Jane Adams Books in Order

A nonfiction study of how southern Illinois changed from the Civil War era to the late twentieth century. It looks at work, family, farming and community life across more than a century of rural change.

Twenty years after her cousin vanished on an ancient Norfolk path, Cassie Maltham returns to face the memories she never escaped. When another girl goes missing near the Greenway, old terror wakes up all over again.

Threats, smashed windows and mounting fear turn a quiet cul-de-sac into a battleground. Mike Croft has to work out why the Pearson family has become a target, and whether the answer lies in long-hidden abuse.

A chance encounter with a troubled young woman opens into a tense standalone about damage, manipulation and the danger of getting too close. Adams keeps shifting sympathy and suspicion in unsettling ways.

Mike Croft is hunting a serial attacker when a woman dies in a burning car and an actress is found dead in Norwich. The links between the cases are hard to see at first, but the killer's obsession is not.

Badly burned after a petrol bomb attack, ex-policeman Ray Flowers retreats to his late aunt's cottage to recover. Instead he is pulled into a chilling old story, where diaries, scars and a seventeenth-century accusation refuse to stay buried.

Naomi Blake was a child when her best friend vanished on the way to school. Decades later, a confession letter and another missing girl drag her back into the case that changed her life.

Ray Flowers wants a quiet life, but the return of a dangerous drug and the name Angel Eyes drag him back into trouble. When an old contact breaks down, Ray has no choice but to follow the case into darker water.

Ray Flowers is drawn into a family case where loyalty, belief and buried guilt are knotted together. The deeper he goes, the clearer it becomes that some people have spent years living inside a lie.

Simon cannot accept that photographer Tally Palmer simply left him, and his search for answers turns obsessive fast. Naomi Blake and Alec Friedman step into a case where fixation, old histories and missing truth are a dangerous mix.

During a long, draining summer heatwave, Naomi Blake is caught in a bank siege when armed men take hostages. Trapped and vulnerable, she must read fear, bluff and violence without the one sense most people would rely on.

A teenage boy is found drowned only hours after telling his mother he has killed a man. Naomi Blake is drawn into a case that looks impossible on the surface and tragic underneath.

A striking portrait becomes the starting point for a mystery about identity, memory and a vanished past. What begins as curiosity turns darker as hidden connections and dangerous secrets come into view.

Naomi Blake and Alec Friedman travel to the Fenlands for Uncle Rupert's funeral, only to find whispers that his heart attack may not have been natural. Rupert's past proves richer in secrets than either of them expected.

Retired actress Rina Martin, damaged detective MacGregor and a family hiding from violence all come to Frantham hoping for peace. Then an old woman is murdered, and the sleepy seaside town proves far less safe than it looks.

A death on the cliffs brings Rina Martin and Mac face to face with people living on the edge in more ways than one. The case is intimate, uneasy and full of damage that has been hidden too long.

A murder linked to the water unsettles Frantham and pulls Rina Martin into another dangerous puzzle. As Mac investigates, the case becomes a test of how much harm one determined person can do.

Frantham's shoreline becomes the backdrop for a case shaped by promises, regrets and grudges that refuse to stay buried. Rina and Mac must sort through clashing stories before the tension turns lethal again.

A winter break in Somerset turns grim when a local historian and metal detectorist is found dead. Naomi Blake and Alec Friedman soon discover that the victim knew more, and feared more, than his pub regular image suggested.

A winter gathering at a country house turns deadly, and Rina Martin soon sees that old tensions are sharpening in the cold. Mac's investigation uncovers a tight circle of secrets, grudges and fear.

Bee Jones is sure her father, artist and sometime forger Freddie Jones, was murdered, even though everyone else calls it a heart attack. Naomi Blake follows her suspicions into the dangerous overlap between art, fraud and greed.

As Rina Martin's life finally seems to be settling, bones are uncovered at the local airfield and a man is killed outside a nearby pub. Mac's investigation pulls Frantham back into a storm of old enemies and new danger.

When a man breaks into Mollie Chambers's house and kills himself in front of her, she insists she has never seen him before. Naomi Blake and Alec Friedman suspect Mollie is hiding a history that has turned dangerous again.

A brutal murder and the kidnapping of a mother and child pull Naomi Blake, Alec Friedman and mercenary Gregory into a tense search. With no ransom demand and no clear motive, the case feels personal, strange and urgently deadly.

A married couple are shot dead in their village home, and the one clue left behind is a card with Naomi Blake's name on it. To understand why, Naomi and Alec have to reopen a piece of her own past.

A seemingly harmless widow is murdered and left for her children to find, but the obvious suspect has an alibi. When a second killing follows, Rina Martin becomes convinced the town is missing the real link between the deaths.

A student's murder matches an unsolved killing from fifteen years earlier, reopening a trail of cold cases. Naomi Blake is drawn back to the judgment of a disgraced detective whose instincts may still have been right.

Silent film star Cissie Rowe is found brutally murdered in her own home, and the seaside arts community around her closes ranks fast. Henry Johnstone and Mickey Hitchens enter a world where performance and deception look uncomfortably alike.

When three freshly buried bodies are uncovered outside a Lincolnshire cottage in 1928, Henry Johnstone is sent from London to investigate. Modern methods, local hostility and a second murder quickly make the case even murkier.

A gallery owner is murdered, a portfolio goes missing, and Naomi Blake begins to suspect an artist's earlier death was no accident. The trail leads into forgery, greed and the sort of lies that make people disappear.

Two bodies wash up in the Kentish marshes, and one of them is linked to an East End gangster with a long reach. Henry Johnstone and Mickey Hitchens have to dig into old loyalties and older grudges before the violence spreads.

When a young man vanishes on what should have been a simple train journey to see his fiancee, clockmaker Abraham Levy asks Henry Johnstone for help. Henry soon learns the case is far stranger, and darker, than a cold-footed groom.

A woman is found stabbed on the beach, but almost everything she told people about herself was false. As Mike Croft investigates, he uncovers a skilled con artist, a growing list of suspects, and secrets worth killing over.

Seventeen-year-old Lauren Sykes is running from the crime family that raised her and the arranged future planned for her. Undercover officer Petra Merrow may be her only hope, if both women can stay one step ahead of the men hunting them.

A day at the races turns grim when Martha Mason is found dead in an empty horsebox. Henry Johnstone and Mickey Hitchens soon discover that her marriage, and her life, were hiding far more than anyone knew.

A man calmly leaves a young woman's body on Bournemouth beach, but the victim was supposed to have died months earlier in a car crash. Henry Johnstone returns to a case full of false identities, wealth and nasty surprises.

Detective Rozlyn Priest expects old bones at an Anglo-Saxon dig, not the body of a man she once used as an informant. The antique spear that killed him points to a case where present-day murder and ancient history start to blur.

Two retired policemen are found dead in staged suicides, and a note reading old sins drags Henry Johnstone back to a painful early case. Soon he and Mickey are hunting a killer who seems to know Henry's past all too well.

Ex-detective Ray Flowers is drawn into a case shadowed by divided loyalties, family pain and the unsettling legacy of a twin connection. As he digs deeper, old grief proves just as dangerous as the present.

Colin Granger stumbles onto internet fraud and asks his ex-wife, police officer Moira, to make quiet enquiries. Two days later she is dead, and Colin is left chasing a killer who may be far more dangerous than he first guessed.

Toddlers are being snatched, terrified families are staying silent, and Detective Toby Clarke is running out of time. With Petra Merrow's help, he has to crack the case before another child disappears or dies.

In 1930 Leicestershire, a young woman's murder seems solved when a local man is hanged. Then another body turns up nearby, and Henry Johnstone and Mickey Hitchens must ask whether they helped condemn the wrong man.

What should be a happy wedding turns tense when murder breaks through the celebrations. Rina Martin has to untangle family friction, old grudges and nervous secrets before the day ends in deeper disaster.

When a much-loved local woman is found dead in the garden of her home, the Willows, Frantham is shaken. Rina and Mac soon learn that affection, money and old resentments can sit side by side.

A case involving a missing daughter drags Ray Flowers back into the lives of people already fraying under loss. What looks like private grief soon opens into a darker mystery about truth, memory and what families hide.

Retired Henry Johnstone vanishes while cataloguing a dead man's library on the south coast. Mickey Hitchens searches the room with eight windows and finds signs of a struggle, plus a link to an older murder.

Now retired, Henry Johnstone is pulled back to a 1931 Lincolnshire case when a shocking confession calls the old verdict into question. At the same time, Mickey faces arson and murder in a case with dangerous overlap.

Rina joins a murder mystery weekend at the grand old Palisades Hotel and expects hammy fun, not a real corpse in the library. With one actor apparently caught at the scene, she has to work out what really happened.

A businessman's body is posed to look almost alive, except for the nail hammered into his spine. Mike Croft recognises the killer's methods from a case twenty years earlier, and the past starts moving again.

A death at a local folly sends Rina Martin into another tangle of small-town loyalties, hidden motives and old resentments. The setting may be picturesque, but the feelings beneath it are anything but peaceful.