Peter N Walker Books in Order

Walker opens the Carnaby series with a brisk police thriller about a dangerous hijacking plot. Carnaby has to move fast before organized violence claims more victims.

Carnaby is up against a deadly plot where the killers are organised, patient, and hard to reach. The stakes are higher than a routine CID inquiry.

Escaped prisoners and the network helping them vanish give Carnaby a tense, fast-moving case. It is early Walker, direct, practical, and tough-minded.

A conspiracy widens around Carnaby as hidden allies and hidden enemies prove difficult to separate. The case trades village warmth for straight police suspense.

Acts of sabotage force Carnaby to track down whoever is prepared to cause public harm for private ends. The pace stays taut and purposeful throughout.

A clear guide to the history and everyday working of the courts. Walker explains legal institutions in plain language rather than legal fog.

Carnaby faces opponents determined to remove every obstacle in their path, including people. The result is a compact crime thriller with rising pressure and little wasted motion.

Constable Jock Patterson takes to the roads in Panda One, where ordinary patrol work can turn serious without warning. The book has the grounded feel of a working policeman's story.

A protest movement turns dangerous when demonstrators decide to spread havoc on a much larger scale. Carnaby must get inside the threat before it breaks loose.

A routine identification should be simple, but the situation turns risky and complicated fast. The title points to one small procedure with far larger consequences.

An illustrated history of punishment that looks at how societies have disciplined, imprisoned, and executed offenders over time. It reflects Walker's interest in the wider justice system.

An early-hours call draws Jock Patterson into a deeper investigation than he expects. Walker keeps the action close to the street and the pressure constant.

When the enemy is already inside, Carnaby has to work out who has been planted, what they want, and how far the damage has gone. It is one of Walker's more overtly covert cases.

Death in a seemingly ordinary place exposes resentments and motives that have had time to harden. This is a measured police mystery with a strong sense of local unease.

An abduction case sends Carnaby into a race against time. The hunt for the kidnappers is sharp, tense, and driven by the fear of what may happen next.

Talk of witchcraft and local unease pull Patterson toward a case where rumour may be hiding something real. The atmosphere turns stranger without losing its police footing.

A tightly wound criminal scheme threatens to spread wider than expected. Walker keeps the focus on police method, rising pressure, and the cost of missing one key detail.

Fake money opens the door to a wider criminal operation, and Carnaby has to follow the trail back to its source. The case mixes fraud, pressure, and solid police legwork.

A tense stand-off pushes Jock Patterson into one of the Panda One series' most pressured situations. It is a compact police novel with real urgency.

A thief who thinks he has found a safe hiding place discovers just how quickly the trap can close. The novel plays out as a neat, practical police chase.

A practical, soothing guide aimed at helping parents create calmer routines for babies. The focus is on reassurance, ease, and making daily life feel more manageable.

A prose visit to the world of *Emmerdale Farm*, where a request for help stirs up loyalty, strain, and village feeling. The book keeps the rural soap atmosphere front and centre.

This tie-in returns to the farm and its surrounding Yorkshire community, where family pressures and local relationships shape every decision. It is built for readers who enjoy rural soap drama.

Conflicting loyalties unsettle life around the farm as personal choices ripple through the wider community. Domestic feeling and village consequence are closely tied together here.

Walker turns to real northern history here, gathering old crimes, local legends, and unsolved puzzles from the North York Moors. It is part true-crime collection, part regional folklore.

Romance, marriage, and shifting attachments bring fresh tension to the Yorkshire farm setting. Walker leans into the human drama that keeps soap fiction moving.

A companion volume celebrating the Yorkshire landscape behind *Emmerdale*. It is as much about place and atmosphere as it is about the television world itself.

What looks like an accident begins to suggest something darker. Walker builds the case by letting practical police work chip away at the easy explanation.

Another nonfiction collection of Yorkshire crime, legend, and curious local history. Walker's feel for place makes the Dales as vivid as any of his fictional settings.

PC Alan Camford expects an easy guarding job, but protecting a train carrying an oil-rich prince turns dangerous. Routine duty becomes a tense test of nerve and judgement.

A disappearance pulls the police into family strain, uncertain motives, and the fear that time is running out. Walker keeps the focus on the people left behind as much as the search.

A killing in a wooded setting gives Ross MacAllister a case shaped by secrecy, atmosphere, and the lies people tell themselves first. Quiet country ground turns unexpectedly menacing.

A lakeside death draws Ross MacAllister into a restrained but unsettling investigation. The stillness of the setting only sharpens the sense that something is badly wrong.

Young Stephen Crosby joins the police force determined to prove himself, even when the station's pressures make that hard. Then a violent robbery leaves him frighteningly on his own.