Lane Winslow Books in Order

A quiet August morning shatters when Lane learns that Darling's brother has disappeared from a mining camp in Mexico and a frightened mother reports her young son kidnapped near Nelson. While Lane and Darling chase leads from Mexico City into remote mountains, their colleagues at home untangle a case that refuses to stay closed and exposes the cost of loyalty.

In this wartime prequel, twenty year old Lane Winslow has been pulled from her Oxford studies to translate for the war office in London. Sent north under the cover of a Christmas visit to her Scottish grandparents, she must escort a fellow agent through deep snow and suspicious villages and unmask a German spy long before she ever dreams of King's Cove.

On a warm June day in 1948, an explosion above King's Cove sends Lane up the mountain, where she discovers a blast crater and a silent, injured Japanese girl. As Inspector Darling investigates a jeweller's murder during a daring heist, the two cases twist together around old prejudices, risky business deals, and people determined to stay hidden.

An early morning phone call from Scotland sends Lane rushing overseas after her beloved grandfather suffers a heart attack, only to find her estranged sister entangled in dangerous secrets that stretch from South Africa to London. Back in Nelson, a charming local cad vanishes during a midnight boat trip, and Inspector Darling's investigation slowly collides with Lane's family quest.

In early spring 1948, Lane travels to New Denver to visit her friend Peter Barisoff and instead helps uncover human remains near his garden. At the same time in Nelson, arson at the Vitalis family's restaurant and a wave of threatening notes force Inspector Darling's team to confront prejudice, fear, and a buried past.

Back home after her Arizona honeymoon, Lane steps in as a substitute teacher when two women fail to appear at the village school. She finds their cottage ransacked, one teacher badly hurt, and the other missing, drawing her and Inspector Darling into a tangle of threats, secrets, and small town resentments.

Newly married, Lane and Darling escape the Kootenays for a honeymoon at an elegant hotel in Tucson, Arizona, only to witness a wealthy guest shot in broad daylight. As local secrets and jealousies multiply, a parallel murder investigation back in Nelson tests Sergeant Ames and threatens the mechanic he cares about.

With her wedding to Inspector Darling approaching, Lane agrees to translate for an elderly Russian countess searching for a missing brother in the Nelson area. When a hunter is murdered in the hills and talk of a defecting Soviet agent surfaces, Lane's divided loyalties strain both the investigation and her relationship.

As summer settles over King's Cove, a British official arrives to drag Inspector Darling back to England to answer for the wartime death of a crew member under his command. While Lane races to London to clear him, Ames investigates the suspicious death of an elderly woman that points to betrayals decades old.

Lane is enjoying a sunny day at the lake when she and her friends pull a gravely injured young man from a sinking rowboat. As Inspector Darling and Constable Ames hunt for his attacker, a swastika pin and a missing local son lead them toward homegrown fascists and fresh postwar wounds.

On a snowy December day in 1946, Lane is introduced to the local hot springs near King's Cove and overhears a group speaking Russian. When one of them is found dead, her language skills and spy training pull her into a murder tied to Stalin era politics and a nearby Doukhobor community.

In early spring 1947, a collapsed root cellar in King's Cove reveals a tiny skeletal hand. Lane and Inspector Darling must uncover who the long buried child was and why the body was hidden outside the cemetery, digging into the town's earliest, most painful secrets.

After the war, former British intelligence officer Lane Winslow flees bombed out London for the tiny community of King's Cove in interior British Columbia. When a stranger's body turns up nearby, her own secrets make her both a suspect and an essential ally to the local police.