Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Fells | 2024 | Cath Staincliffe | Buy |
| 2 | Fire on the Fells | 2025 | Cath Staincliffe | Buy |
Detectives Donovan and Young investigate crimes in the remote fell country of northern England. Cath Staincliffe launched this series with The Fells in 2024, followed by Fire on the Fells in 2025. The rural setting marks a departure from the urban Manchester backdrop of her earlier police procedurals, and the isolation of the landscape adds its own complications to the detective work.
The books pair two detectives with contrasting styles and backgrounds as they work cases in a part of England where communities are small and everyone knows everyone else. Staincliffe uses the harsh, open terrain to create atmosphere and to shape the kinds of crimes that occur. It is a newer series, and readers familiar with her Scott & Bailey or Janine Lewis novels will find the same attention to character and procedure, now transplanted to a very different part of the country.