Inspector Adam Dalgliesh

Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, and strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Investigating the violent death at Martingale manor house, Detective Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh becomes embroiled in the complicated passions beneath the calm surface of English country life.  Book 1 of series.

Dalgliesh feels uncharacteristically unsure of himself in the face of a cool killer whose victim is discovered with a chisel through her heart on the floor of the Steen Psychiatric Clinic.  Book 2 of series.

Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh had been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on the remote Suffolk coast. However, all hope of peace is soon shattered by murder. The mutilated body of a local crime writer, Maurice Seaton, floats ashore to drag Adam Dalgliesh into a macabre investigation.  Book 3 of series.

The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. When another student dies equally mysteriously, it is up to Adam Dalgliesh to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills.  Book 4 of series.

Disenchanted with his job in the force, Commander Adam Dalgliesh accepts an invitation to visit a friend, a chaplain at a private nursing home, only to discover that his host has died suddenly.  Book 5 of series.

The scientists who work at Hoggatt's laboratory are experts in violent death. Now the brutal murder of one of their own brings Adam Dalgliesh hurrying from Scotland Yard to the bleak fens of East Anglia, where a murderer is waiting to strike again.  Book 6 of series.

The bodies were discovered at 8.45 on the morning of Wednesday 18 September by Miss Emily Wharton, a 65 year old spinster of the parish and Darren Wilkes, a 10 year old waif of no particular parish, her unlikely companion. Adam Dalgliesh finds himself confronted with the most confused and convoluted case of his career.  Book 7 of series.

Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard is taking respite from publicity in a converted windmill on the Norfolk coast where he is tying up his aunt’s estate. But he cannot easily escape murder - a psychopathic strangler known as the Whistler is terrorizing the Norfolk countryside.  Book 9 of series.

When Venetia Aldridge Q C defends a young man accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, the case sets in motion a chain of events as terrifying as they are unpredictable.  Book 10 of series.

When a wealthy student is found dead at an isolated theological college, his father demands an investigation by Scotland Yard. Commander Dalgliesh volunteers and finds himself embroiled in the most puzzling and horrific case of his career.  Book 11 of series.

Dalgliesh and his team are called in to invetigate the death of the trustee of a private museum. The museum is dedicated to life between 1919 and 1939, and in one room are exhibits from notorious murder cases. The modern killer is uncannily echoing the cases on display in The Murder Room.  Book 12 of series.

An island off the coast of Cornwall, which has become a retreat for high-powered executives, is the setting for a grotesque murder. Dalgliesh is requested to solve the crime with the utmost discretion.  Book 13 of series.

When Rhoda Gradwyn booked into a private clinic in Dorset, she had every prospect of a successful operation, but she was never to leave Cheverell Manor alive. Dalgliesh and his team, called in to investigate her death, and later a second murder, are confronted with problems even more complicated than the question of innocence or guilt.  Book 14 of series.