Jill McGown Books in Order

A woman's body is found in a boathouse, and her last known companion is missing, presumed fled. Stansfield thinks the case is open and shut, but Lloyd and Judy refuse the easy answer, even as old feelings stir between them.

Blackmailer Alan Blake lies dead at the bottom of a quarry, but his hold on the people around him does not end with his death. Frankie, skinny, stubborn, and furious, sets out to make sure he cannot ruin anyone else.

Hotel manager Annie Maddox is horrified when murdered MP Gerald Culver is found dead, because she was his mistress. As ex-policeman Harry Lambert enters the picture, Annie finds herself surrounded by menace on a cold seaside edge.

After sixteen years in prison for two murders he says he did not commit, Bill Holt returns home on parole. He is determined to find the manipulator who framed him and profited while he lost his life to prison.

A body in the vicarage should be an easy domestic case, until deep snow cuts the village off and the answers start slipping away. Lloyd's investigation grows more tangled just as his relationship with Judy Hill becomes harder to hold onto.

On a wet St Valentine's night, a deputy headmaster finds his wife's body on a school playing field. Lloyd and Judy face a rundown boarding school full of suspects, and a murder weapon that may have vanished long before the crime.

Two murdered women seem to have nothing in common, one is married to a crook, the other to a rising politician. Lloyd and the newly promoted Judy Hill follow the link between them, while the case puts pressure on their already complicated relationship.

A glamorous film shoot on Scotland's west coast turns sour when a young actress, and the director's mistress, is murdered. As more bodies fall, Detective Patterson finds a cast and crew packed with secrets, grudges, and reasons to lie.

A celebrity football match disappears into choking fog, and before the night is over Lloyd and Judy are hunting both a rapist and a killer. At the same time, Melissa Whitworth begins to uncover the truth about the man she married.

Security tycoon Victor Holyoak is murdered inside his own factory, despite the very systems that made him rich. Lloyd becomes convinced the answer lies in an older, murkier story, and in a face from the past he cannot quite place.

When fifteen-year-old Natalia Ouspensky is found beaten and strangled, Judy Hill and Lloyd are drawn into a harrowing schoolgirl murder case. The suspects are slippery, the secrets run deep, and the investigation seems to offer almost no usable evidence.

Susan Bentham's surprise million-pound pools win should change her life for the better. Instead it exposes the rot in her marriage, and gives her the chance to remake herself, take a lover, and trap her greedy husband with a scheme of her own.

Judy Hill helps prosecute Colin Arthur Drummond for a string of brutal rapes, but the case starts to crack and his threats turn personal. When another attack looms, she and Lloyd have to stop a man who may already be circling his next victim.

Bullying farmer Bernard Bailey has been receiving death threats for months when he is finally found murdered in his isolated farmhouse. Lloyd and Judy face a town full of suspects, and a case where the harder question is why nobody killed him sooner.

Andrew and Kathy Cope, owners of a failing detective agency, are found dead in a car filled with fumes, and everyone assumes suicide. Lloyd does not buy it, and small domestic details lead him toward Kathy's last, very dangerous case.

Three days before Christmas, an amateur dramatic society is struggling through rehearsals when GP Carl Bignall's wife Estelle is found bound, gagged, and suffocated at home. Lloyd and Hill face a messy case full of conflicting clues and suspects.

A woman is bludgeoned in an isolated cottage, a man is hit by a car after whispering intruder, and a missing handbag muddies everything. As Lloyd works the murder, Judy is pulled into a baby disappearance that hits dangerously close to home.

Wilma Fenton wins big at bingo and is murdered on the walk home, while a celebrity crime expert claims to have seen the killer. As an anonymous assassin threatens more deaths, Lloyd and Judy face a media storm and a baffling case.