Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Noir from the Bar |
2020 |
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DI Meg Dalton Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Devil’s Dice |
2018 |
Buy |
| Dead Man’s Daughter |
2019 |
Buy |
| Cut to the Bone |
2020 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Red House |
2023 |
Buy |
Roz Watkins studied Engineering and the History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge before training as a patent lawyer — a background that gives her crime fiction a precision and analytical quality that suits the mystery genre well. She now lives in Cornwall and works as a Royal Literary Fund fellow at the University of Exeter.
Her DI Meg Dalton series is set in Derbyshire’s Peak District, a landscape of limestone gorges, lead mines, and small communities where old superstitions and modern crimes coexist. Meg Dalton is a detective with attitude and enough personal complications to keep the series interesting beyond the individual cases. The series ran to three books between 2018 and 2020 before Watkins moved to a standalone thriller, The Red House, in 2023.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Roz Watkins written?
Roz Watkins has written five books across three series.
What was Roz Watkins's first book?
Roz Watkins’s first book is The Devil’s Dice, published in 2018.
Has Roz Watkins won any crime fiction awards?
Her debut, The Devil’s Dice, was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger Award and was the Times Crime Book of the Month. It was also optioned for TV adaptation.