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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2017
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Cumbria Crime

1 - The Harbour (Sep-2023)

Detective Zoe Finch

1 - Deadly Wishes (Jul-2020)
2 - Deadly Choices (Sep-2020)
3 - Deadly Desires (Dec-2020)
4 - Deadly Terror (Feb-2021)
5 - Deadly Reprisal (Apr-2021)
6 - Deadly Fallout (Apr-2021)
7 - Deadly Christmas (Nov-2022)

The Division Bell

1 - A House Divided (Sep-2018)
2 - Divide and Rule (Oct-2018)
3 - Divided We Stand (Oct-2018)

Dorset Crime

1 - The Corfe Castle Murders (Jul-2021)
2 - The Clifftop Murders (Jul-2021)
3 - The Island Murders (Aug-2021)
4 - The Monument Murders (Nov-2021)
5 - The Millionaire Murders (Jan-2022)
6 - The Fossil Beach Murders (Apr-2022)
7 - The Blue Pool Murders (Feb-2023)
8 - The Lighthouse Murders (Apr-2023)
9 - The Ghost Village Murders (Sep-2023)

A London Cozy Mystery

1 - Death at Westminster (Oct-2023)

McBride & Tanner

1 - Blood and Money (Aug-2022)
2 - Death and Poetry (Jun-2023)

The Village

1 - Thicker Than Water (May-2018)
2 - Sea of Lies (Mar-2019)
3 - One Of Us (Aug-2019)

Book List in Order: 28 titles





  • Six years on, they thought they were safe...Floods have devastated England.Jess has fled her London home, and made a new life in a refugee village with her brother Ben and his wife Ruth.Scraping out an existence here on the wild North Yorkshire coast...



  • What if the government you served came for your family?

    Jennifer Sinclair is many things: ambitious government minister, loving wife and devoted mother.

    But when the government she serves targets her Muslim husband and sons, where wi...



  • Jennifer Sinclair’s fight to save her political career, her family and her freedom has failed. Traumatised by prison violence, she agrees to transfer to the mysterious British Values Centre.Rita Gurumurthy has betrayed her country and failed the ch...



  • Britain is a country under surveillance. Neighbours spy on neighbours. Schools enforce loyalty to the state. And children are encouraged to inform on their parents.Jennifer Sinclair has earned her freedom but returns home to find everything changed.R...



  • He abducted her…
    He fell in love with her…
    He helped her escape…
    Can she trust him?

    Sarah has returned home from being kidnapped and held in a dilapidated farmhouse by a group of men.

    With her is Martin, who turne...



  • ‘Leave, or die.’Jess Dyer has won safety for her sister-in-law Ruth and proved her worth as the leader of her refugee community.Sarah Evans has stood up to her parents and discovered who she can trust.But the villagers still aren’t welcome. Whe...



  • She killed her unborn child. The punishment will fit the crime.

    America, 2026.Feminism has been defeated.Equality is a memory.And abortion has been criminalized.Three women find themselves on the wrong side of the law. Kate, carrying the chi...



  • Meet Zoe Finch, West MIdlands Police's newest Detective Inspector. She's outspoken, ambitious, and damaged. And she's working a case that could make her career, or cost her everything...Fresh from the success of the Canary investigation into depravit...






  • 'You get one of your children back. Your choice.' When Alison Osman takes her children on a trip to Cadbury World, she thinks their squabbling is her worst problem. But when she turns to find them gone, she's plunged into every mother's worst nightma...



  • 'You're sick and I'm the cure.'When two men are found mutilated in Birmingham's gay village just before Christmas, DI Zoe Finch and her team are perplexed.Did their attacker mean to kill one of the men, or simply injure them both? And who would have ...



  • A devastating terror attack strikes at the heart of Birmingham... but is all as it seems? When DI Zoe Finch and her colleagues rush to respond to a terrorist attack, the city is plunged into chaos. But Zoe begins to suspect that all is not as it seem...



  • A corrupt detective found dead... a senior officer with links to organised crime... and a former colleague on trial.When a detective accused of corruption is murdered, alarm bells start ringing for DI Zoe Finch and her team.Was the victim connected t...



  • When a young man is found dead in Birmingham University, the police initially think it's a drug overdose.But when DI Zoe Finch learns that the victim was accused of raping a fellow student, she starts to suspect this might not be a straightfo...



  • DCI Lesley Clarke is settling into her new job in Dorset's Major Crimes Unit, and becoming accustomed to a slower pace of life.But then she's called in to solve the murder of a woman with links to Lesley's new partner.Has Lesley made a grave error of...



  • Meet DCI Lesley Clarke. She's a straight-talking city copper who doesn't suffer fools gladly... and she's been transferred to rural Dorset.After being injured in a bomb attack, Lesley is presented with a choice - early retirement, or a period of resp...



  • An isolated community... a web of secrets... a mysterious death.When a body washes up on the shores of Brownsea Island, DCI Lesley Clarke initially suspects suicide.But as she gets closer to the island's close-knit community, she starts to suspect fo...



  • When a body is found draped over Swanage's iconic Globe monument, DCI Lesley Clarke is called in.A message points to the motive: Go Home.Is this a hate crime? Or something closer to home?Lesley must find the killer before he or she strikes again,...



  • An anonymous murder victim and a missing journalist: can Lesley uncover the truth?DCI Lesley Clarke has too many suspects to choose from when a wealthy lawyer and her unidentified companion are found brutally murdered in a Sandbanks mansion.Was it th...






  • The Susannah Ramsay and Sadie Dawes cases are solved and DCI Lesley Clarke's team is back together.But there are tensions. Is Dennis hiding more than just mental health problems? Did Superintendent Carpenter cover up the details of DCI Mackie's death...



  • DI Jade Tanner has been plunged into managing the Complex Crimes Unit, Police Scotland's newest investigating team. She's recruited Dr Petra McBride, fresh from losing her job at Dundee University, and DS Mo Uddin, who's reluctantly transferred from ...



  • Christmas in Birmingham means the Frankfurt Christmas Market. Loved and hated by brummies in equal measure, it certainly makes life interesting for West Midlands Police.But when the body of a homeless man is found behind a market stall early one Sund...



  • DCI Lesley Clarke is a busy woman.She's dealing with the reopened investigation into DCI Mackie's death, supporting DS Dennis Frampton through recurring mental health problems, and making plans for her own future.And then prominent crime boss Arthur ...



  • DCI Lesley Clarke is back in Dorset, and her world has turned upside down.One of the people she's closest to is to under arrest for the murder of DCI Mackie and a body has been found in the remote lighthouse at Portland Bill. And not just any body, b...



  • Birnam Wood shall come to Dunsinane...DI Jade Tanner's new Complex Crimes Unit is finding its feet. DS Mo Uddin is settling into his new Scottish home, Dr Petra McBride has stopped receiving anonymous calls, and Jade is working to support her son ove...



  • Who killed DCI Mackie?DCI Lesley Clarke thinks she's close to solving her predecessor's murder. But when the body of a police officer connected to the crime turns up in the abandoned village of Tyneham, the case steps up a gear.And when someone she's...



  • DI Zoe Finch has a lot on her plate.New job, new team, new county. And on day one, she's plunged straight into a murder investigation.Zoe has to hit the ground running. She needs to manage a new team with its fair share of challenges, get to grips wi...



  • Diana Bakewell is London's savviest and best connected tour guide.As the lead guide at Chartwell and Crouch Tours, she's busy teaching her young assistant Zaf the ropes alongside dealing with company politics and her slimy boss. In her spare time she...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Rachel McLean has published 28 books.

Rachel McLean does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Death at Westminster, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Rachel McLean, The Flood, was published in December 2017.

Yes. Rachel McLean has 7 series.