Simon McCleave Books in Order

DI Ruth Hunter faces a new investigation that takes her deep into Liverpool, where a series of brutal killings tied to the city’s criminal underworld will test her team and expose loyalties that stretch far beyond North Wales.

Frank Marshal’s latest case pitches him against danger high in the Welsh mountains, where an isolated community, old grudges and treacherous terrain combine to make hunting a killer as hazardous as the climb itself.

A far-right gang assassinates a local MP in Snowdonia, and when a key witness’s family is hidden at a remote safe house near Bala Lake, a leak exposes their location, forcing Ruth Hunter into a desperate chase across North Wales.

Movie producer Jack Rush collapses in his beachside mansion after his step-daughter’s lavish wedding, poisoned with cyanide instead of cocaine, leaving Ruth Hunter to sift through a houseful of resentful relatives and explosive family secrets.

Retired detective and park ranger Frank Marshal is drawn back into investigation when a judge friend’s sister disappears from a caravan park, a search that uncovers 1990s murders, a possible miscarriage of justice and a ruthless killer still at large.

Steph’s carefully planned birthday trip to a farmhouse in Provence erupts into nightmare when wildfire smoke, simmering tensions and a mountain hike gone wrong leave one friend dead and the survivors trapped in a web of suspicion around the kitchen table.

When Frank and Annie find a hiker’s body in the mountains, what looks like a tragic fall soon points to murder, leading them into a tangle of obsessive relationships and hidden violence on the remote trails of Snowdonia.

Frank Marshal doubts a local man really took his own life; digging deeper with his friend Annie, he uncovers a chain of lies, official denials and buried government secrets that someone is willing to kill to protect.

After Annie witnesses a respected GP shot dead outside his Welsh surgery, she and Frank Marshal investigate a case where long-buried medical mistakes, family loyalties and professional rivalries may all have played a part in the killing.

When a Wrexham businessman is found murdered in Heswall on the Wirral, Ruth Hunter must work with Merseyside Police to trace a gang stealing heavy machinery from building sites before they silence anyone who can identify them.

A farmer is shot dead near Llangollen and more victims soon follow, pulling Ruth Hunter into a case that links marital infidelity on the surface to illegal firearms trafficking and violent Liverpool gangs in the background.

After a teenage boy goes missing on a camping trip to a remote Anglesey island, DI Laura Hart’s search leads to a reclusive religious cult and a community where neighbours’ secrets may be more dangerous than the tides surrounding them.

In historic Chester, young men are being murdered along the canal by a predator the press dub the Towpath Ripper; Ruth Hunter’s pursuit into North Wales turns deadly as the hunters risk becoming the hunted.

Newly divorced Cerys has pinned her hopes on turning a luxury Tuscan villa into a fresh start, but when a guest is found dead in the infinity pool, buried secrets among her holidaymakers—and her own past—turn the retreat into a crime scene.

When a seventeen-year-old girl disappears and a prisoner is murdered in her cell, Beaumaris CID is stretched thin, forcing Laura Hart to go undercover behind bars to hunt a killer who could easily strike again inside the prison.

A young woman is found in Wrexham drenched in someone else’s blood with no memory of who she is or what happened, and Ruth Hunter must uncover the truth before the unknown killer tied to her lost night strikes again.

A boat-tour operator is found dead on the beach beside Llandudno Pier, first pointing Ruth Hunter toward a bitter business rivalry before a hidden relationship and a second body on a boat twist the investigation in a darker direction.

Teenagers exploring the derelict Denbigh Asylum discover a body tied to a modern slavery ring trafficking young people into the UK, drawing Ruth Hunter into a case where toxic relationships and organised crime blur victim and perpetrator.

A fire at a seaside holiday park leaves one young man dead, and what looks like a tragic accident becomes murder as Ruth Hunter unpicks his tangled love life and the drug dealing threaded quietly through the caravans.

On her first day back with the police as a DI, Laura Hart catches a case when a skeleton is found in a ruined castle near Beaumaris, a discovery that drags her into old terror networks, intelligence secrets and lethal reprisals.

The murders of three female students on Anglesey’s coastline earn a killer the nickname Anglesey Ripper, and DI Laura Hart must hunt a predator who always seems one careful step ahead of her team.

When a London journalist probing plans for a nuclear plant is forced off the road and killed, Ruth Hunter investigates shadowy corporate interests and old village grudges, hunting a killer whose motive may lie in a dispute from decades earlier.

A local husband disappears near Lake Vyrnwy and grisly remains are found at the water’s edge, leaving DI Ruth Hunter and DS Nick Evans to decide whether they’re chasing a gangland execution or something far more personal.

Former hostage negotiator Laura Hart is rebuilding her life on Anglesey when armed drug dealers hijack a tourist boat—with her young son on board—forcing her back into the job she left behind to talk down a nightmare at sea.

After a small-time dealer is shot dead at Chirk Castle in front of his young son, DI Ruth Hunter must protect the terrified boy while unraveling a tangle of stolen drugs, buried childhood secrets and ruthless killers closing in.

Still haunted by her partner Sarah’s disappearance, Ruth Hunter follows fresh clues to Paris, where a web of political corruption and sex trafficking forces her to risk her career—and her life—to bring the woman she loves home.

When the remains of a missing teenager surface, Ruth Hunter presumes a 1950s gang fight is to blame, until the trail leads to a knighted public figure, historic police corruption and a killer who may be much closer than she thinks.

A young couple vanish after a brutal killing near the Menai Bridge, and DI Ruth Hunter fears Snowdonia has its own Bonnie and Clyde—until a trail of abuse and betrayal suggests the pair might be running for their lives instead.

A popular rugby coach is stabbed and a young woman disappears in Conway, dragging Ruth Hunter into a close-knit community full of lies, hidden affairs and dangerous secrets that put a single vulnerable witness in the killer’s sights.

An ex-soldier is beaten to death outside a Peckham nightclub, and Ruth Hunter’s inquiry points back to his army training barracks, where bullying, racism and sexual violence are being hidden by officers desperate to protect their careers.

In 1997 London, DC Ruth Hunter links two pensioners’ deaths to atrocities in Bosnia, uncovering a suspected Serbian war criminal hiding in plain sight and a political cover-up that powerful people are prepared to kill to protect.

After a young actress is found brutally murdered, Ruth Hunter and DC Lucy Henry trace her final days through auditions and hotel rooms, exposing systemic abuse in London’s film world as they race to stop a stalking killer fleeing abroad.

Tasked with escorting a dangerous terror suspect through the Snowdonia mountains to a remote safe house, Ruth Hunter and Nick Evans are ambushed on hostile ground and must keep both themselves and their prisoner alive.

Local teenagers vanish around an isolated religious community at Solace Farm, drawing Ruth Hunter and Nick Evans into a closed world of devotion, control and hidden violence where one charismatic leader may be ready to sacrifice anyone.

When a millionaire’s body washes up on Harlech beach, Ruth Hunter’s hunt for a killer collides with a notorious Merseyside drug lord and her partner Nick Evans’s thirst for revenge, threatening to tear their investigation apart.

Sixteen-year-old Rosie vanishes near Devil’s Cliff, and Ruth Hunter’s search leads into a violent struggle for control of a local prison, where corruption, trafficking and intimidation threaten everyone who dares to speak out.

A missing-persons enquiry in the Dee Valley spirals into a hunt for a sadistic serial killer who seems to know Ruth Hunter personally, turning the investigation into a deadly game that targets her family as much as her team.

Two apparent suicides along the Berwyn River pull Ruth Hunter into historic abuse inside the music industry, as she and Nick Evans chase a killer with decades of grievances and every reason to strike again.

Newly arrived from London and grieving a missing partner, DI Ruth Hunter expects a quieter life in Snowdonia until a teacher is found murdered with strange symbols on her body and a second killing proves a serial predator is hunting.