Janie Bolitho Books in Order

Freelance journalist Julia Henderson is found brutally murdered, and suspicion settles on the people who wanted her most, or feared her most. DCI Ian Roper must look past jealousy and gossip to find the one lie that matters.

A vagrant's death looks straightforward until the evidence begins to contradict itself. Ian Roper follows the case into addiction, desperation and a tangle of motives that make the truth anything but simple.

When explosives expert Gerry Daniels is found dead at the bottom of a mine shaft, the case seems to go nowhere. Then another buried crime surfaces, and Ian Roper finds two local families with very good reasons to lie.

After a young girl is found murdered in the woods, a local sex offender becomes the obvious target for public rage. Ian Roper is not satisfied, and a string of apparently separate crimes leads him toward a colder, older grievance.

Karen Wilkes' love life is overshadowed by fear as a maniac called the Carver attacks local women. As panic spreads, this standalone thriller turns a private romance into a test of nerve and survival.

Two women are strangled in their own homes, each discovered by her husband, and the pattern is impossible to ignore. Ian Roper and his team have to move fast before the killer circles back.

A missing man, a rash of vandalism and arson, and the discovery of a body pull Ian Roper into a messy, misleading case. The deeper he goes, the more shame, resentment and false trails he finds.

Chocolate factory worker Alice Power ends her engagement and soon starts receiving threatening letters. When other women at the factory are targeted too, a private breakup turns into something much more menacing.

A murder in Oxford draws a woman journalist into a web of secrets that is far more personal and dangerous than it first appears. The deeper she digs, the harder it becomes to tell who is using whom.

Rose Trevelyan goes to a party expecting a new friendship, then finds Gabrielle Milton dead below a balcony. As whispers spread through the Cornish community, Rose and Jack Pearce start pulling at secrets hidden behind wealth and good manners.

When Dee Mercer is stabbed to death in her kitchen, the police arrest her lover almost at once. Ian Roper is not convinced the easy answer is the right one, and the case turns darker as hidden tensions surface.

Popular officer Joff Grant seems to have an enviable life, until his wife is murdered and the certainties around him collapse. Ian Roper has to look past charm and reputation to see what was really going on behind closed doors.

When Rose visits elderly Dorothy Pengelly and finds her dead in her lonely cottage, the police lean toward suicide. Rose is not convinced, and her questions about art, money and family soon bring trouble to her own door.

While painting an old engine house, Rose hears terrified screams across the cliffs. Soon a local woman disappears, and Rose's web of friendships gives her dangerous access to secrets people wanted buried.

Ian Roper's Christmas leave is cut short by two murders that appear to have nothing in common. Solving them means finding the hidden connection before more violence breaks through the holiday calm.

Rose barely worries when her friend Etta misses an exhibition opening, until a young man falls from a cliff and the pieces begin to connect. What starts as concern turns into a darker investigation of deception and divided loyalties.

Department store owner Carmen Brockman seems close to happiness at last, but old loyalties and personal resentments stand in the way. When ambition, friendship and money collide, Ian Roper is left to untangle a very personal crime.

Trying to help talented young Joel, Rose begins to suspect that a murder has been hidden behind family silence. Her search for answers pulls her into old secrets that someone would rather keep untouched.

GP Grace Cornell is haunted by her father's mysterious death, anonymous letters and the pull of a troubled past. When someone tries to abduct her, private anxiety turns into open danger.

A run of burglaries and brutal attacks on young women has Cornwall on edge, and DI Jack Pearce is already stretched. When Rose gets drawn into the case, the danger feels closer, more personal, and harder to contain.

Newly divorced Julie Watson appears to be starting over, but the promise of a fresh life quickly gives way to suspicion and danger. Ian Roper is drawn into a case where the neatest explanation makes the least sense.

Hannah's baby son is stolen, and the people closest to her start vanishing behind lies. As she digs into her husband, her friends, and a Devon farm with a sinister name, the nightmare deepens.

Rose sees a small girl being led away by a man who seems to be her father, and thinks nothing of it until the child's frantic mother appears. Guilt pushes Rose into a desperate search where every lost hour matters.

Helen Allbright's comfortable life shatters after one phone call, while ambitious Donna Greene has been chasing security from the other side of town. Their collision becomes an unexpected story of damage, survival and uneasy reinvention.

Lorna Daniels vanishes on the day she is meant to be married, and her devastated fiance is left chasing answers. As accidents turn sinister and an old wrong drives a patient revenge, the case grows far deadlier than anyone expected.