LJ Ross Books in Order

On enforced leave after a traumatic case, DCI Ryan retreats to remote Holy Island, hoping for peace. When a young woman is ritualistically murdered among the priory ruins, he must work with local expert Dr Anna Taylor to expose a killer hidden in a tiny community.

Months after the Holy Island case, a skeleton is discovered sealed inside Hadrian’s Wall at Sycamore Gap, killed a decade earlier on the summer solstice. As Ryan confronts the resurfacing cult known as The Circle, the investigation sparks a fresh wave of violence.

Over Easter weekend, a killer stalks Newcastle’s cemeteries, burying red‑haired women in shallow graves and posing them as macabre angels. With panic rising and bodies mounting, Ryan and his team race to decode the murderer’s religious obsessions before another victim is chosen.

Suspended from duty, Ryan is alone at a remote church when a man is found dead and every piece of evidence points to him. To clear his name, he must stop whoever is murdering members of the Circle before he becomes the final target.

Spending the summer at the grand Cragside estate, Ryan and Anna expect quiet wedding planning, not murder. When a staff murder‑mystery party ends with a real corpse, Ryan must uncover long‑buried secrets inside a close household where everyone has something to lose.

Thirty years after a secret camping trip at Kielder reservoir left a boy missing, his body rises from the depths and stirs an old evil. Returning from honeymoon, Ryan faces a killer who knows the forest—and a powerful enemy within the force who wants him ruined.

Notorious serial killer The Hacker escapes custody and abducts one of Ryan’s closest colleagues, dragging the team back into the nightmare they thought they’d survived. Hunting him across the wild Durham Dales, Ryan must confront old trauma to bring his friend home alive.

A Viking treasure hoard discovered off the North Sea coast draws historian Dr Anna Taylor into a world of rival divers and salvage politics. When a diver washes up dead near Seahouses, Ryan must learn who is prepared to kill to keep the past buried.

As Ryan prepares to leave Newcastle to chase a fugitive, the iconic Tyne Bridge explodes, plunging the city into terror. With further attacks threatened, he must face past failures while hunting a bomber determined to burn every bridge—literal and personal—behind them.

When an elderly man is murdered inside the ancient hermitage at Warkworth Castle, Ryan’s team investigate without their chief. Ryan is in Italy, tracking dangerous thriller writer Nathan Armstrong, and the trail soon links the quiet Northumberland crime scene to a deadly game in Tuscany.

After uncovering corruption in his own force, Ryan hopes for a quiet summer—until a young woman is shot on a remote army range in Northumberland National Park. Linked attacks at historic sites and a cryptic symbol point to a fanatic who treats murder as ritual.

Still scarred from events in Ireland, Gregory is called to Paris during fashion week, where models are being slain and their faces viciously slashed. One traumatised survivor holds the key, and he must coax out her memories without breaking her further.

After the collapse of his elite profiling unit, forensic psychologist Dr Alexander Gregory retreats to rural County Mayo, craving a quieter life. When a series of brutal murders terrifies the local community, the Gardaí turn to him to read a killer hiding in plain sight.

In a former mining village under the shadow of Penshaw Monument, an old man dies in a brutal house fire that looks anything but accidental. As Ryan uncovers decades‑old betrayals, rumours of a mole inside CID threaten to tear his close-knit team apart.

A freak snowstorm forces Ryan and his colleagues off the road and into England’s most haunted castle during a "Candlelit Ghost Hunt" event. When a guest is found dead in seemingly impossible circumstances, they must solve a locked‑room mystery before another ghost joins the legends.

Set before Holy Island, this prequel follows Ryan’s first major case with Northumbria CID as a sadistic killer dubbed The Hacker stalks Newcastle in a suffocating heatwave. New to the team and still an outsider, he has to earn their trust before the city panics completely.

When a ten‑year‑old girl turns up on Ryan’s doorstep claiming she has witnessed a murder, he can’t ignore her. With a travelling circus camped on Newcastle’s Town Moor, the team must look past bright lights and illusions to uncover a killer hiding among the performers.

Fresh from the Paris investigation, Gregory is summoned to a private psychiatric hospital in New York’s Catskill Mountains after a key witness against a crime boss is declared unfit to testify. Inside a facility where staff may be as unstable as patients, he has to decide who to trust.

The world believes Ryan safely returned St Cuthbert’s jeweled cross to Durham Cathedral—but he knows the relic on display is a fake. When something even more precious is stolen, he follows an ancient trail across the borderlands, decoding legends to catch a very modern thief.

A colleague is shot dead on her own doorstep just as an explosion rocks Durham Cathedral, leaving one of St Cuthbert’s relics missing. Under intense pressure and unable to trust everyone locally, Ryan’s team hunt both a killer and a thief through the city’s ancient streets.

Traumatised after surviving a serial killer who pushed victims from Tube platforms, publishing professional Gabrielle Adams flees London to run a tiny bookshop in a Cornish cove. The village feels like escape—until unsettling incidents suggest her nightmares may have followed her to the coast.

When a fishing boat wrecks off Marsden Rock and a young woman’s body washes ashore, Ryan uncovers a smuggling route using desperate people as cargo. Tracking survivors through Tyneside’s underworld, his team confronts those profiting from human misery along the cold North Sea coast.

After Ryan’s wife discovers the body of a cantankerous villager in Bamburgh, another corpse appears among the sand dunes below the castle, making coincidence unlikely. At the same time, DC Melanie Yates’s hunt for her sister’s killer draws dangerous attention to secrets the village would rather forget.

Back in London and suspended from his hospital post, Gregory witnesses a famous actor drop dead onstage during King Lear. As further deaths follow in the theatre world, he partners with determined DCI Hope to unmask a killer who treats the stage as their laboratory.

Kate Irving arrives at her grandfather’s cottage on Frenchman’s Creek with her young son and little else, determined to leave the past behind. Welcomed by the close community along the Helford estuary, she finally relaxes—until tragedy strikes and her new neighbours demand answers she’d rather not give.

When the ancient waters of Lady’s Well in the village of Holystone suddenly run red, locals assume it’s a prank—until mass poisoning and an old man’s death follow. As superstition flares, Ryan must separate village feuds from a calculated campaign of murder.

In St Ives, Detective Sergeant Sophie Keane seems to have the dream posting of gentle seaside policing, but she’s hiding a twenty‑year‑old secret. When a body is found at a new seafront gallery and the method feels horribly familiar, she fears an old nightmare has returned.

A nationwide hunt for violent offender Carl Deere leaves two women Gregory cares about in critical condition: detective Ava Hope and psychiatrist Naomi Palmer. When evidence suggests one of them has killed, he must sift through buried memories and his own blind spots to learn who he can trust.

A photographer’s body is found on the jagged rocks below Dunstanburgh Castle, but none of the suspects seems to have a motive. When further unexplained deaths follow, Ryan and his team hunt for the hidden link between "accidents" before coincidence kills again.

Years after a wrongful conviction ruined an innocent man’s life, senior figures linked to the old Soho murders case begin to die. Convinced the past is returning to haunt him, Gregory races between Cambridge and London, unsure whether he is hunting the real killer or their latest target.

Most of the world believes Ryan was killed in a targeted shooting, allowing him to hide in Devon while he tracks those behind the attack. Back in Northumberland, his team investigates mysterious poisonings linked to Alnwick’s infamous Poison Garden, knowing exposure could kill their chief for real.

Irish news anchor Isolde Malone, forced into a career break after a public crisis, accepts an invitation to her brother’s glossy charity weekend at Tintagel. When a body washes up near the legendary castle and storms trap the guests in their hotel, she must decide who—if anyone—she can trust.

A Christmas party at elegant Belsay Hall is meant to reward Ryan’s exhausted team—until their celebration is interrupted by a corpse. Trapped on the estate by winter weather, they must untangle office politics and old scandals to find out who decided the holidays were the perfect time to kill.

When Ryan’s wife, Anna, is arrested for the murder of a well‑known author in Berwick, his professional and personal worlds collide. As evidence piles up against her, he must question everything he thought he knew while uncovering who is manipulating the case from the shadows.