Peter Tremayne Books in Order

Ellis's nonfiction study traces the history of the Cornish language and the texts written in it. It helped establish him as a serious scholar of Celtic language and culture.

A Gothic reworking of the Dracula legend that imagines the vampire's story from within. Part confession and part dark historical fantasy, it follows bloodline, exile, and the lure of immortality.

A brisk Gothic adventure for younger readers that plays with Frankenstein mythology. When the old legend stirs again, a strange hound turns curiosity into danger.

Upton Welsford's life unravels after a jade figurine brings nightmares and the woman he loves seems possessed. Soon he is caught in Dracula's long search for immortality.

Psychologist Hugh Strickland thinks Noreen Pemberton is suffering from a split personality, until hypnosis uncovers something older and far darker. The spirit of Ayesha wants a body, and it will kill to return.

An anthology edited by Tremayne that gathers major Irish voices in fantasy and the macabre, including Stoker, Le Fanu, and Lord Dunsany. It is a useful doorway into the darker side of Irish imaginative fiction.

Jane Sewell returns to the Brazilian jungle expecting a reunion with her anthropologist father and finds only bones. Out in the heat, a relentless army of killer ants is already on the move.

After inheriting a crumbling castle on Loch Ness, Jeannie Millbuie expects family secrets, not nightmare horror. A journal, strange cries, and the loch's hidden presence pull her into a deadly mystery.

Grieving governess Morag MacLeod travels to Transylvania and enters the service of a sinister count. Under Dracula's spell, she must choose between passion, freedom, and survival.

Botanist Frank Dryden is stranded in a ruined future Cornwall after disaster leaves him alone in a dead landscape. Rescued by a Celtic tribe, he is drawn into war, druidic rites, and a quest for a powerful relic.

A. J. Raffles, thought dead in the Boer War, turns up very much alive and ready to crack safes again. Blackmailed into serving the government, he takes on a theft that could avert an international crisis.

June arrives on a Caribbean island expecting a tropical inheritance and finds her grandmother's estate in ruins. Behind its doors waits voodoo, blood sacrifice, and a legacy of living death.

A Cornish fishing village is already struggling when something monstrous begins moving beneath the water. As boats are smashed and fear spreads, old coastal superstitions start to look horribly true.

High in the Scottish mountains, a savage legendary creature awakens and begins to kill. Tremayne turns remote snow country into a tight, chilly horror setting.

Frank Dryden's struggle in the strange world of Lan-Kern continues as old enemies return and larger battles gather. The series deepens its blend of ruined science, Celtic belief, and hard survival.

To strike at Hitler from within, British intelligence sends disgraced prisoner Charlie Collins to infiltrate the Nazi British Free Corps. It is a wartime mission built on nerve, deception, and a very small margin for error.

Oxford archaeologist Sir Keith Chase thinks he has made the discovery of a lifetime when he opens a sacred crypt in West Bengal. Instead he unleashes an ancient curse with deadly reach.

Warrior Bran Mac Morgor breaks a sacred oath and is marked by a raven-claw curse. Exiled from honor, he sets out across a mythic Celtic world in search of love, redemption, and a way to master fate.

Lan-Kern's struggles spill onto the sea as Frank Dryden and his allies face raiders, shifting loyalties, and fresh dangers. The final book keeps the series moving with adventure, myth, and survival.

Washed-up pilot Tom Saxon gets one last chance when rival companies race to bring passenger airships back. Sabotage, ambition, and the possibility of redemption keep this techno-thriller moving.

One of Tremayne's compact horror novels from the 1980s, this book leans into eerie atmosphere and mounting dread. It is a brisk old-school chiller built for readers who like their scares pulpy and direct.

Deep in Florida's Everglades, a bloodthirsty creature turns the swamp into hunting ground. This is fast, creature-driven horror with a strong sense of place.

Two dead Vatican archivists and a first-century scroll draw Cardinal Tellaro and ruined scholar David Kane into the same deadly secret. If the document is real, it could shake the Church to its foundations.

Seventeen years after the sinking of HMS Hampshire, writer Gunnar Creel teams up with diver Karl Osten to hunt the lost cargo. Treasure, espionage, and old secrets make the search far more dangerous than expected.

This short story collection draws on Celtic legend, haunted landscapes, and the macabre. Shape-changers, eerie islands, and old fears give the stories a distinctly Atlantic chill.

Oil rigs probing the Caribbean seabed disturb something that should have stayed buried forever. Soon the sea itself seems to rise in violent revenge.

In Nazi-occupied Norway, a British rescue mission must extract the one surgeon who can save a powerful political figure. The result is a wartime thriller full of spies, snow, and escape plans under pressure.

Tony Stevens refuses to accept that his sister died in an ordinary skiing accident in Oslo. His search for answers reveals a force that has finished with her and is now hunting him.

Set in a legendary Ireland of mist, magic, gods, and monsters, this fantasy adventure follows heroic struggles in an older, stranger world. It was also published as Ravenmoon.

A botched robbery, a crashed aircraft, and a fast-spreading forest fire converge in the Adirondacks. As the blaze grows, several desperate groups race simply to stay alive.

Raised by a druidess and a warrior after being found at sea, Scathach sets out to avenge her foster father's murder and uncover her own past. Her quest leads through danger, prophecy, and Irish legend.

A collection of Irish tales of terror that mixes folklore, history, and the uncanny. Tremayne uses old landscapes and older fears to create intimate, unsettling horror.

With Hitler preparing to invade England, a plan emerges to trigger civil war by restoring the Duke of Windsor. This alternate-path wartime thriller turns royal politics into espionage.

At the 664 synod where Roman and Celtic Christianity clash, Abbess Etain is murdered. Sister Fidelma and Brother Eadulf must find the killer before the dispute turns into wider conflict.

An archbishop is found garrotted, a monk is caught fleeing, and the case looks too neat to trust. Fidelma and Eadulf follow a trail of motives and bodies toward the truth.

When the Venerable Dacan is murdered, Fidelma is summoned by Muman's dying king to investigate. Solving the crime is urgent, because the wrong answer could trigger war with Laigin.

A murder at a remote abbey leads Fidelma into a case that widens into the strange disappearance of an entire ship's crew. Old loyalties and hidden schemes make every clue slippery.

A killing in a seemingly peaceful town draws Fidelma into a tight web of private grudges and buried secrets. She has to untangle the truth before the next victim is her.

Co-written with Peter Haining, this nonfiction book looks at Bram Stoker, Dracula, and the real people and places behind the novel. It is part literary investigation, part cultural history.

Fidelma enters the forbidden valley of Gleann Geis to negotiate for a church and school in hostile territory. Politics, belief, and danger quickly turn the mission into a murder mystery.

What begins as a pilgrimage becomes an investigation when a traveler is swept overboard on the first night at sea. Fidelma soon finds that faith and murder make uneasy company.

An Arthurian anthology that gathers tales of the knights of the Round Table, with Peter Tremayne among the contributors. It is best read as a grab-bag of adventures, rivalries, and legend.

When an elderly monk disappears with the priceless relics of St. Ailbe, the loss threatens both faith and prestige. Fidelma must trace the vanished man before scandal turns to disaster.

This collection brings together Sister Fidelma stories and shorter mysteries set around murder, belief, and law in seventh-century Ireland. It is a good way to sample the series outside the full novels.

Returning from a voyage, Fidelma learns that Eadulf faces death for the murder of a young woman. She races into Laigin to challenge the verdict and uncover the real killer.

Blown off course to the Welsh kingdom of Dyfed, Fidelma and Eadulf are asked to solve a near-impossible mystery. An entire monastic community, including a prince, has vanished.

A midnight summons on Yule night brings Fidelma and Eadulf to an abbey already touched by death. Trapped by winter weather, they must solve Brother Botulf's murder.

Three young girls are slain on three full moons, and panic grips Muman. Suspicion falls on Ethiopian visitors at a nearby abbey, but Fidelma knows fear can point to the wrong killer.

A servant is murdered and the abducted child is the son of Fidelma and Eadulf. The case is suddenly personal, and the search has to move fast.

A second collection of Sister Fidelma stories, these cases show her solving crimes in compact form while the series' legal and historical detail remains fully intact.

A wrecked ship, a slaughtered abbess, abducted nuns, and a murdered scholar all seem linked by one hidden hand. Fidelma and Eadulf travel into enemy territory to find the mind behind the violence.

A shorter mystery from Tremayne that uses a tight setting and a sudden killing to build classic whodunit tension. The pleasure is in watching suspicion close around a small circle of possible culprits.

On the eve of Fidelma and Eadulf's wedding, a hated abbot is found murdered and a visiting king is blamed. Marriage plans are put aside while peace between kingdoms hangs in the balance.

The High King of Ireland is found with his throat cut, and the obvious solution looks far too convenient. Fidelma's investigation uncovers conspiracy, deception, and the threat of civil war.

At the Council of Autun, where church leaders plan a blow against the Celtic Church, a delegate from Hibernia is murdered. Fidelma steps into a gathering already thick with intrigue.

This nonfiction investigation revisits the 1945 case of Philip Berry, nicknamed the Creeper, whose murder trial opened onto espionage and wartime secrecy. It follows the clues, contradictions, and cover-up claims left behind.

Pirates attack an Irish merchant ship off Brittany, killing Fidelma's cousin and others after surrender. Escape is only the start, because she is determined to track the killers down.

A scholar is murdered inside a locked room at Lios Mor and important manuscripts vanish. Before Fidelma can investigate fully, someone tries to kill her too.

Stranded in Genua on her way home from Rome, Fidelma travels into northern Italy to reach her dying teacher. Instead she walks into murder, conspiracy, and a land close to civil war.

The murder of a young noble near Cashel seems tied to unrest in the neighboring kingdom of Laign. A fanatic preaching purifying violence pushes the case toward something even more dangerous.

A messenger cries out to remember Liamuin, then stabs King Colgu before the assembled nobles. With the king near death, Fidelma must uncover the motive before the kingdom fractures.

Religious debate turns deadly when an abbess is murdered during talks between Irish and Anglo-Saxon delegates. Eadulf's younger brother is accused, giving Fidelma every reason to doubt the easy answer.

On the way to the Great Fair of Cashel, a wagon catches fire and reveals two disturbing secrets, a dead driver living under disguise and a corpse hidden in back. Fidelma has just days to solve it.

Visiting the Abbey of Durrow, Fidelma finds a monk murdered and suspicion fixed on a woman who predicted the crime. Old beliefs, rumor, and fear cloud every witness.

When Colgu's chief bishop is murdered in the old enemy fortress of the Ui Fidgente, execution under a new law threatens wider conflict. Fidelma must get to the truth before justice becomes vengeance.

Set during Fidelma's student years, this mini-mystery sends her to find an old friend who has vanished from home. It works as a neat introduction to her first recorded case.

On the eve of Samhain, a man is found murdered in an unlit pyre and dressed as a religious. Prophecy, ritual death, and whispers of the old gods give Fidelma a chilling case.

A later Shadows of War thriller that returns to secret plans, divided loyalties, and wartime danger. It plays in the same space as MacAlan's other World War II suspense novels, where one hidden mission can change everything.

Bound by oath to keep her mission secret, Fidelma tracks a murdered abbot and a fugitive girl while rumors spread around the kingdom. The case isolates her just when she most needs allies.

In a prosperous village that prides itself on harmony, a stranger is nearly lynched for a family's murder. Fidelma saves him, then discovers that the real danger is still walking free.

A dead brehon, a missing princess, and rumors of shapeshifters draw Fidelma into hostile Laigin. Mines, brigands, and political suspicion make the search steadily more dangerous.

As Muman's princes gather for council, the keeper of the sacred sword is murdered and plague fears spread from a nearby ship. Fidelma has to solve the killing amid panic and whispers of revolt.

A bishop dies in a hostel fire, but Fidelma quickly learns he was stabbed first. Factions inside a great teaching abbey turn the investigation into a maze of doctrine, jealousy, and deceit.

Princess Gelgeis arrives in Cashel with her women warriors, then one guard is found dead beside the royal apartments. Poison, locked-room questions, and wedding tensions raise the stakes fast.

A collection of twelve Shakespearean murder mysteries set in Elizabethan London and centered on Master Hardy Drew of the Bankside Watch. It blends theatrical life, wordplay, and classic puzzle plotting.

A grey-cloaked prophetess foretells Abbot Brocc's death, and soon he is found dead exactly as feared. Fidelma faces a remote abbey divided between the old and new faiths.

Fidelma and Eadulf reach his East Anglian home to find his uncle murdered, the house burned, and his sister missing. Hostile locals and church politics make the search even harder.