In this mystery, British Detective Fran Harman’s professional and private lives collide when a skeleton is unearthed in her garden.
 
Det. Chief Inspector Fran Harman and her fiancé, Asst. Chief Constable Mark Turner, have their hands full preparing for their wedding and renovating the rectory that will be their new home. But all their plans for wedded bliss are put on hold with the discovery of a skeleton buried...

While hosting a group of academics at Thorncroft House, Harriet and Matthew Rowsley find themselves confronted with bigger - and bloodier! - issues than unruly guests . . . The fifth instalment of the Harriet and Matthew Rowsley Victorian mystery series sets in England during the great Victorian era. June 1861, Victorian England. A house full of academics should imply calm and quiet, but much to housekeeper Harriet Rowsley's dismay some of the guests...

Stranded at a house party - when a murderer strikes! May 1861, Victorian England. When Matthew and Harriet Rowsley are invited to a house party at Clunston Park by Matthew's cousin, Colonel Barrington Rowsley and his wife Lady Hortensia, Harriet is nervous - surely the aristocratic guests will snub her? After all, they are but mere servants in their eyes! Her fears are realised on their first evening when the only person who deigns to speak to her...

Lecturer Sophie Rivers' writing course on the outskirts of Birmingham is far from an exotic holiday. Still, creative inspiration might strike. But then, knowing Sophie's luck, so might a murderer…She can hardly believe it when, soon after the course begins, a fellow student is found dead in her room. Sophie hadn't liked glamorous nymphomaniac Nyree much, but she hadn't deserved to die. And when a course tutor goes missing, it's clear that one of...

Sophie Rivers joins the university choir, but hopes of musical harmony are dashed by appearances from beyond the grave, bribery and murder. Sophie Rivers is studying for a degree at the University of the West Midlands. When she joins the university choir, Sophie finds that her young colleagues treat her as an honorary aunt, pouring their neuroses onto her shoulders instead turning to their tutors. But the teaching staff have enough of their...

A Lina Townend mystery - Lina Townend is making a name for herself as an antiques dealer, in partnership with her old friend, Griff Tripp. When she is accused of stealing an item she is selling for her father, the disreputable Lord Elham, her plight attracts the attention of Piers, a handsome fellow dealer. But is Piers all he seems? And what about the kindly policeman investigating the case? There's only one person she can really trust – Griff....

The third crime novel featuring Sophie RiversSophie seems to have fallen on her feet when she gets a new job - at George Muntz College, which is just yards from her Birmingham home and has lavish facilities and equipment. But she is soon to learn that all is not as comfortable as it seems.

A valuable collection of cricket memorabilia leads Sophie Rivers into a terrifying mix of intimidation, violence and murder. Sophie Rivers is offered a temporary job at Warwickshire Cricket Club, archiving a collection of memorabilia, and jumps at the chance to spend more time with her new husband, England cricketer Mike Lowden. But once news gets out that the bequest contains some priceless objects, Sophie and her colleagues become the victims...

Sophie Rivers, a lecturer at a college of further education, is shaken when a spate of fires leads to the death of a young teacher. For Sophie Rivers, tackling newly imposed profit margins and a disruptive Fundamentalist movement means that teaching comes low on the agenda. When a young teacher dies, victim of a series of arson attacks at William Murdock College of Further Education, another teacher is attacked, and a women's safe hostel is razed...

When a middle-aged woman enters Lina Townend's antiques shop wanting to sell a white Beswick china horse which she claims is a cherished heirloom, Lina's instincts tell her to avoid the sale. Suddenly, wherever she goes, Lina sees the supposedly rare white horses. Something strange is afoot, but it is only the tip of the iceberg. Soon, with her business partner Griff laid up in hospital and her relationship with her boyfriend Morris floundering, Lina...