PETER GRAINGER
Official Website of the author of the million-selling DC Smith Investigation Series
Some Sort of Justice
One sale 4th June 2026
BOOKS
The DC Smith & Kings Lake Investigation Series
Welcome to the homepage for the DC Smith and Kings Lake stories. Despite the different subtitles, they comprise just one series, and are best read in the following order:
AN ACCIDENTAL DEATH
PERSONS OF INTEREST
TIME AND TIDE
ON EDEN STREET
MISSING PIECES
BUT FOR THE GRACE
IN THIS BRIGHT FUTURE
A PRIVATE INVESTIGATION
ROXANNE
THE CAMERA MAN
LUCK AND JUDGEMENT
THE RAGS OF TIME
SONGBIRD
THE TRUTH
ANOTHER GIRL
THE LATE LORD THORPE
Also by Peter Grainger
Lane
One-way Tickets
Arcadia
AUDIOBOOKS
The DC Smith & Kings Lake Investigation Series
Brought to life perfectly by the talented Gildart Jackson, the King's Lake and DC Smith Investigation series have become a series of best-selling audiobooks.
Published by Tantor Media, they are available on Audible and Audiobooks.com through the following links:
A Case for Willows & Lane
Voiced by the excellent Henrietta Meire, the Willows & Lane audiobooks have joined their King's Lake counterparts as best-sellers on Amazon.
Also published by Tantor Media, they are available on Audible and Audiobooks.com:
REVIEWS
Having led investigations into many real life "who done it" murders I just love this writing.
I have no idea if Mr. Grainger has any personal police experience, but the whole tenor of his writing, and especially the philosophy of D.C.Smith is exactly what every aspiring detective should seek to emulate.
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It is the sheer credibility of these books’ main character, and those of his colleagues and other participants, that makes them so grippingly readable.
Indeed, the same could be said of the plot in all of the books as Mr Grainger never puts a foot wrong.
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The procedural aspects were spot on, and the small but all too real petty annoyances of life in the public sector will resonate with anyone who has ever found themselves buried under a pile of paperwork or had to read yet another useless memo from someone in a made up job wearing an expensive suit...
BIO
Although I've always been a reader, I must admit that I first got into crime novels via television series such as Morse and Frost.
It seemed odd initially, reading about characters that I had only watched before, and I found that I didn't always agree with what the producers and scriptwriters had done - but then I probably am one of life's disagree-ers.
Having independently published three novels on Amazon's Kindle, I decided that my next project could be a crime novel of my own.
In some ways it was easier to write than general fiction, the conventions of the genre making some decisions straightforward, but I still spend a lot of time developing the characters; to me, character comes before everything else in fiction.
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