Heathcliff Lennox Books in Order

Christmas 1920 begins with a body on Lennox's doorstep and a summons to his uncle's country house. Snow falls, tensions rise, and what starts as one mystery quickly becomes several.

A wedding invitation takes Lennox to Bloxford, where art theft, forgery, and family tensions swirl around the death of Sir Crispin Gibbons. Even Chief Inspector Swift struggles to untangle the plot.

At a crumbling Scottish castle on a lonely loch, a skeleton is uncovered wearing a golden crown. When the relic vanishes and whispers of a curse grow louder, Lennox faces murder, fear, and a very old secret.

Lennox and Swift leave the English countryside for Damascus, where a movie crew, a possible spy, and a pair of mysterious women circle the same secret. The deeper they dig, the older and deadlier the mystery becomes.

A dying scoundrel leaves a priceless inheritance to a remote abbey on the Yorkshire moors, and trouble follows at once. Claims multiply, tempers flare, and Lennox finds murder stalking the cloisters.

In the last hard months of the Great War, Major Lennox and Greggs crash behind enemy lines in France. This prequel shows the danger, loyalty, and heartbreak that shaped the man he later becomes.

Charming rogue Montague Morgan plans one last theft and a romantic escape, then disappears. With Swift drawn in and Christmas closing fast, Lennox must decide whether Morgan is hiding, betrayed, or dead.

A suspicious accident, a dead man's gun, and a long buried tomb disturb Lanscombe Park. Lennox and Swift must unravel a ruthless man's past before more people die.

An old moated house and a run of strange deaths pull Lennox and Swift into a summer case that looks simple, then turns far darker. The setting is dreamy, the secrets are not.

When Lord De Ruyter is murdered, Lennox and Swift find the case tied to the notorious Birdcage murders. Every witness has a reason for being there, and nobody is quite who they claim to be.

A rich outsider is shot through the heart with an arrow in Lennox's own village. With Persi, Swift, and the whole household drawn in, the hunt for the killer turns painfully personal.

A glittering ball at Belvedere House ends in murder when war hero Jack Dutton is found dead in the dark. Lennox and Swift uncover jewels, lies, and ugly secrets beneath the polished surface.

A duel at dawn leaves one man dead and another gravely injured after Lady Bancroft's Valentine Ball. Lennox and Swift must work through old grudges and fresh lies before the killer strikes again.

At Temple House near Bath, a secret order of wealthy aristocrats gathers each Christmas to dispense charity. When one of the Saints is murdered, Lennox and Swift are called in before scandal tears the whole institution apart.

Spring 1924 takes Lennox and Swift to a Scottish clan castle where history, rivalry, and ambition are turning dangerous. Beneath the ceremony and old loyalties, someone is prepared to kill.

A reclusive viscount invites a troupe of actors to perform in his grand drawing room, then is found brutally murdered the next morning. Lennox steps into a house full of servants, players, masks, and motives.

Seven archaeologists board a train to Ashton Steeple, but only six arrive. Lennox and Swift investigate an impossible disappearance that opens onto murder, buried secrets, and the dangerous politics of a Roman dig.

Lennox is hoping for a peaceful family Christmas at Ashton Steeple when a former German pilot arrives on the doorstep. A suspicious plane crash soon turns the holiday into another wartime shadowed murder case.

Three wealthy hoteliers die months apart, each death neatly labeled an accident. Lennox and Swift suspect a killer hiding in plain sight among money, rivalry, and old business interests.