Wes Markin Books in Order

A student's murder at a party awakens Michael Yorke's intense fascination with investigating crime. Pursuing further killings within the university community draws him away from his girlfriend and best friend, with consequences that shape the police officer he will become.

A boy's disappearance during a destructive snowstorm leads DCI Michael Yorke toward a family with a violent history. Refusing to abandon the search, he enters their world seeking answers that threaten both his safety and his understanding of the case.

The murder of a close ally's former wife draws Michael Yorke and his team into a deeply personal investigation. Their opponent's determination to revive the practices of an ancient civilization turns identifying the next intended victim into an urgent challenge.

Violence at a police officer's wedding pulls Michael Yorke away from his own ceremony to hunt Christian Severance. As a heatwave intensifies the pressure in Salisbury, the killer's past and Yorke's buried history begin to converge in dangerous ways.

A Christmas Day massacre in Leeds renews Yorke and Emma Gardner's pursuit of a psychiatrist known as the Conduit. Their guilt over an earlier failure drives the investigation, but approaching their target reveals how vulnerable they remain to his psychological manipulation.

A violent attack shatters the fragile peace Michael Yorke's team has begun to recover. Pursuing a highly skilled assassin reveals links to a secretive criminal organization and forces Yorke back toward his own past while those closest to him face danger.

Paul Ray's attempt to destroy his family's violent legacy leaves him in the hands of people he believed were gone. Michael Yorke and his team race to locate him before the family's renewed influence brings another wave of harm to Wiltshire.

As violence spreads through a Maine community, Jake Pettman hides from enemies who have traced him from England. A teenage girl's abduction prevents him from remaining concealed, forcing a choice between self-preservation and another dangerous attempt to rescue a child.

The discovery of a schoolgirl beside a Maine river unsettles a community already burdened by old suspicions and a volatile police chief. Seeking refuge in Blue Falls, former detective Jake Pettman instead confronts secrets that threaten both him and those he cares about.

Fleeing people who want him dead, former detective Jake Pettman reaches a Maine town connected to his notorious ancestors. A missing child pulls him into conflict with a compromised police chief and a ruthless criminal whose methods conceal further horrors.

Jake remains to protect Celestia as she tries to rebuild a damaged community, but neighboring hostility threatens its survival. Her decision to open its boundaries instead of strengthening defenses leaves him weighing whether to risk his life for her vision.

Determined to keep moving beyond a painful past, Jake Pettman encounters Celestia in Mossbark County and becomes involved after a brutal murder. Following his police instincts leads him toward an isolated community whose violent origins threaten the woman he wants to protect.

Seeking to recover her focus after a colleague's death, DCI Emma Gardner transfers to Yorkshire and immediately faces another murder. Her troubled new partner's connection to an earlier case complicates the inquiry and raises fears that an old pattern is returning.

A child's abduction draws Michael Yorke toward an evolving criminal threat, while former detective Jake Pettman returns to protect his own son. Facing the syndicate responsible for his former wife's death leaves Jake dependent on a dangerous ally, Lacey Ray.

After following a child he believes is in danger, DI Paul Riddick becomes implicated in the child's death. DCI Emma Gardner tries to clear him while similarities to an old investigation suggest someone is deliberately setting him up.

A girl's body is discovered beside a remote lake, and evidence points to the elderly recluse living nearby. DCI Emma Gardner and DI Paul Riddick suspect a setup, uncovering community secrets that threaten their own lives.

Bones exposed by a storm lead DCI Frank Black to an eighteen-year-old musician whose life ended decades earlier. With DI Gerry Carver, he investigates links to a burned pub, determined that her forgotten death should receive justice.

While searching for his missing daughter, DCI Frank Black investigates a body concealed inside a derelict pub. Its notorious poker nights lead him and Gerry Carver into a community where trauma and buried secrets complicate the pursuit of justice.

A discovery on Whitby's coast revives the disappearance of a vulnerable boy who vanished while walking his dog twenty-six years earlier. Frank Black and Gerry Carver investigate troubled families and concealed identities, confronting painful echoes of their own lives.

The disturbed grave of a girl killed forty years earlier draws DCI Emma Gardner into a cold case. As more bodies appear, she must decide whether she can trust Paul Riddick, whose increasingly erratic behavior threatens their investigation.

Lacey Ray's diary traces an adolescence shaped by a family history of killing and concealed violence. Moving from thirteen to fifteen, she develops a sense of power and purpose that turns inherited darkness into an increasingly deliberate identity as a predator.

A human skull found in a Yorkshire pub forces DCI Emma Gardner to investigate while Paul Riddick remains missing. Further discoveries expose disturbing connections to a home for unmarried mothers and secrets protected by powerful people.

Remains found in a disused silo lead DCI Frank Black to a woman who vanished decades earlier. With DS Gerry Carver, he follows the murdered poet's history into Whitby's privileged circles, where powerful people have kept her fate concealed.

A body recovered from the sea belongs to a psychiatrist supposedly dead for decades. Frank Black and Gerry Carver investigate his hidden second life, uncovering false identities and the damage he left among people who trusted him.

With Paul Riddick critically ill, Emma Gardner struggles to concentrate on a suspicious death. While her team investigates, her troubled brother pursues grievances of his own, creating a danger much closer to Emma's family.

A burned body unearthed before Christmas casts doubt on a dead fisherman's confession to a double murder. Leading her first investigation, Gerry Carver-Foley questions the evidence while Frank Black fears they once condemned the wrong man.

A body discovered in abandoned railway tunnels belongs to a predator who disappeared years earlier. Frank Black and Gerry Carver investigate survivors united by silence, confronting the uneasy boundary between protecting vulnerable people and delivering justice.

Bones found behind a wall challenge Whitby's decades-old belief that Barnaby Scaife murdered his missing girlfriend. Frank Black and Gerry Carver-Foley revisit the case, but witnesses facing dementia, disability, and brain injury make uncovering the truth difficult.

Emma Gardner has left North Yorkshire for Salisbury, hoping to rebuild her life. Murders of journalists and whistleblowers draw her back into danger, and two assassins targeting her family force her to fight for both survival and the truth.

Desperate to save his daughter, Graham Blanks leaves an escalating trail of violence through York. Still recovering from illness, DI Paul Riddick must stop him, confronting a father's desperation that he understands only too well.

A television garden makeover uncovers the remains of a singer who vanished just before his band's breakthrough fifty years earlier. As their lost song finds a new audience, Gerry Carver-Foley and Frank Black investigate who imprisoned him underground.