There are 8 books in the Brighton Mysteries series. The newest book is Butcher's Wood which came out in 2021.

1
City of Dreadful Night

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July 1934. A woman's torso is found in a trunk at Brighton railway station's left luggage office. Her identity is never established, her killer never caught. But someone is keeping a diary.

July 2009. Ambitious radio journalist Kate Simpson hopes to solve the notorious Brighton Trunk Murder, and she enlists…

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2
The Last King of Brighton

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The new gripping mystery following City of Dreadful Night

A man impaled on the South Downs. Another skinned alive. A skeleton found beneath the West Pier, its feet encased in concrete. Brighton has been invaded. But this is no mere power struggle between rival mobsters; the motives for the killings…

3
The Thing Itself

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The gripping new thriller in Peter Guttridge's highly acclaimed Brighton series.

The truth will out.

Thriller writer Victor Tempest is dead and his son, the disgraced ex-Chief Constable Bob Watts, is discovering what really happened in the unsolved Brighton Trunk Murder of 1934. At the same time, DS Sarah Gilchrist…

4
The Devil's Moon

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Brighton’s murderous past and criminal present are intriguingly combined in this brand new series featuring some of the characters from the Brighton Trilogy Everywhere newly-promoted Sarah Gilchrist looks, unsettling things are happening. A Wicker Man is burned on the beach at dawn with a body inside; a painting titled The…

5
Those Who Feel Nothing

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A macabre discovery beneath Brighton’s Royal Pavilion has links to the horrors of Pol Pot’s Cambodia in this absorbing mystery

Ex-Chief Constable Bob Watts is hoping to ease gently into his new role as Brighton’s first Police Commissioner but is hit with a shocking scandal involving the director of the…

6
Swimming with the Dead

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A body found stabbed repeatedly outside the local lido leads DI Sarah Gilchrist and DS Bellamy Heap into an intriguing new case.

With the local lido under threat of closure by ruthless businesswoman Alison Sutherland, the Save the Salthaven Lido campaigners are fighting a desperate battle to keep it open.…

7
The Lady of the Lake

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DI Sarah Gilchrist and DS Bellamy Heap are called in when the body of a man is found floating in a lake belonging to a reclusive ex-Hollywood actress.

When Major Richard Rabbitt, owner of a large estate in Sussex, is found floating in a lake belonging to Nimue Grace, a…

8
Butcher's Wood

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A bloody death of an actress during a theatre show has DI Gilchrist and DS Heap investigate . . . but was it a bizarre accident or a deliberate attack?

During a theatre performance Detective Inspector Sarah Gilchrist is reluctantly attending, blood begins soaking through a curtain startling one actor…