John Bingham Books in Order

After his old schoolfriend is murdered, Michael Sibley lies to police about his visit the previous day. Trying to defend himself exposes the distrust beneath their longstanding friendship and draws him deeper into suspicion with each new account.

A reunion in the French countryside revives the secrets binding two old friends. Years earlier, Philip planned to poison his wife rather than face divorce, but introducing Peter to his mistress set an unforeseen chain of events in motion.

Investigating a fellow holidaymaker’s murder, writer James Compton uncovers a disturbing history behind her apparently gentle life. Back in England, anonymous warnings and invasions of privacy tighten around him while police question whether the threats exist at all.

Kenneth Ducane sends an agent to cover a routine posting in Cyprus while its resident operative takes leave. An aircraft explosion that kills a Turkish diplomat turns the assignment into an investigation where several competing interests may have motives.

John Bingham and William Muncie examine the investigation and pursuit of Glasgow murderer Peter Manuel. Their account follows the effort to identify and bring to justice a man responsible for multiple killings in the years before his execution.

Father Lawrence Brown’s departure from the Catholic Church alarms people who have entrusted him with dangerous secrets. Fear that he may no longer preserve the confidentiality of confession draws his personal decision into a wider struggle over silence and exposure.

A Soviet spy who has defected is lodged in a safe house in the English market town of Melford. The apparently comfortable setting becomes the centre of an espionage story in which refuge and security prove more complicated than they appear.