JM Dalgliesh Books in Order

A man with a talent for making enemies is found crammed into the boot of an abandoned car. While locals dismiss it as criminals settling scores, a missing teenage girl and an elusive homeless witness pull Janssen into a far more dangerous game.

A single mother is found dead in the house she shared with her disabled daughter—who has vanished without her vital medication. As Janssen uncovers the victim’s hidden past, conflicting portraits of her life may hold the key to saving the child.

A celebrated barrister is found savagely killed in his elegant Norfolk home. Janssen’s team trawls through decades of privileged clients and bitter opponents, asking whether the motive lies in a ruined case, a ruined life, or something even more personal.

When a storm uncovers the partial remains of a young woman, attention turns to a loner recently released from prison after a disputed conviction. Janssen must decide if he helped jail an innocent man—or if a calculating killer has fooled everyone twice.

A reclusive man living almost off‑grid is discovered murdered in his isolated Norfolk cottage. The victim seemed harmless, but as Janssen examines his hidden routines and relationships, a much darker private life—and someone prepared to kill for it—comes into focus.

When skeletal remains are uncovered beside a Roman fort on the Norfolk coast, Janssen must identify the young woman and why she was hidden there. Ancient myths, modern lies and ruthless self‑interest collide around a victim many people wanted forgotten.

A local reporter is found dead beneath a noose on Roydon Common, on the anniversary of a teenager’s suicide. Following his secret investigation leads Janssen into resentful families, powerful businesses and long‑nursed grudges that someone is still willing to kill for.

An elderly woman is pulled from the sea at Blakeney Point, killed by a single brutal blow. As Janssen’s team unpicks her quiet life and charitable work, they’re forced to keep their own secrets while hunting a remorseless murderer.

An unidentified man is found dead beneath Sheringham’s cliffs, his injuries suggesting a push not a fall. Janssen and DS Cassie Knight trace his links to locals, businessmen and criminals, confronting a wall of silence in Janssen’s own hometown.

Local fishermen haul a mutilated woman from icy waters, leaving Janssen, his team and new boss DCI Tamara Greave to learn who she was. As old friendships fracture, buried mistakes resurface and someone will do anything to keep the past buried.

During Sheringham’s raucous Viking festival, a respected local man is murdered in front of the crowds. Janssen’s investigation into his decorated military past exposes a tight circle of ex‑servicemen who would rather protect old loyalties than name a killer.

Addicts across York are dying from poisoned drugs, their bodies mutilated and marked with a single pink flower. When a respectable bank worker is killed in a medieval-style stoning, Caslin realises a fanatical killer is enforcing their own deadly moral code.

When a promising teenager is found strangled on a lonely Norfolk clifftop path, DI Tom Janssen and his new team dig into her privileged life and the secrets of a close-knit town, where almost everyone has something to hide.

As gang rivalries erupt in a city-centre bombing and a private detective is found dead, Caslin’s new specialist unit chases links back to a crime buried decades before. The closer he gets, the clearer it becomes that his own past is on trial.

After a storm exposes a long-buried body in the coastal dunes, Janssen’s team must link the remains to several missing women and work out whether a patient, methodical killer has been stalking Norfolk’s beaches for years.

A respected family man is murdered and a young woman is tortured and burned, the only link an aging Catholic priest with a murky past. As intelligence agencies close in, Caslin must decide whether justice lies inside or outside the law.

DI Nathaniel Caslin, battling addiction and a failing career, is assigned to a routine death in police custody that spirals into a missing family and a brutal moorland murder. Solving the case may be his last chance at redemption.

A bankrupt businessman is found hanged and a refugee is tortured to death, drawing Caslin into a collision of far-right hate and shadowy high finance. Exposing who profits from the violence could cost him his rebuilt reputation—and much more.

When an abandoned car and a panicked phone call point to two missing women—an MP’s privileged granddaughter and a recovering addict in the sex trade—Caslin must juggle political pressure, personal relapse and ruthless predators before either victim is found dead.