Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Impurity | 2016 | Ray Clark | Buy |
| 2 | Imperfection | 2017 | Ray Clark | Buy |
| 3 | Implant | 2018 | Ray Clark | Buy |
| 4 | Impression | 2020 | Ray Clark | Buy |
| 5 | Imposition | 2020 | Ray Clark | Buy |
| 6 | Imposture | 2021 | Ray Clark | Buy |
| 7 | Impassive | 2021 | Ray Clark | Buy |
| 8 | Impious | 2022 | Ray Clark | Buy |
| 9 | Implication | 2022 | Ray Clark | Buy |
| 10 | Impunity | 2023 | Ray Clark | Buy |
| 11 | Impaled | 2024 | Ray Clark | Buy |
| 12 | Improper | 2024 | Ray Clark | Buy |
| 13 | Bones on the Yorkshire Moors | 2026 | Ray Clark | Buy |
The Gardener and Reilly series is a British crime fiction series by Ray Clark set in and around Leeds, Yorkshire. DI Stewart Gardener leads murder investigations while carrying the burden of his wife’s unsolved death. His partner DS Sean Reilly, a Belfast native, brings sharp instincts and gallows humor to their cases.
Clark began the series in 2016 with Impurity and maintained a distinctive naming pattern — every title starts with “Imp-” — through 12 books. The 2026 entry, Bones on the Yorkshire Moors, breaks the convention. Each novel presents a self-contained murder case with its own twists, while the personal lives of both detectives develop across the series.
The books are published by The Book Folks and have drawn a following among readers of British procedural crime fiction. Clark writes with a focus on Yorkshire atmosphere and character-driven investigations rather than forensic detail.