Michael Ridpath Books in Order

An elderly Scottish doctor wakes with near-total memory loss, while a young student discovers a manuscript that seems to confess to murdering her grandmother. As they read into the past, dangerous people close in on the cottage by the loch.

Junior bond trader Paul Murray starts asking questions when a colleague's body is found in the Thames. Soon he is framed for murder, accused of insider trading, and racing through the City to find out who wants him ruined.

After his brother dies, trader Mark Fairfax steps into a failing virtual reality company and finds himself in deeper trouble than he expected. Saving the business may mean surviving sabotage, secrets, and a very personal threat.

Academic Nick Elliot joins a hard-driving City brokerage that rules the market in Latin American bonds. As firings, a suspicious death, and a kidnapping pile up, he learns how dangerous life becomes when you cross the man in charge.

Rising venture capitalist Simon Ayot seems set for a perfect deal until his father-in-law blocks it and turns up dead days later. With suspicion falling on him, Simon digs into biotech money, family loyalty, and a murder with very high stakes.

A death during a boozy banking training trip binds a group of young financiers together in secrecy. Ten years later one of them is murdered in Prague, and Chris realizes their past may be far more dangerous than he believed.

In the dotcom boom, cautious banker David Lane joins his old friend's startup and finally takes a real risk. Then the company's key backer is murdered, and the dream of easy money turns into a frantic fight for survival.

Risk-loving bond trader Alex Calder quits the City after a colleague's sexual harassment case ends in tragedy. A year later a disappearance in the Rockies pulls him back into the same toxic world, with even higher stakes.

Alex Calder is drawn back toward his old investment bank when a friend asks for help investigating a decades-old killing in South Africa. Family secrets, media power, and unfinished business quickly turn the inquiry lethal.

Seconded from Boston to Iceland for his own safety, homicide detective Magnus returns to the country of his birth and lands in a murder case tied to a lost saga. The investigation also pulls him toward his father's unsolved death.

In a cut-off fishing village in Iceland's West Fjords, Magnus investigates the possible murder of a road worker. The locals blame the hidden people, but the real answer lies in human grudges much closer to home.

During the aftermath of Iceland's financial crash, Magnus connects a staged suicide in Reykjavík with the murder of a senior banker in London. The case leads into a conspiracy built on anger, blame, and old family wounds.

Internet activists gather in Iceland with explosive evidence of a military atrocity, then one of them is killed beside an erupting volcano. Magnus faces a case full of enemies, secrecy, and a family feud that refuses to stay buried.

In Berlin in 1938, Englishman Conrad de Lancey finds a city bending to fascism and a conspiracy forming in the shadows. Arrested, rescued, and pulled into anti-Hitler intrigue, he must decide what betrayal really means.

When Magnus's brutal grandfather is found dead on a remote Icelandic farm, the evidence starts pointing back at Magnus himself. A family history of violence, buried resentments, and shaky forensics make this case painfully personal.

With Europe at war, Conrad de Lancey is sent back into danger to contact German officers who may be plotting against Hitler. The mission moves through a world of double loyalties where every ally could be a traitor.

Six vice presidents head to an isolated New Hampshire lodge for a weekend of corporate games and one shot at partnership. By Monday one career will be made, and one ambitious player will be dead.

A polar bear is shot near a quiet Icelandic fishing village, and the policeman who pulled the trigger is soon found murdered. Magnus and Vigdís uncover rivalries, resentments, and a case far messier than the locals first admit.

A compact mystery that turns on the oldest question in crime fiction, why someone kills. Martin Edwards uses motive, deception, and hidden grievance to show how a seemingly simple case can keep shifting under the reader's feet.

Former SAS man Bjorn Thorsson tries to pull his sister out of danger when she gets tangled up with a powerful hedge fund manager. Instead he collides with Group Fifteen, and the chase runs from London to the Scottish Highlands.

A young Italian tourist is murdered at a church in northern Iceland while a film crew works nearby on a documentary about Gudrid the Wanderer. Magnus finds jealousy, hidden connections, and a second killing that changes the case.

A near-catastrophic missile order aboard a US submarine in 1983 leaves one person dead and the truth buried. Decades later, a historian's murder drags Bill Guth's family into the fallout from that night.

Emma's life takes her from idealistic politics into embassy drawing rooms in prewar Europe, where love and loyalty keep colliding. Decades later her grandson joins her on a final trip to solve a mystery the war never settled.

Ridpath looks at Iceland through the eyes of a crime writer, mixing travel, research, folklore, and practical thoughts about building a detective series. It is part guide to the country and part notebook on how stories take shape.

A teenager's early bitcoin windfall seems like a family miracle until a new Icelandic cryptocurrency pulls a whole village into speculation. When her mother is murdered, Magnus has to untangle greed, loyalty, and digital smoke screens.

Bones found on the shore of Whale Fjord send Magnus into a case that reaches back to the British occupation of Iceland in 1940. Old wartime passions and present-day revenge collide in a chilly, long-buried mystery.

In 1930 Berlin, war-scarred historian Archie Laverick teams up with ambitious American reporter Esme Carmichael after a shooting leaves a young Jewish woman accused of murder. Their search for the truth moves through glamour, politics, and rising danger.