Helen H Durrant Books in Order

Her young daughter’s drawing of “my family” still shows just three stick figures when a removal van pulls up next door. As a new woman and child move in, it slowly becomes clear they share more than a street. Two wives, one charming husband and a buried betrayal spiral toward a very dangerous reckoning.

A woman receives an anonymous invitation to a funeral and almost ignores it, until curiosity wins. At the graveside she realises the dead woman carried her old name, Alice Anderson, a past she has buried for three years. Someone knows who she really is, and she is prepared to do whatever it takes to keep that secret in the ground.

Chloe Todd thinks her baby is sleeping safely in the garden, until a frantic check of the pram changes everything. Days later Superintendent Hedley Sharpe is called to two cellar bodies in adjoining empty shops, one long dead, one freshly killed. As the cases converge around Chloe and a missing gang boss, Hedley uncovers secrets that reach back to his own unresolved tragedy.

A murdered woman is posed like a Victorian doll in a long white dress, blond wig and painted mask, her real face beaten beyond recognition. DNA shows she is Lori Lansing, abducted weeks earlier despite her husband’s huge ransom payment. When another woman vanishes, Lennox and Wilde must stop a serial kidnapper before he claims the wrong woman again.

Four young women have been discovered in shallow woodland graves around Ravenswood, each wrapped in a white shroud, teeth shattered, lips stitched shut and hands removed. With no leads and a sceptical new squad, Detective Alice Rossi takes over just as schoolgirl Maggie Hewson disappears, knowing the killer is already planning victim number five.

After three months off, Rachel King returns to find an elderly church volunteer laid out on the altar, mouth taped, hands bound with white ribbon and a single white rose between her fingers. Forensic evidence links the scene to a serial killer who died years earlier, raising the question of whether someone is imitating him or he was never truly gone.

At the exclusive Still Waters resort in the Peak District, twenty‑four‑year‑old Callum is lured to a boathouse by an older woman and vanishes. When a body surfaces in the lake and taunting messages summon DCI Alice Rossi, she faces a calculating female killer playing a long, cruel game.

When a new tenant’s cat comes home with a human foot, Calladine and Bayliss uncover the decomposed body of a teenager branded with an X, echoing a long‑vanished killer. Fear silences the Hobfield estate as they race to stop history repeating.

A teenage boy is stabbed, set alight and left in a local park. On his bedroom wall Lennox and Wilde find photos of unsolved murder victims and three apparent future targets, one a blank cut‑out. Protecting the next victims forces the detectives to confront dangerous ghosts from Harry’s past.

On the eve of returning from maternity leave, DCI Rachel King is called in when a two‑month‑old baby and his babysitter disappear. The child’s father is tied to a notorious drug gang, and a second kidnapping suggests retaliation that may implicate Rachel’s own partner, ex‑gang boss Jed McAteer.

A schoolgirl savagely bullied decades ago haunts the present when the mother of one tormentor is found murdered, the word “sorry” written in blood. As bones surface in a remote house and a violent gangster threatens his family, Calladine begins to crack under pressure.

Five weeks after vanishing, three‑year‑old Lucy Green strolls back into a park, barefoot but unharmed, and her mother barely reacts. As severed hands linked to a brutal trafficker begin to appear, DI Harry Lennox and DS Jess Wilde uncover a case that reaches into Harry’s own troubled history.

Builders discover decomposed remains entombed deep inside a derelict Manchester cotton mill, the victim’s knees shattered by bullets. Rachel King and DS Elwyn Price must decide if this was gangland punishment or something more personal, while Rachel hides a pregnancy that could expose her ties to Jed McAteer.

A new wave of brutal violence pulls Calladine and Bayliss into one of their most tangled investigations yet. As bodies mount and rival criminals close in, the team must untangle old grudges and hidden corruption before the case destroys them.

A man is found suffocated in his bed, covered in wedding confetti and missing a ring finger, yet the woman called to identify him swears he is a stranger. When a second victim dies the same way, Rachel King must untangle a property scam, people‑trafficking rumours and betrayal creeping disturbingly close to her own team.

When a nurse is found shot dead on a building site and a second body turns up buried in the same ground, Rachel King suddenly has two victims and no clear link. Digging into Agnes Moore’s secret work with vulnerable local girls leads her toward a ruthless killer and back into Jed McAteer’s orbit.

A blond young man is pulled from a Manchester canal, tortured and dumped by a disputed development site. The victim was a journalism student chasing a career‑making exposé, and his death connects to a woman who remembers a twin no one else admits existed and another blond man who has just gone missing.

Three-year-old Sophie Alder disappears from her wealthy parents’ home just as a crime wave hits Leesdon. While vigilantes chase a prolific burglar and a shadowy figure called Street floods the estate with drugs, Calladine and Bayliss hunt for the missing child before the town explodes.

Estate agent Ronald Potter is found dead on the kitchen floor of an empty house he was due to show a client. A search of the cellar reveals something far worse. As a young mother is held captive for information, DI Matt Brindle follows a trail into organised crime and a seedy nightclub.

A woman’s body is staged in a derelict church beside a handmade toy, mirroring a notorious twenty‑year‑old murder whose supposed killer sits in prison. As more bodies appear and corruption allegations engulf Calladine, he and Bayliss chase a taunting new predator through Leesdon’s backstreets.

Two petty thieves break into a Cheshire mansion and steal cash, jewellery and a stash of heroin, only to be found executed within twenty‑four hours. As Greco follows a trail through rival dealers and a too‑perfect community project, an icy, elusive woman seems to sit at the centre of the case.

A man is shot and dumped on the moors, a Chinese character for “sorry” stamped into his skin, matching five unsolved killings. Still traumatised by an ambush that killed his sergeant, DI Matt Brindle is dragged back to duty to stop a remorseful serial murderer.

On the Hobfield estate, a teenage girl is found dead in the back of an abandoned car and no one has even reported her missing. When an old jar containing ashes and a child’s hairclip comes to light, Calladine must finally confront a vanished toddler case that has haunted him for years.

A teenager is stabbed cleanly through the heart by a hired assassin known as the Knifeman. Greco’s fragile new team trace the killing into a web of people‑smuggling, exploitation and a private cosmetic clinic for the elite, with drug boss Vinny Costello never far from view.

A schoolgirl’s body is dumped in a wheelie bin with a note reading “Dead Meat.” Calladine suspects a released killer he once helped jail, but a cast‑iron alibi forces the team to focus on a sinister online predator before more teenagers vanish.

A camp of homeless people has sprung up around a disused cotton mill owned by businessman Damien Chase. One of the men is not who he claims to be, and when Calladine and Bayliss start asking questions, they uncover crimes that run far beyond the mill gates.

Annie Naden’s dream cottage turns sinister when she discovers a school satchel and teenage diary hidden in a wall, hinting at something dreadful forty years ago. As bodies begin to fall and old enemy Vinny Costello resurfaces, Calladine chases a killer shaped by a long‑buried secret.

A woman is found murdered in an empty house, and within a day another victim dies the same way. The people have nothing in common, but the properties do. Greco must work out why the killer chooses particular homes, and stop them before they find the perfect place to strike again.

A bag of severed fingers found near a playground on the Hobfield estate throws Leesdon into panic. While senior officers blame drug lord Ray Fallon, Calladine senses a nastier threat at work, and he and Bayliss must stop a murderer before the estate erupts in violence.

A woman is discovered in a motorway pile‑up, but the post‑mortem shows she died long before the crash. As American students quietly disappear and livestock tags appear on victims’ ears, Calladine and Bayliss race to unmask a calculating killer before another young woman is taken.

A meticulous murderer is working through a private list of victims, leaving a different tarot card at each carefully staged scene. When two local children go missing, Calladine and Bayliss must decode the pattern while explosive secrets from Calladine’s own past come to light.

On his first major case in Oldston, Detective Stephen Greco faces a nightmare: a woman left by the canal with her eyes gouged out, followed by more bodies bearing the same gruesome signature. With his uneasy team buckling under pressure, he must impose order before the killer escalates.