James Craig Books in Order

During a general election, members of an elite London club tied to the political establishment start dying. Carlyle knows the motive before he knows the killer, and the city gets dirtier the deeper he digs.

A lost girl near Buckingham Palace sends Carlyle after her identity and into a child-trafficking ring. The trail runs from North London gangsters to the edges of aristocratic power.

A kidnapped boy, a baffling murder, and political nerves collide in Carlyle's second case. What starts as a domestic crime grows into something far wider, with old injustices and high-level pressure closing in.

In strike-torn Yorkshire in 1984, young constable John Carlyle is sent to the picket lines and stumbles into a murder case. A dead political activist, local pressure, and watchful security services make it a brutal first test.

The body of journalist Duncan Brown is found in a rubbish truck, pointing Carlyle toward corruption linking police, politics, and a powerful media empire. To solve it, he has to face his old enemy Trevor Miller.

In 1986, veteran cop Walter Callender and rookie John Carlyle investigate the murder of a journalist and his wife. To stop a rogue Secret Service agent, they turn to the then-new promise of DNA testing.

Carlyle's family life implodes just as he walks into the execution of a wealthy businessman in a London hotel. The trail leads to a ruthless Israeli hit squad and a case that quickly turns personal.

After the Brighton bombing, constable John Carlyle joins the hunt for an IRA suspect in west London. The chase exposes bitter rivalries inside the security services and a killer with secrets worth murdering for.

Carlyle hunts a predatory priest just as London braces for a papal visit and powerful people want scandal buried. Add an armed robbery and a scare at home, and the pressure keeps piling up.

When gangster Tuco Martinez threatens Carlyle and his family, the inspector is forced into hiding and into an uneasy reliance on Dominic Silver. It is a personal fight, and the cost keeps climbing.

Career petty criminal Seymour Eriksson cannot stay out of trouble, or out of Carlyle's way. As a tabloid journalist circles, what looks like one more nuisance case starts to feel much riskier.

A man is shot in front of his son in a London park, and the obvious suspect is his estranged wife. Her alibi looks solid, but Carlyle refuses to let the easy answer stand.

Three British teenagers run away to join Islamic State, and one desperate parent hires ex-military fixer Daniel Hunter to bring them home. Reaching them is hard enough, convincing them to leave may be harder.

In booming China, fixer Michael Nicholson survives by doing favors for rich and powerful clients. An affair with the wife of a party official turns his useful life into a deadly trap.

When a stash of uncut diamonds is stolen by soldiers, Carlyle teams up with Military Police officer Daniel Hunter. The thieves are dangerous, organized, and not about to let either man interfere twice.

Back in London after a bloody mission behind Islamic State lines, Daniel Hunter wants a quiet life. Instead, a seemingly easy affair drags him into extremism, assassination, and money laundering across several countries.

As his father's final days unfold, Carlyle is dragged into an East London turf war when a drug dealer winds up dead. At the same time, he must identify a badly beaten young woman with no obvious past and no easy answers.

While Carlyle waits for his terminally ill father to die, an elderly professor is found dead in a Bloomsbury flat under very odd circumstances. The case soon turns from quiet heart attack to money, deceit, and murder.

Promoted to Commander, Carlyle is buried in meetings just as a journalist starts digging into his links with Dominic Silver. With his new boss leaning on him and his past closing in, the job he wanted may cost him everything.

A dead film producer, a runaway actor, and complaints against Carlyle would be enough trouble already. Then a headless corpse turns up in a shuttered police station, pulling him into a case tied to old secrets.

A badly beaten woman arrives at A&E, is arrested as an illegal immigrant, then escapes and starts leaving bodies behind. Carlyle has to work out whether she is prey, predator, or both before more people die.

A young police officer's night out turns ugly when fellow cops dump her in the countryside and leave her to fend for herself. What follows is a murky Inspector Carlyle case about abuse of power, silence, and institutional cover-up.

Out of the Met and under a cloud, John Carlyle becomes a private investigator for Dominic Silver's widow. The job sends him to Florida, where old loyalties and fresh danger wait.

Retired but restless, Carlyle returns to London when the mysterious death of a glamorous neighbor leads him to the Tower of London. Missing ravens, bodies in the Thames, and the crown jewels make it his kind of trouble.