Jack Cartwright Books in Order

While mourning a colleague, DI Bloom's team investigates the death of a university lecturer found in a field. Evidence points toward a suspect who understands murder investigations, but a second body broadens the case and postpones their grief.

A hit-and-run leaves a child critically injured, then the young driver is found murdered nearby. DI Freya Bloom and DS Ben Savage discover that she knew a dangerous secret and race to stop the killer's next move.

DI Freya Bloom investigates the murder of carer Emma Blanch, found in a frosty Lincolnshire field. Learning that Emma was herself suspected in another death points toward someone taking revenge and eliminating people who know too much.

A body at ruined Tupholme Abbey launches an investigation that grows more complex as Freya Bloom's team fractures. With an officer victimized, a newcomer causing conflict and a suspect missing, she must restore cooperation before the killer strikes again.

A teenage boy's body is recovered from the River Witham, leaving DI Freya Bloom to distinguish suicide from murder. Evidence of bullying and abuse exposes several suspects and reveals how badly the adults around him underestimated the victim.

A woman is found murdered in a forest a year after her death, though nobody reported her missing. DI Freya Bloom examines her husband, friends and colleagues, untangling stories that gave a killer ample time to construct an alibi.

Newly transferred DI Freya Bloom investigates a teenage girl found carefully posed on a Lincolnshire beach. A dangerous secret, community loyalties and resistance within her team complicate her first local case as another tragedy threatens.

The search for missing Abigail McGowan during a blizzard appears to end when a body is found in a drain. But her father says the victim is someone else, leaving Freya Bloom and Ben Savage racing to connect two cases.

DCI Charles Cook investigates a child's death and his aunt's disappearance after Christmas in rural Lincolnshire. A ransom demands the destruction of the family dynasty, while buried memories threaten Cook and offer DC Devon a chance to prove herself.

An elderly woman's apparent natural death becomes suspicious when another body is discovered in her house. Freya Bloom and her team reconstruct the life of a neighbor known as Mad Alice, confronting a case that challenges their assumptions.

A teenage girl is found dead in coastal marshland, leaving Freya Bloom and Ben Savage with little evidence and no supporting team. Their increasingly difficult search for the truth pushes them toward breaking rules to move the investigation forward.

An antiques dealer vanishes after entering a nature reserve, drawing Freya Bloom into another case while her career and personal life unravel. Finding a body raises the stakes, especially when it proves to be someone other than the missing man.

The hanging death of elderly landowner Hugo Garfield draws DCI Cook into a history of bitter enemies and concealed wrongdoing. His team must determine who would murder a dying man and expose secrets that survivors desperately want to preserve.

Reluctantly taking command after a disaster, Ben Savage investigates a man found dead in a rural pond. With scant forensic evidence, the team traces footprints, a forgotten party and a growing group of suspects guarding a shared secret.

An early dog walk through a Lincolnshire village brings a retired couple to a turning point. While the husband conceals his private thoughts, the wife prepares to reveal a secret capable of changing both their lives.

A girl's disappearance attracts little urgency from her parents until days stretch into years. Investigating Deborah Jarvis's fate, DCI Freya Bloom and her team uncover a solitary life and signs that her death connects to earlier victims.

A report of a body leads Freya Bloom and Ben Savage to an abandoned farmhouse, but the victim has vanished. A second discovery confirms a killing and draws their team toward a secret long hidden in the village.

An elderly man's death combines signs of a heart attack with an unexplained head wound and broken window. As Freya Bloom investigates, a missing friend and estranged relatives create a suspect list in which everyone had reason to want him dead.

Three boys discover something gruesome while building a summer camp in Snipe Dales. DI George Larson and DS Ivy Hart lead their developing team into an investigation layered with betrayal and deceit as Larson approaches retirement.

A hiking holiday ends when Lily Hughes is found dead beneath a steep slope. DI George Larson returns from leave to assist DS Ivy Hart, probing the secrets within a close group of friends while confronting his own grief.

A man falls from a church tower, leaving a typed memoir as the central clue. Pressured to call it suicide, DI George Larson follows the account of a brutal childhood and searches for evidence of murder.

An unidentified guest is found dead at a Lincolnshire wedding, drawing DI George Larson away from his ill wife. A second death and conflicting alibis point toward conspiracy as he examines family secrets behind the celebration.

A summer storm exposes a woman's body in a Lincolnshire village. Returning to the area where his career began, DI George Larson suspects a link with an old unsolved murder, despite resistance from his superior and fearful locals.

In the twentieth Wild Fens mystery, Freya Bloom returns to investigate another case in rural Lincolnshire, where secrets hidden within walls promise to disturb the region's apparent quiet.

Human remains in a village allotment expose the suffering of a teenager who died nearly a century earlier. DCI Freya Bloom faces determined local silence as a second body suggests the violence has continued into the present.

Celebrated chef Jules Lemar is found strangled inside his locked home, without signs of struggle or an apparent weapon. DI George Larson's stalled investigation turns toward the victim's past, uncovering a darker history behind his public success.