WJ Burley Books in Order

A young woman is shot in the quiet Cornish village of Kergwyns, with her shoe and stocking removed to expose a deformed foot. Wycliffe follows crossword clues and local lies toward a carefully staged murder.

Wycliffe is meant to be on holiday when a young woman is found strangled in a shabby dockside hotel. Her expensive belongings and hidden cash point to a life far stranger than the room suggests.

When Caroline Bryce is pulled from the river at Treen, Wycliffe finds a scandal wrapped in family pride. Was she killed over love, resentment, or a feud that had been waiting to break?

A young woman is brutally murdered in the Scilly Isles, and frightened villagers quickly blame a visiting pop star. Wycliffe looks past the easy suspect and finds fear and guilt running beneath the island calm.

Dr Henry Pym is asked to investigate poison-pen letters at a school, but the case turns deadly when a new chemistry teacher is found below the cliffs. What looked like spite starts to feel like murder.

Lily Painter is found strangled in a grim West Country street, dismissed as another sex-crime victim. Wycliffe sees a more complicated life behind the labels, with links to property deals, smuggling, and danger.

Cedric Tremain is accused of killing his father with a booby-trapped fishing boat, and the evidence looks strong. Wycliffe is not convinced, especially when the case echoes a murder from twenty years earlier.

A pair of murders sends the press hunting for a psychopath, but Wycliffe suspects an older wound. His search links a nurse, a nightclub singer, and a lonely student humiliated years before.

Two women, a nightclub singer and a nurse, are strangled in similar attacks within a week. Wycliffe doubts the simple serial-killer theory and traces the violence back to a cruel school trip.

Arthur Milton’s wife leaves him, and her lover is soon murdered with Arthur short of an alibi. His fear of guilt draws him toward an older case, the strangling of a girl twenty years before.

Burley steps into science fiction as twentieth-century people are carried into a future Earth changed by alien life-forms. The adventure tests human habits against new societies, strange systems, and the ruins of the old world.

A Halloween cliff ritual turns sinister when a local builder and undertaker disappears, apparently echoing the old scapegoat legend. Wycliffe follows the village’s secrets toward a solution as strange as the crime.

Teacher Brian Kenyon becomes drawn into the life of Charles Bottrell, a young man from a wealthy Cornish family in the 1860s. Charles vanished long ago, and the past may not stay safely past.

Two violent deaths unsettle the quiet community of Paul’s Court: a doll’s-house maker found hanging and a teenage girl strangled near the churchyard. Wycliffe must untangle grudges hiding behind neighbourly silence.

On a decaying Cornish estate, Laura Care becomes obsessed with her mother’s death from a tower years earlier. Family resentment, occult experiments, and a missing revolver turn old grief into present danger.

A Sunday walk gives Wycliffe a fired service revolver and the start of a case on his own doorstep. Art thefts, crooked dealers, a missing yacht, and a doubtful suicide all pull together.

Dr Henry Pym and his secretary Susan visit Peel Place to advise on a valuable family library. Christmas-house-party intrigue soon deepens into poison-pen accusations, missing girls, and old secrets inside a Cornish mansion.

A village murder seems unrelated to the reclusive Beales of Ashill House, but Wycliffe is not satisfied. The family’s odd habits and old tensions soon turn the Dartmoor edge into dangerous ground.

Writer David Cleeve has been receiving Jack of Diamonds cards as warnings, then one arrives torn in half and murder follows. Wycliffe’s holiday becomes a case of old crimes, arson, and deadly games.

Wycliffe expects a bleak Christmas at a remote Penzance household, but a girl from the local nativity play disappears. Her neighbours’ indifference makes the search colder, stranger, and much more serious.

After Edwin Garland’s funeral, his son is shot dead and Wycliffe is left with a motive no one can see. The clue lies in an artist’s pigment and an old friendship with a painter.

A pregnant schoolgirl vanishes from a Cornish village, drawing Wycliffe into jealousies and rivalries around her family. When a body appears, it only deepens the question of how many crimes are connected.

Bookseller Matthew Glynn is murdered, and every branch of his family seems to carry a grievance. Wycliffe finds old grudges, missing documents, and a vanished wife before another death raises the stakes.

The death of amateur flautist Tony Mills looks like suicide on a quiet Cornish estate, until details refuse to fit. Wycliffe’s inquiry uncovers a missing maid, family feuds, and another body.

On Easter morning, a vicar finds a woman’s body on the chancel steps of a Cornish church. Wycliffe suspects the killing is not ritual but hatred, and another murder tightens the net.

Cochran Wilder vanished fifteen years ago, and now his body has been found in the dunes. Wycliffe’s suspects are respectable people tied to an old illicit weekend, until a second murder forces urgency.

While holidaying in Cornwall, Wycliffe meets the troubled Kemp family at their decaying home. When Roger Kemp’s wealthy second wife vanishes, old grief, missing wives, and family damage pull him into the case.

Antiquarian bookseller Simon Meagor lets Morwenna, the daughter of a man ruined by his evidence, into his shop and life. When she is found dead in a quarry, Wycliffe must reopen old guilt.

At an artists’ colony near St Ives, Francine arrives with money to invest and soon dies from a blocked gas-heater flue. Wycliffe finds that astrology is not the only hidden force at work.