Gil Mayo Books in Order

Architect Clive Lethbridge is murdered with a crystal inkwell after celebrating a professional triumph. Detective Chief Inspector Gil Mayo examines the victim's family, colleagues, and neighbors, discovering grievances behind the outward respectability of their lives.

Romance writer and philanthropist Fleur Saville disappears, and her husband claims she is working at their cottage. When thawing snow reveals her body, Gil Mayo investigates the resentments concealed beneath her reputation for doing good.

The strangling of Marion Dove, matriarch of a glass-manufacturing family, brings Gil Mayo into an inheritance dispute. A Canadian grandson's arrival and concealed family relationships complicate efforts to establish who wanted the wealthy woman dead.

Journalist Rupert Fleming's apparent suicide becomes a murder investigation for Gil Mayo. Probing relatives, lovers, and a missing theater director, Mayo encounters exploitation and financial wrongdoing before another death raises the stakes of his inquiry.

Retired school headmaster Cecil Willard is found smothered in a village church. Gil Mayo investigates people angered by his interference, while a recent bombing at a nearby institute raises questions about a possible connection between the crimes.

Angie Robinson's strangled body appears on a remote moorland road after police receive an anonymous letter hinting at an old murder. Gil Mayo investigates her connections to Flowerdew, a country house whose former visitors share troubling secrets.

Jeweler Nigel Fontenoy's murder initially points toward his indebted cousin, builder Jake Wilding. When an unexpected alibi disrupts the case, Gil Mayo and Abigail Moon investigate tangled family relationships and opportunities created by a destructive storm.

A car bomb kills young offenders' institution governor Jack Lilburne and injures his daughter. Gil Mayo investigates threats from former inmates and family connections, while a hospital worker's search for his birth mother complicates the inquiry.

An unidentified man's battered body is found in a close-knit Lavenstock neighborhood. As Gil Mayo traces his presence there, a teenage newspaper deliverer's death raises questions about links to other killings and secrets among the residents.

Financier Tim Wishart's death is staged as suicide, but a postmortem reveals murder. Abigail Moon takes a leading role in the investigation, sorting through debts, affairs, business partnerships, and grudges with Superintendent Gil Mayo's support.

When Kathryn Conolly is murdered and her friend Julie Mayo disappears, Superintendent Gil Mayo faces a deeply personal crisis. Excluded because Julie is his daughter, he conducts an unofficial inquiry while Abigail Moon investigates dangerous connections.

A suspicious fire and a vicious attack occupy two of Gil Mayo's inspectors. Displaced Polish children, stolen art, and a painting by Paul Klee draw the superintendent into an investigation that reaches abroad and connects the cases.

Floodwaters reveal a murdered woman whose identity eludes Gil Mayo and Abigail Moon. When a school bursar is also killed, cleaner Cleo Atkins discovers unexpected evidence that may connect the cases and draw her into danger.