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  • Bibliography:
    48 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 2013
  • Latest Book:
    December 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Andrew Hunter

1 - Something Wicked (Oct-2018)
2 - Something Hidden (Dec-2018)
3 - Something Buried (Mar-2019)

Jessica Daniel

1 - Locked in (Jul-2013)
2 - Vigilante (Nov-2013)
3 - The Woman in Black (Mar-2014)
4 - Think of the Children (Jan-2017)
5 - Playing with Fire (Jul-2013)
6 - The Missing Dead (Mar-2017)
7 - Behind Closed Doors (Apr-2017)
8 - Crossing the Line (Dec-2017)
9 - Scarred for Life (Feb-2018)
10 - For Richer, For Poorer (May-2018)
11 - Nothing But Trouble (Aug-2018)
12 - Eye for an Eye (Jan-2018)
13 - Silent Suspect (Jan-2019)
14 - The Unlucky Ones (Nov-2019)
15 - A Cry in the Night (Aug-2020)

Silver Blackthorne Trilogy

1 - Reckoning (Mar-2017)
2 - Renegade (Jul-2015)
3 - Resurgence (Jun-2016)

A Whitecliff Bay Mystery

1 - The One Who Fell (Apr-2023)
2 - The One Who Was Taken (Apr-2023)
3 - The Ones Who Are Buried (Apr-2023)
4 - The Ones Who Are Hidden (May-2023)

Book List in Order: 48 titles



  • They think they are safe at home. Someone knows better. When a body is found in a locked house, Detective Sergeant Jessica Daniel is left to not only find the killer but discover how they got in and out. With little in the way of leads and a jo...



  • His sentence may be over, but his crime is not forgotten.

    Martin Chadwick is about to be released from prison, seven years after setting fire to a pub, killing a teenage boy. But the victim’s father doesn’t believe justice has been served...




  • Dead bodies are piling up for Detective Sergeant Jessica Daniel. Usually when a serial killer is on the loose, the pressure would be building to find the perpetrator, but in this case the victims are all hardened criminals themselves. The media can...



  • Someone has left a severed hand in the centre of Manchester and the only clue Detective Sergeant Jessica Daniel has to go on is CCTV footage of a woman in a long black robe placing it carefully on the ground. With a lengthy missing persons list and f...



  • Silver Blackthorn is on the run. All she really wants is to be reunited with her family and friends but the time for thinking about herself has passed. Now the fates of eleven other teenagers are in her hands - and they are all looking to her for a p...



  • Money can''t buy everything . . .Down Among the Dead Men is a dark underworld thriller from bestselling crime writer, Kerry Wilkinson.''I''m going to do you a favour: I''m going to tell you my name and then I''m going to give you thirty seconds to tu...



  • "Can I ask you one thing...why does it have to be you?" My throat is dry but I manage to say the words clearly enough: "If I don't do it, who else will?" An entire country has been lied to. Silver Blackthorn was supposed to be one of the privi...










  • One girl. One chance. One destiny. In the village of Martindale, hundreds of miles north of the new English capital of Windsor, sixteen-year-old Silver Blackthorne takes the Reckoning. This coming-of-age test not only decides her place in society...




  • My darling Poppy. There are going to be so many things I wish I could’ve told you in person. I won’t get the chance to do that, so perhaps this is my only way…

    Poppy Kinsey doesn’t really do birthdays. Hers falls on the type of hear...



  • They told us he had been missing for nearly two days, that he probably drowned. They told us a lie.

    Megan was ten years old when her older brother, Zac, went missing among the cliffs, caves and beaches that surround the small seaside town o...



  • Thirteen years ago Olivia Adams went missing. Now she’s back… or is she?

    When six-year-old Olivia Adams disappeared from her back garden, the small community of Stoneridge was thrown into turmoil.  How could a child vanish in the middl...




  • In bestselling crime author Kerry Wilkinson's Eye for an Eye , DI Jessica Daniel is tasked with multiple investigations while facing demons from her past. Seventeen years ago, Damian Walker abducted five women because the voices in his head told hi...







  • ‘Wow this had me captivated! I could hardly put the book down … OMG that ending! … stunning ... I had to get my breath back at the end!' Bonnie's Book Talk, 5 stars Rose Denton wakes up in her car. She has no memory of how she got there. ...




  • ‘Wow, let me catch my breath, what a wild ride this book was. I started reading it one evening thinking I’ll read a few chapters then sleep but nope. I devoured around 65% of the book in the evening and I had to wake up early so I could finish it...




  • Charley Willis was thirteen years old when her parents were killed in their family home and she was found hiding in a cupboard upstairs.    Fifteen years later, Charley is marrying Seth Chambers.  It should be the happiest day of&...



  • Your son walked out of the house one night. He never came back.

    Nine months ago Elaine Carr’s only son, Nicholas, disappeared in the dark woods near his home. He hasn’t been seen since, and she’s falling apart.

    Investigator And...



  • Two people are dead. Your father was holding the gun.Fiona Methodist’s father is accused of shooting dead a young couple at point-blank range before turning the gun on himself. She knows her softly spoken father wasn’t capable of killing, and won...



  • It started with a phone call. Just one word - ‘Jessica' - and now Detective Inspector Jessica Daniel has a big problem. 

    Her missing friend, Bex, called from a battered seaside payphone, and yet, by the time Jessica arrived, there was nob...



  • Your daughter drowned. You know it wasn’t an accident.

    Anna Applegate’s daughter, Michelle, drowned after a night out with a friend. Anna’s convinced Michelle’s death was deliberate, and that her boyfriend, sports star Jack Marsh, ki...



  • ‘Had me hooked from the very first paragraph’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I was totally gripped’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Completely riveted from the word go’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lucy gets the same bus every day. Today, her journey home will change her life. Lucy ...






  • I pinch the screen to zoom until I’m staring at the face of a ghost. A man with very short hair, staring directly at the camera with piercing brown eyes.

    He is as he was when I last saw him: wrinkles around the corners of the eyes and a k...



  • A man who survived being drowned ends up in Manchester's canal. Someone who was hit by a car is shoved in front of DC Archie Davey's patrol vehicle.  

    Killers generally aren't a happy bunch, but this particular one seems to have a problem ...



  • Under a cloudless Mediterranean sky, two families wheel their suitcases past swaying palm trees towards their hotel to grab a spot by the pool. But behind the smiles, someone is hiding a terrible secret… I never wanted to come on this trip. I ...



  • The ultimate he said/she said thriller about a perfect family trip gone terribly wrong.  After the accident which tore apart her family, Emma is shocked to be invited away to a beautiful Mediterranean island " but when her mother calls her out...



  • Wheeling my suitcase down the familiar, hedge-lined street, I smile at the sound of children playing in the park nearby. Suddenly, there’s a screech of car brakes. I rush over to see a bent bike wheel sticking out of the ditch, and underneath, a li...



  • 'Mom?' The word caught in the boy's throat. She didn't try to speak, didn't roll towards him. She didn't move at all. In the middle of the night, 14-year-old Samuel is woken by the sound of a terrified scream from the kitc...



  • A little girl has been left for dead. And now my husband is missing.   ‘I can give you a lift home,’ the man says. Little Alice tightens the zip of her big red coat. She’s unsure, but the walk will be cold and dark. ‘I’m not supposed t...



  • Paige, Richard and me. We thought we’d be friends forever. But everything changed the day we took the short cut home from school along the old railway line. I wish we’d gone the long way. I wish we hadn’t seen our classmate, pale and still in t...



  • I stare at the newspaper article about a baby snatched from the back of a car thirty years ago, and wonder why someone would post it through my door. Looking closer, my blood freezes. The little girl in the photo has an unusual scar " just like min...



  • Rain pounds the windscreen in the pitch-black evening. She knows this winding country road like the back of her hand, dodges the potholes with ease. But then she hears a crunch. A thud. Since Katie’s dad left it’s just been the two of us, bu...






  • Everyone’s invited. Someone will never leave. In a grand townhouse rented specially for the evening, Hannah beams at her guests under the sparkling chandelier. Her sisters, her mother and aunt, her best friends… although she’ll miss them all s...



  • He went missing when you were sixteen. Was it all your fault?  Trembling with shock, Jodie picks up the old T-shirt. She hasn’t seen it for twenty years. Her boyfriend had been wearing it " her Ben " the day he went missing. The last time...



  • ‘Oh wow! I loved this book so much!... Will stick with me for a very long time… PERFECT!’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ We all remember that one magical summer that changed our lives. For Joe, it’s 1999. School is over, and with zero ...



  • In the seaside town of Whitecliff, everyone looks out for each other. Everyone knows your name. And everyone knows your secrets... Moonlight falls on the figure of the girl standing on the red-tiled roof. Her white dress and blonde hair flutter in th...



  • In the darkness, the girl slumps against the rough tree bark. Her eyes are closed, her wrists tied. As consciousness fades, her last thought is of her best friend, and how much she regrets what she did... Seventeen-year-old best friends Nicola and Mi...



  • Up on the desolate moor, she tightens her coat against the bitter wind. The man she followed here points to a rock embedded in the mossy earth. 'This is the place.' But when they dig, what will they find? Everyone in the small seaside town of Whitecl...



  • 'Your tattoo... it's exactly like mine.' She hesitates. 'But - I've never noticed it before. I must have had it since I was little.' The ink markings on both of them are delicate, barely visible. Interlinked triangles in the shape of a daisy. But how...



  • Four girls close their eyes. Only one wakes up. Leah and her three best friends get changed into their pyjamas, eat pizza and argue about what film to watch. They laugh together until the early hours. But the next morning, Leah blinks open her eyes a...



  • Gone. They're gone. Dylan's wide-eyed mother bites her nails in desperation. All three kids. They wanted to sleep outside. But I went to check this morning and... the tents are empty. They're gone. Twenty-five years ago: teenage Leah had a sleepover ...


Award-Winning Books by Kerry Wilkinson

Close to You
2020 Thriller Award -- E-Book Original
Ten Birthdays
2018 RoNA -- Young Adult


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kerry Wilkinson has published 48 books.

Kerry Wilkinson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, After the Sleepover, was published in December 2023.

The first book by Kerry Wilkinson, Locked in, was published in July 2013.

Yes. Kerry Wilkinson has 4 series.