Malcolm Hollingdrake Books in Order

Gulf War veteran Roy Hanna appears to have rebuilt a successful civilian life, but believes officials are concealing Gulf War Syndrome. His anger over injury and lost comrades drives him into a bombing campaign against the government.

Jars of honey containing tattooed human flesh accompany the disappearance of a fourteen-year-old boy in Harrogate. As another boy vanishes and more jars appear, DCI Bennett's team must identify the kidnapper before further harm occurs.

A child's dog attack draws DCI Bennett and DS Owen into a wider Harrogate investigation involving mutilated remains. Trafficking, illegal gambling, and violence stretch their team as they search for connections among apparently separate crimes.

DCI Cyril Bennett and DS David Owen investigate two infants' bodies discovered at a teacher-training college. Meanwhile, attacks involving sulphur mustard raise questions about whether the cases connect through present crimes or unresolved events from the past.

Returning to duty after personal and professional trauma, DCI Bennett investigates crime within the art trade. His team follows evidence through galleries, museums, and online dealings, where questions of authenticity intersect with ambition, money, and murder.

A mutilated body and a murdered investigative journalist confront DCI Bennett's team with puzzling evidence, including hatpins and bicycle spokes. As an escaped psychopath seeks revenge, the investigation becomes a threat to Bennett's colleagues and career.

A house collapsing into a Ripon sinkhole reveals a body, followed by discoveries of numbered Remembrance Crosses. DCI Bennett's team seeks their connection, with April Richmond's biblical knowledge assisting an inquiry complicated by a wandering religious pamphleteer.

While Bennett attends his father's funeral, DS Owen investigates a death in a car park initially considered unsuspicious. A second body with similar symptoms draws Bennett back, suggesting a careful killer has concealed the connection.

Harrogate's annual games convention gives a killer access to unsuspecting players. Victims become losers in a deadly competition, while escape rooms and gaming tables provide further opportunities for a murderer exploiting participants' confidence and misplaced trust.

With Bennett away, Owen leads investigations into elderly victims killed through snake venom and an unusual firearm. A photograph from a 1986 racing celebration offers a possible connection, but its significance must be established before another death.

Newly arrived Merseyside detective April Decent and colleague Skeeter Warlock confront a mutilated beach corpse, attacks on moped riders, and a girl's exploitation. Connecting these cases exposes troubling truths behind her introduction to the region.

Bennett investigates apparently natural deaths among elderly men connected through an educational social-media group. Meanwhile, newly promoted Inspector Owen's drug inquiry exposes a county-lines operation, and a missing adolescent makes his investigation increasingly urgent.

A young woman's disappearance alarms DI April Decent, though colleagues note that she has vanished before. With DS Skeeter Warlock, she faces a case shadowed by a man's determination to avenge a seemingly minor confrontation.

A disturbed attacker stalks Harrogate, haunted by childhood abuse and a serious road accident. His intention to injure escalates into murder, confronting DCI Bennett's team with violent outbursts and an unusual sensitivity to the color red.

A missing woman’s hidden life complicates DCI Bennett’s investigation as drugs and infidelity emerge. With a cunning perpetrator leaving little useful evidence, a second disappearance increases the pressure on his team to determine what connects the victims.

Five unexplained disappearances confront DCI Bennett’s team, while a vigilante group interferes with their investigation. Discoveries of bodies transform the search into a murder inquiry, exposing relationships among the missing and possible motives of revenge and retribution.

A vulnerable young man disappears after an attack by drug dealers, while homeless people die across Liverpool. DI April Decent and DS Skeeter Warlock investigate whether the apparently unconnected deaths conceal a serial killer operating around the docks.

Old human remains uncovered during roadworks and new murders marked with stamps draw Bennett’s team into parallel investigations. As forensic evidence develops, unexpected connections emerge between charitable activities, an abandoned child and crimes separated by many years.

A gang using electric motorbikes commits increasingly ambitious robberies across Liverpool under a hidden controller’s orders. DI April Decent’s team follows fragmented evidence and an unresolved death, hoping an arrest will reveal the person directing the escalating violence.