Helen Cadbury Books in Order

A woman’s body on his Doncaster patch draws young community support officer Sean Denton into an investigation his superiors seem reluctant to pursue. Missing people and evidence of exploitation lead him toward corruption surrounding migration and the sex trade.

The mutilated body of a young Muslim man intensifies racial tensions in Doncaster. Sean Denton’s investigation begins to overlap with his family troubles, while a woman attempting to rebuild her life faces someone determined to punish her for the past.

These poems follow ordinary lives through love, loss, grief, and new beginnings, drawing on personal experience, observation, and archives. Autobiographical moments sometimes become fiction as Cadbury finds stories in people encountered at work, in transit, and elsewhere.

A desperate woman leads Sean Denton and his patrol partner to a Syrian refugee’s body in an abandoned school. Clues pointing toward a nearby greyhound stadium draw Denton into drugs, exploitation, and a case increasingly entangled with his private life.