Wesley Peterson Books in Order

Newly arrived in Tradmouth, DS Wesley Peterson investigates a disfigured murder victim and a missing child. Nearby, an archaeological dig at a merchant's house uncovers bones that may connect past violence with present danger.

A well-liked doctor's receptionist is found hanged from a churchyard yew, and Wesley suspects execution rather than simple murder. Neil's dig uncovers a medieval corpse tied to the same tree and a buried village legend.

When an American D-Day veteran is found dead in an old chantry chapel, Wesley Peterson faces resentments left over from wartime. Neil Watson's Armada-era dig suggests older acts of hatred may be echoing through the case.

A skeleton on a Devon smallholding may be a Viking burial or a missing local villain. As farm robberies and a Danish tourist's disappearance unsettle the area, Wesley has to separate ancient ritual from modern crime.

Two bodies are found in the ancient gardens of Earlsacre Hall, while Wesley investigates a recent stabbing linked to the same estate. The deeper he looks, the more Earlsacre's history seems to invite murder.

A missing teenager, a murdered rock star, and an unsettling old painting draw Wesley Peterson and Gerry Heffernan into a case with roots in ambition, art, and hidden guilt.

Builders at a former girls' school uncover a skeleton sealed in a hidden room. Then a woman's body is pulled from the sea, and Wesley must untangle murder, shipwreck lore, and secrets at Chadleigh Hall.

A letter claims a convicted vicar's killer was innocent, while threats target a local supermarket. When Neil uncovers a medieval plague pit with a more recent body inside, Wesley sees the cases starting to converge.

Twenty years after the Harford family massacre, a journalist researching the case is murdered. Wesley must decode a chilling dollhouse reconstruction and a curse tied to Potwoolstan Hall's violent past.

A bride is found murdered on her wedding day, and another wedding ends with a dead groom and a vanished young wife. Wesley's case darkens when a skeleton and an Elizabethan play point to older betrayals.

A singer's disappearance recalls a child kidnapping from thirty years earlier, until the missing boy suddenly returns alive. Wesley also faces a bogus taxi attacker and Neil's discovery of an extra corpse in a coffin.

Two men are murdered and drained of blood, giving Wesley a case rich in suspects and dread. Neil receives disturbing letters about a medieval abbey, while an old skeleton adds another grim thread.

A woman burns to death in a Devon field linked to a medieval legend. Missing excavation records and the deaths of two archaeologists push Wesley toward a truth shaped by obsession and old tragedy.

A country doctor is shot dead, and his family secrets soon look anything but harmless. Neil's discovery of dissected skeletons, plus a child's wartime burial, leads Wesley toward evacuees and long-hidden crimes.

A woman survives an attack by a man she says had a dog's head. As the Jackal Man stalks Tradmouth, Neil investigates Egyptian artefacts whose history may expose secrets someone will kill to protect.

A decomposing woman's body and the shotgun deaths of two teenagers leave Wesley with two ugly cases. An online game called Blood Hunt and a Napoleonic-era manhunt pull the investigations into dangerous territory.

After convicted killer Lilith Benley returns home, a young woman dies near a reality TV shoot. Witchcraft rumours, a wax doll, and Neil's accident force Wesley to confront vengeance rooted in the past.

A year after Jenny Bercival vanishes, a strangled woman is found floating off South Devon. During the Palkin Festival, Wesley follows a trail from modern death to medieval trade, piracy, and old warehouses.

A seemingly routine murder exposes dark secrets from the victim's past. Neil studies Sandrock, a ruined First World War village lost to the sea, while Wesley fears the killer may be circling his family.

When aspiring model Leanne Hatman disappears, Wesley is drawn in after her father is murdered at Eyecliffe Castle. The case points back to two girls who vanished in the 1950s near the House of Eyes.

Biographer Zac Wilkinson is murdered while probing the life of reclusive writer Wynn Staniland. Wesley connects the killing to a caravan-park poisoning and a decades-old murder that inspired a famous novel.

Neil unearths a strange mechanical figure in a Dartmoor field, just as two people are shot nearby. Wesley's case widens when an MP's daughter disappears and an old student death resurfaces.

Strangefields Farm is being redeveloped when a skull is found on the site. Soon a florist is murdered in a way that echoes the crimes of a dead artist, and Wesley fears a copycat.

A storm-felled tree reveals a skeleton beside an old rucksack, reopening the case of a missing hitchhiker. In nearby Petherham, a suspicious death and Neil's mill research suggest older village horrors.

Robert and Greta Gerdner are shot dead in the Devon countryside, and a list of anonymous asylum-tour tickets points to more danger. Neil's sealed medieval chamber may hold a clue Wesley needs.

A woman house-sitting at legendary Serpent's Point is found strangled after probing old missing-person cases. Neil's discovery of a skeleton near the house raises the stakes around a place full of secrets.

A Bonfire Night shooting at the Nesbaraton estate may be tied to a kidnap threat against the owner's son. Neil's hidden grotto and a second murder push Wesley into a race against time.

Storm erosion on St Rumon's reveals three bodies, two ancient and one recent. Wesley's island inquiry meets Neil's priory research, a sixteenth-century journal, and a killer as dangerous as the tide.

Celebrity ghostwriter Barry Brown is murdered and his laptop stolen, sending Wesley through the secrets of famous clients. On Dartmoor, Neil and Wesley's son Michael uncover wartime wreckage and nearby skeletons.