Mari Hannah Books in Order

Newly promoted Inspector Frankie Oliver has never stopped thinking about her sister’s unsolved murder. When fresh evidence surfaces and David Stone quietly reopens the cold case, Frankie is pulled between family loyalty and procedure as the trail leads into present day exploitation and organised crime.

Three years after police officer Georgina Ioannau was killed and the investigation stalled, two prime suspects are shot dead within hours of landing back in the UK. Kate Daniels must decide whether she is chasing revenge, a cover up or both, risking her career and team to find out.

Tourists camping beside Kielder Water haul a barrel from the reservoir and open it to reveal a skeleton. The same day a second body is found, sending David Stone and Frankie Oliver from Northumberland’s dark skies to Iceland in pursuit of witnesses who may be hiding much more.

At a remote crime scene, Kate Daniels discovers that a dying victim has left a secret note addressed to the officer who will investigate her death. The message asks Kate to find Aaron, triggering a countdown that makes her the focus of a relentless adversary.

When a barrel drifts across a vast Northumberland reservoir and is found to contain human remains, a quiet beauty spot becomes a crime scene. The investigation soon uncovers a second, more recent body and buried secrets that prove nothing stays hidden once it rises from the deep.

A passenger jet flying from London to New York disappears without warning, dominating headlines around the world. For Kate Daniels the disaster is personal, because the woman she loves was on board, and she is willing to break rules and cross jurisdictions to learn the truth.

In the run up to Christmas, a man is stabbed in a Newcastle side street in what looks like a robbery gone wrong. When Frankie Oliver recognises the victim as an old friend and court reporter, she and David Stone uncover the explosive story he died for.

A mysterious DVD arrives at Northumbria Police Headquarters showing a blood soaked lock up, narrated by an unseen woman, but with no visible victim. As more recordings and bodies follow, Matthew Ryan and Eloise O’Neil race to link the killings before the killer’s game destroys their new unit.

Alex Parker returns from a holiday to find her ten year old son Daniel has vanished after football practice. For newly paired Northumbria detectives David Stone and Frankie Oliver, a missing child case soon exposes lies, betrayals and a family far from what it seems.

A young woman’s body is discovered beside a railway line in the Tyne Valley, the latest victim in a series of undetected murders. As DCI David Stone and DS Frankie Oliver hunt a meticulous killer, they begin to suspect someone inside the team is leaking information.

After a country show in rural Northumberland, a teenage wrestler is found hanging from an ancient gallows on a lonely road. Pushed aside from the case, Kate Daniels battles an old rival in the force while unpicking small town secrets and long standing bullying.

When a security van taking disgraced Special Branch officer Jack Fenwick to prison is hijacked, DS Matthew Ryan is accused of helping his old boss escape. Suspended and watched, he goes off the grid to clear his name and uncover a far reaching conspiracy.

Two brothers from the same violent crime family die within hours of each other, one dumped near an industrial estate, the other lost in a hospital corridor. Tracking their killer drags Kate Daniels from Newcastle to Glasgow and beyond as torture murders mount.

Skeletal remains discovered in the dunes below a Northumberland castle pull Kate Daniels into a cold case with disturbingly fresh echoes. While she searches for the victim’s identity, a dangerous sex offender plays mind games with a prison psychologist whose life may depend on Kate’s investigation.

Before dawn on a wet stretch of the A1, a car crash becomes one of Northumberland’s worst road disasters. As Kate Daniels and Hank Gormley work through the wreckage, a house fire across town suggests someone is using chaos to hide targeted murders.

A young woman is found dead at the base of Hadrian’s Wall, apparently thrown from the heights while still alive. When a wealthy businessman reports his daughter missing, Kate Daniels must decide whether the body and the ransom are part of the same deadly game.

Eleven months after failing to solve a brutal double murder in a quiet Northumbrian town, DCI Kate Daniels gets her first case as senior investigator when a man is shot on Newcastle’s quayside, a victim she secretly knows all too well.