Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths books in order

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths is a 24-volume non-fiction true crime series by M.J. Trow, covering murders and suspicious deaths across British towns and cities from 2004 to 2017. Each volume focuses on a specific location, examining historical cases in detail.

Reading order

# Title Published Author Buy on Amazon
1 Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Bradford 2005 M.J. Trow Buy
2 Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths In & Around Scunthorpe 2005 M.J. Trow Buy
3 Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Liverpool 2006 M.J. Trow Buy
4 Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Ealing 2006 M.J. Trow Buy
5 Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Guernsey 2006 M.J. Trow Buy
6 Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Grimsby & Cleethorpes 2007 M.J. Trow Buy
7 Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Barking, Dagenham & Chadwell Heath 2007 M.J. Trow Buy
8 Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Rochdale 2007 M.J. Trow N/A
9 Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths In & Around Southend-on-Sea 2007 M.J. Trow Buy
10 Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Dublin 2008 M.J. Trow Buy
11 Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Suffolk 2008 M.J. Trow Buy
12 Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Jersey 2008 M.J. Trow Buy
13 Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Shrewsbury and Around Shropshire 2008 M.J. Trow Buy
14 Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Uxbridge 2008 M.J. Trow Buy
15 Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Glasgow 2009 M.J. Trow Buy
16 Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in the Isle of Wight 2009 M.J. Trow Buy
17 Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Swansea 2009 M.J. Trow Buy
18 Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths around Northampton 2017 M.J. Trow Buy
19 Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Halifax 2004 M.J. Trow Buy
20 Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Bolton 2005 M.J. Trow Buy
21 Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Lewisham & Deptford 2007 M.J. Trow Buy
22 Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Cardiff 2009 M.J. Trow Buy
23 Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Doncaster 2010 M.J. Trow Buy
24 Foul Deeds in Richmond and Kingston 2010 M.J. Trow Buy

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths is a non-fiction series in which M.J. Trow examines historical murders and crimes location by location across Britain. Each volume covers a specific town, city, or region — Bradford, Liverpool, Guernsey, Dublin, Glasgow, and many others — drawing on local records, court documents, and newspaper archives to reconstruct cases that range from Victorian-era poisonings to twentieth-century crimes.

The format is consistent across all 24 volumes: a collection of essays on individual cases from the featured location, written with the clear prose and narrative instinct Trow brings to both his fiction and his broader historical non-fiction. The series covers England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, giving it a genuinely national scope.

Because each book is self-contained, readers with an interest in a particular place can go directly to that volume. The series ran from 2004 to 2017 and reflects Trow’s sustained interest in the gap between how crimes are officially recorded and how they actually unfolded.


Frequently Asked Questions

How many books are in the Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths series?

There are 24 books in the Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths series, published between 2004 and 2017.

What is the first book in the Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths series?

The first book in the Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths series is Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Bradford, published in 2005.

Do the Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths volumes need to be read in any order?

No. Each volume covers a different British town or region and stands entirely on its own. You can start with any location that interests you — the series is organized by geography, not chronology.

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