Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Death on the Marais / Rocco and the Echoes of War | 2011 | Adrian Magson | Buy |
| 2 | Death on the Rive Nord | 2011 | Adrian Magson | N/A |
| 3 | Death on the Rive Nord / Rocco and the Stranger | 2011 | Adrian Magson | Buy |
| 4 | Death on the Pont Noir / Rocco and the Black Bridge | 2012 | Adrian Magson | Buy |
| 5 | Death at the Clos Du Lac / Rocco and the Lake of Secrets | 2013 | Adrian Magson | Buy |
| 6 | Death at the Clos du Lac: 4 | 2013 | Adrian Magson | N/A |
| 7 | Rocco and the Snow Angel | 2015 | Adrian Magson | N/A |
| 8 | Rocco and the Nightingale | 2017 | Adrian Magson | Buy |
| 9 | Rocco and the Price of Lies | 2019 | Adrian Magson | Buy |
| 10 | Death at the Old Asylum | 2021 | Adrian Magson | Buy |
| 11 | Death on the Marais | 2011 | Adrian Magson | N/A |
| 12 | Death on the Pont Noir | 2012 | Adrian Magson | N/A |
| 13 | Death at the Clos Du Lac | 2013 | Adrian Magson | N/A |
Inspector Lucas Rocco is Adrian Magson’s most popular creation, and for good reason. The series drops a tough Parisian detective into the muddy, quiet countryside of Picardy in the early 1960s, where he has to solve crimes while navigating a community still scarred by the German Occupation. The first book, Death on the Marais, sets the tone when the discovery of a young woman’s body in a Gestapo uniform brings wartime secrets rushing back to the surface.
Over thirteen books, Magson builds a rich world around Rocco and his colleagues. The 1960s French setting gives the series a distinctive atmosphere, and the procedural detail is strong without slowing the stories down. Rocco himself is a straightforward, no-nonsense investigator, but his fish-out-of-water status in rural France adds a layer of tension and dry humor to every case. Readers who enjoy atmospheric crime fiction in the tradition of Maigret will find this series well worth their time.