Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mercy Killing | 2016 | Lisa Cutts | Buy |
| 2 | Buried Secrets | 2017 | Lisa Cutts | Buy |
| 3 | Lost Lives | 2018 | Lisa Cutts | Buy |
| 4 | Don’t Trust Him | 2020 | Lisa Cutts | Buy |
Lisa Cutts is a serving detective constable in the Kent Police who writes crime fiction based on her real-world experience in criminal investigations. Her standalone novels bring an insider’s perspective to the genre that most crime writers can only approximate.
Mercy Killing (2016), Buried Secrets (2017), Lost Lives (2018), and Don’t Trust Him (2020) are all self-contained crime thrillers that can be read in any order. Each explores different aspects of police work and criminal behavior, with the procedural details grounded in Cutts’s daily professional life.
Cutts’s books appeal to readers who want their crime fiction to feel authentic rather than glamorized. The investigations are messy, the detectives are overworked, and the cases don’t always wrap up neatly, just as in the real world.