M.J. Lee

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2015
  • Latest Book:
    July 2025
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Full Series List in Order

DI Ridpath

1 - Where The Truth Lies (Oct-2018)
2 - Where The Dead Fall (Apr-2019)
3 - Where the Silence Calls (Sep-2019)
4 - Where the Innocent Die (Mar-2020)
5 - When the Past Kills (Sep-2020)
6 - When the Evil Waits (Mar-2021)
7 - When the Guilty Cry (Sep-2021)
8 - When the Night Ends (Jun-2022)
9 - What the Shadows Hide (Mar-2023)
10 - What the Dead Want (Jul-2024)

Inspector Danilov

1 - Death In Shanghai (Sep-2015)
2 - City Of Lies (Mar-2016)
3 - The Murder Game (Mar-2017)
4 - The Killing Time (Apr-2018)

A Jayne Sinclair Genealogical Mystery

1 - The Irish Inheritance (Jun-2016)
2 - The Somme Legacy (Feb-2017)
3 - The American Candidate (Sep-2017)
4 - The Vanished Child (Mar-2018)
5 - The Silent Christmas (Oct-2018)
6 - The Sinclair Betrayal (Jun-2019)
7 - The Merchant's Daughter (Dec-2019)

Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • Death In Shanghai

    Inspector Danilov - 1

    Shanghai, 1928. The body of a blonde is washed up on the Beach of Dead Babies, in the heart of the smog-filled city. Seemingly a suicide, a closer inspection reveals a darker motive: the corpse has been weighed down, it’s lower half mutilated...and...

  • City Of Lies

    Inspector Danilov - 2

    A family has been found murdered in the heart of 1920s Shanghai. But what could have compelled them to open the door to their killer?Inspector Danilov has always taken a unique approach to solving his cases. So, when he’s asked to investigate the v...

  • The Irish Inheritance

    A Jayne Sinclair Genealogical Mystery - 1

    June 8, 1921. Ireland. A British Officer is shot dead on a remote hillside south of Dublin. November 22, 2015. United Kingdom. Former police detective, Jayne Sinclair, now working as a genealogical investigator, receives a phone call from an adopted ...

  • The Somme Legacy

    A Jayne Sinclair Genealogical Mystery - 2

    July 1, 1916. The Somme, France.A British Officer prepares to go over the top on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.March 28, 2016. Manchester. England.Genealogical investigator Jayne Sinclair, a former police detective, is commissioned by a yo...

  • The Murder Game

    Inspector Danilov - 3

    A woman appears on the streets of Shanghai. She has thousands of cuts â€" and is screaming for Inspector Danilov…Days later, the woman is dead. But another body is left waiting for the Inspector. Someone is playing with Danilov… someone prepared ...

  • The American Candidate

    A Jayne Sinclair Genealogical Mystery - 3

    July 23, 1942. Wielodz, Poland. A sleepy village is invaded by a detachment of the Waffen SS. April 17, 2017. London, England. Jayne Sinclair, genealogical investigator, is tasked to research the family history of a potential candidate for the Presid...

  • The Vanished Child

    A Jayne Sinclair Genealogical Mystery - 4

    What would you do if you discovered you had a brother you never knew existed?On her deathbed, Freda Duckworth confesses to giving birth to an illegitimate child in 1944 and placing him in a children’s home. Seven years later she returned but he had...

  • The Killing Time

    Inspector Danilov - 4

    As tensions simmer in Shanghai, children go missing…Shanghai 1932: Inspector Danilov hasn't recovered from the death of his child... but across a Shanghai riven with communal tensions, children are going missing.Missing, and then murdered. Who...

  • The Silent Christmas

    A Jayne Sinclair Genealogical Mystery - 5



  • Where The Truth Lies

    DI Ridpath - 1

    The case was closed. Until people started dying…DI Thomas Ridpath was on the up in the Manchester CID: a promising detective who captured a notorious serial killer. But ten years later he’s recovering from a serious illness and on the brink of be...

  • Where The Dead Fall

    DI Ridpath - 2

    One chance encounter, one murder, will change everything.DI Thomas Ridpath is in the process of getting his life back together when everything goes wrong. Caught in a gruesome motorway incident, one question remains: why did nobody else see what happ...

  • The Sinclair Betrayal

    A Jayne Sinclair Genealogical Mystery - 6

  • Where the Silence Calls

    DI Ridpath - 3

    Play with fire, and you’re going to get burned. The unputdownable new Ridpath crime thrillerIn Manchester, a block of flats is burning. The only victim is a middle-aged man, sat watching TV. Are the fire and the man's death an accident or is someth...

  • The Merchant's Daughter

    A Jayne Sinclair Genealogical Mystery - 7

  • Where the Innocent Die

    DI Ridpath - 4

    A mysterious death, and a foe he never could have imagined... A man dies under suspicious circumstances in police custody. The statement provided by the officer on duty seems clear enough, that it was suicide, but upon investigation in the coroner's ...

  • When the Past Kills

    DI Ridpath - 5

    The past is never over. It’s just waiting for an opportunity to return… When the notorious serial killer the Beast of Manchester was captured, the streets should have been safe. Except the police got the wrong man. An innocent person was convicte...

  • The Christmas Carol

    When an antique dealer asks Jayne Sinclair, genealogical investigator, to discover the provenance of a first edition of Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, she is faced with a unique challenge.How does she find the family of the man in the hand-writt...

  • When the Evil Waits

    DI Ridpath - 6

    A child's body in an unmarked grave. A killer waiting to strike again.A young boy's body is found in a meadow beside the River Mersey. No DNA. No witnesses. No clues. It brings back painful memories of the Moors Murderers. After two weeks, the police...

  • When the Guilty Cry

    DI Ridpath - 7

    Three severed hands. No clues. A race against time.Three embalmed hands are discovered in a disused Victorian house. Is it a gangland ritual? The work of a cult? Or just a prank played by Medical Students? And what happened to the bodies?Meanwhile th...



  • When the Night Ends

    DI Ridpath - 8

    A death in custody. A life in jeopardy.When Ben Holdsworth dies alone in a police cell, riots erupt in Manchester. But after a post mortem, the authorities have decided nobody was to blame.DI Ridpath is asked to investigate by the coroner before...

  • What the Shadows Hide

    DI Ridpath - 9

    To love and to cherish, till death did them part... 'A brilliant thriller' The Sun Two desiccated bodies are found in each other's arms in the bricked up room of a derelict Victorian warehouse. After six months of work, the police have nothing a...

  • What the Dead Want

    DI Ridpath - 10

    They are waiting for death. He is waiting to kill them.In August 2020, fourteen-year-old Andrew Golding went out for a walk following a row with his mum. He was never seen again.Four years later, when the press discovers police errors in Andrew Goldi...

  • What the Dark Whispers

    A web of lies. A confusion of secrets. A maze of murder. In a quiet Manchester suburb, a man sets himself on fire in a petrol station. Nearby, a fourteen-year-old girl murders her mother in cold blood. At the Coroner’s Officer, Detective Inspe...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

M.J. Lee has published 23 books.

The next book by M.J. Lee, What the Dark Whispers, will be published in July 2025.

The first book by M.J. Lee, Death In Shanghai, was published in September 2015.

Yes. M.J. Lee has 3 series.
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