JM Gregson Books in Order

Lambert discovers the body of his golf club chairman and finds himself investigating people he knows well. With five strong suspects and a sensitive local scandal, he and Hook must work fast and carefully.

Property, money, and ambition collide when murder intrudes on a house sale. Lambert and Hook find that greed can turn a respectable deal into something far uglier.

An old man believed to have died naturally is exhumed, and arsenic is found in his body. Lambert and Hook must solve a murder that began more than a year earlier, inside a family already strained by money and resentment.

Lambert and Hook's golfing trip is interrupted when a body turns up on the fairway. What should have been a break becomes a tightly wound investigation among fellow players and club insiders.

Control, resentment, and pressure tighten around everyone involved as Lambert and Hook investigate. The challenge is working out who finally turned that tension into murder.

Reverend Peter Barton disappears on a winter walk home through the Forest of Dean and is later found brutally dead. Lambert must decide whether a quiet village is hiding a calculating killer.

Beneath the calm surface of this case, hidden pressures and private motives keep rising. Lambert and Hook follow the trail until what looked ordinary begins to darken.

A widower's uneasy household, where his son gives former prisoners a second chance, is shattered by suspicious deaths. Peach steps into a neighborhood where charity, resentment, and fear live side by side.

The victim seems unimportant, which should make the case simple. Lambert and Hook quickly learn that a so-called nobody can stand at the center of other people's dangerous secrets.

A death first written off as accidental starts to look carefully arranged. Lambert and Hook pull at the details until design, not chance, comes into focus.

Peach's first case with Lucy Blake begins with a missing nineteen-year-old and ends with a body found on a golf course two years later. The cold trail forces both detectives to test each other as well as their suspects.

What begins as a missing-person inquiry changes shape when Alison Watts's body is found. Lambert and Hook must work backward through the victim's final days to find who silenced her.

This is a planned killing, not a moment of temper, and Lambert and Hook know it from the start. Untangling who prepared so carefully, and why, is the heart of the case.

In 1896, frightened golfer Alfred Bullimore comes to Baker Street after a series of sinister incidents at Royal Blackheath. Holmes and Watson follow the case from club prank to attempted murder, with the Open Championship waiting at the end.

One unhappy husband is ready to murder his cruel wife, only to discover someone else got there first. Peach and Lucy Blake are left to sort genuine grief from a queue of people who wanted her dead.

A priest's death draws Peach into a countryside case shaped by drought, frayed tempers, and old grudges. The investigation shows how quickly village order can give way when pressure builds.

A troubling death sends Lambert and Hook into a world where appearances, class expectations, and private relationships all matter. The deeper they go, the less suitable the official story looks.

When history lecturer Matthew Upson disappears, Lambert and Hook fear there is more at work than a simple vanishing. His body in the Malvern Hills opens a case full of academic intrigue, lies, and uncomfortable personal history.

Fear spreads quickly in Lancashire when rumor hardens into real danger. Peach has to cut through panic and gossip to track the truth before the whole district turns jumpy and reckless.

Two clever students think they understand crime and consequence better than everyone around them. Peach proves a much tougher examiner than they expected.

A day on the links turns fatal, sending Lambert and Hook into one of Gregson's most familiar hunting grounds. Behind the club's easy manners, rivalry and resentment are never far from the surface.

Murder lands in the middle of local politics, where public principle and private ambition rarely match. Lambert and Hook sift through rivalries, deals, and damaged reputations in a case with plenty of room for hypocrisy.

Head teacher Peter Logan has transformed his Cheltenham school, but his private life is far messier. When he is shot, Lambert and Hook must decide whether he died as a reformer, a bully, or something worse.

After a Masonic Ladies' Night, a man is found garrotted at his car. Peach relishes prying into the lodge's secrets, especially with Superintendent Tucker uncomfortably close to the case.

At a tenth-anniversary party for Camellia Park Golf Club, screams from the lavatory cut through the music. Lambert faces a baffling puzzle because the victim seems to have been liked by everyone.

A violent death exposes the gap between respectable appearances and private vice. Peach and Lucy Blake follow the fallout through a case where guilt, shame, and self-interest are tightly knotted.

When the body of a young girl is uncovered at a construction site, Peach and Lucy Blake piece together a life others preferred to forget. What looks buried by time proves dangerously current.

During a Gloucestershire heatwave, a young woman's body is slipped into a great river under cover of darkness. Lambert and Hook must identify Clare Mills, understand her puzzling life, and decide whose grief is real.

A housewarming in a neat riverside cul-de-sac ends with one resident dead the next morning. Lambert and Hook soon discover the ordinary-looking victim carried a darker past and enemies much closer than expected.

In country marked by memories of the Lancashire witches, rumors of modern witchcraft grow hard to ignore. Peach and Lucy Blake investigate a case where superstition, fear, and real malice feed each other.

After a drugs raid at a manor house, a fire reveals a body and what seems like an open-and-shut case. Peach and Lucy Blake soon find a stranger, nastier murder hiding in the wreckage.

Bert Hook is reluctantly drawn into local amateur Shakespeare, only to find the cast far stranger than the play. What starts as an awkward hobby becomes a murder case full of performance, vanity, and menace.

Animal-testing controversy erupts when research director Richard Cullis is kidnapped, warned, and later apparently poisoned after a company golf event. Lambert and Hook face a crowded suspect list and a victim few people liked.

What should be a fresh start turns sour when Peach uncovers jealousy, resentment, and danger beneath a quieter rural surface. Moving on proves easier than leaving old motives behind.

Small-time dealer Darren Chivers reinvents himself as a blackmailer, then winds up dead. Lambert and Hook must pick through a grubby network of secrets, vice, and respectable people with excellent reasons to panic.

A killing with a strong scent of revenge pushes Peach into a case where private anger starts to look like its own form of justice. The deeper he digs, the harder it is to separate understandable outrage from murder.

Vineyard owner Martin Beaumont built a successful business and plenty of resentment along with it. When he is found dead in his car, Lambert and Hook have no shortage of staff, partners, and rivals to question.

Bruton Rovers FC is already fighting debt and relegation when murder hits after a surprise announcement. Peach and Lucy Blake step into a football world full of bruised egos, money worries, and very public grudges.

Anonymous letters telling literary festival committee members to resign or die seem theatrical at first. Lambert and Hook soon find that cultural snobbery, bruised pride, and old feuds can end in very real bloodshed.

The murder of a television actor drops Peach into a world where everybody performs for a living. Between vanity, rivalry, and practiced deception, even the obvious clues are hard to trust.

A wounded intruder and a murdered philanthropist make Oliver Ketley's death look simple at first. Peach soon learns the respectable estate owner had dangerous secrets, and nearly everyone around him had reason to lie.

A full-time curator living in the grounds of beautiful Westbourne Gardens seems to have an enviable life. Lambert and Hook soon learn the garden paradise is full of secrets, and one of them has already turned murderous.

Former rugby star and businessman Jim O'Connor is shot outside a restaurant, and soon his quieter brother is killed as well. Peach and Northcott must work out whether the answer lies in dirty business, family loyalty, or an older connection.

Seven-year-old Lucy Gibson disappears after going to the fair with her mother's boyfriend. Lambert, Hook, and Ruth David race against time through a chilling case involving a vanished child and the threat of more disappearances.

Threatening notes trouble a luxury holiday park long before murder arrives. Once a resident dies, Lambert and Hook uncover hidden lives and simmering resentments behind the calm lakeside setting.

Alfred Norbury's reading circle looks civilized until he is murdered. Peach and Clyde Northcott dig into old damage, wounded protégés, and long memories to find which grievance finally turned lethal.

A human skeleton found at the edge of a twenty-year-old housing development drags old secrets into daylight. Lambert and Hook must reconstruct the past before frightened local figures can bury it again.

Clyde Northcott joins an exclusive tennis club as part of its push to widen membership, then a distinguished member is murdered. He and Peach must work through snobbery, hidden criminality, and a long list of people who wanted the victim gone.

TV producer Sam Jackson makes enemies everywhere, so his violent death surprises no one. Lambert and Hook enter a Herefordshire filming location where actors lie for a living and nobody drops character easily.

Written with Jim Gregson, this nonfiction memoir follows a university-trained young man called up for National Service in 1956. From wet Wales to a posting in Cyprus, it gives a dry, sharp account of life in the British Army.