Nick Oldham

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  • Bibliography:
    39 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1996
  • Latest Book:
    May 2025
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Full Series List in Order

DCI Henry Christie

1 - A Time For Justice (1996)
2 - Nightmare City (1997)
3 - One Dead Witness (1998)
4 - The Last Big Job (1999)
5 - Backlash (2001)
6 - Substantial Threat (Nov-2002)
7 - Dead Heat (Jul-2004)
8 - Big City Jacks (2005)
9 - Psycho Alley (Oct-2006)
10 - Critical Threat (Dec-2007)
11 - Screen of Deceit (Aug-2008)
12 - Crunch Time (Feb-2009)
13 - The Nothing Job (Aug-2009)
14 - Seizure (May-2010)
15 - Hidden Witness (Feb-2011)
16 - Facing Justice (Nov-2011)
17 - Instinct (Apr-2012)
18 - Fighting for the Dead (Dec-2012)
19 - Bad Tidings (Jul-2013)
20 - Judgement Call (Feb-2014)
21 - Low Profile (Aug-2014)
22 - Edge (Apr-2015)
23 - Unforgiving (Nov-2015)
24 - Bad Blood (Apr-2017)
25 - Bad Cops (Apr-2018)
26 - Wildfire (May-2020)
27 - Bad Timing (Dec-2020)
28 - Scarred (Aug-2021)
29 - Transfusion (Jan-2022)
30 - Demolition (Sep-2022)
31 - Death Ride (Mar-2023)
Getting Red-Hot with the Rogue (Nov-2009)

A Jessica Raker Thriller

1 - Death at Dead Man's Stake (Sep-2024)
2 - Death on Wolf Fell (May-2025)

A Steve Flynn Mystery

1 - Onslaught (Apr-2016)
2 - Ambush (Oct-2016)
3 - Headhunter (Nov-2017)

Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • A Time For Justice

    DCI Henry Christie - 1

    A TIME FOR JUSTICE is the first in Nick Oldham’s fast paced, highly acclaimed crime thrillers featuring Henry Christie and is now available for the first time in e-format...As far as mafia hitman Jimmy Hinksman is concerned, working in Britain is a...

  • Nightmare City

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    DCI Henry Christie - 2

    NIGHTMARE CITY is the second of Nick Oldham’s fast paced, highly acclaimed and well reviewed thrillers featuring Henry Christie and is now available for the first time in e-format.Gang warfare ... police corruption ... conspiracies ... crazy car ch...

  • One Dead Witness

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    DCI Henry Christie - 3

    ONE DEAD WITNESS is the third of Nick Oldham’s gritty, fast paced, highly acclaimed and well reviewed thrillers set in the northwest of England, featuring Henry Christie and is now available for the first time in e-format.A raging storm ... the end...

  • The Last Big Job

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    DCI Henry Christie - 4

    An ex-KGB hit-man out to kill ... a caged lion with a taste for human flesh ... a careless drugs courier ... a vindictive ex-con ... a cop with ambition, whatever the cost ... a heist worth millions ... a terrifying encounter with a Black and Decker ...

  • Backlash

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    DCI Henry Christie - 5

    Transferred from CID to uniform duties, Inspector Henry Christie is back at the sharp end of policing and he's not happy about it -- especially when a brutal murder, apparently the work of a serial killer, takes place on his patch . . ....

  • Substantial Threat

    DCI Henry Christie - 6

    Ray Cragg is one of the countrys biggest gangsters, and the cops are desperate to catch him. When Marty, Craggs brother and sidekick, is found with his face blown off having been sent to whack a thieving former henchman, DCI Henry Christie is drawn i...

  • Dead Heat

    DCI Henry Christie - 7

    Detective Inspector Henry Christie has been suspended from duty. He's spending quality time with his family, but at heart he's itching to get back into the fray. So when the attractive and wealthy mother of one of his daughter's horse-riding friends ...

  • Big City Jacks

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    DCI Henry Christie - 8

    The latest Detective Inspector Christie thriller When the brutally murdered body of a Manchester drug dealer is found dumped just inside the Lancashire border, it turns out that the dead man had been a CID informant working for a small nucleus of cor...

  • Psycho Alley

    DCI Henry Christie - 9

    A series of increasingly violent assaults is shrouding the happy-go-lucky resort of Blackpool in a veil of terror. It seems only a matter of time before one of these brutal attacks leads to the ultimate crime - murder. The police response, coordinate...



  • Critical Threat

    DCI Henry Christie - 10

    DCI Henry Christie, taken off an anonymous murder case and transferred into a dead-end desk job, leaps at the chance to investigate the brutal killing of an ex-cop turned sleazy private eye. At first Christie thinks he will have no trouble identifyin...

  • Screen of Deceit

    DCI Henry Christie - 11

    A DCI Henry Christie novelFourteen-year-old Mark Carter is plunged into a world of crime following his sister's drug overdose. He agrees to become an informer for DCI Christie in order to avenge Beth's death and redeem himself. But if it all goes wro...

  • Crunch Time

    DCI Henry Christie - 12

    A DCI Henry Christie Mystery.Willing to do almost anything to escape his desk job, DCI Henry Christie leaps at the chance to go working undercover again. His task, to ingratiate himself with one Ryan Ingram, one of London's top criminals, who has rel...

  • The Nothing Job

    DCI Henry Christie - 13

    'Reluctantly agreeing to track down three dangerous criminals, DCI Henry Christie's philosophy is that anything that keeps him at the cutting edge of coppering can't be all bad. But then he's asked to close down an investigation into ...

  • Seizure

    DCI Henry Christie - 14

    Newly promoted Detective Superintendent Henry Christie could do without dealing with Felix Deakin, a convicted drug dealer serving a heavy prison sentence, who suddenly volunteers some new evidence that could be crucial in an upcoming murder trial. B...

  • Hidden Witness

    DCI Henry Christie - 15

    When Detective Superintendent Henry Christie takes on the case of a brutal murder of a seemingly innocent old man, the investigation brings him into touch with old friend and FBI agent Karl Donaldson, who is trying to track down a hit man believed to...

  • Facing Justice

    DCI Henry Christie - 16

    When DS Henry Christie sets off on a short winter break with his old friend FBI agent Karl Donaldson, he expects a pleasant hike through the countryside followed by an overnight stop in a picturesque village. But the hike turns into a fight for survi...

  • Instinct

    DCI Henry Christie - 17

    Grieving after a huge personal tragedy, Detective Superintendent Henry Christie is trying to pull his life back together and thinking seriously about retirement -- after all, he's got the time in and he'd have a good life and decent pension. But al...

  • Fighting for the Dead

    DCI Henry Christie - 18

    An apparently straightforward case turns into something far more sinister for Detective Superintendent Henry Christie Detective Superintendent Henry Christie is in the middle of a case involving the horrific murder of a teenage girl when he is cal...

  • Bad Tidings

    DCI Henry Christie - 19

    The possibility of catching a serial killer is the bait used by Detective Superintendent Henry Christie’s chief constable to lure him away from his planned Christmas festivities. Henry could have said no--but if there’s one thing he can’t refus...



  • Vendetta

    George never meant to kill the thief â€" he was just defending his shop from the jacked up kids trying to rob him. Break the kid's jaw maybe, but not kill him. Later the doorbell rings and in revenge the gang swarm into George's house, beat him sense...

  • Judgement Call

    DCI Henry Christie - 20

    It's 1982 - and Henry is a young cop with a point to prove and an attitude to control. His youthful enthusiasm can sometimes cloud his better judgement. When a series of rash decisions results in disaster, Henry determines to put things right his own...

  • Low Profile

    DCI Henry Christie - 21

    A gripping police procedural featuring Detective Chief Superintendent Henry Christie Responding to a desperate phone call, Henry Christie stumbles across a gangland-style execution in progress -- and only just escapes with his own life. One of the...

  • Assassin

    Michael strange, international art dealer, has everything: wealth, power and prestige. But his privileged world is brought to the brink of collapse when a series of unforeseen circumstances leave him face to face with financial ruin. Then, out of now...

  • We Still Kill the Old Way

    Sometimes the old way is the only way, especially on the streets

    When a retired East End villain is murdered by a feral street gang, his bro...

  • Edge

    DCI Henry Christie - 22

    When Charlie Wilder is released from prison he’s desperate to resume his life of crime. But when he discovers he’s been betrayed by his closest friends, Charlie’s rage turns to cold-blooded murder and an orgy of violence ensues… As a grues...

  • Unforgiving

    DCI Henry Christie - 23

    On the verge of retirement, Henry Christie is loath to leave any unsolved cases to his successor, particularly ones in which he has a personal stake. But when a cop and a suspected murderer are killed in separate but related incidents, Henry’s prof...

  • Onslaught

    A Steve Flynn Mystery - 1

    Introducing tough-as-nails former Royal Marine, ex-cop and sportfishing skipper Steve Flynn in the first of a brand-new series of exciting action thrillers. When he is accused of murdering his boss, sportfishing captain Steve Flynn finds that his ...

  • Ambush

    A Steve Flynn Mystery - 2

    Former Royal Marine, ex-cop and sportfishing skipper Steve Flynn finds that his is the last name on a dead man’s hitlist in this fast-paced action thriller. A man with too much time on his hands and vengeance on his mind can be extremely danger...

  • Bad Blood

    DCI Henry Christie - 24

    What should have been a blissful retirement for former DCI Henry Christie turns into something deadly. As Henry Christie settles into a new life running The Tawny Owl pub with his fiancee Alison, their rural idyll is disrupted by a violent intrude...



  • Headhunter

    A Steve Flynn Mystery - 3

    Accused of murder, former marine and disgraced ex-cop Steve Flynn is on the run -- and on the hunt… Wanted for murder, Steve Flynn finds himself on the run, alone and without resources, driven only by a burning desire to avenge himself on the m...

  • Bad Cops

    DCI Henry Christie - 25

    Two seemingly unconnected murders lead DCI Henry Christie to uncover a terrifying conspiracy in this gritty police procedural. Two murders, apparently unconnected: one victim shot to death in his office, the other brutally stabbed in what appears ...

  • Wildfire

    DCI Henry Christie - 26

    Henry Christie is drawn out of retirement by a brutal killer and must confront old foes in this breathless thriller. Henry Christie is enjoying a quiet retirement running the Tawny Owl pub - until a devastating moorland fire tears through the sur...

  • Bad Timing

    DCI Henry Christie - 27

    Can Henry Christie catch a merciless gunman? A breakneck novel of revenge, justice and organised crime. Henry Christie thought he'd solved the case that drew him out of retirement, but finds himself joining forces with Diane Daniels once again when ...

  • Scarred

    DCI Henry Christie - 28

    Some wounds never heal . . . Henry Christie has never forgotten the day he was brutally assaulted as a young constable while chasing a teenage shoplifter down a Blackpool alley. Tommy Benemy went missing soon after his arrest, but although Henry prom...

  • Transfusion

    DCI Henry Christie - 29

    Blood will flow . . . Henry Christie and DS Debbie Blackstone are drawn into a bloody turf war between European organized crime gangs as they attempt to follow up leads in a Lancashire police Cold Case Unit operation. Viktor Bashkim, head of one of ...

  • Demolition

    DCI Henry Christie - 30

    Secrets, lies, murder . . . and planning permission. Henry Christie is pulled into two chilling murder investigations and uncovers dark secrets dating back to the Second World War in this unflinching thriller.Henry Christie is focused on running his ...

  • Death Ride

    DCI Henry Christie - 31

    An unwelcome face from the past at a local fair leads Henry Christie on a white-knuckled race against time to find a missing girl.On the third day of the Kendleton Country Fair, thirteen-year-old Charlotte Kirkham goes missing. Retired Detective Supe...

  • Death at Dead Man's Stake

    A Jessica Raker Thriller - 1

    A life or death decision leads Sergeant Jessica Raker to swap the Metropolitan Police for trouble up north, but old enemies are on her tail . . ."The build-up of tension is ominous and terrifying . . . Oldham has produced a superb first book in h...

  • Death on Wolf Fell

    A Jessica Raker Thriller - 2

    A tense and utterly addictive police procedural set on the Lancashire moors featuring Sergeant Jessica Raker.Former Metropolitan Police firearms officer Sergeant Jessica Raker is on a mission to bring down a brutal organized crime group operating in ...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Nick Oldham has published 39 books.

The next book by Nick Oldham, Death on Wolf Fell, will be published in May 2025.

The first book by Nick Oldham, A Time For Justice, was published in January 1996.

Yes. Nick Oldham has 3 series.
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