Kate Redman Mysteries Books in Order

On her first day in Abbeyford, DS Kate Redman is thrown into the kidnapping of a wealthy newborn and the violence surrounding it. The more Kate and Mark dig, the more family secrets and old wounds come to light.

A deeply unsettling case suggests a predator may be targeting vulnerable women in Abbeyford. Kate Redman and the team race to understand the pattern before another victim disappears into it.

When troubled teenager Elodie Duncan is found dead in the river, the case first looks like suicide. Kate Redman soon uncovers a mess of hidden loyalties and realizes the victim's last hours were far more dangerous than they seemed.

During Abbeyford's annual pagan festival, a decomposed body is discovered and the town's celebrations sour fast. Kate Redman must untangle murder, robbery and old enemies in a case that keeps shifting shape.

A new research lab brings jobs, protests and tension to Abbeyford, then one of its senior scientists is killed in a car bombing. Kate Redman returns from sick leave straight into a case full of activists, suspects and mounting danger.

When two star students at an elite art and drama college are found dead in an apparent suicide pact, Kate Redman is not convinced the story is that simple. More deaths follow, and the campus turns steadily more sinister.

A difficult case shakes Abbeyford as Kate Redman follows tangled clues through the town's fault lines and into darker territory than she expected. The appeal here is the steady police work and the pressure it puts on Kate herself.

This Christmas-set Kate Redman short story begins with a familiar petty thief and a missing child. Grace turns a small seasonal setup into a brisk, surprisingly warm mystery.

The body of a young African man is found on a beach near Abbeyford, and what looks like one tragedy soon opens into a knot of lies around migration, charity and exploitation. Kate teams up with Chloe on one of the series' more socially charged cases.

A young man is found dead in a graveyard after a wild party, and DI Mark Olbeck is shaken to realize he once knew him. When a second death follows, Kate and the team are chasing a killer with a deeply unsettling fixation.

A wealthy family man is found murdered, and the evidence points to a secret life built on risky desire and deception. Kate Redman must sort jealousy, shame and lies before the case turns even more personal.

Three women receive a grotesque Valentine's gift, a pig's heart pierced by an arrow. What looks like a sick prank soon grows darker, and Kate Redman has to move fast before the threats become murder.

At New Year, a frozen body is found at the bottom of a local ravine. Kate Redman must decide whether she is looking at accident, suicide or murder, while also dealing with an unsettling new senior officer.

Now working at a higher rank, Kate Redman faces a case charged with anger, grief and divided loyalties. It is a later series entry that leans hard into team dynamics while still building toward a sharp, dark reveal.

Two walkers discover a severed human foot near Abbeyford, and then another turns up days later. Kate Redman soon realizes the grisly puzzle may connect to the disappearance of a local girl.

In the shadow of a terrorist atrocity in London, a young Asian man is found dead near Abbeyford. Kate Redman must navigate grief, suspicion and wider tensions as a local murder case opens onto something much more complicated.

When the strangled body of an unknown young actress is found in Abbeyford, Kate Redman and her team must work backwards through performance, family, and private loyalties to learn who she was. It is a compact mystery with plenty of twists.

When police stumble on vigilantes attacking a suspected child abuser, Abbeyford seems to be dealing with a clear moral outrage. Then a body turns up, and Kate Redman must work out who is hunting whom.

Nineteen-year-old art student Mae Denton disappears, becoming the latest in a troubling run of missing young women. Before maternity leave begins, Kate Redman wants answers, but the case keeps slipping away from anything straightforward.

While on maternity leave with newborn twins, Kate Redman is pulled back toward police work by the disappearance of Carrie Rawlins. When old medical scandal and buried grievances surface, the case turns darker than anyone expected.

Returning to work after maternity leave, Kate Redman faces the murder of a troubled young man with ties to gangland crime. At the same time, contact from her long-adopted child forces her to reopen one of the most painful parts of her past.

A respectable family man is found stabbed to death in his own bed in suburban Abbeyford. Kate Redman's investigation reaches into church life, family strain and another tragedy that makes the case especially hard to shake.