Paul Gitsham Books in Order

A young woman’s body in Beaconsfield Woods bears the hallmarks of an earlier offender, but the apparent suspect has an unbreakable alibi. DCI Warren Jones must untangle the misleading evidence while personal tragedy divides his attention and another victim remains at risk.

Newly appointed DCI Warren Jones investigates the murder of an unpopular microbiologist whose throat has been cut. Political pressure and workplace tensions complicate a case that moves from personal grudges toward the financial value of the professor’s pioneering research.

An elderly man’s apparent accidental death troubles the crime scene manager, drawing DCI Warren Jones into an investigation. When the man’s son-in-law disappears, Warren uncovers family secrets and a past that may explain a motive for murder.

A man and his dog are found stabbed to death on Middlesbury Common, leaving DCI Warren Jones without a clear motive. A questionable former police officer offers information pointing to organized crime, corruption, and danger for Warren’s own family.

DNA from an apparently solved burglary links the scene to an unsolved rape from 1992. With the arrested burglar refusing to talk, DCI Warren Jones must find a mystery accomplice whose connection to both crimes challenges his assumptions.

After a far-right leader is stabbed following a protest against a new mosque, arson at a Muslim community center critically injures a child. DCI Warren Jones investigates both crimes as rising anger threatens further violence across Middlesbury.

A respected deputy head teacher is found strangled in her office, leaving DCI Warren Jones to investigate a death that shocks the community. Looking beyond her unblemished reputation exposes increasingly troubling motives among those connected to the school.

A body found in a burned chapel with doors locked from inside suggests a priest’s suicide. DCI Warren Jones questions that explanation as contradictory evidence and another disturbing discovery point toward deliberate killings and the possibility of further victims.

The son of a notorious crime family is murdered in daylight before two witnesses who speak limited English. DCI Warren Jones faces multiplying suspects and relatives destroying evidence to protect the victim’s reputation, making an apparently straightforward case increasingly dangerous.

A drug dealer’s murder seems easily solved until DCI Warren Jones realizes an innocent man has been framed. Witnesses fear becoming involved in a turf war, leaving him to search for an elusive accomplice known only as Madman.

A mutilated body beneath a bridge leads DCI Warren Jones to a solitary man estranged from his family. Secret online relationships, altered wills, sabotaged surveillance, and illicit deals complicate the search for someone who gained the victim’s trust before killing him.

While investigating an apparent murder-suicide, DCI Warren Jones receives another case when a missing woman is found dead in woodland. Further deaths suggest a serial killer whose attacks fall on Sundays, leaving Warren a week to uncover the connection between victims.

Three years after a fire killed his wife, Seamus Monaghan remains haunted by unanswered questions. His protective brother and new fiancée face the consequences of that loss as the unresolved past threatens their relationships and plans for the future.