Lambert and Hook Books in Order

Lambert discovers the body of his golf club chairman and finds himself investigating people he knows well. With five strong suspects and a sensitive local scandal, he and Hook must work fast and carefully.

Property, money, and ambition collide when murder intrudes on a house sale. Lambert and Hook find that greed can turn a respectable deal into something far uglier.

An old man believed to have died naturally is exhumed, and arsenic is found in his body. Lambert and Hook must solve a murder that began more than a year earlier, inside a family already strained by money and resentment.

Lambert and Hook's golfing trip is interrupted when a body turns up on the fairway. What should have been a break becomes a tightly wound investigation among fellow players and club insiders.

Control, resentment, and pressure tighten around everyone involved as Lambert and Hook investigate. The challenge is working out who finally turned that tension into murder.

Reverend Peter Barton disappears on a winter walk home through the Forest of Dean and is later found brutally dead. Lambert must decide whether a quiet village is hiding a calculating killer.

Beneath the calm surface of this case, hidden pressures and private motives keep rising. Lambert and Hook follow the trail until what looked ordinary begins to darken.

The victim seems unimportant, which should make the case simple. Lambert and Hook quickly learn that a so-called nobody can stand at the center of other people's dangerous secrets.

A death first written off as accidental starts to look carefully arranged. Lambert and Hook pull at the details until design, not chance, comes into focus.

What begins as a missing-person inquiry changes shape when Alison Watts's body is found. Lambert and Hook must work backward through the victim's final days to find who silenced her.

This is a planned killing, not a moment of temper, and Lambert and Hook know it from the start. Untangling who prepared so carefully, and why, is the heart of the case.

A troubling death sends Lambert and Hook into a world where appearances, class expectations, and private relationships all matter. The deeper they go, the less suitable the official story looks.

When history lecturer Matthew Upson disappears, Lambert and Hook fear there is more at work than a simple vanishing. His body in the Malvern Hills opens a case full of academic intrigue, lies, and uncomfortable personal history.

A day on the links turns fatal, sending Lambert and Hook into one of Gregson's most familiar hunting grounds. Behind the club's easy manners, rivalry and resentment are never far from the surface.

Murder lands in the middle of local politics, where public principle and private ambition rarely match. Lambert and Hook sift through rivalries, deals, and damaged reputations in a case with plenty of room for hypocrisy.

Head teacher Peter Logan has transformed his Cheltenham school, but his private life is far messier. When he is shot, Lambert and Hook must decide whether he died as a reformer, a bully, or something worse.

At a tenth-anniversary party for Camellia Park Golf Club, screams from the lavatory cut through the music. Lambert faces a baffling puzzle because the victim seems to have been liked by everyone.

During a Gloucestershire heatwave, a young woman's body is slipped into a great river under cover of darkness. Lambert and Hook must identify Clare Mills, understand her puzzling life, and decide whose grief is real.

A housewarming in a neat riverside cul-de-sac ends with one resident dead the next morning. Lambert and Hook soon discover the ordinary-looking victim carried a darker past and enemies much closer than expected.

Bert Hook is reluctantly drawn into local amateur Shakespeare, only to find the cast far stranger than the play. What starts as an awkward hobby becomes a murder case full of performance, vanity, and menace.

Animal-testing controversy erupts when research director Richard Cullis is kidnapped, warned, and later apparently poisoned after a company golf event. Lambert and Hook face a crowded suspect list and a victim few people liked.

Small-time dealer Darren Chivers reinvents himself as a blackmailer, then winds up dead. Lambert and Hook must pick through a grubby network of secrets, vice, and respectable people with excellent reasons to panic.

Vineyard owner Martin Beaumont built a successful business and plenty of resentment along with it. When he is found dead in his car, Lambert and Hook have no shortage of staff, partners, and rivals to question.

Anonymous letters telling literary festival committee members to resign or die seem theatrical at first. Lambert and Hook soon find that cultural snobbery, bruised pride, and old feuds can end in very real bloodshed.

A full-time curator living in the grounds of beautiful Westbourne Gardens seems to have an enviable life. Lambert and Hook soon learn the garden paradise is full of secrets, and one of them has already turned murderous.

Seven-year-old Lucy Gibson disappears after going to the fair with her mother's boyfriend. Lambert, Hook, and Ruth David race against time through a chilling case involving a vanished child and the threat of more disappearances.

Threatening notes trouble a luxury holiday park long before murder arrives. Once a resident dies, Lambert and Hook uncover hidden lives and simmering resentments behind the calm lakeside setting.

A human skeleton found at the edge of a twenty-year-old housing development drags old secrets into daylight. Lambert and Hook must reconstruct the past before frightened local figures can bury it again.

TV producer Sam Jackson makes enemies everywhere, so his violent death surprises no one. Lambert and Hook enter a Herefordshire filming location where actors lie for a living and nobody drops character easily.