Graham Brack Books in Order

A strangled young woman is found with cash hidden on her body, and nothing about the scene feels simple. Slonský and rookie Jan Navrátil follow the trail into corruption close to the police and the political class.

A retired officer brings Slonský a cold case that has bothered him for thirty years, a young woman's murder and a likely wrongful hanging. When the old policeman is targeted, reopening the past becomes dangerous very quickly.

A hunt for Bosnian gangsters in Prague turns deadly when an undercover officer is stabbed in broad daylight outside a watched flat. Slonský and his team have to work through informers, betrayal, and a case that will not behave.

When a murdered girl is pulled from the Vltava, Slonský faces a case nobody can easily explain, because no one has reported her missing. Short staffed and under pressure, he has to find out who she was and what happened to her family.

While trying to pass a medical for promotion, Slonský is dragged into a case after a wartime bomb kills four metal detectorists. The explosion looks accidental, but the pathologist sees enough to call it murder.

A woman is found buried in a flower bed at the former Red House, once used by state security. Older bones in the same grave suggest the murder is tangled up with buried secrets from the Communist years.

Three girls disappear in wintry Delft, and only one body is found. Summoned from Leiden, Master Mercurius must help the mayor and follow the few clues left before panic spreads and the other children are lost.

Sent to England to help secure William of Orange's marriage to Princess Mary, Mercurius walks straight into court intrigue. Powerful enemies oppose the match, and his mission soon becomes as dangerous as any murder inquiry.

A hated farmer is stabbed, and the wrong man may hang for it. When the accused man's wife begs for help, Mercurius digs into village grudges and half-truths to stop the case ending at the gallows.

Mercurius is drawn into the orbit of William of Orange just as a colleague at Leiden is killed. Another murder follows, and what begins as political watchfulness turns into a tense search for a killer moving close to power.

William of Orange pulls Mercurius into another delicate job, but three missing Jewish boys soon take over the case. With local magistrates doing nothing, he has to work out who is taking children and why before more vanish.

In 1685, Master Mercurius is sent to England on a dangerous mission tied to the Duke of Monmouth and William of Orange's claim to the throne. If he is caught planting evidence at court, espionage will mean a horrible death.

Mercurius travels to Maastricht for a scholarly debate on witchcraft and finds himself pulled into an uglier argument about old trials and superstition. When a witch-finder is murdered inside a locked library, reason has to beat fear.

A gruesome killing suggests a predator may be targeting women in Prague, just as Slonský is stuck in hospital with a wrecked knee. Desperate to avoid forced retirement, he pushes himself back into the hunt.

Mercurius is made temporary governor of Moers so William of Orange can move quietly toward war. Instead of peace and paperwork, he inherits a stack of suspicious cases and the job of stopping rough justice from turning final.

When a murdered man in an apartment block turns out to be former club owner Dominik Vitek, Slonský knows the past may matter as much as the corpse. Vitek's cabarets once sheltered dissidents, and old loyalties still bite.

Mercurius expects a pleasant stretch of library work at a convent after being asked to escort a young woman there. Then a relic disappears, a key goes missing, and the quiet place starts to feel anything but peaceful.