Tin Soldiers (DCI Kett Crime Thrillers #19)

Tin Soldiers (DCI Kett Crime Thrillers #19) by Alex Smith is out now (published January 17, 2026).

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Tin Soldiers (DCI Kett Crime Thrillers #19) Release Date: January 17, 2026

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War is coming…

It has been six months since DCI Robert Kett’s world was almost shattered by the murderous syndicate known as Hollenbeck, and he’s still picking up the pieces. What he wants now is a slow return to the job, and a handful of easy cases.

What he gets, though, is a dead woman in a Norwich underpass, her eyes replaced with molten tin.

And this body is only the first. As the city burns in an unseasonably hot spring, a series of brutal attacks leaves the Extreme Crime Task Force reeling.

With a vicious serial killer targeting random victims, two powerful gangs battling each other on the streets, and a police force close to self-destruct, Kett knows only one thing for sure.

This time, he’s at war.

The nineteenth instalment in the million-selling DCI Kett series. Relentless action, compulsive mystery and side-splitting humour abound in the books that Thrilling Fiction calls “heart-stoppingly gripping!” from the author that James Patterson describes as “fresh and ferocious!”

Binge the series now:
PAPER GIRLS
BAD DOG
THREE LITTLE PIGS
WHIP CRACK
RUN RABBIT RUN
STONE COLD DEAD
EVERY MOTHER’S SON
SWEET BRIAR ROSE
JAW BREAKER
KNOCK KNOCK
KING RAT
KNUCKLE BONES
LUCKY NUMBER SEVEN
UNHOLY SAINTS
TRULY MADLY DEADLY
EVERY LAST DEVIL
RED LINE
COLD IRON KILLS
TIN SOLDIERS

Alex Smith wrote his first book when he was six. It wasn’t particularly good, but it did have some supernatural monsters in it. His latest books, the DCI Robert Kett and DI Harrison Baird thrillers, have monsters in them too, although these monsters are very human, and all the more terrifying for it. In between, he has published fourteen novels for children and teenagers under his full name, Alexander Gordon Smith—including the number one bestselling series Escape From Furnace, which is loved by millions of readers worldwide and which is soon to become a motion picture. He lives in Norwich with his wife and three young daughters.

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