Ian Rober Books in Order

Freelance journalist Julia Henderson is found brutally murdered, and suspicion settles on the people who wanted her most, or feared her most. DCI Ian Roper must look past jealousy and gossip to find the one lie that matters.

A vagrant's death looks straightforward until the evidence begins to contradict itself. Ian Roper follows the case into addiction, desperation and a tangle of motives that make the truth anything but simple.

When explosives expert Gerry Daniels is found dead at the bottom of a mine shaft, the case seems to go nowhere. Then another buried crime surfaces, and Ian Roper finds two local families with very good reasons to lie.

After a young girl is found murdered in the woods, a local sex offender becomes the obvious target for public rage. Ian Roper is not satisfied, and a string of apparently separate crimes leads him toward a colder, older grievance.

Two women are strangled in their own homes, each discovered by her husband, and the pattern is impossible to ignore. Ian Roper and his team have to move fast before the killer circles back.

A missing man, a rash of vandalism and arson, and the discovery of a body pull Ian Roper into a messy, misleading case. The deeper he goes, the more shame, resentment and false trails he finds.

When Dee Mercer is stabbed to death in her kitchen, the police arrest her lover almost at once. Ian Roper is not convinced the easy answer is the right one, and the case turns darker as hidden tensions surface.

Popular officer Joff Grant seems to have an enviable life, until his wife is murdered and the certainties around him collapse. Ian Roper has to look past charm and reputation to see what was really going on behind closed doors.

Ian Roper's Christmas leave is cut short by two murders that appear to have nothing in common. Solving them means finding the hidden connection before more violence breaks through the holiday calm.

Department store owner Carmen Brockman seems close to happiness at last, but old loyalties and personal resentments stand in the way. When ambition, friendship and money collide, Ian Roper is left to untangle a very personal crime.

Newly divorced Julie Watson appears to be starting over, but the promise of a fresh life quickly gives way to suspicion and danger. Ian Roper is drawn into a case where the neatest explanation makes the least sense.