Keith Calder Books in Order

At a shoot in the Scottish Borders, gunsmith Keith Calder sees an apparent accident turn into a murder case. When his girlfriend's brother is charged, Keith starts digging and puts both of them in danger.

A dead body in Molly Calder's car and the promise of reward money send Keith and Molly hunting through fraud, missing valuables, and very dangerous lies. Country mystery soon spills into the city.

A skeleton turns up on a flooded canal bank, and Keith Calder gets caught in the deadly chain of events behind it. The wild Scottish Lowlands provide a fitting backdrop for the case.

Keith Calder looks into the death of wealthy sportsman Ray Grass, whose fatal gun accident does not feel accidental at all. A will, a fortune, and too many interested parties make the case increasingly dangerous.

Keith Calder is pulled into a case that leads away from sport and into corruption and blackmail. It is a lean Calder mystery with guns, suspicion, and trouble hiding behind respectable faces.

Family ties and country tensions drag Keith Calder into another investigation. What first seems like a personal matter turns into a knottier case, full of awkward connections and concealed motives.

A burnt-out Land Rover and a dead driver draw Keith Calder into a case that seems to point at his friend Jake Paterson. Calder has to prove the evidence is misleading before the wrong man takes the blame.

Keith Calder repairs a consignment of weapons for a shady dealer, then the shipment is hijacked and his young daughter is kidnapped. The case pushes him into one of his most personal battles.

Keith Calder gives ballistic evidence in an Aberdeen murder trial, only to help produce a Not Proven verdict. Asked to look again, he uncovers a case tangled up with oil-industry power and a missing gun.

As executor of a murdered friend's estate, Keith Calder tries to trace a valuable gun collection sold off at a suspicious price. The trail leads him into blackmail, family secrets, and another killing.

Simon Parbitter comes to Scotland to see the house his uncle left him, only to learn the old man's shooting death may have been murder. When Keith Calder is hurt in another accident, the case sharpens fast.

A widow's fears prove harder to dismiss than they first seem, drawing Keith Calder into a case full of half-truths and quiet threats. The investigation moves from domestic unease to real danger.

An apparently accidental shooting refuses to stay simple, and Keith Calder starts asking the questions others would rather avoid. Hammond turns country sport and old grudges into a tight, efficient mystery.

With Keith away, Deborah Calder fills in at the gunshop and is called to the Pentland Gun Club after a steward is found dead near a skeet trap. It is an excellent introduction to her sleuthing instincts.

Trouble comes close to home in this Keith Calder mystery, where familiar faces and local business turn unexpectedly dangerous. Calder's circle has to sort gossip from fact before the case worsens.

Solicitor Ralph Enterkin investigates a gamekeeper's death that at first looks accidental. His inquiries uncover a scheme aimed at framing the man's employer, and much more besides.

A quiet spell at Keith Calder's gunshop is broken when questions about a job applicant's references uncover a sinister past. Calder soon finds himself facing an assassination plot.

Deborah Calder expects married life and a temporary job at her godfather's pheasant packing company. Instead, a disappearance turns workplace irritation into a full-scale mystery.

A cranky old farmer is found dead, and the method is clever enough to stump the local police. Keith Calder steps in, using his firearms expertise to reconstruct how the murder was done.

Master fisherman Wallace James and his young pupil find a body in a river, a fishhook buried in the dead man's cheek. What looks accidental soon turns into a wider and stranger investigation.

Deborah Fellowes and her Uncle Ronnie think they are dealing with a fox-poaching problem in the Highlands. Then the trail turns darker, and the real quarry proves far more dangerous.

Another gun-centered mystery sends Keith Calder after the truth when a weapon points toward trouble instead of sport. Hammond blends firearms know-how, country life, and a brisk investigation.

After a heart attack, Wallace James tries to take life more gently, but a local landowner's apparent drowning is hard to ignore. Suspicion of foul play pulls him back toward danger.