The Inspector Charrington Mysteries Books in Order

Inspector Charrington faces an apparently insoluble murder while receiving distressing news about a friend. An aspiring writer’s plans for an unusual do-it-yourself book add another complication to an investigation already testing her professional and personal resolve.

Newly promoted Diana Charrington and DS Bonnie Bannerman investigate their first murder together. Suspicion falls on two Americans whose business serves wealthy clients, while trouble from the men’s past follows them across the Atlantic.

An elderly woman is murdered for her money, although her killer is far away when she dies. Changes within Inspector Charrington’s team complicate the case, and danger reaches her own vulnerable sister at home.

A mutilated body found near a horse seems to belong to the animal’s owner, but the identification proves wrong. When that man is also murdered, Inspector Charrington and her sergeant face an increasingly tangled investigation.

Two young women are killed with an axe and their faces disfigured with acid. As Inspector Charrington investigates, doubts about her newly assigned sergeant force her to consider whether someone inside her team could be responsible.

A historic ownership dispute divided a family into wealthy and penniless branches. Generations later, resentment over control of a major English company fuels a determination to reverse that injustice, even at the cost of murder.

Inspector Charrington and DS Bonnie Bannerman juggle three investigations: seemingly motiveless murders, a gangland killing, and a twenty-year-old case that has resurfaced. Each demands attention as old questions and fresh violence compete for the detectives’ time.

Inspector Diana Charrington investigates a succession of brutal razor killings that seem designed to implicate one particular person. As more women die, she must uncover the purpose behind the staged evidence and identify the real murderer.

Someone carries an apparently wrapped body into a cemetery on a bright moonlit night. The mysterious visit raises questions about what is being concealed, what the visitor intends, and whether anyone witnessed the arrival.