Jane A. Adams

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  • Bibliography:
    42 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1995
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Henry Johnstone Mystery

1 - The Murder Book (Jan-2017)
2 - Death Scene (Jul-2017)
3 - Kith and Kin (Dec-2018)
4 - The Clockmaker (Sep-2019)
5 - The Good Wife (May-2020)
6 - Old Sins (Mar-2021)
7 - Bright Young Things (Sep-2021)
8 - The Girl in the Yellow Dress (Aug-2022)
9 - The Room with Eight Windows (Jul-2023)
10 - Cold Bones (Dec-2024)

Mike Croft

1 - The Greenway (1995)
2 - Cast the First Stone (1996)
3 - Fade to Grey (1998)
4 - Final Frame (Aug-2000)
4 - The Liar (Nov-2019)

A Naomi Blake Mystery

1 - Mourning the Little Dead (Nov-2002)
2 - Touching the Dark (Jun-2003)
3 - Heatwave (Jan-2005)
4 - Legacy of Lies (Jul-2007)
5 - Killing a Stranger (Jun-2008)
6 - Blood Ties (Feb-2011)
7 - Night Vision (Mar-2012)
8 - Secrets (Oct-2013)
9 - Gregory's Game (Jun-2014)
10 - Paying the Ferryman (Dec-2014)
11 - A Murderous Mind (Mar-2016)
12 - Fakes and Lies (May-2018)

Rina Martin

1 - A Reason to Kill // Murder on Sea (Mar-2008)
2 - Fragile Lives // Murder on the Cliff (Dec-2008)
3 - The Power of One // Murder on the Boat (Aug-2009)
4 - Resolutions // Murder on the Beach (Jul-2010)
5 - The Dead of Winter // Murder at the Country House (Aug-2011)
6 - Cause of Death // Murder at the Pub (Sep-2012)
7 - Forgotten Voices (Oct-2015)
8 - Murder at the Willows (Feb-2023)

Book List in Order: 42 titles

  • The Greenway

    • / Police Procedural
    • Buy Buy
    Mike Croft - 1

    SHORTCUT TO TERROR Cassie Maltham was ten that August afternoon in 1975 when her cousin Suzie vanished -- almost before Cassie's eyes -- never to be seen again. Now, twenty years later, Cassie has returned to the quiet English seashore village whe...

  • Cast the First Stone

    • / Police Procedural
    • Buy Buy
    Mike Croft - 2

    Eric Pearson claims he is being persecuted because he has the journal of the late Simon Blake JP, which exposes a child pornographic ring that could topple powerful figures. DI Mike Croft is called in to investigate. Then poachers in nearby woodlands...

  • Bird // The Other Woman

    Bird's grandfather is dying, haunted by the image from his youth of a woman hanging from a tree. Before he dies, Bird vows to uncover the true story behind this woman. Even if it points to her grandfather being a murderer....

  • Fade to Grey

    • / Police Procedural
    • Buy Buy
    Mike Croft - 3

    After two months on sick leave, DI Mike Croft had hoped for a simple case to ease himself back into his job. But it was not to be, for a serial rapist is stalking the streets, targeting young blonde women....

  • Final Frame

    Mike Croft - 4

    For over six months DI Mike Croft has been chasing filmmaker and killer Jake Bowen in a nationwide hunt. Now his latest victim - an art student - has been found laid out recreating one of her own self-portraits. But as Mike begins to focus on Jake's ...

  • Like Angels Falling

    With his resignation from the police force now approved. Ray Flowers's plans to set up a security and detection business with his old friend George Mahoney are in full swing. And one of their first cases is to help an acquaintance whose daughter has ...

  • Mourning the Little Dead

    A Naomi Blake Mystery - 1

  • Touching the Dark

    A Naomi Blake Mystery - 2

    The new novel featuring blind ex-policewoman Naomi Blake, first introduced in Mourning the Little Dead. Tally Palmer is a successful international photographer, and a celebrity in her own right. When she abruptly breaks off a relationship with Simon ...

  • Dangerous to Know // Then She Was Dead

    Colin Granger is one of life’s classic underachievers. His ex-wife Moira left him not because she no longer loved him, but because she was fed up with living in poky bedsits and scraping a living on his meager income. Now a high-flier in the police...



  • Heatwave

    A Naomi Blake Mystery - 3

    August. A long-running heatwave has been dominating the news for weeks, and a state of lethargy is affecting everyone - not least blind ex-policewoman Naomi Blake, who is experiencing a restless dissatisfaction with life in general. One ordinary Mond...

  • A Kiss Goodbye // The Woman in the Painting

    To Robert Carr, Anna is a mystery. She has always been an enigma and that’s the way he’d like her to stay. Over the past thirteen years, his imagination has fed on his last, parting image of Anna; kissing her goodbye before she turned to leave. A...

  • Legacy of Lies

    A Naomi Blake Mystery - 4

    Naomi and boyfriend Alec Friedman travel to the Fenlands for the funeral of Alecs beloved Uncle Rupert, who ran an antiques business and wrote books on local history. At the funeral, it becomes clear that there were some suspicious circumstances, and...

  • A Reason to Kill // Murder on Sea

    Rina Martin - 1
    Worldwide Mysteries - 799

    MURDER AS A LAST RESORT... For Rina Martin, the sleepy seaside town of Frantham is the perfect place to retire from a successful acting career and open a cozy boardinghouse. For transplanted detective Sebastian "Mac" McGregor, it's a place to forg...

  • Killing a Stranger

    A Naomi Blake Mystery - 5

    The new Naomi Blake mystery - A teenage boy is found drowned in a canal, just hours after telling his mother that he killed a man. There seems to have been no link between them, and the boy was a model student, never in trouble with anyone. Naomis fr...

  • Fragile Lives // Murder on the Cliff

    Rina Martin - 2
    Worldwide Mysteries - 846

    Hanging by a thread… When a body washes ashore in the English town of Frantham, detective inspector Mac McGregor isn't surprised. In fact, he thinks he knows who the victim is -- but he's wrong. The true identity of the victim leads Mac into the...

  • The Power of One // Murder on the Boat

    Rina Martin - 3
    Worldwide Mysteries - 861

    WIN, LOSE…OR DIE The summer tourist season is in full swing when retired stage actress Rina Martin finds herself embroiled in a murder investigation. A man is found shot execution-style on his yacht in Frantham Harbor, and everyone's got a theor...

  • Resolutions // Murder on the Beach

    Rina Martin - 4

    When DI ‘Mac’ McGregor came to Frantham he was a broken man, guilt ridden at the death of a child he had tried to save, and whose killer had escaped. But he found friendship there, in the shape of Rina Martin’s strange little household, and rom...

  • Blood Ties

    A Naomi Blake Mystery - 6

    When Alec and Naomi take a holiday in Somerset, they encounter local eccentric Eddy Thame, a historian obsessed with the Monmouth rebellion of 1685 and the alleged Kirkwood treasure. A few days after their arrival, Eddy is found dead. Reluctantly, Al...

  • The Dead of Winter // Murder at the Country House

    Rina Martin - 5

    Against her better judgement, Rina Martin accepts an invitation to Aikensthorpe, a country house hotel with a sinister reputation. Gathered there are a collection of experts in the esoteric; their plan is to re-enact the incident in 1872 that left on...



  • Night Vision

    A Naomi Blake Mystery - 7

    What had Neil Robinson been about to tell journalist Jamie Dale? Whatever it was, it got them both killed, and Alec and his DCI are called away to help with the investigation. Jamie was an old friend of Naomi's, and now she is being harassed by phone...

  • Cause of Death // Murder at the Pub

    Rina Martin - 6

    Life is looking up for Rina Martin, with the expected revival of her television career, but as her happy summer ends, storm clouds are on the horizon . . . Summer in Frantham has been long and lazy. In the Martin Household, change is afoot. Tim is no...

  • Secrets

    A Naomi Blake Mystery - 8

    When a man breaks into Mollie Chambers’ house she tells the police that she has never seen him before. Ex-DI Alec Friedman -- her honorary nephew -- isn’t so sure. Mollie has lived an eventful life, as the wife of a diplomat, and he knows she...

  • Gregory's Game

    A Naomi Blake Mystery - 9

    Ex-DI Alec Friedman is recovering from the car crash that almost killed him. Now back at home, with his wife Naomi, he feels as though he has lost something of himself. He may be alive, but he is hollowed out and empty. Another man standing at the sa...

  • Paying the Ferryman

    A Naomi Blake Mystery - 10

    The murder of a family forces former policewoman Naomi Blake to face her past Victor Griffin seemed to be one of the good guys, but that didn't stop someone coming to his home and killing him and his wife. The last act of Vic's life was to try and...

  • Forgotten Voices

    Rina Martin - 7

    Retired actress Rina Martin gets tangled up in the brutal murder of a seemingly innocent widow Who would want to kill widowed mother of two Ellen Tailor, a seemingly innocent, inoffensive woman, and leave her body for her children to find? Rina Ma...

  • A Murderous Mind

    A Naomi Blake Mystery - 11

    The murder of a student re-opens a series of cold cases in this intriguing mystery A young student is found brutally murdered in her room, killed while her flatmates slept nearby. The police soon recognize that this is frighteningly similar to a c...

  • The Murder Book

    A Henry Johnstone Mystery - 1

    Introducing Detective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone in the first of a brand-new historical mystery series. Lincolnshire, England. June, 1928. When three freshly-buried bodies are unearthed in the front yard of a rented cottage, DCI Henry Johnsto...

  • Death Scene

    A Henry Johnstone Mystery - 2

    Detective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone is summoned to investigate the murder of a silent movie star in this compelling historical mystery. 1928. A rising star of the silent screen, Cissie Rowe had a bright future ahead of her in the new talking...

  • Fakes and Lies

    A Naomi Blake Mystery - 12

    A daughter seeks Naomi Blake’s help in proving her artist father was murdered. When artist and sometime forger Freddie Jones is found dead of an apparent heart attack, no one is surprised. Freddie drank heavily and was a lifelong smoker. The onl...



  • Kith and Kin

    A Henry Johnstone Mystery - 3

    When two bodies are washed up in the Kentish marshes, Detective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone is propelled into a disturbing investigation. December, 1928. When two bodies are found washed up in the Kentish marshes, it doesn’t take long for DC...

  • The Clockmaker

    A Henry Johnstone Mystery - 4

    Detective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone discovers that things are not as they first appear when clockmaker Abraham Levy’s nephew goes missing. February, 1929. Clockmaker Abraham Levy’s young nephew has vanished. He was last seen boarding a t...

  • The Liar

    Mike Croft - 4

    DISCOVER A BRILLIANTLY GRIPPING CRIME THRILLER FROM A BEST-SELLING AUTHOR

    “A corker of a book.” Aileen G.

    “A riveting read I found hard to put down.” Hannelore C.

    “Nothing is what it seems in this book. I spent most of ...

  • The Good Wife

    A Henry Johnstone Mystery - 5

    A chilling murder ruins a fun day at the races in the fifth historical mystery featuring Detective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone. 1929. Police surgeon Dr Clive Mason is devastated when his wife Martha is found dead in an empty horsebox at Southw...

  • Old Sins

    A Henry Johnstone Mystery - 6

    The past is never far behind you . . . Old sins have a nasty way of catching up with you, as Detective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone discovers in this gripping historical mystery, which takes him back to a difficult case in his early days as a p...

  • Bright Young Things

    A Henry Johnstone Mystery - 7

    When a man dumps a body on a beach in full view of onlookers, the investigation that follows throws up a number of dark twists for DCI Henry Johnstone. January 5, 1930. On a cold, grey winter morning, a mysterious man walks along Bournemouth beach...

  • KIDNAP

    The man climbs a ladder, slides a gloved finger through the slightly open window and enters the room. He wraps 14-month-old Joshua Banks in his blanket and takes him from his cot. In his place he leaves a printed note. Do not call the police. You wil...

  • Bury Me Deep

    Theadingford dig site, present day. Detective Rozlyn Priest never expected to find herself here. Teetering on the brink of an ancient grave. She takes a breath, willing herself to look down. Old bones, broken relics—that’s what should be ...

  • The Girl in the Yellow Dress

    A Henry Johnstone Mystery - 8

    Was the wrong man hanged for a young woman's murder, or is a copycat killer on the loose? DCI Henry Johnstone and DS Mickey Hitchens must crack a darkly complex case when the community close ranks.1930, Leicestershire. Everyone in the quiet market to...

  • Murder at the Willows

    Rina Martin - 8

    Meet Rina Martin, a retired actress with a taste for tea, gardening and crime solving. She played a TV sleuth for years, but now she has to do it for real. There's something strange about the scene . . . Famous artist Jean appears to have passed peac...



  • The Room with Eight Windows

    A Henry Johnstone Mystery - 9

    Henry Johnstone has retired from the police, but when he suddenly disappears his old colleague and friend, Inspector Mickey Hitchens, investigates.December, 1930. Henry Johnstone has retired from his role as detective chief inspector at London’s Sc...

  • The Lost Daughter

    First she was married. Then she was widowed. Now she's vanished without a trace.From the bestselling author of The Greenway, nominated for the CWA's John Creasey Award.PRAISE FOR JANE ADAMS: 'Takes the psychological suspense novel into new realms of ...

  • Cold Bones

    A Henry Johnstone Mystery - 10

    Henry Johnstone has retired from his role as detective chief inspector, but is drawn back to an old case in Lincolnshire by an astonishing development in this page-turning mystery. 1931,Lincolnshire. Everyone thought that the young man who attacked R...

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Jane A. Adams has published 42 books.

The next book by Jane A. Adams, Cold Bones, will be published in December 2024.

The first book by Jane A. Adams, The Greenway, was published in January 1995.

Yes. Jane A. Adams has 4 series.
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