POLICE CRIME SERIES

The New Forest Murders

DCI Elinor Saxby seeks a quiet end to a harrowing career in the English New Forest, only to find a defiant CID team and a string of complex murders.

BOOK 1 | JUNE 2026

Book cover titled 'Death in the New Forest' by Linda Mather, featuring a landscape with a pathway, trees, and a white horse at sunset.

Death in the New Forest

DCI Elinor Saxby is nearing the end of a high-powered but, at times, harrowing police career when she moves from her city centre force to leading a CID team in the beautiful English New Forest. But if she expected a quiet time of it, she’s soon disappointed. She faces a super-smart young DC, who knows all the rules and breaks most of them, a CID team with a bad reputation and a murder inquiry.

What authors are saying

“A delightful blend of suspense and rural cosy mystery, reminiscent of Ruth Rendell's Inspector Wexford tales, with a storyline as twisty as a path through the shadowy New Forest.”

— DANIEL SELLERS, AUTHOR OF THE KNAPDALE MURDERS