Jo Bannister Books in Order

Dak Hamiko is trapped between the ruthless power of the Matrix and the imperial ambitions of Tok-ai-Do. His struggle sparks controversy across the Twelve Circles in a far-future tale of politics, conscience, and survival.

In the precious oasis city of Chad, a cruel warlord's mistake gives his concubine and a nuclear engineer a chance to save the last heir of a fallen royal house. Their escape drives a harsh, far-future adventure across ice and desert.

On the forest world of Mithras, Paul and Shah are caught between Lady Amalthea's ambitions and a silent enemy waiting beyond the Hive. What begins as intrigue turns into a struggle over power, loyalty, and survival.

Clio is certain Luke did not kill himself, even if the scene says otherwise. To prove it, she must work out who brought him to a bleak boarding house and who held him down while he died.

Former South African militant Joel Grant is trying to recover in England when he is suddenly kidnapped by the secret police he thought had finished with him. The search for answers becomes an international political thriller.

Annie Meredith is stunned to learn she had a half-brother, and even more stunned that he died trying to cross the American border. Her trip to Mexico soon uncovers trafficking and secrets far larger than one family's loss.

A neighbor is shot during a dinner gathering, and a valuable painting vanishes in the chaos. Clio and Harry Marsh must untangle the link between the victim, the missing artwork, and a fierce competition horse named Gilgamesh.

While sailing off the Scottish coast, Clio and Harry Marsh witness a yacht explode and rescue the only survivor. When he is accused of murder and greed, they set out to prove the truth before the real danger strikes again.

Badly injured but unwilling to quit, photojournalist Mickey Flynn agrees to photograph a terrorist training camp. What should be one last assignment becomes a deadly game involving militants, intelligence services, and betrayal.

A catastrophic plane explosion leaves Mickey Flynn staring at a disaster that makes no immediate sense. The aftermath pulls him into a dangerous mystery where rescue, guilt, and hidden motives collide.

After a fellow officer is killed, Frank Shapiro's overstretched force is hit by a fresh wave of shotgun murders. New inspector Liz Graham and angry sergeant Cal Donovan must overcome mutual distrust to stop a serial killer.

A murdered teenage prostitute, a glamorous revival preacher, and a supposedly dead IRA man collide in Castlemere. Liz Graham and Cal Donovan have too many suspects, too few answers, and a killer still moving in plain sight.

When new evidence in an old arson case puts Frank Shapiro under suspicion, Liz Graham and Cal Donovan are forced to question their own chief. The deeper they dig, the clearer it becomes that someone has been hiding the truth for years.

Castlemere's police team splits its strength between two dangerous undercover operations. Cal Donovan infiltrates a criminal gang, while Liz Graham risks everything by acting as bait in a serial rape investigation.

Richard Speke arrives at a personal discovery course in an unfinished London high-rise, hoping to steady his nerves and save his career. Then the lift fails, the phones die, and the trapped guests discover they share a deadly secret.

Advice columnist Rosie Holland is drawn into the disappearance of a reader's brother in Scotland. With a motley group of helpers around her, she follows the trail into danger, secrets, and a case stranger than it first appears.

Cal Donovan stumbles into a gas-station robbery and rescues the young getaway driver from a fiery crash. Proving the boy's guilt should be simple, until a powerful local family starts bending every rule in his favor.

A naked young woman is found dead in a canal boat, and the trail leads back to a crowded hotel convention in Castlemere. Then a sniper, a missing witness, and a professional killer turn one baffling case into several.

When Shad is found unconscious beside a murdered television researcher and later seems to confess under hypnosis, Rosie Holland smells trouble. Her search for the truth soon centers on a psychiatrist whose methods look anything but safe.

A blackmailer begins poisoning everyday products and threatens worse unless Castlemere pays up. As panic spreads and Cal Donovan disappears, Liz Graham and Frank Shapiro must stop a campaign designed to make the whole town turn on itself.

Brodie Farrell makes a living finding things, not solving murders, until a job she took for pay appears to help send a young man to a terrible death. Guilt pulls her into a twisting case where every answer seems to make things worse.

A teenage boy is beaten to death on an abandoned pier, and Daniel Hood is the only witness who can make the case stick. When he refuses to identify the police suspect, Brodie Farrell steps in against a tide of anger and pressure.

Brodie Farrell is asked to find the missing aunt of two girls whose mother has been brutally killed. While Daniel Hood helps comfort the children, Brodie uncovers darker mysteries that put all of them in danger.

After a bitter rift, Daniel Hood vanishes, and Brodie Farrell cannot decide whether to be angry or afraid. When a campaign of harassment turns violent, she must work out whether Daniel is in trouble, or part of it.

Brodie Farrell thinks she is only finding the perfect country retreat for a controversial rock star. Then a body turns up on the estate, and celebrity glamour gives way to murder, manipulation, and very bad judgment.

A driving lesson goes badly wrong when Daniel Hood hits a frightened young woman who later claims her horse-dealer father was murdered. To find out who is lying, Brodie Farrell must step into the tense world of show jumping and dangerous drugs.

Clio Marsh joins a survival course on the Norfolk Broads for research and soon finds herself in far deeper trouble than she expected. Illness, local superstition, and a sinister chemical plant turn the exercise into a nightmare.

Six years after his daughter vanished, Laurence Schofield thinks he spots her in a film about London's homeless. He follows the faint clue into a brutal underworld where every answer comes with a fresh risk.

Brodie Farrell is dealing with an unexpected pregnancy and a painful split from Jack Deacon when fresh trouble lands on her doorstep. Daniel Hood, a bruised boy, and an old criminal ally draw the whole circle into a messy, deeply personal case.

Photojournalist Mickey Flynn survives a fire that nearly destroys his home and the woman he loves. Convinced it was arson, he starts hunting the culprit and discovers this is no simple act of revenge.

When crime boss Joe Loomis threatens Brodie Farrell and her infant son, Jack Deacon prepares for war. Then Loomis turns up dying on Brodie's doorstep, and the hunt for his killer opens into family secrets and terrorism.

Years after a childhood fire scarred his family, vulnerable young Mouse Firth is blamed for another disaster, this time a crash that kills his mother. Only his future stepmother seems willing to believe there is more to the story.

A deadly climbing accident on a remote mountain leaves one man dead and survivor Nicky Horn running for his life. What follows is a tense chase through secrets, shifting loyalties, and a father's hunger for revenge.

In low-crime Norbold, rookie officer Hazel Best is uneasy after a prisoner dies in the cells under suspicious circumstances. Gabriel Ash, a damaged former investigator with a dog for company, is the only witness who believes it was no accident.

A murdered policeman gives Gabriel Ash fresh reason to hope his sons are still alive. At the same time, Hazel Best is drawn into a buried-child case that brings old grief, new threats, and hidden links to the surface.

Gabriel Ash learns that his long-lost wife may still be alive, and hope quickly turns into fear. Hazel Best tries to hold the line as Ash chases answers that could save his family, or destroy what is left of him.

Hazel Best returns to duty expecting a routine protection job for a television historian opening a museum in Norbold. Then a murderous attack suggests terrorism, and Hazel begins to suspect a much stranger story underneath.

A daylight kidnapping attempt convinces Gabriel Ash that his estranged wife is after their sons. Hazel Best is not so sure, and her search for the truth uncovers an older crime, a possible cover-up, and danger closing in fast.

A hard-to-find later standalone from Jo Bannister. Reliable plot details are scarce, but it is generally listed as a thriller rather than part of one of her long-running detective series.

Hazel Best's secret admirer turns into something much darker when gifts give way to break-ins, beatings, and murder. Once Gabriel Ash is attacked, Hazel knows she is dealing with someone who will not stop on his own.

Gabriel Ash rescues a terrified young woman fleeing the woods, and soon he and Hazel Best are trapped in a case full of panic, false assumptions, and vigilante rage. In Norbold, even the clearest suspect may be the wrong one.

With her baby gravely ill, Brodie Farrell can barely keep going, but Daniel Hood takes on a violent jewelry case that will not let him walk away. Jack Deacon's search for the truth pulls old enemies and painful bargains back into play.

A badly beaten man from Hazel Best's past arrives in Norbold with no clear reason and only shattered memories of a dying girl. As Hazel and Gabriel Ash dig deeper, both are forced to face ghosts they would rather leave alone.