The Moorland Shadows Books in Order

A cider-making patriarch is found drowned in apple pulp during Clovelly's annual festival. Newly returned DI Rowan Penhallow investigates with local colleagues and her terrier Buddy, uncovering generations of disputed inheritance and betrayal within Devon's close-knit cider community.

A customs officer's remains emerge from a coastal pub wall after fifty years, followed by a fisherman's similar murder. DI Rowan Penhallow follows coded logbooks and smuggling secrets toward a stolen painting hidden in Devon's dangerous tidal caves.

A rediscovered Gainsborough portrait disappears during a Devon manor's unveiling, and an art restorer is murdered days later. DI Rowan Penhallow investigates a financially desperate family's apparent salvation, finding older secrets beneath the painting's promise of renewed prosperity.

A man accused of stealing from charity returns to Plymouth after fifteen years, only to wash ashore dead. DI Rowan Penhallow investigates unusual possessions and evidence of earlier violence, hoping to expose the truth behind his ruined reputation.

A retired chairman is poisoned at a traditional Devon agricultural show, leading DI Rowan Penhallow toward a decades-old injustice. As she investigates the blame once placed on an innocent woman, her terrier Buddy disappears and the danger becomes personal.

A lifeboat coxswain dies beneath heavy equipment during an autumn storm, apparently in an accident. DI Rowan Penhallow and her terrier Buddy uncover suspicious evidence, forcing an investigation that challenges a coastal community's fierce loyalty to its lifesaving volunteers.

Restoration workers find a Victorian skeleton inside a church tower wall, then the archivist investigating it is killed. DI Rowan Penhallow follows parish records, a forged will, and the bell-ringing society's silence to connect historical wrongdoing with modern murder.

An archaeologist is murdered in a Dartmoor stone circle amid stolen artifacts on the summer solstice. DI Rowan Penhallow looks beyond apparent ritual motives, pursuing missing research and evidence of academic fraud and antiquities trading stretching across generations.

Drought exposes the ruins of villages flooded to create Burrator Reservoir, and Buddy discovers a body in an old manor house. DI Rowan Penhallow investigates how ancestral wrongdoing and a family's determination to preserve its reputation connect to a modern killing.

An old coastal map surfaces at auction, followed by the deaths of its authenticator and a shipwreck victim's descendant. DI Rowan Penhallow investigates a village whose cherished charitable trust may owe its founding wealth to deliberately luring sailors onto rocks.

Three explorers disappear into abandoned Devon tin mines, and one is found murdered at the entrance. With two still missing and rain raising the underground water, DI Rowan Penhallow must search the tunnels while untangling historical secrets and present danger.