DI Mariner Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Worm in the Bud / Deadly Lies | 2004 | Buy |
| Blood of the Innocents / Innocent Lies | 2005 | Buy |
| Written in Blood / Killer Lies | 2006 | Buy |
| Blood Money / Baby Lies | 2007 | Buy |
| Stalked by Shadows / Married Lies | 2009 | Buy |
| Blood and Stone / Buried Lies | 2013 | Buy |
| Dead of Night / Missing Lies | 2015 | Buy |
| A Good Death | 2017 | Buy |
| Midnight Lies | 2022 | Buy |
The DI Mariner series is solid British police procedural fiction centred on a detective working in and around Birmingham. Tom Mariner is presented as a capable, emotionally complex investigator, and the books pay attention to how the personal and professional overlap in the lives of working detectives. Many of the earlier titles were published under two different names in the UK and US markets, which explains the slash-separated entries in the reading order.
The series ran from 2004 to 2022 with a gap between 2015 and 2017, and the later books show a maturing of the central character as his career and personal circumstances change. Readers who like the feel of mid-tier British crime fiction, procedural in structure but character-led in execution, will find this series fits comfortably alongside writers like Nick Oldham or Quintin Jardine.