Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Fireraisers | 2019 | Malcolm Archibald | Buy |
| 2 | The Atlantic Street Murder | 2020 | Malcolm Archibald | Buy |
| 3 | Murdered On The 13th | 2021 | Malcolm Archibald | Buy |
| 4 | The Scuttlers | 2021 | Malcolm Archibald | Buy |
| 5 | Not A Pukka Gentleman | 2022 | Malcolm Archibald | Buy |
| 6 | A Carriage For Lochee | 2022 | Malcolm Archibald | Buy |
| 7 | The Broughty Ferry Murder | 2024 | Malcolm Archibald | Buy |
The Detective Watters series is Malcolm Archibald’s Victorian crime fiction, set in 19th-century Dundee. Watters is a police detective working in a city shaped by the jute industry, poverty, and the rough edges of industrial Scotland. The Fireraisers (2019) opened the series, and seven books have followed, each presenting a different criminal case in the same atmospheric setting.
The series brings Dundee’s Victorian past to life with the kind of historical detail that marks all of Archibald’s work. The crimes are grounded in the social realities of the period, from arson and murder to the less visible crimes born of desperation.