Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Devil’s Dice | 2018 | Roz Watkins | Buy |
| 2 | Dead Man’s Daughter | 2019 | Roz Watkins | Buy |
| 3 | Cut to the Bone | 2020 | Roz Watkins | Buy |
The Devil’s Dice opens the series with a murder staged around an old Peak District superstition, and the setting’s particular combination of natural beauty and rural bleakness runs through all three books. Meg Dalton is a detective who brings personal complications to her work — she’s not a stock procedural protagonist — and Watkins uses the landscape to reflect her character’s internal state as well as the external investigation.
Dead Man’s Daughter (2019) and Cut to the Bone (2020) continue the series with the same atmospheric precision, each rooted in a different corner of the Peak District’s landscape and history. The series was shortlisted for multiple awards and optioned for television, recognizing both the strength of Watkins’s plotting and the appeal of her setting.