J.M. Dalgliesh

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2018
  • Latest Book:
    May 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Dark Yorkshire

1 - Divided House (May-2018)
2 - Blacklight (Jun-2018)
3 - The Dogs in the Street (Jul-2018)
4 - Blood Money (Dec-2018)
5 - Fear the Past (Jan-2019)
6 - The Sixth Precept (May-2019)

Hidden Norfolk

1 - One Lost Soul (Oct-2019)
2 - Bury Your Past (Nov-2019)
3 - Kill Our Sins (Apr-2020)
4 - Tell No Tales (Jun-2020)
5 - Hear No Evil (Jul-2020)
6 - The Dead Call (Nov-2020)
7 - Kill Them Cold (Apr-2021)
8 - A Dark Sin (Jun-2021)
9 - To Die For (Sep-2021)
10 - Fool Me Twice (Jan-2022)
11 - The Raven Song (May-2022)
12 - Angel of Death (Oct-2022)
13 - Dead To Me (Mar-2023)
14 - Blood Runs Cold (Jun-2023)
15 - Watch and Prey (Nov-2024)

Misty Isle

1 - A Long Time Dead (Oct-2023)
2 - The Dead Man of Storr (Nov-2023)
3 - The Talisker Dead (Jan-2024)
4 - The Cuillin Dead (Jun-2024)

Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • Divided House

    Dark Yorkshire - 1

    The public face. A private reality. Sometimes, the dead have a lot to hide...DI Nathaniel Caslin's life is a mess. He works the minimum, abuses substances to survive the day and drinks his nights away. A once-promising career is in freefall.Investiga...

  • Blacklight

    Dark Yorkshire - 2

    Two women are missing. One who has it all. The other, has lost everything...DI Nathaniel Caslin is in conflict with his inner demons. His career is resurgent but the greater battle, that with his addiction, is still raging... and he is losing.An aban...

  • The Dogs in the Street

    Dark Yorkshire - 3

    A murdered family-man. A young woman tortured and set on fire. A face from the past...DI Nathaniel Caslin is stable, for the first time in years. Now, he can look to the future, or so he thought. Granting a small favour to a friend, can often be anyt...

  • Blood Money

    Dark Yorkshire - 4

    A businessman found hanged. A tortured and mutilated loaner. High finance has never been so deadly...DI Nathaniel Caslin is spiralling toward a professional crisis. His biggest case in years has collapsed amid accusations of police intimidation. A re...

  • Fear the Past

    Dark Yorkshire - 5

    A murder without motive. A downtown bombing. The sins of the past revisited...DI Nathaniel Caslin is heading up a specialist unit, an opportunity to make a real difference. Little does he know, decisions taken decades previously are about to threaten...

  • The Sixth Precept

    Dark Yorkshire - 6

    A killer stalks his prey. The five precepts are laid down. The sixth will be his own...DI Nathaniel Caslin has earned the freedom to run his case load as he sees fit, bypassing the hierarchical constraints with his specialist unit. Little does he kno...

  • One Lost Soul

    Hidden Norfolk - 1

    The darkest secrets often hide in plain sight...When a body is found on a lonely cliff top path, the angelic face of a murdered teenager lies facing the rising sun. Strangled by the hands of an unknown killer, it falls to DI Tom Janssen and his fledg...

  • Bury Your Past

    Hidden Norfolk - 2

    A secret worth dying for is a secret worth killing...When a violent storm uncovers the remains of an unknown young woman, long buried among the sand dunes, DI Tom Janssen must piece together fragmentary evidence to determine how she came to be there....

  • Kill Our Sins

    Hidden Norfolk - 3

    What would you do to keep your past a secret?When the mutilated remains of a woman are retrieved by local fisherman, it falls to DI Tom Janssen and his team to identify how she came to be in the water and what put her there. Joined on the case by his...



  • Tell No Tales

    Hidden Norfolk - 4

    In a world of lies, one truth remains. Dead men tell no tales...When the body of an unidentified man is found at the foot of Sheringham cliffs with injuries inconsistent with a fall, DI Tom Janssen must piece together his final days to determine how ...

  • Hear No Evil

    Hidden Norfolk - 5

    When the bonds of brotherhood are strained, who do you turn to?The celebration of the Viking Festival of Fire ensures that thousands descend annually on the the small coastal town of Sheringham, but when one man dies amidst the grand finale, it falls...

  • The Dead Call

    Hidden Norfolk - 6

    When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time...When a woman's body is found in the sea at Blakeney Point with a single blow to the head, DI Tom Janssen and his team must work out who wanted her dead and why? What would drive someo...

  • Kill Them Cold

    Hidden Norfolk - 7

    One lie requires commitment... Multiple lies require dedication...When the remains of a young woman are discovered near to Branodunum, a Roman archaeological site on the Norfolk coast, DI Tom Janssen and his team must work to discover who she was and...

  • A Dark Sin

    Hidden Norfolk - 8

    Our darkest secrets are best left buried...When a local journalist is found dead in an isolated spot on Roydon Common, lying beneath a hangman's noose on the anniversary of a teenager's suicide, DI Tom Janssen is asked to take on the investigation as...

  • To Die For

    Hidden Norfolk - 9

    What line would you cross for the one you love?When the body of a man is found dead in his remote, isolated home, DI Tom Janssen and his team struggle to understand what motive there could be to murder such an inoffensive, seemingly placid local char...

  • Fool Me Twice

    Hidden Norfolk - 10

    Fool me once, shame on you. Fool Me Twice, shame on me...When the body of a high-profile, semi-retired barrister is found brutally murdered at his Norfolk home, DI Tom Janssen and the team must work to uncover who killed him and why.With a glittering...

  • The Raven Song

    Hidden Norfolk - 11

    One song for the dying... sung by the dead...When the body of a young woman is discovered at the home she shared with her disabled daughter, DI Tom Janssen and his team must investigate the circumstances surrounding her death.The woman was a single m...

  • Angel of Death

    Hidden Norfolk - 12

    An innocent man has everything to fear...When the partial remains of a young woman are unearthed during a violent storm, it falls to DI Tom Janssen and his team to discover her identity and what brought her there.A man is released from prison having ...

  • Dead To Me

    Hidden Norfolk - 13

    Let go of your past... or it will be the death of you...When a man's body is discovered crammed into the boot of an abandoned car in a remote location, DI Tom Janssen and his team must unpick his life to find out how he came to be there.The victim wa...



  • Blood Runs Cold

    Hidden Norfolk - 14

    When a man's dismembered body is discovered at an abandoned quarry on the north Norfolk coast, DI Tom Janssen and his team must wade through his secretive life to figure out how he met his end. The victim was a quiet man, well respected by those who ...

  • A Long Time Dead

    Misty Isle - 1

    You can’t stay dead forever… A group of high school students gather on the Isle of Skye’s remote Coral Beach for a hedonistic night of partying to celebrate the passing of their finals. The new millennium is on the horizon and the future bec...

  • The Dead Man of Storr

    Misty Isle - 2

    Your past will find you... and it will kill you... When the owner of a Portree gallery is found dead, lying in the snow at the foot of the Storr, D.I. Duncan McAdam and his small team must piece together what took him there... and who had a reason...

  • The Talisker Dead

    Misty Isle - 3

    Digging up the past... is enough to kill you... When a teenage islander goes missing on Burns Night, D.I. Duncan McAdam takes a strong interest despite the apparent lack of concern shown by the boy's father. When a woman's body is soon dis...

  • The Cuillin Dead

    Misty Isle - 4

    Life is full of choices. Death... is chosen for you... When the body of a missing tourist is discovered slain in the foothills of the Cuillin Mountain range beside Loch Coruisk, it falls to D.I. Duncan McAdam and his small team to discover how he ...

  • Watch and Prey

    Hidden Norfolk - 15

    You can hide, but you can't run...When the body of a church warden is discovered hanging from the belfry of a village church, DI Tom Janssen and his team must investigate the circumstances that led to his death.Whilst navigating the fallout from the ...

  • Family Doctor

    I have three days to kill a patient. If I fail, my daughter will die...As the only doctor on a stunning remote Scottish island, I finally feel safe and happy. Here, nobody knows about my troubled past except my teenage daughter Lauren. As a single mo...

  • Homewrecker

    She's here to help my daughter. She wants to steal my life. I have a gorgeous husband, Scott, two lovely children and a stylish townhouse. Anyone would think my life is perfect.But it's all a lie. My twelve-year-old Katie has b...

  • A Dead Man on Staffin Beach

    • / Police Procedural
    • Buy Buy

    That which does not kill you... only makes them try harder...When the body of a celebrity author, recently returned to the Isle of Skye seemingly to live out his remaining days, is found on Staffin Beach, D.I. Duncan McAdam is left with a mystery to ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

J.M. Dalgliesh has published 28 books.

The next book by J.M. Dalgliesh, Homewrecker, will be published in May 2025.

The first book by J.M. Dalgliesh, Divided House, was published in May 2018.

Yes. J.M. Dalgliesh has 3 series.
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