Colin Garrow

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  • Bibliography:
    43 Books (8 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 2015
  • Latest Book:
    June 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Black Witch Saga

1 - Black Witch Moon (Apr-2021)

The Christie McKinnon Adventures

1 - The Hounds of Hellerby Hall (Aug-2015)
2 - The House That Wasn't There (May-2016)

The Maps of Time

1 - The Architect's Apprentice (Jul-2015)
2 - Mortlake (Dec-2015)

A Relic Black Thriller

1 - Terminal Black (Jun-2020)

A Rosie Robson Murder Mystery

1 - Blood on the Tyne: Body Parts (Feb-2020)
2 - Blood on the Tyne: Head Shots (Nov-2020)

Skeleton Cove Horror

1 - The Demon of Devilgate Drive (Apr-2017)
2 - The Curse of Calico Jack (Dec-2019)

A Terry Bell Mystery

1 - Death on a Dirty Afternoon (Nov-2016)
2 - A Long Cool Glass of Murder (Aug-2019)
3 - The Jansson Tapes (May-2020)
4 - Six Feet Under (Oct-2020)

The Watson Letters

1 - Something Wicker This Way Comes (Mar-2016)
2 - Not the 39 Steps (Jul-2016)
3 - Curse of the Baskervilles (Sep-2017)
4 - Revenge of the Hooded Claw (Dec-2018)
5 - Murder on Mystery Island (Oct-2019)

Book List in Order: 43 titles

  • The Architect's Apprentice

    The Maps of Time - 1

    London, 1630. A boy searching for his father. A villain stealing books.

    Forced to work for the dubious Savidge, eleven-year-old Tom Fennel is desperate to find his missing father. Distrustful of what he's heard, he's sure Savidge is involv...

  • The Devil's Porridge Gang

    1969. In a town where nothing happens, a gang of kids uncover a kidnapping plot.


    In the days following the excitement of the moon landings, a group of criminals plan to kidnap the son of a Government rocket engineer - but they don’t ex...

  • How the World Turns

    He thinks that when he walks, his own feet propel the earth: that his movements keep the world going round. Literally. Each stride supplies the momentum for another motion forward, the ground shifting backwards beneath him, away into the distance. Ex...

  • The Hounds of Hellerby Hall

    The Christie McKinnon Adventures - 1

    Edinburgh, 1897. Blood on the table, murder in the hall.


    Eleven-year-old Christie McKinnon is not happy - the editor of ‘McMurdo’s Weekly’ has once again turned down her story. But this time, Christie determines not to give up - tak...

  • Girlfriend Interrupted

    Colin Garrow's new collection of stories hint at the darker side of life: a dead wife comes back from the grave, a sinister agency demands a lot from its workers, an unhappy lover yearns for a way out and a cleaner finds her employers have disappeare...

  • Mortlake

    The Maps of Time - 2

    London, 1630. Felch is back, and this time he's determined to get what he wants.


    But Tom and his friends have other things on their minds - when one of Deacon's maps is stolen, the ancient and mysterious library of Dr Dee seems to be the...

  • Something Wicker This Way Comes

    The Watson Letters - 1

    In a not quite Post-Victorian, steampunk parallel universe, Holmes and Watson continue their fight against crime.

    Based on the infamous Blog of the same name, this indecorous take on the Holmes and Watson stories pitch the detecting duo into ...

  • The House That Wasn't There

    The Christie McKinnon Adventures - 2

    There's a new trade in the city - one that deals in children.

    On a cold November morning in 1890's Edinburgh, Christie McKinnon and her pal Donal discover a young boy is missing from home. And he's not the only one - someone is stealing child...

  • Not the 39 Steps

    The Watson Letters - 2

    Holmes and Watson continue their fight against crime in a not quite Post-Victorian, steampunk parallel universe.

    In three new adventures, the intrepid duo team up with Richard Hannay to do battle with Moriarty in Edinburgh's subterranean pas...



  • Death on a Dirty Afternoon

    A Terry Bell Mystery - 1

    Introducing a brand new murder mystery series set on England's northeast coast. When taxi driver Frank is found dead on his dining room table, ex-cabbie Terry Bell assumes his old friend died of a heart attack. But when Terry's former boss also turns...

  • The Demon of Devilgate Drive

    Skeleton Cove Horror - 1

    A murder in Nightmare Alley. A missing boy. A demon on the loose.

    On the hunt for the elusive Jimmy Brick, 12-year-old Jeff and his pal Suzi find more than they bargained for at Harry McSpawn's pool hall. But it's a mysterious business card t...

  • Curse of the Baskervilles

    The Watson Letters - 3

    Intrepid investigators Holmes and Watson continue their fight against crime in a not quite Post-Victorian, steampunk parallel universe.In three more adventures, the intrepid duo tackle a ghostly locomotive, journey to Dartmoor in search of a gigantic...

  • The Not Mouse

  • Revenge of the Hooded Claw

    The Watson Letters - 4

    Intrepid investigators Holmes and Watson continue their fight against crime in a not quite Post-Victorian, steampunk parallel universe.In three more adventures, the tenacious twosome encounter an ocean-going iceberg, an American werewolf and a gigant...

  • A Long Cool Glass of Murder

    A Terry Bell Mystery - 2

    When taxi driver and amateur sleuth Terry takes on a new client, he doesn’t expect her to turn up dead. With echoes of his recent past coming back to haunt him, can he work out what’s going on before someone else gets killed?‘Charis...

  • Murder on Mystery Island

    The Watson Letters - 5

    When consumptive Doctor Edward Armstrong turns up at Baker Street with an invitation to visit a mysterious island, Sherlock Holmes smells a rat. Sounding deviously similar to the plot of a recent novel by celebrated lady author Mrs Christie, Holmes d...

  • The Curse of Calico Jack

    Skeleton Cove Horror - 2

    A mysterious book. A creepy kidnapping. A ghostly pirate on the loose.Researching ideas for a pirate story, 12-year-old Jeff and his pal Suzi uncover a mysterious book that reveals weirdly moving images of a scary pirate captain. After an old movie a...

  • Blood on the Tyne: Body Parts

    A Rosie Robson Murder Mystery - 1

    Introducing a brand new murder mystery series set on Tyneside.Newcastle, 1955. A death in the family brings nightclub singer Rosie Robson home to Newcastle, but her planned return to London hits a snag after she agrees to perform with her old band. L...

  • The Jansson Tapes

    A Terry Bell Mystery - 3

    When a familiar leggy blonde slides onto the back seat of his cab with the offer of work, taxi-driver and amateur sleuth Terry Bell isn’t keen. However, compared to the tedium of driving a cab all day, the lure of another mystery is too strong ...



  • Terminal Black

    A Relic Black Thriller - 1

    Introducing a new thriller series set in Inverness.Relic Black takes things that don’t belong to him—credit cards, golf clubs, toothbrushes. But when a hitman mistakes him for someone else, Relic lands himself in a difficult situation. Wi...

  • Six Feet Under

    A Terry Bell Mystery - 4

    A murder victim, a deserted airfield, a sinister project. Can Terry untangle the mystery before someone else dies?Asked to investigate the death of a building contractor, taxi-driver and amateur sleuth Terry Bell thinks the dead man’s widow may...

  • Blood on the Tyne: Head Shots

    A Rosie Robson Murder Mystery - 2

    When someone starts killing fashion models, Rosie Robson finds herself in the firing line.Newcastle, 1955. When a young model is murdered, the woman’s bereaved family ask singer and amateur sleuth Rosie Robson to investigate. But before she can...

  • Black Witch Moon

    Black Witch Saga - 1

    Tyburn, 1625. A young woman hanged as a witch. A doctor plagued by nightmares.Wracked by guilt, Robert Winter struggles with the notion that a witch may have been wrongly accused. But if that is so, what can he do about it?When strange things begin t...

  • The Haunting of Roderick Usher

    An invitation. A ghostly spectre. A criminal mastermind.When Holmes and Watson are invited to visit an old friend of the pipe-smoking detective, they are plunged into the first of three adventures involving the Dark Arts and the supernatural. From th...

  • Red Snow

    A dead body. A hoard of forged banknotes. A gangster out for blood.Newcastle, December 1955. Returning home after a weekend away, singer and amateur sleuth Rosie Robson discovers a man lying on a baggage trolley with his throat cut. After the police ...

  • No Cure for Death

    A missing person. A name from the past. A trail of brutal murders.When taxi-driving sleuth Terry Bell is asked to track down a missing person, he must face the possibility that his own actions twenty-seven years earlier may have led to the disappeara...

  • Crucial Black

    A brace of corpses. A bone-crunching machine. A new recruit.Now employed by an Inverness organised crime gang, former petty thief Relic Black is teamed up with hitman Ali McKay, the man he almost killed a few weeks earlier. As the team tidy up the lo...

  • The Axeman of Manslaughter Mansion

    A rock band with a problem. A house haunted by the past. A mysterious black mist.Hearing one of their favourite musicians is living in Skeleton Cove, 12-year-old Jeff and his pal Suzi set out to meet him. But the house where Fast Eddie Findlay is sta...

  • Deadly Black

    An assassin out for revenge. A missing police officer. A trail of bodies.Still dealing with the fallout from the McClure brothers’ activities, Chrissy Ridley’s Organized Crime Gang faces a new threat – an assassin has been engaged t...



  • Angie Baby

    • / General Fiction
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  • Bed, Death and Breakfast

    • / Horror
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  • How Green Was My Lovely Big Sleep

    • / Mystery
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    It was a classic pea-souper, thick with the stink of the Tyne and as sticky as an athlete's armpit. I wanted to go home, relax, tune into Channel 69 and open a beer, but something caught my eye through the gloom. Ordinarily, I'd have told Pussy Hidea...

  • In Line for Murder

    • / Historical
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    In 1890s Edinburgh, Inspector Angus Robertson has a problem: Sir Charles Foggarty wants him to investigate a murder, but the wealthy landowner's story about a mysterious dead woman is missing one vital ingredient - a body....

  • Magic Man

    • / Science Fiction
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  • Mirror, Mirror

    • / Horror
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    Thrown out on the street on Christmas Eve, Jack has nowhere to go. Good Samaritan Dougie offers Jack a roof for the night, but his promise of shelter is no home from home, and when a creepy mirror begins to exert its influence, someone must pay a hig...

  • The New Girl

    • / Horror
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  • The Painted Man

    • / Horror
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    When recently bereaved Julia and her young daughter move into a new house, the little girl talks about seeing a man outside. Later, finding drawings depicting this same man—drawings that are too accurate to have been produced by her seven-year-...

  • Shadow of the Witch

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    London, 1677. A house with a dark secret. A lawyer in pursuit of magick. A witch, dead for fifty years.Israel Cutler, dealer in second-hand goods, discovers the journals of Doctor Winter. Detailing the doctor’s relationship with a hanged witch,...

  • Shoals O' Herring

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    Tired of his day job, young Stevie joins the crew of a fishing trawler - but life at sea isn't as romantic as he expects:It was November and it was cold, and I wasn’t getting along very well with the skipper. We’d only been away from port...



  • The Silk Woman

    • / Fantasy
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  • A Tale for Halloween

    • / Science Fiction
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  • The Very Grave Digger

    • / Thriller
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  • When Darkness Falls

    • / Horror
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Colin Garrow has published 43 books.

Colin Garrow does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Deadly Black, was published in June 2023.

The first book by Colin Garrow, The Architect's Apprentice, was published in July 2015.

Yes. Colin Garrow has 8 series.
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