Peter Helton Books in Order

Bath painter and private investigator Chris Honeysett accepts an art-theft case to cover mounting expenses. When an old friend is murdered and Chris becomes a suspect, the investigation turns into a dangerous effort to clear his name.

While handling an art-theft insurance matter in Bath, Chris Honeysett stumbles into a killer's hideout. The discovery puts one of his companions in danger, leaving Chris and his allies racing to locate a new hiding place.

A seemingly routine surveillance assignment pulls Bath investigator Chris Honeysett into murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Forced toward the wrong side of the law, he must manage dangerous demands while tensions threaten the partnership he relies on.

Newly transferred to Bristol, DI Liam McLusky investigates a series of deadly explosions involving apparently ordinary objects. Still adjusting after an injury, he must work with unfamiliar colleagues and superiors while the attacks spread across the city.

During a bitter Bristol winter, Liam McLusky investigates murders and apparent accidents linked to the city's drug trade. Fragments of a photograph sent to a newspaper may connect the crimes, but the investigation faces an increasingly urgent deadline.

Chris Honeysett leaves rainy Bath to search Corfu for a missing supermarket employee. Traveling in a battered motor home, he encounters suspicious followers, ominous warnings, and dangerous incidents surrounding an artist friend who lives on the island.

Short of money, Chris Honeysett accepts a security job protecting television archaeologist Guy Middleton during filming near Bath. The temperamental presenter has received death threats, and a supposedly easy assignment becomes more serious when suspicious incidents accumulate.

Chris Honeysett takes a temporary teaching post at a Bath art academy after its head dies. Preparing an exhibition becomes increasingly difficult as vandalism and strange disruptions escalate, eventually pulling the painter back into a murder investigation.

Returning to duty in Bristol, Liam McLusky investigates a woman's murder and a second troubling death. With workplace and relationship problems adding pressure, he searches for connections while another investigation concerns an intruder targeting women's homes.

Liam McLusky's investigation into an elderly man's murder initially seems straightforward, until another killing overturns his assumptions. Meanwhile, his Bristol colleagues search for an Italian official's missing daughter as new evidence complicates the cases further.

A dwarf sent through a World Gate finds Andra imprisoned for debt and recruits allies to free him. Pursued by a dark lord's servants, the group searches for the mysterious Orinstar, a power that could protect Angaron.

Chris Honeysett investigates an insurance fraud involving a man supposedly drowned years earlier. When his life-drawing model also disappears, the painter and detective takes to the canal in a borrowed narrowboat, only to discover someone following him.