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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2007
  • Latest Book:
    January 2015
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Full Series List in Order

A Dylan Scott Mystery

1 - Presumed Dead (2010)
2 - Dead Silent (Sep-2011)
3 - Silent Witness (Mar-2012)
4 - Dead Calm (Jun-2012)
5 - Dying Art (Nov-2012)
6 - Deadly Shadows (Oct-2013)
7 - Dead End (Jul-2014)

Jill Kennedy and DCI Max Trentham

1 - Into the Shadows (May-2007)
2 - A Darker Side (Jun-2008)
3 - Where Petals Fall (Apr-2009)
4 - The Broken Circle (Apr-2010)

Book List in Order: 13 titles



  • When Rodney Hill, wrongly arrested for a series of murders, hangs himself, Jill Kennedy, the forensic psychologist whose profile led to Hill’s arrest, gives up her work with the police and moves to the peaceful village of Kelton Bridge to write sel...



  • Forensic psychologist Jill Kennedy has given up police work for a quiet life in the Lancashire village of Kelton Bridge. But when Martin Hayden, a seventeen-year-old schoolboy, is murdered, DCI Max Trentham, Jill's ex-colleague, wants her back at wor...



  • A woman's body is found in a quarry, wrapped in a shroud. Five years earlier, four women were killed the same way. But the man whom Jill Kennedy and Max Trentham believed to be guilty is dead--or is he?...



  • DYLAN SCOTT HAS PROBLEMS Dismissed in disgrace from the police force for assaulting a suspect, Dylan has no job, his wife has thrown him out and -- worse still -- his mother has moved in. So when Holly Champion begs him to investigate the disappearan...



  • While forensic psychologist Jill Kennedy is interviewing Claire Lawrence, a woman imprisoned for murdering her own daughter, Jill's colleague and sometime lover, DCI Max Trentham, is facing suspension for harassing local businessman, Thomas McQueen, ...



  • Residents of the sleepy Lancashire village of Kelton Bridge, where forensic psychologist Jill Kennedy has made her home, are looking forward to Christmas. But then the body of a young woman is discovered on the bleak hillside and, for some, life will...



  • Ten months ago Samantha Hunt set off for work -- and was never seen again.... Despite the statistics of cold cases, Dylan Scott wants to believe that Sam Hunt is alive. Not only because her father, Dylan's client, is desperate to find his missing ...



  • AN INNOCENT MAN? After his ex-wife bled to death in a bathtub covered in his fingerprints, the case against Aleksander Kaminski seemed open and shut. Though sentenced to life in prison, he swears he's innocent, a claim supported by his current wif...



  • Murder on the Arctic Sea Detective Dylan Scott thinks cruising well above the Arctic Circle in November is nothing short of madness. He has zero interest in seeing the elusive aurora borealis, but agrees to the Norwegian holiday to keep his wife a...






  • Portrait of a mystery Dylan Scott vowed never to return to the dreary town of Dawson's Clough. But one visit from a beautiful ex-lover and he's back in Lancashire, investigating a possible murder. The police think Prue Murphy died during a burglar...



  • Before his disgraceful dismissal from the police force, Dylan Scott worked undercover to get close to notorious drug dealer Joe Child. Now, Dylan works as a P.I. -- and Child heads up a religious commune near Dawson's Clough. But after two girls go m...



  • "Dylan Scott? It's payback time. You're going to die."Somebody is making threatening calls to private investigator Dylan Scott. This is one case with plenty of suspects -- a lot of dangerous people would love to see Dylan with a bullet between the ey...



  • Private investigator Dylan Scott is struggling to come to terms with the death of his wife. He has to cope for the sake of his two children, though it's easier to blame himself for her death and take comfort in a bottle of whisky.When he hears that t...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Shirley Wells has published 13 books.

Shirley Wells does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Dead Simple, was published in January 2015.

The first book by Shirley Wells, Into the Shadows, was published in May 2007.

Yes. Shirley Wells has 2 series.