Peter Hatherall Mystery Books in Order

A storm exposes a teenage girl's buried remains beneath an uprooted tree in Birkbury. DCI Peter Hatherall and DI Fiona Williams investigate village secrets while the disappearance of another girl brings urgency to the case.

The murder of a mechanic near horse-training gallops leads DCI Peter Hatherall into a guarded racing community. Trainer Ben Halloway closes ranks as the investigation encounters disappearing witnesses and secrets someone wants to protect.

A noose appears outside James Palmer's home, where a young man died two years earlier. DCI Peter Hatherall investigates a vendetta whose elusive perpetrator uses disguise to pursue people blamed for the earlier tragedy.

An elderly nursing-home resident offers journalist Megan Roach information about a murder. Her pursuit of the story collides with troubling gaps in her own memory, while Peter Hatherall investigates a conspiracy connecting past and present.

Social worker Vivien Morse is found battered to death in Silver Lady Woods. Peter Hatherall investigates her husband, a missing supervisor, and a troubled client whose account of a lost baby complicates the search for truth.

A young mother is stabbed in a busy park, with her son witnessing the attack. Peter Hatherall connects the crime to a paperboy's murder decades earlier, raising uncomfortable questions about his own involvement in that investigation.