If what gripped you in A Great Deliverance was how Roberta’s numb confession (“I did it”) unraveled into a deep study of trauma and buried memory, you’ll love the way In the Woods lets a detective’s childhood horror bleed into his present case. Like watching Lynley and Havers peel back Keldale’s layers, you’ll follow Rob Ryan as the investigation forces him into the darkest corners of his mind—where the truth is as devastating as the crime.

You enjoyed how A Great Deliverance moved between Lynley, Havers, and Keldale locals to expose the truth behind the Teys farmhouse and its grim beheading. Case Histories weaves several seemingly separate tragedies through shifting viewpoints, and as in Keldale, each voice adds a crucial shard of truth. You’ll savor the way the narrative threads tighten until they cut cleanly into the heart of the mystery.

If the stark brutality in Keldale—the patriarch found decapitated in the farm outbuilding—and the book’s unflinching look at class and cruelty drew you in, A Taste for Death delivers that same grave, textured menace. As with Lynley navigating privilege and Havers pushing against it, James’s detectives work through a London killing that exposes rot in high places and quiet desperation below.

If you loved watching aristocratic Lynley and blunt, embattled Havers clash and grow while probing Roberta Teys’s world, The Crossing Places gives you that same friction-forged trust. Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway and DCI Harry Nelson start at odds, but—much like your favorite duo—their differences sharpen the investigation and their bond deepens as the case turns personal.

If the closed, pressure-cooker feel of Keldale—the farmhouse, the church, the villagers who know more than they say—was your catnip, A Place of Execution traps you in another isolated community where silence is a weapon. As in A Great Deliverance, the investigation pries open old wounds and the final revelations hit with the force of a secret long protected by a whole village.