Inspector Peach Books in Order

A widower's uneasy household, where his son gives former prisoners a second chance, is shattered by suspicious deaths. Peach steps into a neighborhood where charity, resentment, and fear live side by side.

Peach's first case with Lucy Blake begins with a missing nineteen-year-old and ends with a body found on a golf course two years later. The cold trail forces both detectives to test each other as well as their suspects.

One unhappy husband is ready to murder his cruel wife, only to discover someone else got there first. Peach and Lucy Blake are left to sort genuine grief from a queue of people who wanted her dead.

A priest's death draws Peach into a countryside case shaped by drought, frayed tempers, and old grudges. The investigation shows how quickly village order can give way when pressure builds.

Fear spreads quickly in Lancashire when rumor hardens into real danger. Peach has to cut through panic and gossip to track the truth before the whole district turns jumpy and reckless.

Two clever students think they understand crime and consequence better than everyone around them. Peach proves a much tougher examiner than they expected.

After a Masonic Ladies' Night, a man is found garrotted at his car. Peach relishes prying into the lodge's secrets, especially with Superintendent Tucker uncomfortably close to the case.

A violent death exposes the gap between respectable appearances and private vice. Peach and Lucy Blake follow the fallout through a case where guilt, shame, and self-interest are tightly knotted.

When the body of a young girl is uncovered at a construction site, Peach and Lucy Blake piece together a life others preferred to forget. What looks buried by time proves dangerously current.

In country marked by memories of the Lancashire witches, rumors of modern witchcraft grow hard to ignore. Peach and Lucy Blake investigate a case where superstition, fear, and real malice feed each other.

After a drugs raid at a manor house, a fire reveals a body and what seems like an open-and-shut case. Peach and Lucy Blake soon find a stranger, nastier murder hiding in the wreckage.

What should be a fresh start turns sour when Peach uncovers jealousy, resentment, and danger beneath a quieter rural surface. Moving on proves easier than leaving old motives behind.

A killing with a strong scent of revenge pushes Peach into a case where private anger starts to look like its own form of justice. The deeper he digs, the harder it is to separate understandable outrage from murder.

Bruton Rovers FC is already fighting debt and relegation when murder hits after a surprise announcement. Peach and Lucy Blake step into a football world full of bruised egos, money worries, and very public grudges.

The murder of a television actor drops Peach into a world where everybody performs for a living. Between vanity, rivalry, and practiced deception, even the obvious clues are hard to trust.

A wounded intruder and a murdered philanthropist make Oliver Ketley's death look simple at first. Peach soon learns the respectable estate owner had dangerous secrets, and nearly everyone around him had reason to lie.

Former rugby star and businessman Jim O'Connor is shot outside a restaurant, and soon his quieter brother is killed as well. Peach and Northcott must work out whether the answer lies in dirty business, family loyalty, or an older connection.

Alfred Norbury's reading circle looks civilized until he is murdered. Peach and Clyde Northcott dig into old damage, wounded protégés, and long memories to find which grievance finally turned lethal.

Clyde Northcott joins an exclusive tennis club as part of its push to widen membership, then a distinguished member is murdered. He and Peach must work through snobbery, hidden criminality, and a long list of people who wanted the victim gone.