Helen Fields Books in Order (DI Callanach, The Last Girl to Die)
Helen Sarah Fields is a British writer of crime, thriller, and historical fiction books. She studied law at the University of East Anglia, then went on to the Inns of Court School of Law in London. She practiced criminal and family law for thirteen years, before leaving the Bar after the birth of her second child. Fields published her first book in 2017, the first in the DI Callanach series set in Scotland, where Helen feels most at one with the world. Her books have been translated into more than 20 languages.
How to read Helen Fields’ Books in Order?
Reading the DI Callanach Series in Order
DI Luc Callanach is a half-French and half-Scottish detective and a former member of Interpol now working for the Major Investigations Team of Police Scotland (based in Edinburgh). For more details, go to the DI Callanach reading order.
- Perfect Remains (2017)
- Perfect Prey (2017)
- Perfect Death (2018)
- Perfect Silence (2018)
- Perfect Crime (2019)
- Perfect Kill (2020)
- One for Sorrow (2022)
Reading Stand-alone Novels by Helen Fields
- These Lost & Broken Things (2020) – 1905. London is a playground for the rich and a death trap for the poor. When Sofia Logan’s husband dies unexpectedly, leaving her penniless with two young children, she knows she will do anything to keep them from the workhouse. But can she bring herself to murder? Even if she has done it before…
- The Shadow Man (2021) – Elspeth, Meggy, and Xavier are locked in a flat. They don’t know where they are, and they don’t know why they’re there. They only know that the shadow man has taken them, and he won’t let them go. Desperate to escape, the three of them must find a way out of their living hell, even if it means uncovering a very dark truth. Because the shadow man isn’t a nightmare. He’s all too real.
- The Last Girl to Die (2022) – In search of a new life, sixteen-year-old Adriana Clark’s family moves to the ancient, ocean-battered Isle of Mull, far off the coast of Scotland. Then she goes missing. Faced with hostile locals and indifferent police, her desperate parents turn to private investigator Sadie Levesque. Sadie is the best at what she does. But when she finds Adriana’s body in a cliffside cave, a seaweed crown carefully arranged on her head, she knows she’s dealing with something she’s never encountered before. The deeper she digs into the island’s secrets, the closer danger creeps – and the more urgent her quest to find the killer grows. Because what if Adriana is not the last girl to die?
- The Institution (2023) – On a locked ward in the world’s highest-security prison hospital, a scream shatters the night. The next morning, a nurse’s body is found and her daughter has been taken. A ransom must be paid, and the clock is ticking. Forensic profiler Dr Connie Woolwine is renowned for her ability to get inside the mind of a murderer. Now, she must go deep undercover among the most deranged and dangerous men on earth and use her unique skills to find the girl – before it’s too late. But as the walls close in around her, can Connie get the killer before The Institution gets her?
- Profile K (2024) – Midnight Jones is an analyst trained to understand the human mind. But everything changes when, in the course of her work, she discovers Profile K’s file – because K stands for killer, and she knows that someone more dangerous than she could have ever imagined walks among them. Midnight knows what Profile K is capable of before he even commits his first crime. But as the news rolls with the brutal murder of a local woman, no one believes what she tells them: that he’s capable of so much more.
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- Degrees of Guilt (2019) – Maria is on trial for attempted murder. She has confessed to the crime and wanted her husband dead. Lottie is on the jury, trying to decide her fate. She embarks on an illicit affair with a stranger, and her husband can never find out. You will think you know who is guilty and who is innocent. You will be wrong.
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