Michael Underwood

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  • Bibliography:
    48 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1980
  • Latest Book:
    July 2016
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Full Series List in Order

Rosa Epton

A Party to Murder (Feb-1984)
Death in Camera (Jul-1984)
The Uninvited Corpse (Jun-1987)
The Injudicious Judge (Feb-1988)
Dual Enigma (Sep-1988)

Book List in Order: 48 titles

  • A Clear Case of Suicide

  • Crime upon Crime

  • Double Jeopardy

  • The Hand of Fate

    When the only, but nevertheless convincing, evidence of murder is a skeletal hand wearing a wedding ring, a husband is charged with the murder of his wife and the result is a challenging courtroom puzzler...

  • Goddess of Death

  • A Party to Murder

    Rosa Epton

  • Death in Camera

    Rosa Epton

    An unpopular judge is murdered during a photo session attended by a number of individuals with a motive to kill him, and lawyer Rosa Epton becomes enmeshed in the case when she defends the victim's disreputable nephew...

  • The Hidden Man

  • Death at Deepwood Grange



  • The Silent Liars

    Chris Laker is what you might call a layabout. He has drifted from job to job and when he's been out of work his loyal girlfriend Janey has supported him. Now Chris is in real trouble. He is on trial for the murder of a rich businessman - and the evi...

  • The Uninvited Corpse

    Rosa Epton

    Rich old gentleman Vernon Gray, has succeeded in involving young solictor Rosa Epton in his legal affairs. She is instructed to make him a will and has become an unwilling agent in finding him anew housekeeper. But not long after he has made his will...

  • Cause of Death

    When Mrs Sophie Easterberg is found dead on her bedroom floor in the picturesque village of Five Meadows, it is apparent she has been murdered. The obvious suspect is Dave Lucas, an ex-borstal boy recently employed by her, who has since disappeared....

  • The Injudicious Judge

    Rosa Epton

  • Dual Enigma

    Rosa Epton

  • A Compelling Case

  • Rosa's Dilemma

    After receiving little assistance from solicitor Malcolm Palfrey on a malicious damage case, defense attorney Rosa Epton is furious when Malcolm fails to appear in court, but then she learns of her co-attorney's apparent suicide...

  • A Dangerous Business

    A chance sighting in a caf in Amsterdam gives solicitor Rosa Epton an unwelcome shock. At a nearby table sits an ex-client who should be behind bars, having recently been sentenced to five years in prison. So what is Eddie Ruding doing in Amsterdam a...

  • Death by Misadventure

    A police officer needs the quickness and guile of a bookmaker, the ingenuity of a psychiatrist and the physical reserves of a Marine, or so it seems to Detective Chief Superintendent Manton, who is called in to investigate a huge bullion robbery and ...

  • The Seeds of Murder



  • Guilty Conscience

    When Evelyn Henshaw comes to Rosa Epton's office demanding that in the event of her disappearance her husband be investigated for murder, Rosa is more than a little doubtful. Hesitant to take the woman on as a client, she is drawn in when Mr Henshaw ...

  • The Fatal Trip

    Stephen Burley was standing trial for the theft of twenty thousand pounds in cash from his employers, Rickard's Motors. Detective Sergeant Nick Attwell, the investigating officer in charge of the enquiries, had become uneasy about the case. Burley ha...

  • Menaces, Menaces

    Herbert Sipson, professional blackmailer, was charged with having demanded money from a bingo company under threat of bomb outrages against their premises. Then, a demand for a hundred thousand pounds from the Swallow Sugar Corporation, under threat ...

  • The Man Who Killed Too Soon

    Japan was the last place solicitor Richard Monk expected - or wanted - to collect a client. However, listening to Eddie Butcher, Monk is convinced that the fears this small-time crook has for his life are not groundless. Having cheated his employer C...

  • Crime of Colin Wise

    The crime was murder - cold-blooded and premeditated; a crime motivated by the greed for money...Colin was the well-mannered young man who did the repair jobs for a suburban television shop. Among the homes that his work took him into was that of Geo...

  • The Anxious Conspirator

    'Roger waited but nothing further came. Dayne's expression, however, told its story. A story of fear and cunning ...' Tony Dayne's predicament presents a problem. The English police had promised him escape and immunity for feeding them all he knew ...

  • Anything but the Truth

    On trial is young tearaway Ian Tanner, accused of the accidental but reckless hit-and-run killing of his own buddy. What really happened? The answer involves a ruthless gang, a gang that nearly disposes of yet another victim before Detective Constabl...

  • A Pinch of Snuff

    A very complex mystery develops in London's clubland and among the legal grandees who frequent the Old Bailey and the Inns of Court. For the Blackstone Club, with its fine collection of snuff boxes, is a legal preserve. And when the entire valuable c...

  • Arm of the Law

    Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die ... It's the carnival motto for Trinidad's most colourful celebrations of the year. But, while thousands enjoy themselves in uninhibited eating, drinking and love-making, Detective-Superintendent Simon ...

  • Girl Found Dead

    'Her scarf had been knotted tightly around her neck and it was obvious she had been killed with great determination ...' Susan Andrews has been murdered and her body found near a disused airfield. The case is now in the hands of Detective-Superinte...



  • Murder Made Absolute

    A crime-thriller that strikes the heart of the legal world. QC Christopher Henham is poisoned during the hearing of a divorce case. His wife, her son and ex-husband, not to mention a High Court judge, his wife and a secretary all come under suspic...

  • Murder on Trial

    'Her name is Maisie Jenks and that's her father with her. They live up in St. John's Wood way, and she knows who the murderer is ...' William Tarrant is on trial for the murder of a police constable. Before he can give evidence in his own defence, ...

  • Reward for a Defector

    Agent or traitor? Killer or victim? Kurte Menke is a refugee from the East ... or is he? Once they had been friends - long ago in Berlin before the wall was built. Now, for fifteen years, their friendship has totalled a card at Christmas. But, a l...

  • The Shadow Game

    'We have an agent in East Germany whom we wish to get out ...' There was nothing unusual about these words to the urbane British Intelligence chief who spoke them. He might have been discussing the weather. But to Martin Ainsworth it was the beginn...

  • A Trout in the Milk

    He braced his shoulders against the back of James Geddy's swivel chair and stretched out his arms luxuriously. It was the same chair that he was found in the next morning, though now pinned in a stiff, ungainly pose of violent death ... The setting...

  • The Unprofessional Spy

    Barrister Martin Ainsworth is sent to West Berlin by British Intelligence to make contact with his former lover, a suspected Communist agent, and it's up to him to find out the truth and to spot her contacts. As he travels through a divided Berlin,...

  • A Crime Apart

    A woman is murdered in a London suburb and the police investigation into her death is meticulously undertaken. Trying to solve the riddle is Detective Chief Inspector Chudd, newly appointed and still trying to find his feet in. When the truth final...

  • The Juror

    Bernie Mostyn, vice racketeer, is being retried. At his first trial a jury had failed to agree - but this time around two jurors are threatened and a third is killed. The most obvious suspects are Mostyn's strong-arm men, still at large. But the pol...

  • The Man Who Died on Friday

    Joseph Berg was due to meet his 'contact' at a pub in London one rainy Friday evening. Unfortunately for Berg and the contact, someone got to the spy first and cut his throat - and Berg both witnessed the murder and became the chief suspect. In his ...

  • Murder with Malice

    Detective Sergeant Nick Atwell has been suspended, accused of soliciting a bribe from a murder suspect. His wife, and former cop, Clare sets out to prove his innocence, which involves delving in the family affairs of politician and TV personality Sir...



  • Shem's Demise

    Every autumn an old reprobate, tramp and scrounger, mysteriously known as Shem, drifts into the village of Long Gaisford. Kenny, a young boy, likes Shem. It's not his fault that the well-meant tip he gives Shem should lead to disaster. The local De...

  • Victim of Circumstance

    John Farndon, a teacher at a public school, is bored with his French wife Monique and infatuated with the assistant matron Belinda. He plans to kill Monique, but from the moment John is about to pull the trigger the action jumps to a trial. But the...

  • Broken Shadow

    George Daniels was a freak, a group of super-powered humans that are shunned and unable to become police officers, firefighters, or even paramedics. They are allowed to join the military and other secret government jobs. George joins a covert cross C...

  • Adam's Case

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    Adam Cape - a young barrister - prosecutes a case of assault at the Old Bailey. On the face of it, it's a straightforward trial but its aftermath brings him uncomfortably close to death and Adam is unable to free himself from a murder that results. ...

  • Crooked Wood

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    Clive Donig is on trial for the murder of Stanley Fulmer, a senior partner in a very shady firm of solicitors. The prosecution contend that he is a professional killer, hired by one of Fulmer's clients whom Fulmer has cheated. Detective Sergeant Ni...

  • Death on Remand

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    A whodunnit in the best blood-tingling tradition, which keeps the reader gasping and guessing till the last page. Although Julian Prentice is a small-time crook, his theft of a car hardly seems to warrant someone's very deliberate attempt to kill h...

  • False Witness

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    It is unfortunate that Jeremy Harper was the one to stumble upon the victim of an armed robbery. A young barrister, he is more used to holding court than being a witness. He also finds himself curiously linked to the man in the dock. It is a trial w...

  • Lawful Pursuit

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    Six men have failed to appear in a West End court, so it's time for Scotland Yard to make a few undercover enquiries. They enlist the help of Detective-Constable Cordari, who leads them to a mysterious organisation smuggling criminals out of the coun...

  • Smooth Justice

    • / Mystery
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    In this tale of murder and machinations at Bloomsbury Magistrates' Court, a threatened magistrate must determine who among a large cast of lawyers, court officials, criminals, and police is seeking his own brand of justice...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michael Underwood has published 48 books.

Michael Underwood does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Broken Shadow, was published in July 2016.

The first book by Michael Underwood, A Clear Case of Suicide, was published in May 1980.

Yes. Michael Underwood has 1 series.
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