Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salt in the Wounds | 2020 | Mark Richards | Buy |
| 2 | The River Runs Deep | 2021 | Mark Richards | Buy |
| 3 | The Echo of Bones | 2021 | Mark Richards | Buy |
| 4 | Choke Back the Tears | 2022 | Mark Richards | Buy |
| 5 | The Edge of Truth | 2023 | Mark Richards | Buy |
| 6 | The Hanged Woman | 2023 | Mark Richards | Buy |
The Michael Brady series began in 2020 with Salt in the Wounds and established a crime fiction world grounded in the Yorkshire coast and the emotional weight of its characters. Brady is a detective whose cases tend to arrive tangled in personal histories, and the books move through dark territory without losing sight of the human damage that violence leaves behind.
The series ran to six novels over four years. The River Runs Deep, The Echo of Bones, Choke Back the Tears, The Edge of Truth, and The Hanged Woman followed the debut at steady pace, each adding to the picture of Brady as a detective and a man. Richards keeps the plots tight and the atmosphere specific to its northern English setting.
Readers who want more between the main novels have three short stories and novellas to turn to: The Scars Don’t Show, Crossing the White Line, and The Ghost of Grape Lane, all published in 2021 and 2022.