Trial and Retribution Books in Order

Three women suffer near-identical, savage assaults; two die, one survives and describes her attacker. When police focus on smooth businessman Damon Morton, his employees confess and his wife and mistress swear he is innocent. With every testimony contradicting the last, the prosecution must convince a jury that appearances can deceive.

A brutal crime with roots years in the past draws Mike Walker into a complex investigation that spans family secrets, police missteps and legal brinkmanship. With reputations on the line, the question becomes not only who committed the crime, but whether the system really wants the whole truth exposed.

In this fifth Trial and Retribution case, Mike Walker and Pat North investigate a violent crime whose evidence refuses to stay neatly on one side of the courtroom. As witnesses change their stories and loyalties shift, they must untangle a web of lies before justice is quietly derailed.

During the demolition of a derelict guesthouse, builders uncover a woman’s skeleton buried beneath the patio—and soon more remains emerge, including a premature baby. Revisiting a seventeen-year-old mystery, Mike Walker must decide whether the former landlady is a serial killer or someone else has been hiding in plain sight.

Teenager Cassie Booth disappears on her paper round, her blood-stained clothes later found in a riverside boathouse. As DCS Mike Walker pursues the evasive boathouse owner, his colleague Pat North faces a persistent complainant whose behaviour soon turns sinister, forcing the team to confront obsession on two fronts.

Three women are brutally attacked in near-identical fashion; two die, one survives and describes her assailant. When the police arrest wealthy businessman Damon Morton, his staff confess and his family swear he is innocent. In a courtroom where everyone lies, the line between victim and predator grows frighteningly thin.

When a young girl vanishes and is later found murdered, suspicion falls on her mother’s lover, a man with much to lose. As police build a case on fragile, circumstantial evidence, a rookie defence solicitor spots cracks in the story—and a jury must weigh truth against appearances.