J.J. Salkeld

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 2013
  • Latest Book:
    February 2018
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Full Series List in Order

Border City Blues

1 - Call & Response (Oct-2014)
2 - The Devil's Interval (Dec-2014)
3 - The Blue Notes (Feb-2015)
4 - The Amen Cadence (May-2015)
5 - Bends Towards Justice (Sep-2015)

The Lakeland Murders

0.5 - The Two Towns (May-2014)
1 - Separated at Death (Jan-2014)
2 - Death on High (Nov-2013)
3 - Death on Account (Nov-2013)
4 - Riddled on the Sands (Nov-2013)
5 - Pale Horse, Dark Horse (Apr-2014)
6 - Hail and Farewell (Apr-2014)
7 - Mortal Men (Sep-2014)
8 - Delayed & Denied (Mar-2015)
9 - A Half Remembered Life (Jun-2015)
10 - Death Becomes Him (May-2016)

A Natural Detective

0.5 - Away From a Manger (Oct-2016)
1 - An Invasive Species (Dec-2015)
2 - A Lamb's Tale (Mar-2016)
3 - The Wolf at the Gate (Jul-2016)
4 - Here Comes the Flood (Oct-2016)
5 - A Burnt Offering (Feb-2017)
5.5 - A Summer's Grass (Apr-2017)
6 - The Slip & the Catch (Jun-2017)
7 - The Sins of the Old Fellas (Sep-2017)
8 - The MISPER Mystery (Feb-2018)

Tom Atkins

1 - Trouble in the Wind (Feb-2014)

Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • Death on Account

    The Lakeland Murders - 3

    In the fourth of the well-reviewed Lakeland Murders series DI Andy Hall and his team are faced with two crimes that differ in almost every way: except both have equally deadly consequences.A supergrass has chosen to settle in Kendal, on the edge of E...

  • Death on High

    The Lakeland Murders - 2

  • Riddled on the Sands

    The Lakeland Murders - 4

    The NEW, fully revised and updated edition of the fifth book in the acclaimed Lakeland Murders series. DI Andy Hall and the team face a case with a very local flavour, when a net fisherman vanishes while working far out on Morecambe Bay. Only his tra...

  • Separated at Death

    The Lakeland Murders - 1

    The teenage daughter of a wealthy Kendal family is found strangled in Serpentine Woods. This is only DI Andy Hall's third ever murder case, leads are hard to come by, and his personal life is in crisis. Meanwhile, his Sergeant, ex-Marine Ian Mann is ...

  • Trouble in the Wind

    Tom Atkins - 1

    Tom Atkins joined the Service in the dying days of the cold war, so when he's called in to meet his boss he's prepared to receive his final set of marching orders. But Tom's war isn't over yet, because he's ordered to investigate the activities of a ...

  • Hail and Farewell

    The Lakeland Murders - 6

    The seventh book in J J Salkeld’s best-selling Lakeland Murders series, set in and around England’s lovely Lake District, and featuring the places and events that the tourists don't usually see.Chris Brown wasn’t the first young man to die at...

  • Pale Horse, Dark Horse

    The Lakeland Murders - 5

    The NEW, fully revised and updated edition of the sixth book in the acclaimed Lakeland Murders series.DCI Andy Hall and the team are faced with their most complex case yet. A body is found buried at the feet of Long Meg, an ancient Cumbrian stone cir...

  • The Two Towns

    The Lakeland Murders - 0.5

    An extended short story (over 25,000 words) introducing the Lakeland Murders - J J Salkeld's acclaimed series of crime novels set in and around England's Lake District.It is DC Jane Dixon's first week on Kendal's CID team. Her new boss, DI Andy Hall,...

  • Mortal Men

    The Lakeland Murders - 7

    In the seventh novel in the acclaimed Lakeland Murders series newly promoted DI Jane Francis is faced with a crime that's both baffling and brutal. A farm worker has been shot dead in his Troutbeck cottage, and while there's an absence of witnesses t...



  • Call & Response

    Border City Blues - 1

    The first in Cumbrian crime best-seller J J Salkeld's new series of humorous and gritty Kindle-friendly novellas. Set in Carlisle - on the border between England and Scotland and much else besides - Call & Response introduces DS Samantha 'Pepper' Wil...

  • The Devil's Interval

    Border City Blues - 2

    In the second instalment of the Border City Blues novella series DS Samantha 'Pepper' Wilson faces challenges on all fronts. Her assertive policing style lands her in trouble again, but that's the least of her worries. Because Dai Young, a crime boss...

  • The Blue Notes

    Border City Blues - 3

    In episode 3 of J J Salkeld's epic Border City Blues novella series DS Samantha 'Pepper' Wilson continues to confront Dai Young, the newly crowned criminal kingpin. Her senior colleagues still seem oblivious, of this and much else besides, but at las...

  • Delayed & Denied

    The Lakeland Murders - 8

  • The Amen Cadence

    Border City Blues - 4

    This is the fourth instalment in JJ Salkeld's Cumbrian cop thriller series, Border City Blues. And it all becomes intensely personal for DS Pepper Wilson, as she faces up to personal tragedy, intimate betrayal, and an enemy of apparently bottomless ...

  • A Half Remembered Life

    The Lakeland Murders - 9

    In the ninth book in J J Salkeld's best-selling Lakeland Murders series detective Andy Hall is drawn onto some treacherous ground. Could the apparently accidental death of an environmental activist at St. Bees years before have been a cunningly conce...

  • Bends Towards Justice

    Border City Blues - 5

    For the first time the four novellas in J J Salkeld's hard-hitting and adrenaline fuelled Border City Blues series are available in one meaty anthology. Join uncompromising local lass DS Samantha 'Pepper' Wilson and her team at Carlisle police HQ, as...

  • An Invasive Species

    A Natural Detective - 1

    There’s a new detective on the Lake District beat. Owen Irvine is an ex-cop, a countryman, a craftsman - and a natural detective. So when he hears a disturbing tale of a con man who’s preying on vulnerable women in search of love, he just can’t...

  • A Lamb's Tale

    A Natural Detective - 2

    Bad things don't happen in the English Lake District's lovely Kentmere valley - most of the time. But when one neighbouring farmer is accused of rustling another man's Herdwick ewes, and a local feed merchant falls victim to an apparent phishing scam...

  • Death Becomes Him

    The Lakeland Murders - 10

    A young woman, beautiful, rich and successful, dies by her own hand. But DC Abla Khan isn’t convinced it’s a suicide even if DI Jane Francis is. As for DI Andy Hall? He hates suicide: all the enormity of death without the welcome distraction of d...



  • The Wolf at the Gate

    A Natural Detective - 3

    It's high summer of 2015 in the Lake District, in more ways than one. Because Owen Irvine, the shepherd detective, is on the trail of the violent criminal gang bringing ‘legal highs’ to Cumbria - with fatal consequences. And even with the assista...

  • Away From a Manger

    A Natural Detective - 0.5

    A quick-read mystery introducing Owen Irvine, the Lake District shepherd-cum-detective hero of J J Salkeld's best-selling A Natural Detective series. Set in the mid-1980s, this entertaining story concerns the theft of the baby Jesus himself. All righ...

  • Here Comes the Flood

    A Natural Detective - 4

    Cumbria is underwater again, and PC Kathy Stone faces looting in the village. A suspect is soon identified, to DS Ian Mann’s delight, but Kathy has her doubts. And she’s far from sure about her sister’s new boyfriend, either, although she’d ...

  • A Burnt Offering

    A Natural Detective - 5

    There’s a crime wave in the lovely Lake District village of Staveley. Owen Irvine has had his ancient Land Rover stolen, while PC Kathy Stone is investigating a series of arson attacks - so far only on one rubbish bin, a small wood store, and an al...

  • A Summer's Grass

    A Natural Detective - 5.5

    A quick read from J J Salkeld's best-selling series, A Natural Detective. Lakeland shepherd-detective Owen Irvine strives to prove that a young man he helped escape the criminal life is not guilty of a hotel burglary - despite the fact that much of t...

  • The Slip & the Catch

    A Natural Detective - 6

    When English Lake District shepherd and natural detective Owen Irvine discovers a cache of drugs on his farm he faces a simple choice. Report it to the police, or take matters into his own hands - in the hope of identifying the dangerous and shady fi...

  • The Sins of the Old Fellas

    A Natural Detective - 7

    Hare coursing is illegal, but someone is at it - and Sergeant Kathy Stone is certain that she knows who. Then, when a protected family of pearl mussels is taken from his stretch of the River Kent, Owen Irvine is equally sure that he knows who's respo...

  • The MISPER Mystery

    A Natural Detective - 8

    Sergeant Kathy Stone has a troubling MISPER (missing person) case to deal with, so the last thing she needs is someone digging holes in a field next to Owen Irvine's farm. Who is making the mysterious holes, and what are they looking for? Meanwhile D...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

J.J. Salkeld has published 27 books.

J.J. Salkeld does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The MISPER Mystery, was published in February 2018.

The first book by J.J. Salkeld, Death on Account, was published in November 2013.

Yes. J.J. Salkeld has 4 series.
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