Lakeland Murders (JJ Salkeld) Books in Order

A murdered supergrass on the River Kent and a terrifying neighbour dispute give Andy Hall's team two very different crises to handle at once. One points toward a possible mole inside Cumbria Constabulary.

A fatal fall in bad weather looks accidental until Andy Hall and Jane Francis start asking harder questions. Meanwhile Ian Mann goes undercover against rural organised crime and risks being left dangerously exposed.

When a net fisherman vanishes on Morecambe Bay and only his tractor is left behind, Ian Mann spots signs of murder. The shifting sands make the case as treacherous as the people behind it.

A wealthy Kendal teenager is found strangled in the woods, giving DI Andy Hall one of his earliest murder cases. As he struggles at home and at work, Ian Mann chases a second case that may be linked.

After a young man dies during Workington's Uppies and Downies game, Andy Hall's team inherit a case shadowed by gangs and awkward police involvement. Local loyalties and possible corruption make every step difficult.

Now a DI, Jane Francis leads the inquiry when a farm worker is shot dead in his cottage. The suspects are many, the past matters, and Andy Hall is fighting politics back at headquarters.

A body buried near the Long Meg stone circle sends Andy Hall into a case tangled with the Appleby Horse Fair, old families, and old lies. Identifying the dead man is only the start.

On her first week with Kendal CID, Jane Dixon reviews a suspicious death in a Windermere caravan park. At the same time, the rest of the team search for a vulnerable missing teenager.

An old death at St Bees may have been murder, followed by a cover-up that reaches into policing and protest politics. Andy Hall and suspended Ian Mann dig in at real personal risk.

Recently retired Andy Hall takes up an old conviction he no longer trusts, just as another woman is strangled in Whitehaven. The case asks whether justice can still be found years after the damage was done.

A wealthy young woman's death appears to be suicide, but DC Abla Khan is not convinced. As Jane Francis and Andy Hall weigh the evidence, Ian Mann gets sidetracked by a criminal who should be easy to catch, but is not.

When an unpleasant local aristocrat disappears, Andy Hall and Ian Mann find no shortage of people who might wish him gone. It plays like a modern country house mystery, sharp, sly, and full of class tension.

A new recruit who looks uncannily like Andy Hall joins a case involving online scams and illegal diet drugs, while Ian Mann tackles a county lines operation. It mixes current policing issues with the series' usual banter and team chemistry.

Retired detectives Andy Hall and Ian Mann are pulled into a Northumbria corruption case when a chief constable's apparent suicide starts to look anything but simple. Old loyalties, hidden enemies, and a trusted new ally turn it into a dangerous game.