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  • Bibliography:
    40 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 2016
  • Latest Book:
    December 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Calvin Stewart Thriller

1 - Final Warning (Feb-2022)

A DCI Harry McNeil Crime Thriller

1 - Return to Evil (Dec-2019)
2 - Sticks and Stones (Aug-2019)
3 - Back to Life (Oct-2019)
4 - Dead Before You Die (Jan-2020)
5 - Hour of Need (Feb-2020)
6 - Blood and Tears (May-2020)
7 - Devil to Pay (Jul-2020)
8 - Point of no Return (Oct-2020)
9 - Rush to Judgement (Dec-2020)
10 - Against the Clock (Apr-2021)
11 - Fall from Grace (Jul-2021)
12 - Crash and Burn (Oct-2021)
13 - Dead and Buried (May-2022)
14 - Now or Never (Sep-2023)

DCI Sean Bracken

1 - Starvation Lake (Nov-2020)
2 - Think Twice (Feb-2021)
3 - Crossing Over (May-2021)
4 - Life Extinct (Aug-2021)
5 - Over Kill (Dec-2021)

A DI Frank Miller Crime Thriller

1 - Crash Point (Oct-2017)
2 - Silent Marker (Oct-2017)
3 - Rain Town (Sep-2017)
4 - Watch Me Bleed (Sep-2017)
5 - Broken Wheels (Jul-2016)
6 - Sudden Death (Aug-2017)
6.5 - Old School ()
7 - Under The Knife (Aug-2017)
8 - Trial and Error (Feb-2018)
9 - Warning Sign (Jul-2018)
10 - Cut Throat (Sep-2018)
11 - Blood from a Stone (Dec-2018)
12 - Time of Death (Mar-2019)
13 - God Complex ()

Book List in Order: 40 titles




  • A man stabs his boss before throwing him off the roof of the office building. As Detective Inspector Frank Miller has him cornered on the roof of the building, the killer jumps to his death. A woman sets fire to the hotel kitchen where she works, the...



  • For Frank Miller, his first month in CID is a baptism of fire.In this prequel, Miller is attending a crime scene where a woman has been found murdered at a local tourist spot. She's been operated on and vital organs removed before being crudely sewn ...



  • Who's more dangerous? The serial killer you're hunting, or the one you never knew existed? DI Frank Miller is about to find out. Every year, thousands of women go missing in the UK, some of them never to be seen again. A killer stalks the streets of ...



  • A high-flying young lawyer is murdered in her own home. The killer takes her body with him, but leaves behind a photo of her corpse. A retired judge dies of a massive stroke. A surgeon's wife goes missing. Another female is murdered, her corpse taken...



  • While investigating the murder of a former detective, DI Frank Miller begins to see the connection between this and the murder of the head of Edinburgh's Serious Crime unit. As the investigation unfolds, a 25 year-old murder case is re-opened, and wh...



  • The body of 10 year-old kidnap victim Terry White is found in a derelict house, three years after his disappearance. This is a second chance for DI Frank Miller, whose detective wife was killed when the ransom drop went bad. There's a vicious gang of...



  • Years ago, DI Frank Miller caught a notorious serial killer and put him away for life. This man taunts Miller from the psychiatric hospital where he's incarcerated. He tells Miller he'll see him soon. Now he's escaped and he wants Miller to play a ga...



  • Edinburgh gangster Adrian Jackson has spent the last 25 years in an American prison, but now he's free and back home.He wants to reclaim what was rightfully his and with the help of his wife, Fiona, nobody's going to stop him.Or so he thinks...DI Fra...






  • What should have been a routine murder investigation, turns into a deadly nightmare...DI Frank Miller and some of his team are called in by the CID from the Borders when the body of a woman is found crucified in a graveyard.A troupe of actors arrive ...



  • With property developers greedy for land to build on, it comes as no surprise that there will be fierce bidding for a site that has just come on the market. Edinburgh's New Town North is how it's being touted.It is widely known that property develope...



  • The badly decomposed body of a young woman is found in the old nuclear bunker in Corstorphine Hill, where there is ongoing work being done to turn it into a museum. In her pockets are found items belonging to Becky McIver, a woman who went missing si...



  • A devastating attack has been made on the Los Angeles office of the Phoenix Group. Two agents are unaccounted for, presumed killed in the explosion.Then suspicions are aroused and it is now thought they have gone rogue.Max Doyle gets a text from one ...



  • Four years ago, FBI Special Agent Scott Marshall and his team were hunting a serial killer in a small town in Upstate New York. Women were being abducted and murdered, then their corpses were displayed in open shallow graves. Marshall's FBI partner, ...



  • A horrific murder. A stunning abduction. Can he open an old case to prevent another grisly death?Edinburgh DCI Harry McNeil isn't easily intimidated. But after years investigating crooked cops, a promotion heading up a Major Investigation Team will p...



  • It looked like a simple murder case. But the victim's false identity is just the beginning...Edinburgh DCI Harry McNeil's dangerous job wasn't made for relationships. So when a female officer's mutilated remains wash up in a canal, it feels like proo...



  • A woman is found in a local cemetery, crushed to death under a gravestone. A production company is there, filming the remake of a classic sci-fi TV show in the grounds, making the investigation more difficult for DCI Harry McNeil.It's his first day i...



  • A killer on the rampage. A detective standing in his way...As a winter storm covers the city, the frozen corpse of a female is found inside a pile of snow outside Hector Mann's house. There's no identity on her, but Hector recognises her. She's a wom...



  • Everybody has secrets...some more deadly than others...Years ago, DCI Harry McNeil lost his father, himself an ex-police officer. Now, Harry's estranged brother is back on the scene after their mother's second husband died. Harry's father and step-fa...






  • A jailed U.S. Army Ranger...A disgraced Royal Marines Commando...And a female assassin who will bring their worlds crashing together...Max Doyle was found guilty of killing his superior officer in Afghanistan. He was given a life sentence and put in ...



  • An audacious escape is made by two killers from the High Court in Edinburgh city centre. One is a ruthless Glaswegian gangster, Archie Higgins, being sentenced for the murder of his daughter's killer.The other is Glasgow doctor, Kenneth Conrad, who i...



  • A twisted killer, playing a vicious game. And only he knows the rules...Twenty years ago, DCI Willie Dowd retired on a high, having stopped an elusive serial killer. Dowd killed Colin Harris in self-defense. Case closed.Now, DCI Harry McNeil comes ac...



  • An old mystery solved after thirty-five years. And a new one just beginning...Millionaire Murdo Wolf took off in a small plane from the island where he lived, and neither he nor the plane was ever seen again. Until now.The Wolf family have gathered o...



  • Brand new series from the creator of the DCI Harry McNeil and DI Frank Miller novels, comes DCI Sean Bracken.A killer on the loose.A killer behind bars.And a detective caught between them...Ailsa Connolly was a brilliant psychologist and a respected ...



  • A woman is found hanging in the woods in a small Highland town.A hearse crashes into an old church and is abandoned. The police find a coffin inside but the body isn't a recent death. It's the badly decomposed body of a girl who went missing thirty y...



  • As the end of the year draws to a close, Detective Chief Inspector Sean Bracken is called to a murder scene near the Writer's Museum. The body of a woman is sitting on a bench in the square, her frozen hand holding a paperback.The book is by famous A...



  • The body of a teenager is found near Portobello Beach in Edinburgh, wrapped in plastic. She went missing five years ago but it's obvious she only died recently.Inside the plastic is the dress she was wearing when reported missing. Where has she been ...



  • A woman is found dead, brutally murdered, her death made to look like an accident.DCI Sean Bracken is called in and discovers that the young woman has a very powerful father. Was somebody trying to get back at him or has the woman's secrets finally c...







  • Doctor Angela Monroe is found dead at the foot of Salisbury Crags on Arthur's Seat. An avid runner, it first appears that she fell to her death.Until the pathologist deems it murder.It's the night of the summer solstice and people have been celebrati...



  • They left him for dead. They made a mistake.On sabbatical from the force after a personal loss, DCI Harry McNeil spends his days renovating an old cottage he bought, and his nights down at the local bar. He's living in a small town where nothing much...





  • Sometimes, the past is better left behind...Detective Chief Inspector Harry McNeil had found himself back in CID after a leave of absence saw his team disbanded. Now he's been temporarily assigned to an existing Major Investigation team, working alon...



  • You can't make up your own ending...The lifeless body of a renowned author dangles within his residence, prompting DCI Harry McNeil to uncover the unsettling truth that not everyone held the man in high regard. Initially dismissed as a tragic mishap ...



  • When looking into the abyss, be wary of who's looking back... When the lifeless body of a psychiatrist is uncovered in the heart of Edinburgh, the responsibility of unraveling this murder falls upon DCI Harry McNeil and his dedicated team. This well-...



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    THEY'RE RICH. THEY'RE POWERFUL. THEY'RE DEAD.Settling into his new life, Detective Chief Inspector Harry McNeil is being kept busy, but life is going to become a lot busier.The body of an MSP has been found slaughtered in an empty house in Edinburgh....



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    Three victims. Two men on the hunt. One killer to play the game.Calvin Stewart has just retired from Police Scotland, but far from ready to sit in front of the fire with his slippers on. He has joined the small private investigation firm, run by a fo...







Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Carson has published 40 books.

John Carson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Blunt Force Trauma, was published in December 2023.

The first book by John Carson, Broken Wheels, was published in July 2016.

Yes. John Carson has 4 series.