Wendy Cartmell Books in Order

British Olympic athletes arrive at Aldershot Garrison to prepare for the Games, and Crane expects a routine security assignment. A soldier's body beneath the swimming pool changes everything, raising fears of a killer among the visitors.

A soldier apparently murders his family before taking his own life, but Sgt Major Crane doubts the official explanation. When another family dies, he defies orders to abandon the investigation and searches for a disturbing connection.

Sgt Major Crane investigates a case that challenges how people respond to pleas for mercy. This collection contains four mystery stories, along with excerpts from his first three novels, exploring crime and the search for truth.

Young women are being raped and murdered, and witnesses identify the attacker as a soldier. Crane assists civilian police while investigating the repeated assault of a soldier on Aldershot Garrison, questioning whether the crimes are connected.

An army wife is murdered in the same place and manner as a woman killed ten years earlier. Crane suspects the original killer has returned, but military officials close ranks as he tries to uncover the truth.

Armed hijackers seize a Yorkshire train to demand the release of their leader's imprisoned brother. Sergeant Billy Williams secretly communicates with Crane from among the hostages, while negotiators struggle to prevent a disaster on the Ribblehead Viaduct.

Convicted ex-soldier Leroy Carter escapes after a prison transport crashes, determined to prove his innocence. Prison governor Emma Harrison helps search for him while confronting her own traumatic past and renewing contact with Sergeant Billy Williams.

A dead baby is discovered outside the Aldershot Garrison church, drawing Crane and Anderson into a troubling investigation. When another child is abducted, Crane faces grieving families and mounting anger while racing to find the missing infant.

Army investigator Billy Williams is angered by teenagers mistreating his parents and their neighbors. When an opportunity for retaliation appears, he considers using his own form of vigilante justice, risking complications as he tries to give the youths a lesson.

Louise Marshall discovers a diary left by a former occupant of her new home. As she grows absorbed in Matilda Underwood's words, the imaginary friendship distorts Louise's judgment, and people around her begin to die.

Still shaken by nearly losing her mother, Emma Harrison investigates someone whispering at prisoners' cell doors and urging them toward suicide. Finding the person responsible becomes essential as manipulation threatens more lives within the prison.

A murderer dubbed the Choker uses silk scarves to kill his victims. Crane and Anderson's Major Crimes team pursues him through misleading clues and a shortage of forensic evidence, knowing another death may be imminent.

After leaving the army, an unemployed and dispirited Crane accepts investigative work from DCI Anderson. A young girl is found bruised, dazed, and unable to speak; when another is discovered dead, their search becomes increasingly urgent.

A prison art teacher is murdered during a day of escalating violence at Reading's young offenders institute. When another teacher is taken hostage, Emma Harrison calls Billy Williams, who recruits an inmate to help uncover the killer.

Army wife and model Janey Cunningham disappears, leaving Crane a single red stiletto at the scene. As he investigates what may be a murder, the case threatens to implicate an innocent man without reliable proof.

Crane believes someone has infiltrated Winchester's emergency call system and is turning requests for help into opportunities to kill. With personal stakes in the investigation, he must persuade Anderson and their colleagues that the threat is real.

The discovery of an unexpected body in a grave exposes two deaths within a wealthy family. Accused of murdering his siblings, Paul Dean turns to his old friend DI Anderson for help uncovering who is targeting potential heirs.

A mother reports that her son may have been involved in an elderly couple's murder years earlier. Crane and Anderson investigate a disturbing allegation with no bodies or clear evidence, seeking the truth behind a long-buried crime.

Audrey buys a brass flamingo and suddenly enjoys extraordinary gambling luck, attracting her neighbors' envy. When her fortune takes a sinister turn, her friend Kath must investigate whether the antique's influence can be broken before it consumes her.

A mummified woman washes ashore near Chichester, drawing DI Jo Wolfe into a murder investigation linked to Egyptian death rituals. Her ability to receive visions by touching the dead offers clues, but also exhaustion and troubling uncertainty.

A restaurant bombing interrupts DI Jo Wolfe's celebration with her team. Learning that extremists are targeting politicians, she must pursue the attackers while enduring grief and the voices of victims only her psychic abilities allow her to hear.

Young men vanish from Chichester, with their last sightings clustered near water and no bodies recovered. DI Jo Wolfe faces furious families and stalled inquiries as a malignant kelpie threatens to exceed even her psychic understanding.

A man calling himself the Watcher terrorizes women in Chichester, sexually assaulting them in an attempt to father a child. DI Jo Wolfe and DS Byrd investigate while their strained relationship threatens the partnership they need.

A teacher is found dead at a prestigious private school, where the headmistress wants discretion. Flynn Moran insists on investigating, and librarian Mabel helps him examine the resentments among colleagues, relatives, and pupils who might have wanted the victim dead.

A groom apparently abandons his bride, until his body is discovered and her father becomes a suspect. Librarian Mabel doubts her friend's guilt, but Flynn Moran warns that familiar faces can conceal motives and troubling secrets.

Transferred from London's Metropolitan Police to his quiet hometown, Flynn Moran investigates the mayor's apparent atropine overdose. Local librarian Mabel Heggarty joins him, using her knowledge of Muddlebay's residents and gossip to help distinguish accident from murder.

A salmonella outbreak is traced to a Muddlebay pie shop, whose owner is then found dead. Flynn Moran investigates whether the poisoning and death are accidents, suicide, or deliberate acts aimed at the town's residents and traders.

A young couple dies in an apparent car accident, but a mechanical report makes Flynn and Mabel suspicious. Their inquiries lead to a classic-car competition, where rivalry over prizes may have prompted someone to sabotage the vehicle.

A young man is found dead beside a laptop displaying a fatal message from a computer game. As more players die, DI Jo Wolfe and Byrd investigate whether obsession or a supernatural influence lies behind the deaths.

Trevor and Sally Carpenter buy a Victorian mansion in Dartmouth, believing they have found their ideal home. A ruined cottage hidden in their garden draws Trevor under its influence, leaving Sally to recognize a danger threatening their life together.

Elderly people are dying with old-fashioned syringes left in their veins. DI Jo Wolfe faces a disturbing new investigation, weighing the possibility of a rogue nurse against a more sinister threat that may require her psychic abilities.

Crane and Anderson seek Jo Wolfe and Byrd's help locating missing children, fearing a serial killer. Using objects belonging to the youngsters, Jo pursues psychic clues, but her determination to find them draws the killer's attention toward her.

Human remains uncovered at an Aldershot Garrison building site reopen a disappearance more than a decade old. With other investigators occupied, Billy Williams turns to retired Sgt Major Crane to identify the victim and uncover what happened to a soldier and his son.

Owain Deans dies after falling at home, but a pathologist connects his death to an assault five years earlier. Sgt Major Crane must determine whether the old attack constitutes murder and identify who bears responsibility for its delayed consequences.

A skull recovered from the Basingstoke Canal belongs to a soldier once presumed to have deserted with his child. Evidence of a gunshot leaves Crane investigating both the man's murder and the unresolved disappearance of baby Max.

Private investigator Alex Morgan's visions intensify while he examines a woman's suspicious death. Learning that his supernatural sight is inherited, he must embrace the abilities he has suppressed to stop an ancient cult from opening a passage between worlds.

Summer murders leave Boston victims frozen and revive a case Alex Morgan never solved. Facing an entity connected to his grandfather's supernatural legacy, Alex teams with a specialist whose personal loss drives her pursuit of the same killer.

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.

Unexplained deaths and his mentor's disappearance draw Alex Morgan into a conflict among ancient Watchers. As rogue beings harvest human energy, Alex discovers that his own powers threaten his humanity, forcing a choice about what protecting both worlds requires.

A collector steals ancient seasonal vessels and kidnaps a gifted student, pulling Alex Morgan into Boston's supernatural rivalries. While trying to rescue the captive and recover the artifacts, Alex must master growing powers that make him central to the collector's plans.

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.