Two detective series. Two very different worlds. London cold cases with DS Tom Dunn. West Sussex mysteries with DI Miriam Lacey.
Atmospheric police procedurals, buried histories, flawed people and the moment an old truth finally refuses to stay hidden.
One series lives in London’s old case files. The other moves through the estates, cathedral streets, rivers and Downs of West Sussex.
DS Tom Dunn and Grace Okenwa follow crimes that were supposed to remain buried, from a 1996 Hackney disappearance to Bermondsey and a final reckoning in Covent Garden.
See the trilogyA different landscape and a different detective. Miriam Lacey’s cases move from the shadows of Wickham Hall to Chichester and the River Arun, where local history has a habit of becoming evidence.
Meet Miriam’s casesStart in Hackney with Tom Dunn, or step into West Sussex with Miriam Lacey.
The Dunn Protocols · complete trilogy · available now
When remains are found beneath a Hackney construction site, a 1996 disappearance is reopened by new evidence. For DS Tom Dunn, the cold case soon becomes painfully personal.
An anonymous file, a photograph and three dates pull Dunn and Grace into a forgotten investigation and the people who had every reason to keep it forgotten.
The death of an archivist at 47 Long Acre is ruled suicide. Dunn and Grace follow the evidence into institutional silence, protected compromises and the trilogy’s final reckoning.
West Sussex · a new series
The first Miriam Lacey mystery opens the door on a very different kind of case, where an old Sussex estate and the secrets carried through it refuse to stay in the past.
A Chichester investigation built around a tight circle of suspects, shifting explanations and a city whose history provides more than atmosphere.
A body in the River Arun. A missing girl from 1982. One old medal linking two stories that should never have touched. Miriam’s next case begins in Arundel.
The locations are not wallpaper. London and West Sussex shape the cases, the atmosphere and the people moving through them.
“The past is never just backstory. Eventually, somebody has to answer for it.”
Jordan Turner has been writing fiction for years, developing the characters, cases and worlds that now form the backbone of his crime novels. Only recently has he begun bringing that work to a wider audience.
His fiction is built around cold cases, buried secrets and the consequences of the past refusing to stay buried. The Tom Dunn series moves through London’s forgotten investigations; the DI Miriam Lacey mysteries shift the lens to West Sussex, where old estates, cathedral streets and river towns carry histories of their own.
The two series are deliberately different in texture, but they share the same engine: character first, atmosphere that matters, and mysteries designed to keep changing shape until the final pages.
Start with Blood Match, explore the full Tom Dunn trilogy, or follow the DI Miriam Lacey mysteries as the West Sussex series grows.