Tyrone Swift Books in Order
Part ofGretta Mulrooney Books in OrderSee the Tyrone Swift books by Gretta Mulrooney in order, with quick summaries, series background, and simple advice on where to start.
Last updated: July 1, 2026
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Publication Order
10 books
The Lady Vanished
by Gretta Mulrooney
2015
When an unpopular woman disappears and the police give up, her stepdaughter asks private investigator Tyrone Swift to find her. The missing person case leads him into a wealthy family, a valuable house and secrets powerful people want buried.
Blood Secrets
by Gretta Mulrooney
2016
Fifteen years after Teddy Bartlett was beaten nearly to death in woodland outside London, his father hires Tyrone Swift to find out why. Ty steps into a damaged family where old betrayals have never stopped doing harm.
Two Lovers, Six Deaths
by Gretta Mulrooney
2016
A man confesses to murdering his girlfriend before hanging himself, but his estranged wife refuses to believe the story. Tyrone Swift follows the cracks in the case and finds secrets stretching far beyond one violent night.
Watching You
by Gretta Mulrooney
2017
Creepy messages and the sense of being watched hang over this Tyrone Swift mystery from the first pages. As Ty works the case, the watcher in the background starts to feel less distant, and far more dangerous.
Low Lake
by Gretta Mulrooney
2018
Tyrone Swift is hired to revisit the drowning of Kim Woodville, a young woman who died at her family's lakeside house two years earlier. Bruises, police errors and a second death suggest the truth has been buried close to home.
Your Last Lie
by Gretta Mulrooney
2019
Airline pilot Greg Roscoe is found stabbed to death in his cockpit, and Tyrone Swift is hired by his mother to clear his name. What starts as a murder case quickly opens into adultery, family damage and a long trail of lies.
Her Lost Sister
by Gretta Mulrooney
2020
After two sisters are attacked on a ferry crossing, one is dead and the survivor can remember almost nothing. Tyrone Swift must piece together what happened while the family's past keeps slipping out in dangerous fragments.
Death By the Thames
by Gretta Mulrooney
2021
On the eve of his wedding, Sam Goddard is pulled from the Thames with a sedated teenage girl and a note that points to suicide. His fiancée hires Tyrone Swift, convinced the official story hides something far uglier.
Murder in Pembrokeshire
by Gretta Mulrooney
2021
Tyrone Swift travels to an isolated Welsh community to visit an old friend, only to find him dead on the coastal path. Cut off from easy help, he digs into a supposedly idyllic settlement built on secrecy and fear.
The Lost Brother
by Gretta Mulrooney
2022
Steve Buckley spots a photo of a man who looks exactly like the little brother he was told died years ago, and hires Tyrone Swift to investigate. The search uncovers missing records, old letters and a family story that never added up.
Series background & context
The Tyrone Swift books are private detective mysteries with a strong old-school backbone. Ty is a former policeman who now works on the cases other people have stopped believing will ever be solved. He is based in London, loves rowing on the Thames, and has the kind of complicated personal life that never quite stays in the background.
That matters more than it might in a tidier mystery series.
Mulrooney uses Ty's cases to explore damaged families, unfinished grief, missing people, suspicious deaths and the long half-life of betrayal. The first book, The Lady Vanished, begins with a missing woman and a house worth fighting over. From there the series moves through old assaults in Blood Secrets, a doubtful murder-suicide in Two Lovers, Six Deaths, a reopened drowning in Low Lake, and later puzzles involving ferry violence, an isolated community in Wales, a bridegroom pulled from the Thames, and a brother who may never have died at all.
What links the books is not gadgetry or action. It is Ty's stubbornness, and Mulrooney's interest in motive. She said herself that she preferred domestic crimes and revenge to larger-than-life monsters, and you can feel that on every page. The danger in these novels usually comes from people who know one another well, who have shared homes, beds, children, money or shame.
Ty keeps walking into rooms where everyone already has a history.
He is a good guide to that world because he is smart, patient and not especially glamorous about the job. He asks questions until the surface story gives way. He also carries his own strain, especially around love, ex-partners and family responsibilities, which gives the series a lived-in, slightly weathered feel. The books can be read for the puzzles alone, but the ongoing thread of Ty's life is part of their pull.
If you like British mysteries that balance private investigation with emotional fallout, Tyrone Swift is easy to settle into. The plots are twisty without being showy. London, Ireland, Wales and the English river towns all leave their mark. Above all, these are stories about what survives after the official explanation stops making sense.
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