Mark Hayden Books in Order

A crash, a suspicious deal, and a widening conspiracy pull DS Tom Morton, Captain Kate Lonsdale, and Squadron Leader Conrad Clarke onto colliding paths. Each sees only part of the picture, and the people behind Operation Jigsaw intend to keep it that way.

After the fallout of the first book, the action shifts to Earlsbury and a counterfeit cash operation that looks too easy. Tom Morton follows the trail into a close-knit town where corruption, loyalty, and violence make every answer dangerous.

The final Jigsaw novel brings Tom, Kate, Conrad, and Patrick Lynch back toward a shared reckoning. As loyalties split and old crimes catch up with everyone, the conspiracy drives toward a violent climax on Morecambe Bay.

Tom arrives at the gated Cheshire community of 7Bridge to keep the peace and quickly spots something wrong. When pressure builds to pin the case on the easiest target, he has to fight to keep an innocent man out of jail.

A gangster is murdered in Southport, and Tom is sent to investigate a case nobody values with a team nobody wants. The deeper he digs, the clearer it becomes that indifference can be as dangerous as guilt.

Former RAF pilot Conrad Clarke gets a text from Odin and a job offer from the King's Watch. To earn his place in England's hidden magical police, he must find a missing witch and survive a world where wit matters more than power.

Conrad and Vicky head to the Lake District hoping for a breather, then a murder drags them into the feuds of the Lakeland Particular. Their target is a mage who kills at distance and will keep doing it until someone stops them.

Conrad is finally in the Watch, but his first real mission is messy. With powerful mage Vicky Robson beside him, he must investigate rumours of a dragon's egg and pass his Invisible College test before both problems explode.

The death of the Mage-King of Wessex turns a tense conference into a fight for power between rival magical factions. Conrad, Mina, and Saffron are sent to keep the peace, then murder and old loyalties put that hope in real danger.

Conrad's quiet break in Spain with Mina ends when a tarot reading points toward trouble and alchemical gold. Soon he is chasing a deadly prize while adapting to new allies, including junior mage Saffron Hawkins and Scout the collie.

Vicky Robson takes the lead when a hunter dies in the Forest of Arden during a pursuit of the Phantom Stag. Alone in hostile woodland, she must face fae tricks, ghosts, and a killer that ordinary policing cannot touch.

Mina Desai owes a dangerous serpent a debt she cannot ignore. To recover a missing magical ruby without putting Conrad in the firing line, she builds her own team and tackles a job that reaches back more than a century.

A deadly explosion at a medal ceremony throws the Watch into crisis. To understand the dark magick spreading across England, Conrad must summon his long-dead ancestor Thomas Clarke and face the legacy buried under his own name.

A haunted RAF airfield should be routine work for Peculier Necromancer Woody Woodhouse, but the dig at Draxholt has stirred something worse. Conrad is called in, and the case forces him to confront ghosts tied to his own past.

One enemy escapes after the dragon conspiracy burns out, and the trail runs into France. This short side adventure follows unfinished business across the Channel, with the Watch forced to decide how far to push the chase.

A Samhain party, a political contest, and a body hanging from a tree all point to the same brewing feud. Conrad rides into Lakeland to stop rival mages from tipping the region into open war.

At Mina's glitzy Bollywood party, a fae princess drops a problem in Conrad's lap. Something in Lancashire is attacking the fae, and Conrad must investigate with yet another new partner before a local crisis grows much worse.

Karina takes charge of Conrad's pack of traumatised mannwolves on the shores of Ullswater. Keeping them safe is hard enough, but when a cub vanishes she has to become the leader she has never believed she could be.

Vicky only expects an awkward birthday visit for Conrad, then ends up trapped in a high-society mess she hates. One bad night of fancy dress and family power plays leaves her owing a dangerous debt to one of magick's biggest houses.

Recovering from injury, Conrad heads toward Cornwall and then Ireland after fresh news about the missing Codex Defanatus. Out of his jurisdiction and short on allies, he must face two fae queens and the stain on his family history.

Unemployed again, Conrad is talked into becoming Lakeland's new Commissioner. What looks like an administrative clean-up turns into a stand-off between powerful factions, and he must prevent the fells from sliding into full magical war.

Karina Kent is given a slim chance at redemption after a disastrous case. Sent back to Kent to investigate her mother's murder and a coven with secrets, she has to face her past and prove she can still be trusted.

This collection gathers the first four King's Watch novellas in one volume. It follows Vicky, Conrad, and Mina through the gaps between the main novels, from a fae-haunted forest to ghosts, serpent magick, and a chase into France.

Karina has finally found some peace as Madreb to the Birkfell Pack, until an old promise drags her back into trouble. This novella pushes her to choose between staying safe and standing by the people who now depend on her.

With peace in Lakeland and his wedding approaching, Conrad hopes life may finally calm down. Instead, political change inside the Watch and a strange plea from Beckthorpe Abbey pull him toward one more crisis before he can even reach the church.

Alicia, a young fae squire in Princess Faith's service, gets a crash course in survival and court politics during Conrad and Mina's wedding festivities. Her story reveals the fae world from the inside while filling in what really happened around the big event.

The wedding is over, and Conrad goes back to work with too many problems at once. A secretive organisation called the Akademia, a mystery figure named Homer, and trouble among his mannwolves open a dangerous new chapter.

Conrad's enemies stop circling and start moving. As battle lines form across several realms, Conrad, Saffron, Alice, Faith, and the wolves are pushed into a brutal showdown under the full moon.

Sophie Guest, once a stable hand and now a unicorn rider in the world of magick, finds herself pulled into harder questions than any ordinary case. This novella asks what being good really means when duty and power start pulling in different directions.