"(1985) The tragic death of a child begins a chain of deception, kidnap and murder. Domestic dramas exploding into deaths and murders ...threads are drawn tightly together in a lethal last pattern"
"(1985) Wexford thought he was doing a neighbourly good deed when he agreed to talk to Joy Williams about her missing husband, and certainly didn't expect to be investigating a most unusual homicide"
"(1988) In a desolate subterranean car park, DCI Wexford has been too preoccupied to notice anything out of the ordinary - just a young girl in a red car, driving too fast. Then a murder is discovered"
"(1989) Philip Wardman had more than just the ordinary squeamishness where death was concerned. Yet he could hardly avoid the suspicious disappearance of his sister's friend Rebecca Neave"
"(1990) Dark, good-looking Guy is from a council flat. Leonora has a house in Holland Park, and her mother doesn't like Guy - or the way he makes his money. His obsession with Leonora become murderous"
"(1992) A bank job goes wrong and a Kingsmarkham detective sergeant is killed. Months later, the Flory family are slaughtered at home by an unknown assassin. The cases seem unrelated"
"(1993) Seventeen-year-old Liza learns about the world, about herself, and must come to terms with the possibility that the murderous violence of her mother may be present in her"
"(1994) In Wexford's opinion, everyone is racist, especially those over 40. Then he becomes involved with the Akandes, whose daughter has gone missing, and has to apply that reality to himself"
"(1996) Mary Jago had donated bone-marrow to save the life of someone she didn't know. However, the man whose life she had saved would change Mary's life in a way she could never have imagined"
"(1997) Wexford's wife allies herself to a protest movement when a by-pass is planned for Kingsmarkham, but the plot thickens when the lifeless body of a young woman is discovered, and Mrs W disappears"
"(1998) Francine Hill, traumatized by the murder of her mother, grows into a beautiful young woman who must endure the over-protectiveness of an increasingly obsessive stepmother"
"(1999) Chief Inspector Wexford is concerned about a paedophile who has recently been released back into the community but he cannot foresee the series of serious crimes waiting to happen"
"(2001) Jock Lewis died in the Paddington train crash. Or did he? His fiancée Minty is coming to terms with both his loss and the loss of all her savings, which Jock vanished with"
"(2003) Who is going to fall under suspicionas the serial killer, will the killer will be caught and why does the killer have this urge to garotte a variety of women and steal jewellery from them?"
"(2004) Mix Cellini is superstitious about the number 13. Living in a decaying house in Notting Hill, he is obsessed with 10 Rillington Place, where the notorious Christie committed a series of murders"
"(2005) A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while"
"(2006) Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream always began in the same way"
"(2007) Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury - a human hand. The body, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for ten years or so"
