Graham Ison

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  • Bibliography:
    47 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1988
  • Latest Book:
    January 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Brock & Poole

1 - Working Girl (Apr-2002)
2 - Light Fantastic (Nov-2003)
3 - Whiplash (Jul-2004)
4 - Kicking The Air (May-2005)
5 - Whispering Glass (Apr-2006)
6 - Drumfire (Nov-2006)
7 - Lost or Found (Jan-2008)
8 - Jack in the Box (Dec-2008)
9 - Breach of Privilege (Nov-2009)
10 - All Quiet on Arrival (Nov-2010)
11 - Gunrunner (Dec-2011)
12 - Make Them Pay (Mar-2013)
13 - Reckless Endangerment (May-2014)
14 - Exit Stage Left (Jun-2015)
15 - Suddenly at Home (Nov-2016)
16 - Deadlock (Sep-2018)
17 - Naked Flames (Oct-2019)

Hardcastle

1 - Hardcastle's Conspiracy (2005)
2 - Hardcastle's Actress (Aug-2007)
3 - Hardcastle's Airmen (Jul-2006)
4 - Hardcastle's Burglar (Jul-2008)
5 - Hardcastle's Spy (2004)
6 - Hardcastle's Obsession (Sep-2011)
7 - Hardcastle's Traitors (Nov-2013)
8 - Hardcastle's Mandarin (May-2009)
9 - Hardcastle's Soldiers (Apr-2010)
10 - Hardcastle's Frustration (Aug-2012)
11 - Hardcastle's Quartet (Nov-2014)
12 - Hardcastle's Armistice (2004)
13 - Hardcastle's Collector (Feb-2016)
14 - Hardcastle's Runaway (Jun-2017)
15 - Hardcastle's Quandary (Jun-2020)
16 - Hardcastle's Secret Agent (Jan-2021)

John Gaffney

1 - The Cold Light of Dawn (1988)
2 - Confirm or Deny (Dec-1989)
3 - Home Secretary Will See You Now (Aug-1990)
4 - A Damned Serious Business (1990)

Tommy Fox

1 - Lead Me to the Slaughter (1990)
2 - Laundry Man (1991)
3 - Tomfoolery (1992)
4 - Snowdrop (1992)
5 - The Taming of Tango Harris (1993)
6 - Underneath the Arches (1994)
7 - Rough Diamonds (1995)
8 - Blue Murder (1996)

Book List in Order: 47 titles

  • The Cold Light of Dawn

    John Gaffney - 1

    As dawn breaks on the coast of Brittany, a retired colonel finds the body of an attractive young redhead washed up on the beach...In the search for her identification the French police pass her picture to the CID at Scotland Yard, and it is from ther...

  • Confirm or Deny

    John Gaffney - 2

  • A Damned Serious Business

    John Gaffney - 4

    When a patrolling police car finds a man slumped over the wheel of a BMW in the middle of the night, it appears to be just another drunken driver come to grief. But the driver is a diplomat, and what he tells the police has serious consequences for i...

  • Lead Me to the Slaughter

    Tommy Fox - 1

    Detective Chief Superintendent Tommy Fox is the raffish, cockney head of the Flying Squad who first appeared in The Home Secretary Will See You Now. Back on more familiar territory in Lead Me To The Slaughter, Fox encounters a team of robbers goi...

  • Home Secretary Will See You Now

    John Gaffney - 3

    Detective Chief Superintendent John Gaffney of Scotland Yard's Special Branch investigates the murder of Elizabeth Lavery, wife of a British cabinet minister, and learns that she posed a threat to a politician, a peer of the realm, and several crimin...

  • Laundry Man

    Tommy Fox - 2

    When a policeman is shot attempting to stop a building society robbery, Detective Chief Superintendent Tommy Fox, head of the Flying Squad, gets out from behind his desk and interferes. He is convinced that the incident is linked to other criminal ac...

  • Snowdrop

    Tommy Fox - 4

    Another baffling case for Fox and flying squad…On the hard shoulder of the M4, two traffic officers spot a car illegally parked and with no hazard lights on.Figuring it’s someone or a family taking the mick, the officers approach the car as routi...

  • Tomfoolery

    Tommy Fox - 3

    When a hundred thousand pounds' worth of jewellery is stolen from a West End hotel, Detective Inspector Jack Gilroy picks up the call on his radio. But so does his boss, Detective Chief Superintendent Tommy Fox, head of the Flying Squad. A missing bu...

  • The Taming of Tango Harris

    Tommy Fox - 5

    Another case for Detective Tommy Fox …The body of a high-end prostitute is found in a hotel in the West End with a black stocking around her neck. Hours later, on the other side of London, a lorry is hijacked -- and the driver abducted and abando...



  • Underneath the Arches

    Tommy Fox - 6

    ‘Altogether; a police procedural to put beside McBain. In other words, top of the class' Julian Symons, The IndependentLed by Detective Chief Superintendent Tommy Fox, the Flying Squad is watching over a repository of stolen property underneath som...

  • Rough Diamonds

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy
    Tommy Fox - 7

    The shooting of a man in a taxi at Hyde Park Corner appeared to be just another event in the bizarre catalogue of crimes with which London’s detectives are painfully familiar. But when Detective Chief Superintendent Tommy Fox, raffish head of th...

  • Blue Murder

    Tommy Fox - 8

    In a yacht moored off the Cyprus coast, a British businessman, and his two female 'companions' have been found murdered, the victims of twenty-seven rounds from an assault rifle. With a cache of cocaine aboard, it seems just another drug-smuggling ...

  • Division

  • Working Girl

    Brock & Poole - 1

    A fast-moving, intricate and compelling contemporary mystery, starting with the brutal murder of a prostitute in London's West End, and uncovering a politician with feet of clay, a bent ex-policeman and a baggage handling scam at Heathrow airport.Bro...

  • Light Fantastic

    Brock & Poole - 2

    When the milkman alerts police to two bodies at the fashionable Hampstead home of Andrew and Kim Light, it seems obvious who the deceased are . . . until Mr Light walks through the door.Just who is the other man? Is Andrew Light as innocent as he'd l...

  • Hardcastle's Armistice

    • / Historical Mystery
    • Buy Buy
    Hardcastle - 12

  • Hardcastle's Spy

    • / Historical Mystery
    • Buy Buy
    Hardcastle - 5

  • Whiplash

    Brock & Poole - 3

    When the traffic police call the local police station, who call CID, DI Brock is none too pleased to be forced to attend the scene of a traffic accident when he doesn't see how it's any of his business. But then it turns out that the body of a woman ...

  • Hardcastle's Conspiracy

    • / Historical Mystery
    • Buy Buy
    Hardcastle - 1

    On the eve of the Great War in 1914, a body is found in the lake at St James' Park. What initially appears to be a robbery becomes more complex when it is discovered that the victim is a servant oat one of London's prestigious gentleman's clubs.Hardc...



  • Kicking The Air

    Brock & Poole - 4

    When a woman's body is found by the Thames river police, floating opposite the Houses of Parliament in London, it doesn't take DCI Brock long to work out that she has been murdered.Further investigation reveals the woman was one of a stable of prosti...

  • Whispering Glass

    Brock & Poole - 5

    Featuring the worldly wise DI Brock and his wry sidekick DS Poole When Jimmy ?Spotter? Gould is shot dead within seconds of emerging from London's Stone Mill Prison, Brock and Poole are faced with a baffling crime. Enquiries uncover an embezzling sol...

  • Hardcastle's Airmen

    Hardcastle - 3

    In February 1915, the Great War is still raging on the Western Front, but in Westminster, at the centre of Hardcastle's bailiwick, a policeman is shot dead. At first, Hardcastle believes the murderer to have been a disturbed burglar. But as enquiries...

  • Drumfire

    Brock & Poole - 6

    The new and unusual case for Detectives Brock and Poole - One Saturday night, a masked gunman walks into a jazz club and murders the drummer. Very soon, Detective Chief Inspector Brock and Detective Sergeant Poole find themselves taking an interest i...

  • Hardcastle's Actress

    Hardcastle - 2

    The new Detective Inspector Hardcastle mystery - When the body of actress Victoria Hart is found in the early hours of Christmas Day, Hardcastle and Marriotts investigations lead them to the Beaux Belles revue, where a scantily clad Victoria persuade...

  • Lost or Found

    Brock & Poole - 7

    A wedding ring, a missing woman, a bizarre disappearance...Brock and Poole have one of their most unusual cases to unravel'Devilishly engaging characters and authentic details of police operations' BooklistWhen Eunice Bailey takes her wedding ring to...

  • Hardcastle's Burglar

    Hardcastle - 4

    It is June 1916, four weeks before the opening day of the disastrous Battle of the Somme. Hardcastle is sent to Kingston-upon-Thames to investigate the murder of Colonel Sir Adrian Rivers, a retired and distinguished soldier. The colonel's second wif...

  • Jack in the Box

    Brock & Poole - 8

    DCI Harry Brock is called to Ham Common early on a Sunday morning. But when he arrives at the murder scene, he learns that this killing is far from straightforward: the victim has been stabbed to death, locked in a wooden box and set alight.This very...

  • Hardcastle's Mandarin

    Hardcastle - 8

    It is June 1917. DDI Ernest Hardcastle, head of the CID for the Whitehall division of the Metropolitan Police, is called to investigate the murder of a very senior civil servant, Sir Nigel Strang.Given that Sir Nigel was the permanent secretary at th...

  • Breach of Privilege

    Brock & Poole - 9

    When MP Hugh Blakemore is shot dead in the Fulham Road, DCI Harry Brock and DS Dave Poole are assigned to the case. Months previously, Blakemore killed an inmate when visiting a prison, and although Blakemore was exonerated, Brock is convinced this i...



  • Hardcastle's Soldiers

    Hardcastle - 9

    DI Hardcastle tracks a killer who’s left his hat behind.... July, 1917. DI Ernest Hardcastle and his assistant, DS Charles Marriott, investigate the murder of a cashier operating in London’s Victoria Station. An army officer claims to have see...

  • All Quiet on Arrival

    Brock & Poole - 10

    When police are called to investigate a noisy party, all is quiet--but flames are seen coming from the house a short while later. The fire brigade discovers the body of Mrs. Diana Barton, who has been stabbed to death in a frenzied attack. DCI Brock ...

  • Hardcastle's Obsession

    Hardcastle - 6

    September 1916. A Zeppelin with a deadly payload is aimed at Victoria station, but when the bombs miss their mark and instead destroy a nearby house in Washbourne Street, mystery ensues for DI Hardcastle. The body of a woman is discovered, who was no...

  • Gunrunner

    Brock & Poole - 11

    On Christmas Day, Detective Chief Inspector Brock's celebrations are interrupted when he is called to a murder at Heathrow Airport. Kerry Hammond was due to fly out to New York with her husband -- but never made it further than the car park. Brock ...

  • Hardcastle's Frustration

    Hardcastle - 10

    As the Great War grinds to its bloody finale, DI Hardcastle is encumbered with a frustrating and complicated investigation . . . March, 1918. The Great War is grinding slowly to its bloody finale. Divisional Detective Inspector Ernest Hardcastl...

  • Make Them Pay

    Brock & Poole - 12

    Brock and Poole investigate a double murder and find themselves caught up in a crime with international implications . . . Detective Chief Inspector Brock is called out to a burnt-out camper van in Richmond, Surrey. The van contained two badly burned...

  • Hardcastle's Traitors

    Hardcastle - 7

    It is New Year’s Eve 1915 and the Hardcastle family are welcoming 1916 at their home in Kennington, London. But an hour into the New Year, Hardcastle is called to a murder in a jeweller’s shop in Vauxhall. In a first for the A Division senior det...

  • Reckless Endangerment

    Brock & Poole - 13

    At near midnight on a sweltering hot July Saturday, Detective Chief Inspector Brock is called to a murder in a house at West Drayton, close to Heathrow Airport. The murder victim is Clifford Gregory, the accountant husband of attractive air stewardes...

  • Hardcastle's Quartet

    Hardcastle - 11

    Accident ... or murder? Detective Inspector Hardcastle’s seemingly simple investigation turns more complicated, in his latest case June 1918. A patrolling constable discovers the body of Georgina Cheney, wife of a naval commander, in the basemen...

  • Exit Stage Left

    Brock & Poole - 14

    Detective Chief Inspector Brock investigates the murder of a well-known actor When the body of Lancelot Foley, a well-known actor, is discovered in an excavation in a fashionable Chelsea street one snowy February morning, Detective Chief Inspector...



  • Whispering Grass

    Convicted armed robber Jimmy 'Spotter' Gould is shot dead within seconds of emerging from London's Stone Mill Prison at the end of an eight-year sentence, and Brock and DS Poole are faced with yet anther baffling crime.s enquiries continue, an embezz...

  • Hardcastle's Collector

    Hardcastle - 13

    Detective Inspector Hardcastle ruffles feathers in a sleepy Hampshire village, when he investigates the murder of a local girl August 1917. The head of the CID at Scotland Yard sends Divisional Detective Inspector Ernest Hardcastle and Detective ...

  • Suddenly at Home

    Brock & Poole - 15

    The latest case for Brock & Poole leads to a trip abroad ... and tragedy at home. When Richard Cooper is found shot to death in his luxury apartment in North Sheen, London, Detective Chief Inspector Harry Brock and Detective Sergeant Dave Poole a...

  • Hardcastle's Runaway

    Hardcastle - 14

    Hardcastle’s mission to find a headstrong young woman leads to some disturbing twists and turns. March, 1919. The head of CID at New Scotland Yard has a task for Divisional Detective Inspector Hardcastle of A Division: find Lily Musgrave, the m...

  • Deadlock

    Brock & Poole - 16

    A serial killer is at large. One item ties the victims together: in each case, their bra has been removed. Can DCI Harry Brock and DS Dave Pool crack a disturbing case? ...

  • Hardcastle's Quandary

    Hardcastle - 15

    A letter from a vicar in Norfolk leads DDI Hardcastle and DS Marriott on the road to a shocking and macabre discovery . . . One rainy morning in March 1927, Divisional Detective Inspector Ernest Hardcastle of the Metropolitan Police is summoned t...

  • Naked Flames

    Brock & Poole - 17

    A deadly fire at a nudist club plunges DCI Harry Brock and DS Dave Poole into an explosive mix of deception, betrayal and fraud. DCI Harry Brock’s leisurely Saturday afternoon is shattered when he receives the news that Robert Sharp, a charming,...

  • Hardcastle's Secret Agent

    Hardcastle - 16

    Detective Inspector Walter Hardcastle is following in his father's footsteps, but is his rapid rise about to be threatened by a spate of disturbing break-ins linked to the war effort August, 1939. As war looms, Detective Inspector Walter Hardcast...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Graham Ison has published 47 books.

Graham Ison does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Hardcastle's Secret Agent, was published in January 2021.

The first book by Graham Ison, The Cold Light of Dawn, was published in January 1988.

Yes. Graham Ison has 4 series.
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