John Dobie Books in Order

Absent-minded mathematics professor John Dobie barely notices a student's death until he is drugged and forced to witness his estranged wife's murder. Further deaths draw him into an investigation with practical pathologist Kate Coyle, whose help may make an amateur detective of the reluctant academic.

Professor John Dobie takes a teaching post in Cyprus after friends and colleagues seek distance from his earlier adventures. Discovering that his predecessor, a former student, has been murdered pulls the mathematically minded visitor into another mystery far removed from the classroom he expected.

John Dobie and Kate Coyle discover a badly injured teenager beside a road during an Atlantic storm. After she dies, the question of whether an apparent collision was accidental draws the eccentric professor into an investigation that increasingly irritates the police.

A drug lord's imprisonment opens a violent struggle for his market in South Wales. When a trafficker is murdered and Professor Dobie becomes involved, a celebrity journalist pursues the story through criminal networks and a compromised police connection, while investigators struggle to understand the killing.