Pete Brassett Books in Order

Fast-talking Luca Montella guides us through New York as luck and love seem to turn his way. What begins as a funny, restless romance slowly becomes a bittersweet story of betrayal, forgiveness, and heartbreak.

Back in 1940s London after the war, Stanley Wilkins tries to build a normal life while carrying deep trauma. As that damage turns violent, one detective becomes obsessed with stopping a killer shaped by war and its aftermath.

When a school headmaster is found dead in an onion patch in the Irish town of Innishannon, the local police know something is badly wrong. Their best lead may be Padre Constantine, a wandering priest confined to a mental asylum.

Ex-British agent Nathan Pearson is living quietly in Paris when a dream design contract turns out to be cover for a Russian smuggling operation. He is soon caught in a violent chase involving criminals, intelligence agencies, and a steep personal cost.

In this short memoir, a boy comes home from school and finds his father literally yellow with illness. Pete Brassett turns that shocking image into a tender account of family love, cancer, and learning to face loss.

The Benardino family already has too many bodies and nowhere sensible to store them, but gin-soaked matriarch Virginia insists on throwing a birthday party anyway. This dark farce turns domestic chaos into a very funny, very dangerous night.

A murdered American tourist and a missing girl named Nancy McBride unsettle a quiet Irish town. Detectives Hanagan and Molloy dig into a case that opens into loss, betrayal, vengeance, and more than one buried secret.

A body in a remote glen pulls retired DI Munro back into police work in Inverkip. With locals holding back and Charlie West joining the case, the pair must work through small-town secrets before the truth hardens into rumor.

A foreign worker calmly confesses to killing a local businessman, but Munro and West do not buy the simple answer. Money, desire, and a tangle of false leads turn the case into a much knottier puzzle.

When a young woman is murdered, the evidence seems to point neatly to one man. Munro and West soon suspect the real killer is planting clues, framing innocents, and staying a step ahead of the investigation.

DI James Munro and new sergeant Charlie West think they are handling a routine missing person case in London. Then a body turns up, a serial killer emerges, and the search for a woman at the crime scene becomes urgently personal.

After a hit and run leaves Munro bruised, a separate complaint about a tampered will lands on the police desk. The two strands collide when witnesses start dying and a baffling attempted murder becomes a full murder case.

A bank employee is found dead in his car beside a loch, with enough painkillers in his system to muddy the cause. Charlie West follows the trail into finance, drugs, and class tension, with Munro stepping back in to help.

A schoolgirl dies on Goat Fell in brutal weather, and the story does not add up. As Charlie West uncovers signs of drugging and another young woman is found dead, a charming suspect draws dangerous attention.

A boy discovers a body on a deserted beach, and Charlie West must shoulder the case while Munro is missing. A cliff death, a drug ring, and reluctant suspects make this one of their trickiest investigations.

A murdered young woman, a known stalker, and a confession that seems almost too tidy give Charlie West an apparently easy case. Then a vanished pensioner and other odd threads suggest the wrong person may be in custody.

Charlie West is already dealing with inept moped robberies when three severed fingers turn up at a dump. A jeweller's murder and a maze of unrelated-looking clues force Munro to find the pattern everyone else keeps missing.

A stranded fishing boat holds a gruesome corpse, and Charlie West quickly realizes the obvious suspect may not be the right one. Then a local girl goes missing, pulling the case into even darker and stranger waters.

Property developer Rebecca Barlow is found trussed up like a scarecrow, and the case soon tangles with an assault and a missing person. Charlie West and retired Munro must sort through superstition, drugs, and a deeply odd murder.

Tam McDonnell thinks a scheme to pack his struggling pub might save his future, until a barmaid is found murdered in the toilets. Charlie West's team must connect that killing to a string of strange high-end robberies in Ayr.