Helen Phifer Books in Order

Two sisters, Lauren and Lydia Williams, are found dead in their hotel beds at Keswick Manor, and their third sister has vanished. Detective Morgan Brookes and Ben Matthews race through the Lake District to find Naomi before she’s next, while someone close keeps lying to them.

After prom night, a teenage girl is found dead by the river, and Detective Morgan Brookes knows it wasn’t an accident. As the investigation peels back lies in a close-knit community, Morgan races to stop a killer who’s already chosen the next target.

A missing teenage girl is spotted on CCTV leaving a party, and then two bodies are found locked together at the base of a waterfall. Detective Morgan Brookes knows one victim, and the other is a man hired to protect her. To solve it, Morgan has to untangle what happened that night.

After a strange encounter in her flower shop, Dora starts digging into her family’s past and discovers an impossible secret: their survival depends on a bookstore that vanished generations ago. Following clues to Salem and beyond, she realises someone has been waiting for her to find it.

Someone vanishes overnight from what should have been a safe place, leaving Detective Morgan Brookes with almost nothing to go on. As panic spreads through the Lake District community, Morgan follows a trail of small clues that points to a predator hiding close by.

‘You have to help me. He has my sister.’ Two girls are found on a freezing Lake District hillside, one dead and one barely alive. Detective Morgan Brookes has only fragments of a story to work with, and a missing sister who may still be trapped.

Two teenage girls are found dead in a shabby New York hotel room on the thirteenth floor, a room no guest should be able to access. With no record of a check-in and no clear way in or out, Maria Miller and Frankie Conroy chase a case that defies logic.

Detective Morgan Brookes arrives at her boss Cara Elliott’s cottage and finds her dead, leaving Morgan reeling. Cara once helped save Morgan’s life, and now Morgan is determined to return the debt by catching her killer. The truth leads straight into Morgan’s own past.

A jar of toxic herbs turns up on Morgan Brookes’s doorstep, and she can’t shake the feeling it’s meant for her. When a woman is found dead with poison in her blood, Morgan realises someone is using knowledge of plants to kill, and to taunt her.

Four teenagers sneak into an abandoned hospital for a thrill, but only three come back out. When Riley Holt vanishes, detectives Maria Miller and Frankie Conroy dig into the building’s violent history, and realise someone may still be using it to hide their crimes.

‘Dear Morgan, I’m sorry. I’m gone.’ When Morgan Brookes finds a cryptic note, she knows her sister Daisy is missing, but the report comes too late. After a body is found at a caravan park, Morgan hunts a kidnapper stalking holiday camps.

DS Ben Matthews is first on scene when a family is slaughtered in their beds, with only a baby left alive. Morgan Brookes is miles away and out of contact, but the killer isn’t waiting. To save the next victim, Ben and Morgan have to reconnect fast.

A body is discovered in a grave that’s been deliberately burned, and Detective Morgan Brookes realises someone is trying to erase their victims. As more evidence is destroyed, Morgan and Ben Matthews race to identify the dead and stop a killer who plans to leave nothing behind.

A concerned neighbour reports a woman missing, and Detective Morgan Brookes finds her dead in a house that’s been carefully staged. Clocks are frozen at 4:25 a.m., mirrors are covered, and a lock of hair is gone. Morgan needs the meaning behind the ritual before the killer strikes again.

Local children find a woman’s body at the top of a Lake District waterfall, and Detective Morgan Brookes is horrified by what’s been done to her. With a strange symbol carved into the victim’s skin, Morgan hunts a killer who seems to be sending a message.

Running from a relationship that nearly destroyed her, Maddy Hart takes a job as live-in caretaker at crumbling Lakeview House on the banks of Lake Thirlmere. The mansion feels strangely familiar, and the lake hides a secret someone will do anything to keep submerged.

Detective Morgan Brookes is called when a teenage girl vanishes without a trace, and the investigation quickly reveals she isn’t the first to disappear. With the clock ticking, Morgan has to dig through local secrets to bring the girl home alive.

When nine-year-old Charlotte Standish vanishes from her street in a Lake District town, Detective Morgan Brookes leads a desperate search. A similar disappearance fifteen years earlier suggests a pattern, and when a second child is taken, Morgan has to move fast.

After a scream in the night, Detective Morgan Brookes finds a young woman dead in an empty flat, her eyes sealed shut. The victim’s friends are hiding something, and when another body appears, Morgan realises she’s hunting a killer who’s escalating.

Escaping an abusive relationship, writer Madeleine Hart takes a caretaker job at isolated Lakeview Hall in the Lake District. The place feels too familiar, and the lake keeps calling her back. As she digs into the house’s history, she realises someone wants the truth to stay underwater.

A teenage girl’s body is pulled from the river, and Detective Morgan Brookes realises the victim vanished thirteen years earlier. As the hunt begins for another missing teen, Morgan and DS Ben Matthews race to uncover who has been hiding in plain sight all along.

Rookie detective Morgan Brookes is first on scene at a family home turned into a slaughterhouse, with only a fourteen-year-old girl left alive. When the survivor can’t speak, Morgan has to build the case from scraps of evidence before the killer returns to finish the job.

A young student is found floating face down in Lake Windermere, and everyone wants to call it suicide. Forensic pathologist Beth Adams isn’t convinced, especially as her own past comes crashing back. To find the killer, she has to dig into long-buried secrets.

When teenager Chantal Price is found crushed beneath a coffin in a stranger’s grave, forensic pathologist Beth Adams is dragged out of hiding. The scene feels staged, and Beth’s instincts scream it’s a trap, but she may be the only one who can read the truth.

New to her Greenwich Village apartment, Detective Maria Miller starts hearing things that don’t make sense. When a woman is murdered on West 10th Street in a way that echoes an old ritual killing, Maria and her partner Frankie Conroy chase a case with a paranormal edge.

When a young woman’s body is found displayed on a crude crucifix in an abandoned church, Detective Lucy Harwin is thrown into a case with no clear motive. Then a second victim turns up close to the station, and Lucy realises a serial killer is testing her.

A young girl sees a shadowy figure dragging something through the dark, and by morning her mother is dead. Detective Lucy Harwin’s search for answers leads to the abandoned Moore Asylum, where children once disappeared and secrets still linger.

On maternity leave with baby Alfie, Annie Ashworth wants to believe the nightmares will stop. But when a new killer strikes and unsettling clues start turning up close to home, Annie is pulled back toward the kind of darkness she thought she’d escaped.

Detective Lucy Harwin is still recovering from a terrifying case when a local mother is murdered and another young woman is found strangled in an alley. As more bodies appear across Brooklyn Bay, Lucy has to spot the link before the town’s fear turns deadly.

After Lizzy witnesses something in the woods, her family is shattered and the town starts whispering about the old asylum on the cliff. Detective Lucy Harwin digs into Moore Asylum’s history, and discovers that whatever happened there may be happening again.

In 1933, Mother Superior Agnes shelters a stranger and wakes to a locked-room death inside her convent. Decades later, the same building draws Kate into a haunting that refuses to fade, forcing her to confront the evil that started it all.

A skeleton is found in the Lake District woods, and Annie is back on a case she hoped was behind her. When her niece Tilly goes missing, Annie races to connect old bones, new clues, and the chilling sense that someone is hunting girls again.

Elderly Martha Beckett has barely left her Lake House since her brother vanished as a child, swallowed by the cellar below. When fresh trouble hits the area and a killer is on the loose, Annie Graham is pulled into a mystery that feels anything but ordinary.

Six months after her last case, Annie Graham is trying to keep life quiet until a young woman is found murdered and posed on a grave. The killing echoes a child’s disappearance decades earlier, and Annie can’t ignore the shadows closing in.

With her wedding approaching, Annie Graham thinks a forgotten Lake District cottage might be a fresh start for her and Will. Then the house starts feeling watched, and a new disappearance makes Annie wonder what the cottage is hiding, and who wants it buried.

Recovering from a brutal attack, police officer Annie Graham housesits her brother’s farmhouse and can’t stop thinking about a ruined mansion nearby. A diary from a former resident pulls her into a century-old mystery just as local girls start vanishing.