Rebecca Tope

Nestled in the hills of the Cotswolds, the village of Duntisbourne Abbots is a well-kept secret....

Granny's behaviour is a little peculiar, but so too are the Montgomerys' instructions to keep her trapped in the house....

It’s Christmas, and things are looking good at the Slocombe house. Thea’s daughter Jessica has come to stay, much to her stepdaughter Stephanie’s delight. But then things take a turn for the worse....

Thea Osborne and her canine companion Hepzie travel to the isolated village of Snowshill for their next assignment....

With Valentine's Day fast approaching, Persimmon "Simmy" Brown's flower shop near Lake Windermere receives a string of anonymous delivery orders....

A few days into their stay, a pile of human bones is discovered at the base of an uprooted tree. The locals all have their theories about their identity and rumours abound....

Thea is tired of having to entertain Drew's children during the summer holidays, so she accepts a commission to watch over a house in Barnsley. On her first day there, she rescues a fugitive woman she finds hiding under some bushes....

Thea Osborne agrees to do a second spell of house-sitting for Lucy Sinclair in her new home in Northleach....

Following a personal tragedy, florist Persimmon “Simmy” Brown has moved to the Lake District to be nearer her parents....

Thea and Drew have been married for a year and are settled in the village of Broad Campden, but Thea is chafing at the domestic routines she is expected to devote herself to, missing the novelty and adventure that house-sitting used to bring....

Thea Osborne hopes to spend a quiet Christmas house sitting for the Shepherds in the picturesque village of Stanton....

Thea Osborne sets off to Frampton Mansell with confidence....

Thea Osborne has just lost her beloved father and retreats to her next housesitting assignment in Lower Slaughter to deal with her grief.....

After an eventful year, Persimmon "Simmy" Brown is adjusting to life in Windermere, running her florist shop and trying to put her tragic past behind her....

Winter has arrived in the town of Windermere and has brought with it the death of Frances Henderson, the best friend of Persimmon 'Simmy' Brown's mother....

When Thea Osborne agrees at the last minute to house-sit for Oliver Meadows, she expects a few days of peace....

Set in the picturesque town of Askham, near Ullswater, the story opens with the funeral of Humphrey Craig, the builder who converted Simmy's new house in Hartsop....

Persimmon ‘Simmy’ Brown's baby has arrived, and her forthcoming nuptials are only a short month away. But when a former acquaintance of her fiancé's reminds him of an undertaking that he hasn't fulfilled, their lives soon take a sinister turn....

When irascible Farmer Guy Beardon meets a very dirty death in his own farmyard, it seems like an accident initially - despite the fact that he was widely disliked. Only his daughter, Lilah, is prepared to defend his memory....

A handsome, if slightly shabby, stone house in Upper Oddington is home to Umberto Kingley as well as his three dogs and will be Thea Slocombe's latest house-sitting assignment....