Liz Mistry Books in Order
This page shows all Liz Mistry crime novels in order, with series lists, brief plot summaries and simple guidance on where to start reading.
Last updated: January 13, 2026
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Publication Order
17 books
Deadly Reckoning
by Liz Mistry
2025
Enjoying a rare day off, DS Jazzy Solanki stumbles across a body on a quiet country walk and knows it is no coincidence. When a child then goes missing, all signs point toward her vengeful stepsister and a reckoning with family secrets Jazzy has avoided for years.
The Revenge Pact
by Liz Mistry
2024
When gang boss Loanie Gibbs’s nephews are discovered dead beside a Scottish road, a fragile peace between Edinburgh and Glasgow crews shatters. As Jazzy Solanki and Annie McQueen investigate, rumours of a leak inside the force force Jazzy to watch someone she cares about and question who she can trust.
The Blood Promise
by Liz Mistry
2024
On her sixteenth birthday, Imogen Clark finds both parents dead at the breakfast table and a taunting note from their killer. Detectives Jazzy Solanki and Annie McQueen suspect the murders are really aimed at Jazzy, whose longtime stalker seems tied to the message and the chosen date.
End Game
by Liz Mistry
2023
An anonymous tip leads DS Nikki Parekh and Sajid Malik to the Salinger estate, where a family of four lies dead around a Monopoly board. With a fifth playing piece missing and one player unaccounted for, they must unravel a deadly game of money, power and betrayal.
Unjust Bias
by Liz Mistry
2022
When the murder of a homeless boy disowned for being different echoes an earlier unsolved case, DI Gus McGuire is forced to reopen old wounds. A missing teen, a so-called normalisation group and a dark web slave site turn the investigation into a battle against lethal prejudice.
Dying Breath
by Liz Mistry
2022
A series of postcards warning “You’re next, Parekh” tells DS Nikki Parekh that the man who killed her mother has returned. While unidentified remains in a remote moorland barn demand her attention, she must protect her family and finally confront a killer who has waited years for revenge.
Blood Games
by Liz Mistry
2022
Three very different teenagers are murdered, each with a distinct method, but all feel like moves in a single twisted game. When another boy vanishes and his parents receive a chilling package, DS Nikki Parekh has to decode the rules before more children are sacrificed.
Dark Memories
by Liz Mistry
2021
A homeless woman’s body under Bradford’s railway arches is followed by more killings, each accompanied by a taunting note. As the murderer chooses locations linked to her childhood, DS Nikki Parekh must revisit long-buried memories to understand why the past is now the killer’s playground.
Unbound Ties
by Liz Mistry
2020
When a pregnant woman is found murdered with unsettling nursery rhyme clues beneath her feet, DI Gus McGuire realises the case is tied to his mother’s childhood in Scottish foster care. As bodies mount and loved ones are threatened, his family history becomes the key to stopping a sadist.
Broken Silence
by Liz Mistry
2020
Driving home from a training course, Detective Felicity Springer sees a hand punching through a van’s rear light and crashes while calling for help. When she disappears, DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik race to find their friend, uncovering the dangerous secret Felicity tried to keep buried.
Unseen Evil
by Liz Mistry
2019
A teenager receives a Snapchat image of his friend’s murdered body, pulling DI Gus McGuire into a case where the killer uses social media as a stage. With more young people targeted and a stalker closing in on Gus, every new post could signal another death.
Last Request
by Liz Mistry
2019
Human remains discovered under Bradford’s derelict Odeon car park drag DS Nikita Parekh back to the most painful chapter of her past. Balancing a volatile nephew and a rising body count, Nikki must face old secrets before the killer silences anyone else connected to the victim.
Unspoken Truths
by Liz Mistry
2018
A car loaded with drugs derails a train between Manchester and Bradford, then a tortured woman is found miles away. As DI Gus McGuire follows a trail reaching into big pharma, foreign research labs and the dark web, his missing brother-in-law turns the investigation painfully personal.
Untainted Blood
by Liz Mistry
2017
As a disgraced MP’s fall clears the way for a slick far right candidate, a serial killer begins targeting Black and Asian men in Bradford. DI Gus McGuire must untangle political scandal from racist hatred before the city erupts and more victims are claimed.
Uncommon Cruelty
by Liz Mistry
2017
When parents return from a weekend away to find their home wrecked and their teenage son missing, DI Gus McGuire uncovers links to two murdered girls, a bikers’ gang, a Muslim youth group and a hardline church. To save the boy, he has to strip away layers of family lies.
Uncoiled Lies
by Liz Mistry
2017
After a string of brutal murders of Bradford sex workers, DI Gus McGuire finds himself caught between rival local gangs and a new Polish crew muscling in. Old grudges, an unsolved death and his own forbidden relationship coil around a killer hiding in plain sight.
Unquiet Souls
by Liz Mistry
2016
When a murdered sex worker and a missing girl lead to a hidden attic full of trafficked children, DI Gus McGuire is dragged into an international hunt for a ruthless ringleader. Still shaken by past trauma, he must stop the network before more kids vanish.
Where should I start?
If you want her original Bradford series: Unquiet Souls → Uncoiled Lies → Untainted Blood
If you like complex, family-centered detectives: Last Request → Broken Silence → Dark Memories
If you prefer cases about teens and online danger: Unseen Evil → Unjust Bias
If you want a fresh Scottish setting: The Blood Promise → The Revenge Pact → Deadly Reckoning
Author bio
Liz Mistry grew up in the Scottish village of West Calder, between Edinburgh and Glasgow, where local myths and unsettling true crime stories lodged in her imagination early. Books were her way of making sense of the world, and she gravitated toward English and History as soon as she could.
At the University of Stirling she studied those subjects in depth, reading widely and beginning to see how crime fiction could reflect real communities. The ideas that would one day become her own stories were already forming, even if she did not yet call herself a writer.
After university she moved south to Bradford to train as a teacher and quickly put down roots. She met her husband there, embraced a large British Indian family and spent years teaching in inner city classrooms, drawing daily on the city’s energy, humour and sharp edges.
Bradford also became the backdrop for her writing. Living and working in such a diverse place, she saw how issues like poverty, racism, migration and community solidarity played out on real streets. When longstanding clinical depression and anxiety made life feel smaller, she turned to crime fiction as a way to shape that experience into stories. An MA in Creative Writing at Leeds Trinity University, followed by a doctorate in creative writing, gave her both craft tools and confidence.
Her debut novel, Unquiet Souls, introduced DI Gus McGuire and a version of Bradford she describes as warm, rich and fearless while never ignoring the violence that lurks underneath. The Gus books blend police procedure with deeply personal stakes, taking in everything from child trafficking and gang rivalries to far right politics and online exploitation.
With the DS Nikki Parekh novels, beginning with Last Request, she shifted the spotlight to a British Asian detective juggling a demanding job with complicated family life. Those books dig into homelessness, generational trauma, prejudice and belonging, always anchored by Nikki’s fierce loyalty to the people she loves.
More recently, in the Solanki & McQueen series that opens with The Blood Promise, she has returned to Scotland on the page. Set around West Lothian and the central belt, these stories follow detectives Jazzy Solanki and Annie McQueen through gangland feuds, family vendettas and cases that collide with Jazzy’s own past.
Across all three series, Mistry is particularly interested in characters who have been sidelined or silenced. Her doctorate focused on bringing teen voices and other marginalised perspectives into adult crime fiction, and books like Unseen Evil and Unjust Bias weave those concerns into dark web plots, hate crimes and conversion therapy scandals.
She still lives in Bradford with her husband, their three children and an extended family that often spills into her fiction. When she is not writing, she walks the Yorkshire and Scottish landscapes she loves, reads widely in crime, and talks about the genre on her long-running crime fiction blog and at festivals.
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