Henri Castang Books in Order

Henri Castang's first case begins with the kidnapping of a judge's daughter. The suspect list is wide, the motive may be revenge, and Castang has to move fast before a desperate abduction turns into murder.

Castang is called to a shocking triple murder in a provincial French city. A wealthy financier confesses coolly, but nothing about the crime feels simple, and Castang pushes past the obvious story toward something much colder.

A brutal robbery, a drugged teenager, and the troubled history of a woman named Sabine seem to have nothing in common. Castang keeps worrying at the loose threads until a pattern of spite, violence, and damaged dreams appears.

A British judge on holiday in France opens the boot of his Rolls-Royce and finds a naked corpse. Castang steps into an awkward, high-profile case where reputation, diplomacy, and murder are tangled together.

A local official is gunned down in the street, and the killing first looks political. Then the victim's son turns up dead too, and Castang has to sort through family secrets, blackmail, and lies before another life is lost.

A shaken politician turns up after a crash, barely able to explain the woman who was with him and may now be dead. Castang's inquiry quickly grows into a conspiracy with consequences far beyond one compromised man.

Two savage murders shake Castang's district, and the first is horrifying enough to suggest something almost inhuman. As he digs deeper, a teenage prostitute, local corruption, and political intrigue pull the case into darker territory.

Crime keeps finding Castang, whether he wants it or not. A child custody dispute, a friend's missing wife, and a supposed lovers' suicide become three linked mysteries that test even his patient, probing intelligence.

Now a commissaire in northeastern France, Castang investigates the murder of a prominent wine merchant's wife. Political connections, family secrets, and a dead suspect make the case more delicate, and more dangerous, by the day.

After a quarrel on a mountain road, Sibille Lebfevre steps out of the car and vanishes. Months later her husband insists she simply stayed away, but Castang sees a marriage full of shadows and a disappearance that will not settle.

A missing hotelier, a vanished young widow, and a mysterious last guest send Castang into a case that will not stay in the present. The answers lie buried in Europe's wartime past, and they are still dangerous.

When two girls around his daughter's age show signs of abuse, Castang cannot look away. His suspicions settle on a celebrated public intellectual, pulling him and his family toward a filthy world of power and exploitation.

Working in Brussels as aide to a British jurist feels like a demotion, until Castang's new employer is charged with murder. The inquiry opens onto European politics, private corruption, and a darkness that refuses tidy borders.

A mother insists her son, missing for four years, is still alive after a sudden phone call. Castang and Vera follow that thin hope across Europe, into a case shaped by old war shadows and present-day exploitation.

When an Irish friend and colleague is killed, Castang follows the trail across Europe. The case leads from political suspicion into sexual obsession, organized crime, and a bleak question about what people are really capable of loving.

Retired in Biarritz at last, Henri Castang hopes for peace, until his grandchild is kidnapped. With local politics muddying the search and danger hitting close to home, this final Castang case becomes painfully personal.