Rachel Abbott Books in Order

Recovering from a near-fatal shooting, DCI Tom Douglas learns that his brother Jack, long in hiding from organised crime, has disappeared. To save Jack’s family, Tom must enter a ruthless underworld and decide how far he is willing to bend the rules to protect them.

Juliette Dalton escapes her failing marriage by falling for charismatic Ellis Cobain, then discovers she is only one of several women he has betrayed. At a remote Cornish hotel, the women unite to confront him, until a death on the cliffs brings in Stephanie King.

Mallory Hansen thinks she has finally found stability with Nathan, until a shocking accusation about his past rips through their relationship and reunites their old friendship group. As targeted attacks and a missing woman tear at the six friends, DCI Tom Douglas hunts whoever is orchestrating the revenge.

When Nancy Holland returns to the Cornish cottage she has inherited, she is haunted by the disappearance of her teenage sister Lola there eleven years earlier. A body in a sea cave and sinister events at the house push Nancy and DS Stephanie King toward a devastating truth.

A young woman living under a false name keeps her bag permanently packed, certain that if the police find her, so will the man she fears most. When a friend is killed, DCI Tom Douglas’s inquiry collides with her desperate attempt to stay invisible.

At Lucas Jarrett’s clifftop home in Cornwall, a glamorous wedding ended in tragedy before the ceremony could begin. One year later he summons the same guests back for a truth-telling game that spirals out of control, and Stephanie King has to sort performance from confession.

Jo Palmer’s cosy family life shatters when police knock on the door and arrest her partner Ash in front of their daughter. As social services close in and friends turn away, DCI Tom Douglas investigates a calculated campaign designed to strip Jo of everything she loves.

Primary school headteacher Anna has buried the mistakes of her youth and built a respectable life. When she hears the voice of Scott, the ex-boyfriend she believed dead, speaking on a radio show, her careful world unravels and DCI Tom Douglas is pulled into the case.

Across the country, vulnerable women are promised escape and safety, only to find themselves trapped in a sinister community under someone else’s control. When one of them is discovered dead in the snow, DCI Tom Douglas must uncover who is orchestrating the terror.

In a glass-walled house on the Cornish cliffs, photographer Mark North is found stabbed in bed beside his partner Evie, who admits she killed him. Sergeant Stephanie King must decide whether the story she tells in court is murder, self defence, or something murkier.

Widow Natalie Gray has started again with her late husband’s friend Ed Cooper, but soon fears the man now sharing her home. Fleeing with teenage daughter Scarlett to a riverside flat with a dark past, she crosses paths with DCI Tom Douglas investigating predatory abuse.

Maggie Taylor returns from work to find her two young children home alone and her husband gone without a trace. When a woman who looks uncannily like Maggie is found murdered, DCI Tom Douglas exposes the shocking double life her husband has been living.

Six years after a crash that killed his wife and saw their little girl vanish, David Joseph has rebuilt a new life with Emma and baby Ollie. When a feral teenage girl walks into their kitchen, Emma turns to DCI Tom Douglas and uncovers terrifying truths.

Runaway Tasha Joseph is surviving on the streets, determined to stay hidden from everyone she once knew. Her stepmother Emma and DCI Tom Douglas are desperate to find her, but so are people who see Tasha as leverage in a dangerous criminal case.

Olivia Brookes once called the police to report her husband and children missing. Two years later it is Olivia who vanishes from the same house, every family photograph erased, and DCI Tom Douglas must piece together a history of obsession and control.

In the seemingly peaceful village of Little Melham, a teenage girl is left for dead after a late-night hit and run. Local resident Ellie Saunders hides what she knows, while newly arrived DCI Tom Douglas suspects the crash was anything but accidental.

Philanthropist Hugo Fletcher is found murdered in his London townhouse, bound to his bed in a carefully staged scene. DCI Tom Douglas uncovers a web of exploitation and control, and must decide how to balance the law with protecting the truly innocent.