Cath Staincliffe

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1995
  • Latest Book:
    May 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Detective Janine Lewis

1 - Blue Murder (Jan-2005)
2 - Hit & Run (Nov-2006)
3 - Make Believe (Aug-2022)
4 - Desperate Measures (Oct-2022)

A Sal Kilkenny Mystery

Stone Cold Red Hot (May-2002)
Towers of Silence (May-2002)
Bitter Blue (Aug-2003)
Missing (Sep-2007)
Crying Out Loud (Feb-2012)

Scott & Bailey

1 - Dead To Me (Apr-2012)
2 - Bleed Like Me (Mar-2013)
3 - Ruthless (Apr-2015)

Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • Looking for Trouble

  • Go Not Gently

    Juggling the school-run with assignments is a strange mixture for Sal Kilkenny, private investigator and single mother. But the toughest part of her job is answering the unanswerable. As, for instance, when Sal's new client Agnes Dolan asks why her...

  • Stone Cold Red Hot

    A Sal Kilkenny Mystery

    British private eye and single mother Sal Kilkenny investigates the mysteries behind a missing woman, Jennifer Pickering, and a Somalian Muslim family targeted by Neo-Nazi youths determined to drive them away....

  • Towers of Silence

    A Sal Kilkenny Mystery

    It’s the countdown to Christmas and Sal Kilkenny is exhausted even thinking about the festive season - after all with one small but demanding daughter, the life of a single mum is pretty hectic at the best of times. So when she is asked to investig...

  • Trio

  • Dead Wrong

    Sal Kilkenny, single mother and private eye, has two very frightened clients on her hands. One, divorcee Debbie Gosforth, is the victim of a deranged stalker; the other, teenager Luke Wallace, is afraid he might be a murderer. Both are likeable, vuln...

  • Bitter Blue

    A Sal Kilkenny Mystery

    On her first day back after the Easter break, Manchester based PI Sal Kilkenny takes on two new cases. The first is to discover who is sending offensive poison pen letters to hotel receptionist Lucy Barker. The second is surveillance work for a coupl...

  • Blue Murder

    Detective Janine Lewis - 1

    Janine Lewis is a pregnant, single mother whose life has become rather hectic. As well as juggling three lively children single-handed, she has ruffled a few feathers by becoming Greater Manchester’s first female Detective Chief Inspector. At last,...

  • Hit & Run

    Detective Janine Lewis - 2

    A corpse in the river; a child mown down; a fugitive slaughtered. Three untimely deaths means three murder investigations â€" unless, of course, they are all part of the same case… Life is tough as a cop at the top â€" and tougher still with a new ...



  • Missing

    A Sal Kilkenny Mystery

    Janet Florin has been gone for almost a week. Husband Mark reported her missing when she failed to collect their two young children from school. Family friend, Trisha Marlowe, desperate for news of Janet, hires Sal Kilkenny to track her down. What le...

  • The Kindest Thing

    A love story, a modern nightmare and an honest and incisive portrayal of a woman who honours her husband's wish to die and finds herself in the dock for murder. When Deborah reluctantly helps her beloved husband Neil end his life and conceals the tr...

  • Violation

    A powerful account of how one family, grieving for the loss of their daughter, is hounded then haunted by gross media intrusion.When teenager Cassie Mallion goes missing one hot summer's day in the Lake District her family find themselves in the mids...

  • In The Heart of The City

    he lives of a teenager and a woman in her forties collide as the 2011 riots hit Manchester. An eloquent and passionate exploration of the week that shook Britain.9th August 2011 and as rioting erupts in Manchester a teenager and a woman in her fortie...

  • Crying Out Loud

    A Sal Kilkenny Mystery

    An abandoned infant on her doorstep is the last thing Manchester private eye Sal Kilkenny needs. Sal's client Libby Hill is trying to put her life back together after the brutal killing of her lover and the conviction of petty criminal Damien Beswick...

  • Dead To Me

    Scott & Bailey - 1

    A riveting, sharply observed and thoroughly modern police procedural, Dead to Me features a stellar but unlikely female detective team, and is perfect for fans of Tess Gerritsen and Deborah Crombie Detective Constable Janet Scott is subtle and re...

  • Bleed Like Me

    Scott & Bailey - 2

    A family manThe bodies of a man, woman and child are found, lying in pools of blood. The owner of the inn where the bodies are discovered has fled. But he’s not alone â€" he’s taken his two young sons with him. No one knows what he’s going to d...

  • Split Second

    A split second is all it takes to make a decision - but what if it is the wrong one? A winter's evening and a trio of unruly youths board a bus and gang up on teenager Luke Murray, hurling abuse and threatening to kill him. The bus is full but no on...

  • Letters to My Daughter's Killer

    Grandmother Ruth Sutton writes to the man she hates more than anyone else on the planet: the man who she believes killed her daughter Lizzie in a brutal attack four years earlier. In writing to him Ruth hopes to exorcise the corrosive emotions that a...

  • Blink of an Eye

    A sunny, Sunday afternoon, a family barbecue, and Naomi Baxter and her boyfriend Alex celebrate good news. Driving home, Naomi causes a fatal accident, leaving nine-year-old Lily Vasey dead, Naomi fighting for her life and Alex bruised and bloody. Tr...



  • Ruthless

    Scott & Bailey - 3

    A community on the brink.An abandoned chapel burns. In this part of Manchester, destruction is not unusual. But this time, the body of a man lies inside.And it's down to Scott and Bailey to save them all...Detective Constable Rachel Bailey is struggl...

  • Half the World Away

    Lori Maddox chooses to spend the year after university travelling and visits China where she finds casual work as a private English tutor. Back in Manchester, her parents Joanna and Tom, who separated when Lori was a toddler, follow her adventures on...

  • The Silence Between Breaths

    Eight strangers.
    One deadly secret.

    Passengers boarding the 10.35 train from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston are bound for work, assignations, reunions, holidays or new starts, with no idea that their journey is about to be brutal...

  • The Girl in the Green Dress

  • Fear of Falling

  • Quiet Acts of Violence

    A dead baby. A missing mother. A cradle of secrets.From the author of the Scott and Bailey series, Quiet Acts of Violence is a novel about family and betrayal, injustice and poverty, the ties that bind and those that break us.__________Has the woman...

  • Running out of Road

  • Make Believe

    Detective Janine Lewis - 3

    The sun comes out on a Saturday afternoon in Manchester. Proud young mum Claire is watching her three-year-old son Sammy in the local playground. A little girl falls. Claire bends down to help. When she turns round Sammy is gone.As each day passes, t...

  • Desperate Measures

    Detective Janine Lewis - 4

    Respected Manchester GP Dr Don Halliwell is discovered brutally murdered one cloudy Autumn morning. Shot dead on the front door of his own practice, his shirt soaked in blood. Then his colleague Dr Fraser McKee goes missing. McKee's car is found at h...

  • The FELLS

    'It's brilliant! Buy it!' Ann Cleeves**Shortlisted for The People's Books Prize 2024/2025!**Yorkshire Dales, Summer 1997. Vicky Mott slips out the door of her remote cottage, and into the pale dawn light. She scrawls a note for her friends.Gone to se...



  • The Lost Girls Of St. Ann's

    Manchester, 1960. When you're young, unmarried and pregnant, there's only one place left to go: St Ann's mother and baby home. That's how restless Joan, who dreams of a glamorous new life in the Big Smoke, finds herself shut away with two unlikel...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Cath Staincliffe has published 30 books.

Cath Staincliffe does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Lost Girls Of St. Ann's, was published in May 2024.

The first book by Cath Staincliffe, Looking for Trouble, was published in August 1995.

Yes. Cath Staincliffe has 3 series.
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