the Three Oaks circle. The search leads from email deceit to a much larger scheme.

Unable to break into engineering, Jill Allbright takes a late-night cleaning job in an Aberdeen oil office. The work drops her into a harder world of money, power, and danger than she ever expected.

May Forsyth takes a gardening job at Cannaluke House and almost immediately finds a dead body. As the investigation develops, buried secrets surface, along with an unexpected romance.

A chance meeting sets off a chain of suspicion in this compact Scottish mystery. What begins as an ordinary connection soon turns risky as hidden motives and old secrets start to surface.

Two girls kidnapped for ransom quickly turn the tables on their bumbling captors and plan a robbery of their own. Their scheme collides with a bigger criminal operation, and the chaos grows fast.

Physiotherapist Grace Gillespie takes a job nursing a school deputy head back in her home territory near Dornoch. What looks like a welcome return soon pulls her into local tensions and a mystery with deeper roots.

Intelligence officer Hallelujah Brown is sent to assess an aging commander at a remote British post in Africa. When crisis hits, she ends up leading the defense herself against bureaucracy, prejudice, and an advancing army.

Heiress and detective Honoria Potterton-Phipps lands in a tight-knit Scottish community where a body in a rowing boat disturbs the calm. With dogs, class tensions, and unhelpful locals around her, Honey has work to do.

Grace Gillespie and Stuart Campbell cut short their honeymoon when Stuart's difficult uncle needs constant care. After the old man's death, missing money and uneasy family dynamics turn grief into suspicion.

A suspicious death in Scotland opens up old grudges, buried motives, and a case that refuses to settle. Hammond keeps the mystery lean and clue-driven, with rural tensions simmering under the surface.

Honey Laird plans a quiet spell with her husband until an old school friend's email pulls her into another case. Missing spaniel pups, a volatile ex-SAS man, and a body in a loch quickly raise the stakes.

Joan hides out in a country cottage after fearing the police will tie her to a violent crime. Her growing bond with gamekeeper Ken is shadowed by village gossip, especially the unanswered question of his missing wife.

Helen survived occupied France, the Resistance, and a hard post-war career in journalism. Now, late in life, the veteran fighter faces one last battle when family strain and fresh trouble refuse to leave her in peace.

Two weeks from giving birth, DI Honey Laird is asked to look into the suspicious behavior of her next-door neighbor, Dr McGordon. The respectable doctor seems to be hiding something, and Honey cannot leave it alone.

While on maternity leave, Honey Laird helps a neighbor whose stolen camera holds dangerously revealing photographs. The search leads toward Glasgow's underworld, where everyone involved may be in real trouble.

When businessman Aubrey Merryhill is left in a coma after a car crash, the police begin to suspect attempted murder. With motives everywhere, from the office to his home life, the case becomes a sharp whodunit.

After a violent car crash, solicitor Julian Custer finds the lone survivor, Delia Barrow, injured and unable to remember much beyond her name. Their search for the missing car's occupants becomes a deeper mystery.

Luke Grant's comfortable routine is disrupted when his grandson's widowed wife is badly hurt in a hit-and-run. While caring for his great-granddaughters, Luke starts asking who wanted her injured, and why.

Writer Roland Fox and young vet Jane Highsmith are drawn together by attraction and by the recent, puzzling death of her great-grandfather. Hammond turns village life into a quiet Scottish mystery with romance at its edge.

After their mother's death, Violet and Jane live with great-grandfather Luke Grant and Helena. When Violet's boyfriend vanishes and is found badly injured, the investigation uncovers a strange scam that reaches as far as Madeira.

Michael and Hilda come home to a police tip about illegal images on Michael's computer, only to prove he was framed. Then they learn someone has been secretly using their cottage, and may still be returning.

Novelist Tim Russell offers shelter to a young woman he finds camping in the woods, then is brutally attacked himself. As Ann's relatives appear and a local murder follows, the situation turns far more dangerous.

Surveyor Douglas Young helps turn old Underwood House into flats, then one of the new residents is found dead. Douglas and his assistant Tash are drawn into the case when a shocking discovery deepens the mystery.

Jane Highsmith and Roland Fox are preparing for marriage when a knife-wielding intruder tears through their quiet village world. Jane's quick thinking leaves the attacker marked, but tracking him down opens a darker mystery.