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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1992
  • Latest Book:
    January 2025
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Since her award-winning debut with The Ice House, Minnette Walters has cemented he reputation as one of the most exciting crime fiction writers today. Published to critical acclaim throughout the world, each new book reaches the top of the Australian bestseller lists and many have now been adapted as television dramas. Minnette lives in Dorset with her husband and two children.

Full Series List in Order

Last Hours

1 - The Last Hours (Nov-2017)
2 - The Turn of Midnight (Oct-2018)

Book List in Order: 23 titles



  • STREECH GRANGE -- HOME OF THREE ECCENTRIC, BEAUTIFUL WOMEN. AND A DEADLY MYSTERY FROZEN IN TIME. With this stunning debut -- a marvelous marriage of classic convention and contemporary sophistication -- Minette Walters sets a new standard of exce...



  • A WOMAN IMPRISONED FOR HIDEOUS SLAUGHTER. A WRITER TRAPPED IN A TRAGIC PAST. ONE HIDES THE TRUTH THE OTHER NEEDS. In prison, they call her the Sculptress for the strange figurines she carves - symbols of the day she hacked her mother and sister ...



  • BITTER HARRIDAN... Few tears fall when rich, spiteful old Mathilda Gillespie's bloody corpse is found in her bathtub, her wrists slit and the ancient scold's bridle clamped on her head. It seems Mathilda's favorite heirloom was also an instrument ...



  • Jinx Kingsley, a prominent photographer and millionaire's daughter, wakes up in a private hospital. She does not remember the car accident. Or her fiance leaving her for her best friend. Or the grisly murders of her fiance and her best friend. With a...



  • A shattering new novel by Edgar Award-winner Minette Walters, The Echo unveils the secrets and betrayals, past and present, that always come home to haunt the ones who try to bury them. A destitute man has been found dead on the property of a wealthy...



  • "The Breaker holds its secrets to almost the final page. But this expertly crafted, classic story is even more of a tease than usual. Walters narrows the field of suspects in a woman's murder, and then proceeds to persuade you, in turn, of each one's...



  • It took a few hours on a rainy winter night for a black woman known as "Mad Annie" to die in a gutter. It will take twenty years for the woman who found her to shape her neighbors' racism, the indifference of the police, and her own rage into the tru...



  • Acid Row. The name the beleaguered inhabitants give to the place they live. A no-man's-land of single mothers and fatherless children where angry, alienated teenagers control the streets. Into this battleground comes Sophie Morrison, a young docto...



  • The travelers have come to town. They've set up their motor homes and buses in the woods and are planning to stay a while. Their leader knows more about the people of Shenstead Village than he should. And he's about to make their lives a living hell....






  • In 1970, Howard Stamp - a mentally retarded twenty-year-old - was charged with brutally murdering his grandmother. The evidence was controversial, but Stamp was convicted. Three years later, he committed suicide. After trying to bring Stamp's case...



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    “An absolutely first-rate anthology. . . a thoughtful and intelligent paean to crime fiction.” — New York Sun

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George serves up a century''s worth of superb crim...



  • In 2002, five women are discovered barbarously murdered in Sierra Leone. Reuters Africa correspondent Connie Burns suspects a British mercenary: a man who seems to turn up in every war-torn corner of Africa, whose reputation for violence and brutalit...



  • When British lieutenant Charles Acland returns home from Iraq, his serious head injuries are the outward manifestation of a profound inner change: he may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, or it may be, as his psychiatrist suggests, "t...



  • A retired university professor is diagnosed with a rare degenerative disease that will lead him to lose his memory and die within a few years. On his way home from the doctor’s office, he witnesses a pretty young girl being kidnapped right off the ...



  • From the internationally bestselling, award-winning crime writer Minette Walters, The Cellar is a harrowing, compulsively readable novel about a family of African immigrants, the Songolis, and the dark secret they keep hidden in the depths of their s...



  • When the Black Death enters England through the port in Dorsetshire in June 1348, no one knows what manner of sickness it is -- or how it spreads and kills so quickly. The Church cites God as the cause, and fear grips the people as they come to belie...



  • The compelling, taut and suspenseful conclusion to The Last Hours

    As the year 1349 approaches, the Black Death continues its devastating course across England. In Dorseteshire, the quarantined people of Develish question whether they are the...



  • Innocent Victims contains two chilling novellas about seemingly normal people driven to commit the most heinous crimes imaginable. CHICKENFEED is a crackling tale based on the true story of the ‘chicken farm murder’ in East Sussex in 1924....








  • From the author of The Swift and the Harrier comes The Players, a gripping historical tale of espionage, treason, and surprising alliances set against the backdrop of the Bloody Assizes—the trials that would determine the fate of over one-thous...



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    Two suspenseful stories in one volume from the Edgar Awardâ€"winning author of The Dark Room.   From an acclaimed, multimillion-selling author known for her tales about seemingly normal people driven to commit the most heinous crimes imaginable,...



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    Innocent Victims contains two chilling novellas about seemingly normal people driven to commit the most heinous crimes imaginable. CHICKENFEED is a crackling tale based on the true story of the Â'chicken farm murder’ in East Sussex in 1924. Althoug...


Award-Winning Books by Minette Walters

The Breaker
2000 Audies -- Mystery-Fiction
The Sculptress
1994 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Novel
1994 Macavity Award -- Mystery Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Minette Walters has published 23 books.

The next book by Minette Walters, The Players, will be published in January 2025.

The first book by Minette Walters, The Ice House, was published in July 1992.

Yes. Minette Walters has 1 series.