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

As Christmas draws nearer, Simmy Henderson is invited to a party in Glenridding at the heart of the Lake District. However, the festivities are overshadowed by two alarming discoveries: a man's body in the beck above the village, and a vulnerable newborn baby, apparently abandoned by its mother.

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

Thea Osborne, Cotswold house-sitter with an infamous reputation for getting mixed up in crime, is determined to avoid trouble this time....

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

Following a string of disastrous house-sitting assignments, and with troubles in her personal life, Thea Osborne is understandably apprehensive about her latest commission....

Simmy is four months pregnant, working partly from home and partly from her Windermere florist shop when her husband Christopher asks her to take flowers to Eleanor Padgett. Eleanor has helped him in his auction house, as she is an expert in antique textiles....

Thea Osborne's latest house-sitting assignment is a little different to the rest. Along with her spaniel, Hepzie, Thea finds herself in the village of Chedworth....

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....

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

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....

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....

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....

Thea Slocombe, nee Osborne, is trying to settle into normal, domestic life. But in the course of an attempt to make friends locally, she finds the body of a close neighbour....

In the wake of a series of unfortunate experiences house-sitting in the Cotswolds....

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