TIMELINE
156 Provost Company - 2000 to 2003
Lance Jack (Book 1) - Coming Soon
The Queen's Regulations (Book 2) - TBC
Op PALATINE (Book 3) - TBC
Nineteen-year-old Lance Corporal Henry Knox arrives at his first Royal Military Police posting determined to prove that he belongs. Under the guidance of experienced corporal James Webster, he begins learning the realities of policing a garrison town where rank, loyalty and reputation can matter more than the truth.
When a young female soldier accuses a respected Parachute Regiment sergeant of sexual assault, Knox expects the evidence to lead somewhere. Instead, witnesses close ranks, accounts change and the investigation stalls. Then an anonymous letter suggests that the allegation is not an isolated incident.
As the Millennium approaches and Colchester fills with soldiers preparing to celebrate, Knox is drawn deeper into a pattern he can recognise but cannot prove. When violence finally erupts on New Year’s Eve, he must decide how far he is prepared to go—and what he is willing to carry—when the system cannot deliver justice.
A soldier is left battered after weeks of rumours about his sexuality. His unit calls it drunken horseplay. The victim refuses to complain. The rules may have changed, but inside the barracks, the culture has not.
Ordered to keep the matter low-level and avoid anything that could become political, military policeman Henry Knox begins asking questions nobody wants answered. With Webster’s help, he uncovers a pattern hidden beneath routine discipline: anonymous notes, repeated inspections, destroyed kit, transfer requests and minor charges designed to wear one man down.
The assault was not an isolated attack. It was the final stage of a campaign.
But proving it means breaking through silence, fear and a chain of command more concerned with reputation than justice. Then an unexpected witness comes forward—frightened, compromised and carrying secrets of his own.
He may be Knox’s only chance to expose the truth.
And courage inside the Army can make a man a target.
Deployed on Operation Palatine, military policeman Henry Knox expects routine stabilisation work: thefts, assaults, weapons searches and the daily tensions of a country still living with war.
Then a local family approaches through an interpreter. A man linked to wartime disappearances is working near the Banja Luka metal factory under a new identity.
What begins as a minor investigation involving British personnel draws Knox towards the factory’s rusting machinery and echoing workshops, where buried evidence points to something far larger: a hidden war-crimes suspect, a smuggling route and men who have survived by ensuring the past remains undisturbed.
And among the buried dead of Bosnia, there are no neat endings—only the truth that survives and the people left behind to carry it.
150 Provost Company - 2003 to 2005
The Infantry Training School (Book 4) - TBC
Class One (Book 5) - TBC
Op AGRICOLA (Book 6) - TBC
A recruit is left fighting for his life after collapsing during military training. The Army calls it misadventure. A weak young soldier who concealed his symptoms and could not cope with the pressure. But Royal Military Police officer Henry Knox sees something else in the faces of the recruits who witnessed it.
As Knox begins asking questions, he uncovers a regime of punishment hidden behind the language of discipline: sleep deprivation, extra stag, forced exercises, public humiliation and threats designed to silence anyone who falls behind. Medical records have been softened, complaints buried and recruits separated before their stories can align.
Set against the backdrop of the war in Afghanistan, instructors claim they are preparing soldiers for war. Knox suspects they are using it to justify cruelty.
A stolen wallet. An ID card. A respirator. A handful of missing stores. The Army dismisses it as drunken stupidity, but military policeman Henry Knox sees something the victim cannot hide.
Fear.
Similar thefts have taken place across the barracks, usually targeting soldiers about to deploy, transfer or face disciplinary action. What begins with missing property leads Knox towards a blackmail operation built on stolen identities, compromising photographs and access to restricted areas. Local women are being deceived by men using soldiers’ names—and when one of them is assaulted after being lured to a meeting, a petty crime becomes something far more dangerous.
With Knox being a Class One Corporal, it is he who is the mentor now, will he teach his new charge the correct way or will he crumble under the pressure.
A fatal car crash near the border looks like reckless driving on dangerous roads. But Royal Military Police investigator Henry Knox is troubled by the victim’s fear, the vehicle’s hidden cargo and a search dog’s reaction to disturbed ground nearby.
The crash leads to a weapons-smuggling network run by former paramilitary figures who use nationalism to conceal profit, intimidation and murder. Working with a practical dog handler and a politically exposed local investigator, Knox uncovers evidence of torture and a mass grave men believed had been erased.
As unrest spreads and command urges caution, a frightened survivor becomes the key to exposing the network. During a night operation near the border, Knox must choose between pursuing the man responsible and protecting the witness who can reveal the truth.
The villain may escape.
The evidence must not.
Because the dead still need an investigator—and sometimes the truth is all their families will ever receive.
110 Provost Company - 2005 to 2008
Corporal Henry Knox (Book 7) - Coming Soon
Strike Ops (Book 8) - TBC
CPERS (Book 9) - TBC
After a major operation, Corporal Henry Knox is assigned to process detainees inside a temporary holding facility. Property, photographs, injury records and handover notes seem routine—until one prisoner arrives with wounds that do not match the capture report.
Intelligence officers believe a detainee can lead them to an IRGC-linked facilitator and a hidden weapons cache. With British soldiers recently killed, patience is running out and pressure for answers is growing.
Then Knox finds altered timings, missing property, bloodstained cable ties and medical paperwork completed before a prisoner supposedly arrived.
One detainee may be responsible for serious attacks. Another appears to have been swept up by mistake. Knox must protect both the investigation and the men in custody without becoming blind to the threat they may pose.
When the records themselves are placed at risk, Knox is forced to secure a prisoner against his own side. He preserves the truth—but earns the hatred of soldiers who believe he has chosen the enemy over them.
Because once control of custody is lost, control of the truth goes with it.
Newly posted to 110 Provost Company, Corporal Henry Knox is determined to establish himself as an investigator. But Sennelager is a closed world of mess politics, married quarters, German police liaison and soldiers struggling to leave Iraq behind.
A series of assaults draws Knox towards a tight-knit PWRR section recently returned from combat. They intimidate witnesses, lie for one another and treat the garrison as another hostile territory where ordinary rules no longer apply.
As the violence escalates, the charming Michael Henley shows Knox how inconvenient casefiles can simply disappear. Then a routine investigation turns deadly, and Knox is forced to confront the cost of corruption, loyalty—and his own lack of preparation.
To expose the men responsible, Knox must challenge soldiers who believe surviving war has placed them beyond judgement.
But courage is not enough when you arrive without the equipment to save a friend.
Iraq, 2006. after an attack on British personnel, Corporal Henry Knox is attached to an intelligence-led strike operation hunting an Iranian facilitator who supplies militia cells with money, weapons and bomb components.
The target never pulls the trigger himself. He hides behind couriers, family homes and local men willing—or forced—to take the risk for him.
When the first compound search finds nothing, the team prepares to move on. Knox does not. Fresh plaster, missing dust, concealed phone cards and a frightened child suggest the house is hiding more than its occupants admit.
The details expose a network of safe houses, money handlers and cross-border contacts, but the facilitator remains one step ahead. As the hunt closes around him, Knox must distinguish between those supporting the militia and those trapped beneath its control.
Knox cannot match the strike team’s speed or firepower. He earns his place by seeing what direct action misses.
Because kicking down the right door means nothing unless you understand what lies behind it.
Operation TELIC (Book 10) - TBC
Make Safe (Book 11) - Out Now
Patrolling the border between Iraq and Iran, Corporal Henry Knox understands that raids, detainees, intelligence and evidence are all parts of the same war.
When his patrol uncovers proof of weapons being moved to Shia militia cells, the trail leads back to an IRGC-linked facilitator Knox has hunted before. Command wants the incident contained. Intelligence wants the network mapped without exposing its sources. A local JAM commander offers information—but every truth comes wrapped in a lie.
When a patrol goes wrong, Knox must move through hostile territory across the Iranian border. Cut off in hostile territory, their only protection is a battered Land Rover already pushed beyond its limits.
To get home, Knox must trust his preparation, protect a source wanted by every side and recover evidence powerful men would rather lose.
He may expose the route.
He cannot stop the network behind it.
Because borders are only lines on maps—and the cleanest briefing is often the first lie.
A Rifleman is dead. A Sergeant stands accused. Corporal Henry Knox was the first Royal Military Police NCO on the scene.
Eight months later, Knox is pulled out of Iraq and sent back to Germany to give evidence at a court martial. He expects to speak only to the events of a live-fire exercise in Poland.
But once he is in the witness box, the case begins to widen. What he wrote down at the time no longer seems to be enough. What he missed matters just as much. And as the court turns over the days leading up to the shooting, Knox is forced to confront the limits of his own evidence — and the uneasy possibility that the death was never as straightforward as it first appeared.
Make Safe is a Henry Knox novella: a taut military story of duty, memory, and the weight of small details inside a system built to contain them.
Service Police Crime Bureau - 2008
DEMETER (Book 12) - TBC
The Cashe (Book 13) - TBC
At SPCB, Henry Knox trades border patrols and battlefield investigations for intelligence-led raids on soldiers absent without leave. Operation DEMETER begins with phone records, family connections, old girlfriends and dawn arrests. Working alongside James Webster again, Knox learns that finding a fugitive depends less on force than on recognising the habits people leave behind.
Then one case refuses to fit.
The missing soldier has vanished too carefully. His mother is lying, his possessions have been sold, and every trace suggests a man hiding from more than deployment. Following a trail of prescriptions, debts and missed appointments, Knox uncovers an allegation his unit chose not to investigate.
The arrest team wants the soldier detained and processed. Knox wants to know what made him run.
To expose the truth, he must look beyond the offence of absence and confront the crime concealed behind it.
Because the raid is only the final sentence of a story written in data, fear and silence.
A cache of child abuse images is discovered inside the military unit responsible for investigating serious crime. Everyone had access. Every suspect understands procedure. Files can be copied, drives exchanged and digital records manipulated. As investigators turn on one another, senior officers become as concerned with containing the scandal as identifying the offender.
Henry Knox is experienced enough to recognise a lie, but unprepared for a case that contaminates every familiar face. He accepts one technical explanation too easily and places his trust in the wrong person. Even James Webster, his closest ally, cannot be placed beyond suspicion.
With the obvious suspect beginning to look like a diversion, Knox searches beyond usernames and timestamps. Someone knew about the evidence before they should have. Someone steered the investigation away from the truth. And someone inside SPCB understands the system well enough to defeat it.
To expose the offender, Knox must distrust the expertise surrounding him—and accept that evil can sit inside the office created to investigate it.
158 Provost Company - 2009 - 2011
Sergeant Knox (Book 13) - TBC
Married Quarters (Book 14) - TBC
Newly promoted Sergeant Henry Knox arrives at a garrison living in Afghanistan’s shadow.
When a domestic incident in married quarters is dismissed as a soldier struggling to readjust, Knox sees something more dangerous: a frightened partner, escalating violence and weapons kept inside the home.
As commanders try to contain the problem before it affects deployment, Knox uncovers a pattern of welfare concerns ignored to protect reputations. The soldier may be damaged by war, but Knox knows that cannot excuse the threat he poses to his family.
With Catheryn back in his life and a young corporal looking to him for leadership, Knox must act before the crisis becomes an armed standoff.
The battlefield has come home—and Knox must protect those trapped in its aftermath.
Sergeant Henry Knox is building a future with Catheryn when a frightened young Army wife confides in her about the violence inside her home.
Her husband is popular, deployable and protected by officers who insist she is unstable. Within the married quarters, gossip and social status prove as effective as official pressure in keeping her silent.
Catheryn urges Knox to be careful. The mess dinners, friendships and wives’ networks surrounding the case could soon become their world.
But Knox cannot ignore what he knows.
As his personal and professional lives collide, he must earn the victim’s trust before procedure frightens her away—and confront a culture determined to make criminal violence look like a private marriage problem.
Catheryn wants Knox to choose their future.
The victim needs him to choose the truth.
Blue on Blue (Book 15) - TBC
A soldier is killed during a live-fire training exercise. Sergeant Henry Knox finds inconsistent timings, missing ammunition and witnesses too frightened to speak.
The training chain wants the incident closed before it threatens deployment readiness, while an ambitious major insists that unavoidable risk comes with preparing for war.
Only one young soldier can expose what really happened—but telling the truth could destroy his place in the platoon.
Catheryn warns Knox that he cannot challenge every officer who stands in his way. Knox knows negligence does not become fate simply because the paperwork says so.
Safety rules are written in blood.
Someone chose to ignore them.
111 Provost Company - 2013 to 2015
Staffy (Book 16) - TBC
Rebasing (Book 17) - TBC
Presumption of Silence (Book 18) - Out Now
Newly promoted Staff Sergeant Henry Knox arrives in Hohne as Britain’s German garrisons begin to empty.
When drugs are found after a routine incident, Knox uncovers a smuggling route exploiting military vehicles, cross-border travel and complacent security. The trail leads towards a senior NCO whose operational value has protected him from suspicion—and soldiers using the Army’s movements to conceal civilian crime.
But the investigation is not the only thing crossing borders.
Knox has married Catheryn, yet she refuses to follow him to Germany and wants him to pursue a future in Aldershot. As distance, ambition and resentment grow between them, Knox buries himself in a case built on the same weaknesses: separation, boredom and lives beginning to fracture.
The garrison is closing. The criminals are adapting.
And Knox is about to learn that a marriage can become another unattended scene.
As British units prepare to leave Germany, military equipment begins disappearing behind disposal records, contractor movements and careless accounting.
Staff Sergeant Henry Knox is told the losses are an inevitable part of rebasing. Then suspicion falls on a young soldier with debts and no future in the Army.
Knox believes he is being used.
Working with a German civilian witness, he follows the paperwork nobody else considers important and uncovers valuable stores being stolen under the cover of transition. The trail leads towards men who understand that an organisation preparing to move rarely watches what is leaving through the back door.
With Catheryn increasingly frustrated by their separation and his lack of a promotion plan, Knox faces disorder in both his career and marriage.
The Army is moving on.
Somebody intends to profit before it goes..
One crime scene. Two deadly secrets. Forty-eight hours of total isolation.
In the brutal winter of 2013, in Fallingbostel, Germany, six feet of snow has done more than just bury the Royal Military Police station, it has cut off all backup. When a young soldier is found dead in his room, Staff Sergeant Henry Knox is the only man on the ground to handle the investigation.
The victim, Corporal John Reynolds, was the unit’s recent Army Sports lottery winner. At first glance, it looks like a simple case of greed turned lethal. But as Knox and a local SOCO navigate the icy silence of a regiment closing ranks, they uncover a web of blackmail reaching into the highest echelons of the unit’s leadership.
Knox quickly learns that in the Army, truth is often a casualty of reputation, whereKnox must act as investigator, patrol, and judge. In a world where loyalty is a weapon and everyone has something to hide, Knox must decide how far he’s willing to overstep the mark to catch a killer before the snow thaws and the evidence vanishes forever.
Op HERRICK (Book 20) - TBC
The war is ending. The containers are packed, patrols are shrinking, and everyone at the FOB is counting the days until they leave.
Then an Afghan interpreter is murdered.
Staff Sergeant Henry Knox discovers the victim had warned British command that someone inside the local security forces was selling the names of those who had helped them. But the handover must continue, and Captain Owen Vale wants no investigation capable of delaying the withdrawal or exposing another broken promise.
Working with Farid Rahimi, an interpreter who no longer trusts British assurances, Knox follows conflicting patrol reports, ignored warnings and intelligence written with more certainty than truth.
The trail leads towards a compromised Afghan commander, a patient insurgent network and a living witness marked for death.
Knox can close the case neatly—or break orders to save the person everyone else is preparing to abandon.
He may uncover the truth.
The British will still leave.
And to those left behind, withdrawal can look a lot like betrayal.
160 Provost Company - 2015 - 2017
Warrant (Book 21) - TBC
The Rat Race (Book 22) - TBC
Promoted to WO2, Henry Knox finally has the rank, authority and status Catheryn always wanted for him.
Then a group of soldiers collectively refuses an order.
Command calls it a misunderstanding caused by poor communication and welfare pressure. Knox finds something more serious: concealed phones, coordinated messages, agreed excuses and junior soldiers intimidated into joining a planned act of defiance.
If he is right, discipline has fractured in the home of the British Army.
Knox builds a case he believes cannot be ignored. But legal officers and senior commanders see the risks of prosecution: weak witnesses, public embarrassment and the possibility of turning the accused into martyrs.
The evidence remains. The offence is quietly reduced.
As the men responsible receive minor punishments, Knox discovers that rank does not provide the power he imagined—and the law is useless when those entrusted with it are afraid to act.
Catheryn wants him to accept the decision and aim for WO1.
Knox is no longer certain he wants to play the game.
When a case collapses on WO2 Henry Knox’s watch, the evidence appears to confirm what his critics have always believed: he bends rules, cuts corners and trusts his judgement over procedure.
But Knox suspects the failure was engineered.
His rival, Jason Mercer, has not fabricated a single decisive lie. He has redirected paperwork, delayed messages and used Knox’s own reputation to make every mistake appear credible. By the time Knox understands the attack, the institution is no longer questioning the case.
It is questioning him.
As an internal investigation threatens his career, Catheryn gives birth to their daughter, Sophie. Knox wants to protect his new family, but his fight to clear his name pulls him away when they need him most.
Knox may prove enough to survive.
He will not emerge unscathed.
Because people do not need to defeat you when they can make everyone else doubt you.
Mutiny (Book 23) - TBC
When a local woman accuses British soldiers of rape during a training exercise, the response is immediate: misunderstanding, consent, money, no proof.
WO2 Henry Knox has heard it all before.
Working through dust, heat and conflicting jurisdictions, Knox uncovers rumours of threats, payments and other women silenced by the power surrounding the British camp. The accused NCO is respected and popular. The only soldier willing to challenge him risks being branded a traitor by his own unit.
But the woman at the centre of the case refuses to become either a helpless victim or a convenient witness. With the exercise commander determined to contain the allegations before the unit returns home, Knox must secure the evidence before reputation matters more than justice.
The victims do not wear British uniforms.
Knox intends to prove that should make no difference.
Cyprus Joint Police Unit - 2018 to 2021
Out of Bounds (Book 24) - TBC
Heat Injury (Book 25) - TBC
Resettlement (Book 26) - TBC
WO2 Henry Knox has finally found something close to peace: sun, routine and time with his family.
Catheryn sees only a career standing still.
Then an injured woman is found near a base road, drawing Knox into a network exploiting trafficked workers through clubs, cleaning jobs and manufactured debt. A British soldier is helping the criminals with transport, warnings and access to the military community.
Working with a sceptical Cypriot police liaison, Knox follows the case from tourist strips and beaches to service corridors and respectable homes. The deeper he looks, the clearer it becomes that the island’s beauty has made too many people careless.
Knox can expose the military connection, but the wider network is deeply embedded.
At home, Catheryn recognises the familiar pattern. Even in paradise, Knox finds darkness—and walks towards it.
Because evil does not need a war zone.
It only needs opportunity and people willing to look away.
When a young soldier collapses during extreme heat, the Army blames poor fitness, dehydration and concealed symptoms.
WO2 Henry Knox recognises the language immediately.
Nearly twenty years after investigating abuse at Catterick, he uncovers the same cruelty beneath new excuses: unofficial punishment, exhausting physical activity, delayed water and medical help withheld to avoid scrutiny.
The NCO responsible insists standards must be maintained. A frightened witness knows the truth but fears being blamed for failing to intervene.
As restrictions, isolation and resentment strain both the garrison and Knox’s marriage, he becomes determined to prove that the soldier did not simply fail.
The system failed him.
Knox can expose the men responsible, but the official response retreats into familiar phrases: lessons identified, welfare review, training culture.
Institutions do not learn by themselves.
And Catheryn is no longer certain she can live with the cost of Knox forcing them to.
After more than twenty years in the Royal Military Police, Henry Knox leaves the Army believing he knows exactly what comes next.
He will become a private investigator.
Civilian employers see an awkward veteran with no commercial experience. His first clients offer surveillance work, dishonest spouses and disputes built on lies. Nobody cares what rank he held, and some want his intimidation rather than his judgement.
Then Knox takes a missing-person case whose client has concealed the truth.
As he follows timelines, vehicles and contradictions overlooked by everyone else, Knox discovers that his old skills still matter. People still disappear between systems. Victims still hide inside other people’s stories.
At home, Catheryn has finally had enough. The Army held their marriage together long after the relationship had begun to fail, and without it Knox must face what his obsession with protecting strangers has cost Sophie and her mother.
He leaves with no rank, no certainty and almost no family life.
But he keeps the notebook, the boots, the Land Rover and the instincts that made him dangerous.
The Army no longer defines Henry Knox.
The people nobody else will help might.
Veteran - 2022 Forward
Stand To (Book 27) - Out Now
Protegimus (Book 28) - Out Now
An old man. A frightened street. A gang that picked the wrong house.
When Henry Knox is called to Kipling Street, he expects a damaged door, a scared pensioner, and another case that has slipped between police, social services, and everyone else who was supposed to help.
What he finds is George Alderson: seventy-eight years old, recently widowed, living alone with early dementia, and trying to hold on to the last pieces of his life. His home has been robbed. His wife’s jewellery has been taken. His door has been kicked in more than once. And the men responsible are coming back.
As the threats close in and the street watches from behind curtains, Knox makes a decision that will protect George for one night and put himself on the wrong side of almost every rule that matters.
Because Kipling Street has learned to stay silent.
Henry Knox has not.
Protegimus: Latin for “We Protect.”
It’s the motto of the Royal Military Police Close Protection Unit. But for former RMP officer turned private investigator Henry Knox, those words have become a warning.
When his closest friend is found dead under suspicious circumstances, Knox is drawn into a lethal conspiracy reaching deep into the military ranks he once served. The deeper he digs, the clearer the truth becomes: someone is preparing to turn Britain into a war zone.
Knox Investigations (Book 29) - Out Now
Henry Knox is back, having survived Protegimus.
Trying to step out of the spotlight cast on him after York, Knox takes what should be a routine surveillance job, only to find himself in the wrong place at exactly the wrong time. Two detectives are discovered executed on an industrial estate, drugs planted to tarnish their names, while a covert investigation into the abuse of teenage girls is already being quietly buried.
As the official story closes in and the real killers remain at large, Knox is drawn into a brutal conspiracy of trafficking, corruption, and murder. To uncover the truth, he’ll have to work off the books, trust all the wrong people, and risk becoming the next body left behind.
For readers who like their thrillers tense, emotional, and sharply realistic, Knox Investigations delivers a wounded hero, a ruthless conspiracy, and a case that cuts far closer to home than Knox can afford.
The Satanic Mills (Book 30) - TBC
When Henry Knox is hired to find a missing person linked to a murder scene, the police see him as useful—but expendable.
Knox sees what they have missed.
As more bodies are discovered, he uncovers a pattern connecting the victims and a killer who has remained hidden behind official assumptions. The police dismiss his warnings, underestimate his determination and continue using him to reach places their investigation cannot.
By the time they accept Knox was right, the killer is already preparing to strike again.
The truth is finally within reach.
But it may be too late to save the next victim.
