Mark Richards Books in Order

This collection gathers Richards's family-life columns into a lively portrait of parenting in all its chaos. The stories are funny and sharp, but they also catch the tenderness and exhaustion that sit right underneath the jokes.

Richards and his youngest son Alex set out to walk ninety miles of the Pennine Way in five days. The result is a funny, candid memoir about sore feet, bad planning, and the bond that grows when a father and son keep walking.

Two years later, Mark and Alex return to finish the last hundred miles of the Pennine Way. The walk brings more mishaps, more odd characters, and another honest look at how shared hardship can deepen a father-son relationship.

A collection of twenty-five short, comic pieces, told in Richards's easy, conversational style. It is the kind of book you can dip into for a quick laugh, a neat turn of phrase, and a well-timed small disaster.

This opening Best Dad collection introduces Richards's family world, where three children, one exhausted father, and daily domestic chaos produce a steady stream of funny, sharply observed stories. It is warm, honest, and full of the small moments that make family life memorable.

Mark and Alex head to southwest Ireland for nine days on the Kerry Way. It is another warm, funny account of long-distance walking, near-disasters, and the quiet pleasure of seeing a place, and each other, more clearly.

Richards looks back on the early years of family life, when his children were still small and every week seemed to bring a new comic disaster. Party bags, nativity plays, and swimming-pool changing rooms become the stuff of very recognisable parental warfare.

Pepper, the Richards family's springer spaniel, becomes the thread running through years of family change. Funny, affectionate, and a little tearful by the end, this is a warm book about the everyday life shared with a much-loved dog.

After a hit-and-run kills his wife, former detective Michael Brady returns to Whitby to rebuild life with his teenage daughter. Then his best friend is murdered, and Brady is dragged back toward the job, and the danger, he thought he had left behind.

When former football star Charlie Irvine is found dead in a canal, Brady is certain he knows who is behind it. Proving it is another matter, and this time he gets only one shot before the case, and his future, slip away.

Bones found on the North York Moors may belong to one of two girls who vanished twenty years earlier. Brady must reopen old grief, challenge what everyone thinks they know, and find the real killer before rage in the town takes over.

Gina Foster's body turns up in the River Esk, and everyone else sees an accident. Brady, back in the police and under pressure from a new boss, thinks her past hides something darker, and far more dangerous.

This prequel takes Brady back to age twenty-six and his first murder case. Everyone else is satisfied with the obvious suspect, but the rookie detective has doubts, and following them could cost him everything.

A retired couple are found brutally murdered in their moorland home, and Brady has almost nothing to work with. As he digs into old resentments and buried truths, pressure at home makes this case more personal than ever.

Ten days before Christmas, Brady is ready for family time, not ghost stories. But when a body is found at haunted Bagdale Hall, Whitby's legends and a badly handled old case start to collide, and the holiday disappears fast.

A woman is pushed from a cliff near Runswick Bay, but Brady has almost no evidence and his only witness has vanished. The deeper he digs, the more the case pulls him toward secrets from his own past.

A woman's body is found hanging from a tree near May Beck and Falling Foss, staged like a tarot card. With only five cards as clues, Brady must untangle past lives, hidden motives, and a case that pushes him harder than usual.