Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Killing Pit | 2021 | Wes Markin | Buy |
| 2 | Fire in Bone | 2021 | Wes Markin | Buy |
| 3 | Fire in Bone: A Jake Pettman Thriller | 2021 | Wes Markin | N/A |
| 4 | Blue Falls | 2021 | Wes Markin | Buy |
| 5 | The Rotten Core | 2022 | Wes Markin | Buy |
| 6 | Rock and a Hard Place | 2022 | Wes Markin | Buy |
The Jake Pettman series launched in 2021 with The Killing Pit and ran six books through Rock and a Hard Place in 2022. The series is Markin’s second detective creation, following the DCI Yorke books, and features a grittier tone suggested by titles like The Killing Pit, Fire in Bone, and The Rotten Core.
Markin published all six Jake Pettman books within two years, keeping the momentum high. The cases take Pettman into communities where violence and corruption run beneath the surface, and the detective has to dig through layers of deception to find the truth. The compact series tells a complete story in half a dozen installments.