Andrew Taylor Books in Order

William Dougal, a postgraduate expert in medieval script, finds his tutor garroted and gets dragged into a hunt for diamonds. What starts as an academic puzzle quickly turns into a dangerous chase through London, Cambridge, and East Anglia.

Blackmailed into helping his old rival James Hanbury, William Dougal starts watching a survivalist guru and lands in murder, kidnapping, and chaos. The case keeps widening, and Hanbury's shadow is over all of it.

Jim Bergerac returns to police work on Jersey and walks straight into an island case full of grudges, money, and danger. The bright setting masks a community where everyone seems to know more than they say.

A seasonal case pulls Jim Bergerac into murder and motive just when everyone is meant to be celebrating. On Jersey, holiday cheer quickly gives way to old resentments and fresh suspicion.

When a historian's death is ruled suicide, William Dougal and his father are drawn into a case of old intelligence secrets and family strain. A few odd clues lead them toward poison, war records, and buried betrayals.

James Hanbury seems ready to marry into respectability, until his new wife is electrocuted almost at once. Dougal is asked to help, but with Hanbury as suspect, trust is in very short supply.

Hired to take revenge on a dead woman's manipulative former boss, William Dougal plans blackmail and finds a corpse instead. The job turns into something far more dangerous than he expected.

As Europe slides toward war, young Hugh Kendall is taken to Prague on his father's intelligence business and left behind. The novel grows into a sweeping story of espionage, loyalty, and survival across wartime and Cold War Europe.

Bergerac faces a case where one hidden weakness may be all it takes to turn suspicion into murder. On Jersey, private failings become public danger very quickly.

A new Jersey case draws Bergerac into local loyalties, personal secrets, and the kind of glamour that rarely stays innocent for long. The island setting keeps the pressure close and personal.

The death of a suspected blackmailer lands Bergerac in a case where everyone has something to hide. The more he digs, the less stable any explanation looks.

An inquiry rooted in an old betrayal sends Bergerac after truths the island would rather leave buried. The past does not stay quiet, and neither do the people protecting it.

As the Cold War nears its end, old intelligence work still throws a long shadow. Taylor turns spy fiction into a tense story about loyalty, family damage, and unfinished business.

When the Holmes family moves in next door to the Watsons, Saturday Holmes and Jack Watson seem born to become detectives. Their partnership begins with small mysteries, but the fun lies in how seriously they take them.

A seemingly ordinary image sets off a fast-moving chain of danger for a young protagonist who sees more than he should. Taylor keeps the story brisk, tense, and easy to race through.

Dougal's detective career seems to be thriving until he investigates the disappearance of publisher Oswald Finwood. The suspect list is long, the motives are personal, and the family revenge runs deep.

When the wrong image reveals the wrong secret, danger closes in fast. This is a lean, punchy thriller that uses photography and mistaken identity to keep the tension high.

Wolfgang's death brings old wartime loyalties and intelligence ties back into the open. The final Blaines novel is less about spy tricks than the human cost of secrecy.

A return to a waterside past awakens buried fears and older crimes. Taylor leans into psychological suspense here, building menace slowly until it becomes hard to look away.

Chris expects a quiet weekend and gets kidnapped instead. He soon realizes the abductors may have the wrong boy, which makes his position even more dangerous.

Asked to investigate a blackmail problem in a village that looks harmless on the surface, William Dougal quickly finds corruption, theft, and a fatal hit-and-run. Once murder follows, every local relationship starts to look suspect.

William Dougal is now a respectable detective and father, until a violent quarrel leaves him with a body to hide. Asking James Hanbury for help only makes the situation more dangerous.

In postwar Lydmouth, workmen uncover the skeleton of a baby hidden inside a wall. Journalist Jill Francis and Inspector Thornhill find the case reaching from local history into present-day murder.

A closed-up house, damaged memory, and a past that will not stay contained drive this tense psychological thriller. The fear comes as much from what people remember as from what they hide.

When his boss is mysteriously attacked, eighteen-year-old Adam is left running a birds-of-prey center and stepping into dangerous travel plans. Trips to Turkey and the United States turn into a fight for survival.

A parish spinster is found murdered in church and a valuable chalice has vanished. As suspicion falls on the new vicar, Jill Francis and Inspector Thornhill uncover shabby secrets all over Lydmouth.

A child's disappearance opens the first stage of Taylor's dark Roth trilogy. What looks like a crime investigation soon turns into a disturbing study of family damage, fear, and violence.

David Byfield, a widowed parish priest, becomes entangled in desire, village gossip, and mounting menace. The novel is a slow-burning portrait of weakness, secrecy, and the making of disaster.

A schoolmaster's body is found hanging from a tree in circumstances too strange to explain away. Jill Francis and Inspector Thornhill pursue the case through voyeurism, gossip, and rising personal strain.

The final Roth novel reaches further back to show how a killer is made. It works as both a mystery and a chilling origin story for everything the earlier books only half explain.

With the Korean War rumbling in the background, murder, eviction, and the reopened hunt for a missing teenager unsettle Lydmouth. Jill Francis and Richard Thornhill also find their own feelings harder to ignore.

Set in Reformation Europe, this historical thriller follows William Tyndale as faith, politics, and survival collide around his forbidden Bible translation. Taylor gives the religious stakes real urgency.

When waitress Mattie Harris is found drowned, Lydmouth's most respectable citizens seem oddly eager to call it an accident. Jill Francis suspects otherwise, and the dead girl's secret life starts to matter very much.

The death of decorated widower Rufus Moorcroft looks like suicide, but Jill Francis and Richard Thornhill each find reasons to doubt it. Their search leads back to a charged summer before the war.

This omnibus brings together the full Roth trilogy, a dark backward-tracing story of murder, damaged faith, and the making of a killer. It is the complete arc in one deeply unsettling volume.

Former tutor Thomas Shield is asked to look into a strange household problem and finds himself in a web of obsession, deceit, and murder. Young Edgar Allan Poe watches from the edges of the story.

A seance, a circulation war between local newspapers, and a dead woman calling to the dying all unsettle a winterbound Lydmouth. Beneath the postwar calm, darker forces are gathering.

A long-buried crime begins to show through the surface of an ordinary life, forcing the past back into the open. Taylor builds tension out of memory, guilt, and quiet menace.

When a retired police officer is found dead in Lydmouth Castle, Richard Thornhill's own past in Palestine comes back to haunt him. Soon he is under suspicion himself, and those closest to him must decide whether to trust him.

In 1930s London, Lydia Langstone flees an unhappy marriage to a strange address where a landlord has vanished and old rumors linger. The mystery grows from missing persons into something much darker.

Hired to expose a ghost at an eighteenth-century Cambridge college, John Holdsworth uncovers grief, ambition, and murder beneath the learned calm. It is a historical mystery with a real chill to it.

This short return to the world of Roth uses music and memory to reopen an old wound. Brief and unsettling, it adds another eerie note to the trilogy's dark history.

In British-occupied New York, clerk Edward Savill investigates human remains uncovered on a building site. What begins as a grim discovery opens into murder, politics, and divided loyalties.

Reissued under the title used for the television adaptation, this volume collects the complete Roth trilogy. It is a bleak, gripping account of how violence grows out of secrecy, family damage, and time.

A visit to an old leper house opens into a sinister tale of hidden histories and present-day unease. Taylor keeps the scale small and the atmosphere wonderfully oppressive.

A tiny mark becomes the key to a short, unsettling mystery shaped by books, memory, and suspicion. Taylor does a lot with very little space.

Edward Savill is drawn into another historical mystery, this time around a silent child and a family guarded by fear. Personal loyalties prove as dangerous as public upheaval.

As the Great Fire tears through London, James Marwood sees a ruined city become the scene of murder. A mutilated body in the ashes of St Paul's sends him after a killer through a dangerous capital.

A house devoted to writing becomes the setting for a quiet, unnerving story about creativity, possession, and buried resentment. It is compact, sharp, and deeply atmospheric.

An atmospheric novella in which voices from the past press into the present. Taylor keeps the scale tight and the unease steadily growing.

In the ruined city after the Great Fire, Marwood investigates a suspicious death while Cat is drawn into a vicious rebuilding dispute. London's new future turns out to be deadly business.

A painful death, two girls dabbling in witchcraft, and a commission linked to the king's favorite pull Marwood and Cat toward a secret with national consequences. Private scandal and public danger collide.

Marwood and Cat are pulled into separate dangers that lead toward the same hidden truth. A murder, old loyalties, and the need to protect powerful secrets keep both investigations under pressure.

A death in London pulls James Marwood and Cat Lovett toward foreign spies, court intrigue, and a secret at the heart of Charles II's world. The stakes grow larger with every answer.

In 1671, a brutally disfigured body is found in the ruins of an old almshouse and James Marwood is ordered to investigate. Cat Hakesby's work at the site ties the murder to court politics and a dangerous royal affair.

At a girls' boarding school in 1945, a murder is retold by the victim himself. Taylor folds mystery, ghost story, and wartime unease into one closed-world puzzle.