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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1980
  • Latest Book:
    March 2017
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Full Series List in Order

Detective Chief Inspector Neil Paget

1 - Fatal Flaw (Jun-1996)
2 - Stone Dead (Feb-1998)
3 - Candles for the Dead (Aug-1999)
4 - Thread of Evidence (Mar-2001)
5 - Acts of Vengeance (Feb-2003)
6 - Breaking Point (Jun-2008)
7 - The Cold Hand of Malice (Apr-2009)
8 - A Killing Resurrected (Jun-2010)
9 - In the Shadow of Evil (Jun-2012)
10 - Night Fall (Jun-2013)
11 - Dead Weight (Mar-2017)

Book List in Order: 22 titles






  • DEAD FOR THE HOLIDAYS What drove seventeen-year-old Monica Shaw to take her life with an overdose of insulin? The pain of being alone and unwanted for the holidays at Thornton Hill Girls' School -- or something else? It's a Christmas murder for Detec...



  • BODY IN QUESTION A routine robbery investigation turns into something much more sinister when a corpse is found in the well of a cottage belonging to photographer Peter Foster. Foster fears the body is the ex-husband of his current girlfriend, a mode...



  • When bank worker Beth Smallwood is found battered to death, Chief Inspector Neil Paget's investigation reveals a number of likely suspects. Just hours before she died, Beth told her son, Lenny, that she would no longer embezzle funds from the bank to...



  • A TANGLED WEAVE Building contractor James Bolen is found brutally murdered in a posh hotel room in Broadminster, yet Detective, Chief Inspector Net Paget reads more into a crime scene mode to look like a local prostitute fatally stabbed the victim...



  • "On a stormy night in Broadminster, DCI Neil Paget walks a young constable to her car in a dark parking lot. As she roars past on her way home, Paget is attacked from behind, his throat viciously slit from ear to ear. By the grace of God he survives ...




  • Return to the thrilling days of yesteryear where traditional western values embrace the Code of the West. “The Kid” -- a 20th Century lad with a stubborn wish that he’d been born a 19th Century gunfighter, and his faithful companion -- an eccen...






  • When DCI Neil Paget and DS Tregalles investigate an apparently standard missing person case, it soon emerges that Mark Newman, an aspiring journalist, was on the trail of a hot story, and now he's disappeared, along with every scrap of potential ...



  • A DCI Neil Paget Mystery - When Laura Holbrook, co-owner of Holbrook Micro-Engineering Labs, is brutally murdered one evening while her womanizing husband is out, and with little more than a few dog hairs as evidence, it is believed that Laura was ki...



  • When scribbled notes written by Barry Grant, a troubled teenager who committed suicide thirteen years ago, come to light, DCI Paget and DS Tregalles reopen the investigation into a series of robberies that ended with the vicious killing of two people...



  • Frank Donnelly is a physics professor at a Philadelphia university and a Catholic priest; a rare combination. What may be more unusual is that Frank is also married, one of less than a hundred such priests in the United States. When his wife is kille...



  • Julia and Billy have become the best of friends, but there's something strange about Billy. Why doesn't he eat dinner with Julia and her family? And why does he cause so much commotion at school? Find out in this fun and surprising tale about A Littl...



  • A gruesome discovery sets DCI Neil Paget on a collison course with his superiors . . . When Antonia Halliday is found dead in a barn, her head and neck slashed with an old-fashioned sickle, Paget and Tregalles attend the scene. The victim is from Br...



  • Detective Inspector Neil Paget faces one of most frustrating cases of his career when a body with no leads is discovered. The discovery of the body of local photographer Billy Travis, having fallen from a bridge on to the railway tracks below, lea...



  • The Jewel Dragon is an epic adventure aimed at the 7-adult age group, set in 1932, long before the age of mobile phones and TV, a time when great adventures took place.  The book tells how main characters Ben and his two partners in the White Ha...



  • An original story of Bane, revealing the the man behind the mask, his desires and his fears. This story starts from his childhood in the pit prison through his rescue by Ra's al Ghul, his feelings for Batman and ends in Gotham City....



  • This is the last novel in WHO IS BANE SERIES. It can be read alone if you are familiar with basic story of Batman. However I recommend to read it as a sequel to DARKNESS RISES (BOOK 1) and SHADOWS RISES (BOOK 2). The final episode explores the love s...







  • Suddenly, there’s was a touch of cold steel against his head. He was unable to breath or twitch underneath his tweed coat but he also did not need to look to know who it is. The last words he heard was ‘I’m sorry’. And then everything turne...



  • High-flying English Member of Parliament Stephen Lorrimer and his wife Julia are the parents of a bright five-year-old son, Michael, who has severe hearing and speech impediments. Michael is devoted to his carer Justine, and when she disappears he is...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Frank Smith has published 22 books.

Frank Smith does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Dead Weight, was published in March 2017.

The first book by Frank Smith, Dragon's Breath, was published in October 1980.

Yes. Frank Smith has 1 series.