This list of books are ONLY the books that have been ranked on the lists that are aggregated on this site. This is not a comprehensive list of all books by this author.

1. 1. Blacklands

   

   This gripping novel delves into the life of a young boy who embarks on a dangerous quest to bring closure to his family, tormented by the loss of his uncle, a victim of a notorious child serial killer. Living in a small English village, the boy decides to correspond with the imprisoned murderer, hoping to locate his uncle's body and heal his family's wounds. However, his actions unwittingly draw him into a chilling psychological game with the killer. The narrative masterfully explores themes of grief, redemption, and the desperate human need for closure, all while weaving a suspenseful tale that keeps readers on the edge of their seats.

   The 8186th Greatest Book of All Time

   Purchase from Bookshop.org or Amazon

2. 2. The Impossible Thing

   

   The 13002nd Greatest Book of All Time

   Purchase from Bookshop.org

3. 3. The Facts Of Life And Death

   

   In a small Devon coastal community gripped by fear as young women are abducted and forced to call their mothers before they’re killed, ten-year-old Ruby clings to her unreliable father and longs to keep her fractured family together. As the police flounder and local vigilantes rise, Ruby’s attempts to help pull her dangerously close to the truth, revealing unsettling connections between home, heroism, and harm.

   Purchase from Bookshop.org

4. 4. The Shut Eye

   

   A grieving mother, desperate to find her young son who vanished without a trace, turns to a controversial psychic for answers while a disgraced detective becomes consumed by a possibly linked cold case of a missing girl. As fragile visions, tenuous leads, and private obsessions collide, the search blurs the line between fraud and second sight, straining marriages, testing faith, and unearthing buried secrets—until a perilous pursuit forces everyone to confront how far they’ll go for the truth.

   Purchase from Bookshop.org
5. 5. The Beautiful Dead

   

   A harried TV crime reporter in London becomes the unwilling confidante of a serial killer who stages murders as performance art and demands she broadcast his work in exchange for gruesome exclusives. As the killer’s fixation on her intensifies and his public spectacles escalate, she is forced to weigh ambition against conscience while fearing for her life. Torn between a cutthroat newsroom and caring for her ailing father, she races to outmaneuver a predator who has made her both his muse and his target.

   Purchase from Bookshop.org

6. 6. Exit

   

   A widowed pensioner who volunteers with a group that sits with the terminally ill so they won’t die alone becomes an accidental fugitive when a routine visit goes catastrophically wrong and the wrong person ends up dead. As a green but determined officer follows a trail that includes a forgotten woolly hat, the elderly man scrambles to uncover who set him up and why, in a darkly comic, compassionate crime story about guilt, dignity, and second chances.

   Purchase from Bookshop.org

7. 7. Rubbernecker

   

   An anatomy student on the autism spectrum, long obsessed with death after his father’s fatal accident, becomes convinced that the cadaver assigned to his dissection class did not die naturally. His relentless investigation runs parallel to the consciousness of a man trapped in a coma who senses a predator among the hospital staff, and the two threads converge to expose a clinical murder and a cover-up. Along the way, he confronts grief, social alienation, and the uneasy boundary between curiosity and compassion.

   Purchase from Bookshop.org

8. 8. Finders Keepers

   

   A series of child abductions on Exmoor plunges the community into panic as a disgraced detective struggles to redeem himself while tracking a taunting, meticulous kidnapper. When a local boy with a troubled past is drawn into the case after someone close to him disappears, the search becomes a race against time that exposes buried guilt, fraying loyalties, and the devastating consequences of neglect.

   Purchase from Bookshop.org

9. 9. Darkside

   

   In a remote Exmoor village, a spate of murders targeting vulnerable, housebound residents shatters the community. The village constable, already strained by his wife’s illness and self-doubt, is sidelined by an abrasive outside detective while taunting notes suggest the killer is watching their every move. As snowbound isolation deepens paranoia and mistrust, the investigation spirals toward a shocking truth disturbingly close to home.

   Purchase from Bookshop.org
10. 10. Snap

    

    After their mother is murdered after leaving them in a broken-down car on a sweltering motorway, teenage Jack Bright turns to burglary to keep his younger sisters fed while secretly hunting the killer. When a pregnant woman wakes to find a knife and a chilling note by her bed, her fear and secrecy draw a determined detective into a case that collides with Jack’s break-ins, unraveling a web of buried connections and revealing the brutal costs of grief, guilt, and survival.

    Purchase from Bookshop.org