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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2007
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Full Series List in Order

DCI Craig Gillard

1 - The Body in the Marsh (Sep-2017)
2 - The Body on the Shore (Sep-2018)
3 - The Body in the Mist (May-2019)
4 - The Body in the Snow (Feb-2020)
5 - The Body Under the Bridge (May-2020)
6 - The Body on the Island (Oct-2020)
7 - The Bodies at Westgrave Hall (Mar-2021)
8 - The Body on the Moor (Aug-2021)
9 - The Body Beneath the Willows (Feb-2022)
10 - The Body in the Stairwell (Sep-2022)
11 - The Body in the Shadows (Jan-2023)
12 - The Body in Nightingale Park (Aug-2023)

Book List in Order: 24 titles



  • Retired civil servant Bernard Jones isn't, as he would be the first to agree, the world's greatest investor. The man who lost money with shares in Jarvis and Railtrack, and who retains a with-profits policy with Equitable Life has proved that the bes...



  • Tomorrow should be the greatest day of Erica Stroud-Jones's life. The brilliant young British scientist has found a revolutionary way to beat a deadly tropical disease. Millions of lives could be saved, a Nobel Prize beckons. She is in Amsterdam. Tom...



  • In this second volume of the Bernard Jones Diaries, retired civil servant Bernard Jones is approaching his 64th birthday. Making money through investing remains as elusive as ever, though his overbearing and over-sexed wife Eunice finds no trouble sp...







  • Voted the world’s most beautiful woman, twenty-three-year-old Mira Roskova is admired, envied and desired. With a world-famous footballer for a boyfriend, plus top modelling and endorsement deals, Mira’s meteoric rise to fame comes with what her ...



  •   A reporter becomes caught up in a love triangle and a terrorist plot in this gripping thriller by the #1 international bestselling author of Bite. Veteran BBC journalist Chris Wyrecliffe finds himself in the Middle East as the Arab Spring expl...



  • A woman goes missing â€" and for the detective, this time it's personal.

    Criminologist Martin Knight lives a gilded life. But then his wife Liz disappears. There is no good explanation and Martin goes on the run.

    To make things worse...



  • A killer is at work in the commuter belt. DCI Gillard needs answers, fast...Promising architect Peter Young is shot dead at his desk. DCI Craig Gillard is quickly on the scene, looking at what appears to be a brutal and highly professional hit.Two we...






  • Two desperate criminals. Something she never saw coming. A searing suspense thriller from bestselling author Nick LouthIn Manchester, two hardened gang members on the run take Catherine Blake and her one-year-old son hostage at gunpoint. She is in th...



  • A brutal murder hints at a terrifying mystery, and this time it’s personal.A body is found on a quiet lane in Exmoor, victim of a hit and run. He has no ID, no wallet, no phone, and â€" after being dragged along the road â€" no recognisable face.Me...



  • Money, success, family? A deadly combination...Out for a jog on a snowy winter morning, a young detective witnesses a brutal murder.The victim is Tanvi Roy, one of the richest women in Britain and a matriarch of a food empire. It's just DCI Craig Gil...



  • DCI Craig Gillard will be pushed to his limits… But will he break?It seems like a routine disappearance, a case of musician’s stage fright. As a senior detective, Craig Gillard isn’t sure why he’s even involved. Until it turns out the womanâ€...



  • He was never truly gone, only biding his time...Late on midsummer’s night there is a splash in the river Thames. A body is found on an island, asphyxiated and laced with strange markings. For DCI Craig Gillard it’s a baffling case. The victim’s...



  • A large country mansion. A locked room. A gruesome murder.Russian oligarch Alexander Volkov has invited 1000 guests to a party at his palatial Surrey residence, Westgrave Hall. But while giving a private tour of the library, a gunman kills Volkov, wo...



  • You can never escape the past. Especially on the moors...After the National Crime Agency cracks a major drug gang, junior barrister Julia McGann finds herself defending the violent enforcer Terrence Bonner. This high-profile case is a coup for her, b...



  • It’s not only secrets that are buried by the water… A gripping crime thriller from bestseller master Nick LouthOn the tree-lined banks of Surrey’s River Wey, a decaying corpse is dug up by workmen in the middle of an Anglo-Saxon burial site. Hi...



  • Let Nick Louth keep you guessing with these twisty first first three books in the DCI Craig Gillard series; The Body in the Marsh, The Body on the Shore and The Body in the Mist.The Body in the Marsh: Criminologist Martin Knight lives a gilded life. ...



  • You can run. You can hide. But you can’t escape…Jonathan Hale is terrified. The wealthy property lawyer and money launderer is back home in Surrey after a nightmare experience in a U.S. jail. The police have him under secret surveillance.But Hale...






  • For DCI Gillard, sometimes old sins cast long shadows…Under a motorway flyover lies the body of a young man. Days earlier, he had been involved in an altercation with DCI Craig Gillard’s pregnant partner Sam. Now he’s dead…Meanwhile, somethin...



  • Another impossible case for DCI Gillard, but this time the answers are very close to home…With a baby on the way, a pregnant wife to take care of and a new home to settle into, DCI Craig Gillard seems to have found a life of domestic bliss.But when...



  • She must solve the ultimate riddle…DI Jan Talantire is called to a cottage in Ilfracombe, where the female occupant is found dead, impaled with a crucifix. The woman, who had been renting the house for a few months, is well known locally. Documents...



  • What happened to the missing victim? On a midsummer’s night, a stolen car packed with teenagers crashes at high speed on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. DI Jan Talantire arrives at the scene to find the victims of the crash. It appear...



  • The higher you climb, the further you fall.On her way home after an overnight shift, DI Jan Talantire hears the control room relaying an emergency. Someone has fallen to their death from one of the highest cliffs in Devon. Jan is nearby so she agrees...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Nick Louth has published 24 books.

The next book by Nick Louth, The Dark Edge, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by Nick Louth, Funny Money, was published in February 2007.

Yes. Nick Louth has 1 series.