Rio Wray & Mac Books in Order

The Rio Wray & Mac series moves at police-thriller speed. It pairs Detective Inspector Rio Wray with John Mac MacDonagh, a man whose undercover work and personal losses have left him carrying more than one kind of wound. Their world is London crime seen from close range: hotel rooms, family homes, hidden rooms, gang violence, and official pressure coming from every side.

Vendetta throws the reader straight into chaos. Mac wakes in a wrecked hotel room with no memory of what happened and a dead woman nearby. The evidence points at him, but he knows there is more to the story. Rio Wray is on his trail, and the clock is brutal. The book has the feel of a chase, but it is also about whether a damaged man can trust his own version of events.

Rio is the steadier presence, at least on the surface.

She is a capable, stubborn detective who works inside the rules even when the case pushes hard against them. That matters most in Death Trap, where teenager Nikki Bell survives a massacre and becomes the one witness who could break open a wider criminal plan. Rio has to protect a frightened young woman while dealing with killers who see witnesses as loose ends.

Snatched sits between the larger novels as a novella and puts Mac in a more personal kind of danger. A child is found hidden behind a bathroom wall in a respectable house. The case links back to a woman from Mac's past, and DNA changes what he thinks he knows about family, revenge, and rescue.

The series works best if you like action with emotional fallout. Mitchell does not treat police work as neat puzzle-solving. People lie, panic, lash out, and carry grief into the next room. Rio and Mac are both trying to do the right thing, but the right thing often comes with a cost.

Read Vendetta first, then Snatched, then Death Trap. That order keeps Mac's personal thread intact and lets Rio's role grow from hunter to protector.