Judith Cutler

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  • Bibliography:
    47 Books (9 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1995
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Fran Harman

1 - Life Sentence (Apr-2006)
2 - Cold Pursuit (Apr-2007)
3 - Still Waters (Jun-2008)
4 - Burying the Past (Dec-2012)
5 - Double Fault (Mar-2014)
6 - Green and Pleasant Land (Apr-2015)

Jane Cowan

1 - Head Start (Mar-2017)
2 - Head Count (Dec-2017)
3 - Head Wound (Oct-2018)

A Jodie Welsh Mystery

1 - Death in Elysium (Oct-2014)

Josie Welford

1 - The Food Detective (Aug-2005)
2 - The Chinese Takeout (Sep-2006)

Kate Power

1 - Dying for Power (1998)
2 - Staying Power (1999)
3 - Power on Her Own (Jul-2003)
4 - Will Power (Jan-2002)
5 - Hidden Power (Jan-2002)
Power Games (Oct-2014)

A Lina Townend Mystery

1 - Silver Guilt (Jun-2010)
2 - Ring of Guilt (Feb-2011)
3 - Guilty Pleasures (Sep-2011)
4 - Guilt Trip (May-2012)
5 - Guilt Edged (Aug-2013)
7 - Guilty as Sin (Dec-2015)

Matthew Rowsley and Mrs. Faulkner

1 - The Wages of Sin (Feb-2020)
2 - Legacy of Death (Mar-2021)
3 - Death's Long Shadow (Nov-2021)
4 - A House Divided (Nov-2022)
5 - The Dead Hand (Nov-2023)

Sophie Rivers

1 - Dying Fall (1995)
2 - Dying to Write (1996)
3 - Dying on Principle (1996)
4 - Dying for Millions (1997)
5 - Dying to Score (May-1999)
6 - Dying for Power ()
7 - Dying by Degrees (Dec-2001)
8 - Dying by the Book (Oct-2002)
9 - Dying in Discord (Dec-2019)
10 - Dying to Deceive (Dec-2019)

Tobias Campion

1 - The Keeper of Secrets (Oct-2007)
2 - Shadow of the Past (Oct-2008)
3 - Cheating the Hangman (Oct-2015)

Book List in Order: 47 titles

  • Dying Fall

    Sophie Rivers - 1

    Sophie Rivers, inner-city college lecturer and amateur singer, has a satisfying life in Birmingham: a job she enjoys, a close circle of friends. Then, suddenly, things go badly wrong. One of her students is murdered on college premises; worse still, ...

  • Dying on Principle

    Sophie Rivers - 3

    The third crime novel featuring Sophie RiversSophie seems to have fallen on her feet when she gets a new job - at George Muntz College, which is just yards from her Birmingham home and has lavish facilities and equipment. But she is soon to learn tha...

  • Dying to Write

    Sophie Rivers - 2

    Lecturer Sophie Rivers’ writing course on the outskirts of Birmingham is far from an exotic holiday. Still, creative inspiration might strike. But then, knowing Sophie’s luck, so might a murderer…She can hardly believe it when, soon after the c...

  • Dying for Millions

    Sophie Rivers - 4

    Why would anyone want him dead?Rock musician Andy Rivers has hordes of adoring fans and campaigns for one good cause after another. So why would anyone want him dead? It begins harmlessly enough: mild vandalism, funeral flowers left on the bonnet of ...

  • Dying for Power

    Kate Power - 1

    Sophie Rivers, a lecturer at a college of further education, is shaken when a spate of fires leads to the death of a young teacher.For Sophie Rivers, tackling newly imposed profit margins and a disruptive Fundamentalist movement means that teaching c...

  • Staying Power

    Kate Power - 2

    Detective Sergeant Kate Power of Birmingham CID has had bad luck with romance, so when a polite stranger flirts with her on an airline trip home from Florence, she's more than a little suspicious. She gives the man her business card and forgets all a...

  • Dying to Score

    Sophie Rivers - 5

    Sophie Rivers is finally on holiday! She's left behind the stresses of a tough job teaching at a deprived inner -city college in Birmingham, and has just started seeing the delectable Mike Lowden, one of the country's most exciting cricketers. When h...

  • Coming Alive

    A heart-warming, unforgettable novel Rebecca Wildbore is left penniless when her bullying husband dies. When Clifford, an old friend, offers her a job at his boys' boarding school, she jumps at the chance to make a new start. But her colleagues are h...

  • Head Over Heels

    A funny, sharply observed love story from the author of COMING ALIVE Beth is headmistress of a school in Devon, one that has just been favourably inspected by Ofsted. At the peak of her career, comfortably single and with enough money to enjoy hersel...



  • Dying by Degrees

    Sophie Rivers - 7

    Sophie Rivers finds that her struggles with her course take a back seat when she's caught up in a deadly web of corruption and murder.Sophie Rivers is struggling with her course at the University of the West Midlands, her fellow student Jago Calvin i...

  • Hidden Power

    Kate Power - 5

    Detective Sergeant Kate Power has gained promotion but there's no job to be promoted into - so she is sent off to Devon to act in an undercover job. Unfortunately, she's undercover in more ways than one. Kate has no idea what kind of crime she's mean...

  • Will Power

    Kate Power - 4

    British Detective Kate Power struggles to keep her personal life together while investigating a difficult cold case . . .   Still trying to find her feet in Birmingham, Det. Sergeant Kate Power is back in the Fraud Squad -- under-staffed, under-f...

  • Dying by the Book

    Sophie Rivers - 8

    Sophie Rivers' hopes for a peaceful sabbatical are squashed when she becomes the victim of a terrifying stalker at a literary festival.Sophie Rivers is on a year's sabbatical from her teaching job at William Murdock College, and is enjoying spending ...

  • Power on Her Own

    Kate Power - 3

    Introducing Birmingham Detective Sergeant Kate Power, exiled from London's Metropolitan Police by personal tragedy and making a new start in the distant outpost of Birmingham CID. Her new Brummie bosses are good men, for the most part, but they can't...

  • Drawing the Line

    Lina Townend, the orphaned natural daughter of somebody, somewhere, has been in care all her life. For the first time, at nineteen, she's pretty happy, living with kind-hearted antique dealer Griff, who combines the roles of grandfather and employer....

  • The Food Detective

    Josie Welford - 1

    Josie Welford desperately hopes for a fresh start. Widow to one of Britain's most wanted criminals, she begins a new venture as the licensee of the local pub in Kings Duncombe, and soon becomes a thriving member of the community. That is until Inspec...

  • Scar Tissue

    Caffy Tyler believes she has well and truly left her old life behind her, in spite of her emotional and physical scars. Living in rural Kent, with a new job and new friends, she feels safe, and for the first time in her life happy. However a series o...

  • Life Sentence

    Fran Harman - 1

    An unidentifiable woman is found on a roadside - beaten into a coma and raped. The man who finds her, troubled by his inability to resuscitate her, spends hours at her hospital bedside, talking to the woman everyone calls Elise. Two years later Elise...

  • The Chinese Takeout

    Josie Welford - 2

    It’s morning service in a quiet village church. Josie Welford, wealthy widow of one of the country’s most wanted criminals and now licensee of the White Hart gastro-pub, is daydreaming during Father Tim Martin’s sermon. Suddenly the peace is sh...



  • Cold Pursuit

    Fran Harman - 2

    When a colleague becomes seriously ill, Chief Superintendent Frances Harman has to delay her impending retirement to oversee an investigation into a recent spate of happy slappings and minor assaults in the Kent area. Initially, she begrudgingly take...

  • The Keeper of Secrets

    Tobias Campion - 1

    Spring 1810. Young Parson Tobias Campion is excited to be taking over the small Warwickshire parish of Moreton Priory. But his first night in the village brings excitement of the wrong kind when Tobias intervenes in an attempted rape and becomes hero...

  • Still Waters

    Fran Harman - 3

    One cold, wet evening in an otherwise unusually dry April, a man falls from the fifth floor window of a hotel in Hythe. Did he jump or was he pushed? Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harman is already struggling to juggle her work and private life...

  • Shadow of the Past

    Tobias Campion - 2

    Tobias Campion, rector of Moreton St Jude, is delighted to welcome the widowed Lady Chase as his parishioner. Charming and generous-spirited, she nonetheless harbours a secret sorrow: her son is missing, presumed dead, and her loathsome nephew Sir Ma...

  • Staging Death

    Actress Vena Burford is 'resting' between jobs. But needs must, and with few voice-over jobs in the pipeline, Vena takes on a few jobs for friends and family around the idyllic Stratford-Upon-Avon. But interior design leads her to violent threats and...

  • Silver Guilt

    A Lina Townend Mystery - 1

    Lina Townend is making a name for herself as an antiques dealer, in partnership with her old friend, Griff Tripp. When she is accused of stealing an item she is selling for her father, the disreputable Lord Elham, her plight attracts the attention of...

  • Ring of Guilt

    A Lina Townend Mystery - 2

    Antiques dealer Lina Townend - bright, sharp, and pretty - is making a name for herself as a restorer, with a national reputation for honesty. So when she spots a dead body in a field, she calls the police - only for it to promptly vanish. And it see...

  • Guilty Pleasures

    A Lina Townend Mystery - 3

    The last way antiques dealer Lina Townend wants to spend a summer’s afternoon is helping at a church fête. However, Robin, the vicar, is an old friend, so Lina ends up selling bric-a-brac. But a harmless event turns into a crisis when someone trie...

  • Guilt Trip

    A Lina Townend Mystery - 4

    The local antiques fair Lina Townend and Griff Tripp set up stall at may be a disaster, but when a local director swoops in and begs Griff to star in her latest production, Lina hopes it will take Griff's mind off a problem he won't share. Lina's own...

  • Burying the Past

    Fran Harman - 4

    Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harman’s professional and private lives collide when a skeleton is unearthed in her garden Fran is preparing for her forthcoming wedding to Assistant Chief Constable Mark Turner, but renovations at the rectory...



  • Guilt Edged

    A Lina Townend Mystery - 5

    Antiques dealer Lina Townend finds herself accused of theft in the latest intriguing mystery When a middle-aged woman enters Lina Townend’s antiques shop wanting to sell a white Beswick china horse which she claims is a cherished heirloom, Lina...

  • Double Fault

    Fran Harman - 5

    When a child goes missing at the local tennis club on the day when several skeletons are unearthed on an Ashford building site, Fran Harman finds her caseload heavier than ever at a time when the force is cripplingly short-staffed and she has a less ...

  • Death in Elysium

    A Jodie Welsh Mystery - 1

    Introducing unconventional rector’s wife and amateur sleuth Jodie Welsh in the first of a brand-new mystery series Highflying city career woman Jodie Welsh was prepared for a dramatic change in lifestyle when she met and married the Reverend Th...

  • Power Games

    Kate Power

    British Detective Kate Power grapples with arson, murder, and some very distressing career trouble in this mystery.   Moving from London to Birmingham to start over on a new police force was no easy task, but Det. Sergeant Kate Power is finally star...

  • Green and Pleasant Land

    Fran Harman - 6

    Retired police detective Fran Harman discovers that someone doesn’t like her digging up the past when she re-opens a 20-year-old cold case. Newly-retired, ex-Chief Superintendent Fran Harman and her partner Mark have volunteered to assist Wes...

  • Cheating the Hangman

    Tobias Campion - 3

    It is Easter Day, and a body hangs crucified on a tree. Unlike the Master whom Tobias serves, it will not rise from the dead. Naked except for a loincloth and a crown of thorns, the victim is unrecognisable, his face bludgeoned to a pulp....

  • Guilty as Sin

    A Lina Townend Mystery - 7

    It’s a busy weekend for Lina: she wins a dance competition, annoys a valuable client and has to play gooseberry when Griff, her business partner, meets an old flame. Killing time, she drives across Dartmoor, only to find two men robbing a medieval ...

  • Head Start

    Jane Cowan - 1

    With her abusive ex-husband in prison, Jane Cowan finally has the confidence to accept a new job: head teacher of the primary school in the Kentish village of Wrayford. But her new life is soon disrupted when a mysterious intruder breaks into her sch...

  • Head Count

    Jane Cowan - 2

    A head teacher's work is never done, especially if, like Jane Cowan, you're a victim of your own success. Having done well with Wrayford Primary, she's now expected to bring other neighbouring schools up to scratch as well. And allthese responsibilit...

  • Head Wound

    Jane Cowan - 3

    While Jane waits for renovations to be completed on her new permanent home, she remains in temporary accommodation under the watchful eye of her landlord Brian Dawes, chair of the governors at Wrayford School. Her work life is dominated by preparatio...



  • Dying in Discord

    Sophie Rivers - 9

    Sophie Rivers joins the university choir, but hopes of musical harmony are dashed by appearances from beyond the grave, bribery and murder.Sophie Rivers is studying for a degree at the University of the West Midlands. When she joins the university ch...

  • Dying to Deceive

    Sophie Rivers - 10

    A valuable collection of cricket memorabilia leads Sophie Rivers into a terrifying mix of intimidation, violence and murder.Sophie Rivers is offered a temporary job at Warwickshire Cricket Club, archiving a collection of memorabilia, and jumps at the...

  • The Wages of Sin

    Matthew Rowsley and Mrs. Faulkner - 1

    First in a brand-new Victorian mystery series featuring steward Matthew Rowsley and housekeeper Mrs Faulkner as an engaging detective duo. Newly appointed as land agent to the youthful Lord Croft, Matthew Rowsley finds plenty to keep him busy as h...

  • Legacy of Death

    Matthew Rowsley and Mrs. Faulkner - 2

    When the family butler is brutally attacked, land agent Matthew Rowsley and his wife Harriet determine to find the culprit in this gripping Victorian mystery. With his lordship's mental health failing, management of his grand country estate has bee...

  • Death's Long Shadow

    Matthew Rowsley and Mrs. Faulkner - 3

    The arrival of an unexpected guest means trouble ahead for the residents of Thorncroft House in this deftly-plotted Victorian mystery. On a freezing winter’s night, with the household in mourning following the death of the dowager Lady Croft, the ...

  • A House Divided

    Matthew Rowsley and Mrs. Faulkner - 4

    Stranded at a house party - when a murderer strikes!May 1861, Victorian England. When Matthew and Harriet Rowsley are invited to a house party at Clunston Park by Matthew's cousin, Colonel Barrington Rowsley and his wife Lady Hortensia, Harriet is ne...

  • The Dead Hand

    Matthew Rowsley and Mrs. Faulkner - 5

    While hosting a group of academics at Thorncroft House, Harriet and Matthew Rowsley find themselves confronted with bigger - and bloodier! - issues than unruly guests . . . The fifth instalment of the Harriet and Matthew Rowsley Victorian mystery ser...

  • Dying for Power

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Judith Cutler has published 47 books.

Judith Cutler does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Dead Hand, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Judith Cutler, Dying Fall, was published in January 1995.

Yes. Judith Cutler has 9 series.
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