Jane Tennison Books in Order

Now a Detective Chief Inspector in the Met’s elite murder pool, Jane Tennison is handed a neglected cold case and an apparent suicide she believes was staged. As colleagues undermine and sideline her, she must solve both cases to claim the senior role her whole career has led toward.

A decomposed, starved girl is found in an old air-raid shelter on the grounds of the derelict Lanark mansion, followed by a second body hidden in the walls. Tracing the family’s history from London to Australia, Jane Tennison uncovers a secret so explosive it threatens a powerful dynasty—and her own safety.

Seeking a quieter life at a suburban station, Jane Tennison finds only petty disputes—until a vicious domestic assault leaves a man close to death. As she interviews warring neighbours in an upmarket cul-de-sac, a missing teenager and a buried tragedy point to something far worse than a boundary feud.

When builders uncover a buried coffin in a convent garden, Jane Tennison expects an old, solved tragedy. Instead she finds the body of a young nun with scratch marks inside the lid. Dismissed as historic, the case pits Jane against church secrecy and police indifference as she chases a long-hidden killer.

Assigned to a West End station policing London’s show-business world, Jane Tennison catches a case when bin bags behind a talent agency are found full of dismembered remains. Navigating egos, money and exploitation, she must sift truth from performance to unmask a killer close to the spotlight.

Jane Tennison becomes the first woman posted to the Met’s elite Flying Squad, a macho unit nicknamed the ‘Dirty Dozen’. Supposedly there to calm the men down, she instead picks up intelligence on a multimillion-pound robbery—and has to prove she is not the weak link when the gang moves in.

During the ‘Winter of Discontent’ in 1979, newly promoted Detective Sergeant Jane Tennison is posted to tough Peckham CID. As rubbish piles up on the streets, women’s bodies begin to appear along a short stretch dubbed ‘Murder Mile’, and Jane must stop a killer while the press attacks police failures.

Now a detective constable in Bow Street CID, Jane Tennison is disturbed by a series of sudden deaths dismissed as accidents or suicides. Digging beneath the tidy explanations, she uncovers hidden patterns in ordinary London homes and learns just how dangerous it is to be right too soon.

In 1976, with an IRA bombing campaign terrorising London, Jane Tennison survives an explosion at Covent Garden tube and glimpses the bomber. Thrust into the spotlight as a key witness, she realises the terrorists may be closing in on Scotland Yard’s Good Friday dinner dance—and on her family.

Fresh from police training college in 1973, twenty-two-year-old Jane Tennison is posted to an East London station steeped in sexism and corruption. When a young woman is found murdered, Jane is pulled from paperwork into her first major case, testing how far she is willing to push against the rules.