Nicci French Books in Order

In 1993, student Tyler Green was jailed for slashing his friend’s throat at a house party and has always claimed he was framed. Years later he gathers his old university circle for a tense reunion, and when another body falls, DI Maud O’Connor must finally uncover what really happened.

Recovering from a psychotic break, Nancy North moves into a new London flat determined to rebuild her life, then hears unsettling voices in the walls. When downstairs neighbour Kira Mullan is found dead, Nancy and DI Maud O’Connor must prove it wasn’t suicide before the trail goes cold.

On the night of Alec Salter’s fiftieth‑birthday party in 1990, his wife Charlotte never arrives, and neighbour Duncan Ackerley is soon found dead in the river. Decades later a true‑crime podcast and DI Maud O’Connor reopen the case, forcing two families to confront buried secrets.

Doctor Jude Winter agrees to a simple favour for her first love, Liam: drive his car to a remote rental and wait. When the police arrive instead of Liam, she becomes the last person to have seen him and is pulled into a spiralling murder inquiry.

Single mother Tess Moreau is rattled when her three‑year‑old daughter comes home from a weekend with her father clutching a violent crayon drawing and muttering, "He did kill." Everyone dismisses Tess’s fears, but she becomes obsessed with proving Poppy witnessed something terrible.

Tabitha Hardy wakes in her isolated cottage with a foggy memory of the day her unpleasant neighbour was killed. Arrested and disbelieved, she fires her lawyer and defends herself, painstakingly picking apart the prosecution’s case to find out whether she was framed—or simply can’t face the truth.

Neve Connolly slips away from her busy family to meet her boss and secret lover, only to find him bludgeoned to death in his flat. Panicking, she scrubs the scene clean, but the cover‑up makes her a prime suspect and exposes layers of deception at home and work.

Criminology student Lola Hayes chooses Frieda Klein as her dissertation subject and accidentally draws the attention of Dean Reeve. With Reeve killing strangers to flush her out, Frieda disappears and sets up a final confrontation that could end the hunt or destroy everyone around her.

When builders uncover a corpse beneath Frieda Klein’s living room floor, every sign points back to her long‑time stalker Dean Reeve—officially dead for years. As friends and family are attacked or vanish, Frieda is trapped between a killer and a chillingly resourceful copycat.

Thirteen years after eighteen‑year‑old Hannah Docherty was convicted of murdering her family, Frieda Klein visits her in a secure hospital and finds a woman shattered by neglect. Convinced the original case was mishandled, Frieda reopens it, provoking people who will do anything to keep the past buried.

A body fished from the Thames is identified as Frieda Klein’s ex‑lover, Sandy, wearing a hospital wristband with her name on it. Branded the prime suspect and sure that Dean Reeve is behind the killing, Frieda goes on the run to clear her name.

A former schoolfriend asks Frieda Klein for help after her daughter is assaulted, sending Frieda back to the seaside town she fled as a teenager. Digging into old loyalties and buried memories, she finally confronts the crime that shaped her and those who refused to see it.

When a mother of three is found murdered in her terraced London home, Frieda Klein is reluctantly drawn in through her niece’s friendship with the victim’s son. At the same time she quietly pursues a pattern of attacks on young women that nobody else wants to see.

Three crime writers each spin a different story from a crowdsourced plot, all starring travel photographer Lucinda Berrington as a reluctant sleuth. Across three linked mysteries, she chases killers from rural Britain to Cape Town and professional cycling.

A London social worker discovers her vulnerable client serenely serving tea to a naked, decomposing corpse. As the dead man is identified as notorious con artist Robert Poole, Frieda Klein joins DCI Karlsson to map his victims and enemies, wondering if someone engineered the case to reach her.

Five‑year‑old Matthew Faraday is abducted on his way home from school, echoing a decades‑old disappearance. When one of psychotherapist Frieda Klein’s patients dreams obsessively of a boy who looks just like Matthew, she faces an ethical dilemma that pulls her into a dangerous investigation.

Music teacher Bonnie Graham is alone in a borrowed flat with a dead man at her feet and no clear plan. As the story circles back through a long, tense summer rehearsing a band, jealousies, affairs and small betrayals build toward the killing she now must hide.

Ellie Falkner’s husband dies in a car crash beside a woman she’s never heard of, and everyone assumes he was having an affair. Refusing to accept it, Ellie infiltrates the dead woman’s workplace under a false name, uncovering clues that suggest the crash was murder.

Cycle courier Astrid Bell shares a chaotic London house with six friends, but her carefree life ends when people connected to her keep turning up dead. As suspicion poisons the household, Astrid must work out whether she’s cursed with bad luck or living with a killer.

Nina Landry is about to leave a bleak tidal island for a Christmas holiday when her fifteen‑year‑old daughter Charlie disappears. With the police slow to react, Nina spends a single winter day tearing across the island, following scraps of information before the tide cuts them off.

Holly Krauss has a thriving events business, a loving husband and a taste for reckless risk that’s starting to spiral. Wild nights, bad decisions and a threatening stranger push her toward breakdown, leaving Holly unsure whether she’s being hunted or losing her mind.

After a brief affair, Miranda Cotton dumps her charming new boyfriend when she catches him reading her diary. Weeks later he’s dating her sister and charming her family. As accidents and tragedies follow, Miranda realises Brendan will destroy anyone who stands in his way.

Abbie Devereaux wakes gagged in the dark with no idea who has taken her or why. After a desperate escape, no one believes her story, so she retraces her missing days alone, convinced her tormentor is still out there and watching.

Psychologist Kit Quinn is still recovering from a brutal attack by disturbed suspect Michael Doll when the police ask her to link him to a series of canal‑side murders. Refusing the easy answer, she follows the evidence toward a far more personal threat.

Zoe, Jennifer and Nadia have nothing in common except the anonymous man who watches them. He sends each woman intimate, escalating letters promising a slow, exquisite death. As the threats close in, they must decide whether to face the stalker alone or together.

London scientist Alice Loudon abandons her safe life and steady boyfriend for a whirlwind affair with charismatic mountaineer Adam Tallis. Their obsessive passion soon darkens, and as Alice investigates Adam’s past, she begins to suspect that loving him could be fatal.

On the windswept coast, psychiatrist Samantha Laschen agrees to shelter Fiona Mackenzie, a teenager whose parents were brutally murdered. What should be a refuge quickly fills with secrets, manipulation and danger, leaving Sam unsure who she can trust inside her own home.

Jane Martello’s settled life and close‑knit in‑laws implode when her sister‑in‑law’s skeleton is unearthed in the family garden twenty‑five years after she vanished. As Jane’s memories resurface, she realises someone inside that beloved family has been lying for decades.