JM Dalgliesh Books in Order

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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.

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.

The discovery of a long-missing teenager's body brings DI Duncan McAdam home to Skye. Investigating her final night and the classmates who knew her, he confronts an island community determined to keep its old secrets intact.

A man's dismembered body is found in an abandoned Norfolk quarry, exposing secrets behind his harmless public image. DI Tom Janssen follows concealed associations into another police investigation, questioning why some people seem reluctant to pursue the murder.

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 gallery owner is found dead beneath the Storr, leaving Duncan McAdam to examine ambition, affairs, and abundant grudges. As the victim's hidden life emerges, the investigation forces Duncan to face unwelcome memories from his own past.

A tutor enters Sophie Beckett's home to help her teenage daughter, concealing a personal reason for being there. Growing suspicion, jealousy, and revelations about an earlier death turn the household into a dangerous contest of hidden intentions.

A missing tourist is found murdered near Loch Coruisk during Skye's busy summer season. Duncan McAdam investigates the resentments and past crimes beneath the island's welcoming image, discovering that a fresh start does not erase old wrongdoing.

A teenager vanishes on Burns Night, and a woman's body appears in Talisker Bay as a winter storm batters Skye. Duncan McAdam races to find the boy while buried secrets threaten both the investigation and his personal life.

A church warden is found hanging from a village belfry while Janssen's team faces an outside investigation. A separate hit-and-run reveals further dangers, leaving the detectives to identify a killer whose motives remain hidden under growing scrutiny.

A celebrity author's body is discovered on Staffin Beach after his return to Skye. Under intense media attention, Duncan McAdam uncovers old secrets that challenge his understanding of the island, his past, and the people closest to him.

A teenage heir disappears after a traditional island ball and is later found dead near Neist Point. Duncan McAdam investigates the powerful interests surrounding his family, seeking to distinguish a tragic accident from a carefully concealed murder.

A doctor has rebuilt her life with her daughter on a remote Scottish island, hiding a troubled past. When kidnappers demand she murder a patient within three days, she must choose how to protect the person she loves.

Suspended from duty, Tom Janssen reluctantly attends a school reunion where old grudges quickly resurface. A death in a family swimming pool draws him into a murder inquiry as a witness, testing his resolve to remain uninvolved.

A murdered stable hand draws DI Tom Janssen into the guarded world of a Norfolk racing estate. Family rivalries and the victim’s secret life complicate the inquiry, while a second death makes the household’s evasions increasingly dangerous.

Desecrated graves lead Duncan McAdam to the mysterious deaths of a trawler's crew. When another body appears, he must locate the sole surviving crewman and uncover the secret someone is prepared to kill to bring to light.

Anonymous parcels reach DI Jack McNaughton as a poisoned stranger is found at Orkney’s Ring of Brodgar. Their contents point toward linked crimes, while revelations about his father undermine the personal certainties he needs to pursue the killer.

After a disastrous Edinburgh operation, DI Jack McNaughton returns to Orkney seeking a fresh start. A priest’s murder in St. Magnus Cathedral begins a series of killings whose clues lead toward Jack’s past and threaten his family.