John Harvey Books in Order

Cambridge detectives Will Grayson and Helen Walker investigate the brutal killing of a film historian. His research into a former star, homophobic attacks, and a developer’s intimidation suggest competing motives, while the victim’s sister pursues clues on her own.

On his sixteenth birthday, Nick receives belongings left by the father who died by suicide years earlier. Exploring his father’s blues music and history offers a way to understand himself amid estate gangs, shifting friendships, and his first serious romance.

A girl disappears years after her half-sister died during a Cornwall holiday. Will Grayson and Helen Walker search for links between the cases, while a recently released offender becomes the focus of a suspicion that may lead them astray.

Five short stories, six largely jazz-related poems, and an introduction explore Charlie Resnick’s world and its musical influences. Four stories feature the Nottingham detective, bringing criminal investigations together with reflections on the city, its people, and the music he loves.

This collection explores crime across British cities and countryside, from Soho clubs to East Anglian fenlands. Detectives, criminals, and damaged families face revenge, exploitation, and corruption, with the search for justice complicated by personal loyalties and everyday pressures.

DCI Karen Shields investigates a Moldovan teenager’s death on Hampstead Heath, uncovering gang rivalries across London. Meanwhile, Cornish detective Trevor Cordon follows another death to the capital, where his attempt to protect an old acquaintance draws him into danger.

This cultural history examines black as a color, symbol, and metaphor across societies and centuries. From mourning clothes and religious robes to fashion and racial prejudice, it explores how one color can express authority, elegance, fear, and exclusion.

A woman’s remains are discovered thirty years after she disappeared during the miners’ strike. Nearly retired Charlie Resnick returns to the investigation, confronting the surveillance work he once directed and resentments that have survived long after the dispute ended.

Frank Elder’s estranged daughter Katherine arrives after a destructive relationship with a controversial artist. When the turmoil leads to murder, Elder tries to protect her and establish her innocence, while the traumatic past they share threatens them again.

Edited by Maxim Jakubowski, this retrospective brings together nineteen short stories that won the Crime Writers’ Association’s Dagger Awards. The collection ranges from serial killers and hostage crises to fraud and detective work, and includes stories by Denise Mina, Ian Rankin, Jeffery Deaver, and John Connolly.