Jayne Robinson Books in Order

Jayne Robinson's name is already familiar to many Andrew Turpin readers from the Joe Johnson novels, but in this series she steps into the spotlight. A former MI6 officer with a background in war crimes and counterterrorism work, Jayne now takes on deniable missions for the CIA and other Western agencies. Her cases sit where politics, intelligence, and personal loyalty intersect, with a constant question at the center: who can she really trust?

In The Kremlin's Vote, Jayne is pulled into a plot that reaches from a quiet English pub to the corridors of the White House. Two senior US officials are shot dead while visiting London just as a presidential election looms. The CIA sends her to handle one of its most valuable assets inside the Kremlin and uncover whether Moscow is orchestrating an attack on American democracy. When she learns that one of the victims is married to an old friend, the operation becomes painfully personal.

Her work is always deniable, but never simple.

In The Dark Shah and The Confessor, the stakes widen further. A drone strike on the US Secretary of State near Tel Aviv and the killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist in Vienna hint at someone trying to provoke a new crisis, while the slaughter of four American cardinals en route to the White House exposes deadly intrigue that reaches from Washington to the Vatican. Jayne is sent to find out who is pulling the strings, working uneasily alongside Mossad and under quiet pressure from a pope desperate for answers. As she follows leads into the West Bank city of Ramallah and revisits the unsolved bombing that killed her father years earlier in London, the boundary between her professional duty and private grief blurs.

In The Queen's Pawn, the conflict turns again toward Russia. A wealthy oligarch apparently ready to defect is found dead over a chessboard in London before he can pass on what he knows about the Kremlin's plans. Jayne is sent on a covert trip to Moscow to extract information from a source buried inside Russian foreign intelligence, just as Russia moves against Ukraine and the US president fights to hold his own position. The diplomatic chess match quickly becomes a brutal contest for survival in which every alliance is uncertain.

By the time of The Dam Keeper, the threats have shifted to critical infrastructure. A young US Army engineer working on dams along the Danube disappears after being lured into a honeytrap, and a Russian mole in Ukraine is murdered soon after delivering key intelligence to the CIA. Jayne uncovers signs of a plan to blow a hydroelectric dam and unleash a catastrophic flood ahead of a presidential visit to Kyiv, forcing her into a race downriver and a high risk game with a reluctant source close to the Russian president.

Across the Jayne Robinson books, readers get fast moving spy thrillers rooted in real world tensions, from disinformation campaigns and election interference to nuclear brinkmanship and the weaponizing of water and energy. The series balances action with the quieter work of building trust, running assets, and living with the consequences of hard choices. You can start with The Kremlin's Vote and move forward in order, or pick up any title that matches a conflict you are curious about, knowing it will stand alone while still adding new layers to Jayne's story.