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Ishali is a privileged Blest citizen of Demeter, living in the rural idyll of Here, Maralux an Unblest, doomed to the lowest rank of society in Not-Here. Margrot is a Non-Existent, his City has survived hidden since the Accident and he doesn't officially exist. When their worlds collide who will live and who will die?

Back to the small Oxfordshire village of Little Wychwell for another mystery. Are pirates about in the Wyching Well? What is buried under the Pear Tree in the Old Vicarage garden? Finn, Flipper, Stinker, Barnabus and Elodea return for the eleventh Little Wychwell Mystery. Lighten our Darkness is the eleventh Little Wychwell mystery.

Walls, who is now a don at Kings, is seeing strange things in both his apartment and his college room. Is something sinister really occurring or has he just been devoting too much time to academic study and gone a little mad? Why has the Walrus, one of the college contemporaries of Barnabus and Walls, reappeared in Oxford? Is this just coincidence? Barnabus, Walls’ best friend and also an indefatigable mystery investigator, springs in to help his friend uncover the truth.

A gunfight with no bodies, a missing wheelie bin, abandoned groceries, can they possibly all be connected? Is Elodea suffering from over active imagination and if not Did Anyone Die? Some are born detectives, some become detectives and some have detectiveship thrust upon them. In this last category are Priscilla, dedicated classicist and Oxford academic, and Barnabus, her un-nephew, who are left to solve the mystery and to discover that dog sitting can be dangerous. This novel is set in the City of Dreaming Spires and the imaginary village of Little Wychwell, situated deep in darkest ...

Priscilla has once again been persuaded to stay at The Old Vicarage in Little Wychwell while Elodea and John are both away. But what is it that Barnabus and Angel are trying to conceal from her? Who is the beautiful blond man who lives at Upper Storkmorton Manor with Angus Throckmorton? Did Barnabus see a ghost or was it just a local prankster amusing himself? Priscilla and Barnabus catch ‘detective fever’ again and investigate the latest mystery in Little Wychwell.

It is thirteen years later, Ishali is now fully integrated into the City and she and Margrot are parents. But outside the City the Existents are growing stronger. Strong enough to threaten the City itself. Control declares that this is now War. If the Non-Existents are to win they must find the Council’s secret intelligent machine and destroy it and time is running out. This is the Second Demeter Chronicle, it would be advisable to read the First Demeter Chronicle before reading this one, 'Hunting the Thingle' also by Stella Stafford

Following the events in Did Anyone Die? Elodea, Barnabus, Priscilla and Angel are launched unwillingly on another crime trail. Elodea is in danger from an unknown assassin. Who can it be and why are they trying to kill her? Is it Ustin, back from the dead? Do the local jackdaws hold the clue? Are Elodea's other children involved in the mystery? This book should also answer all the trailing queries that the observant reader still held at the end of Did Anyone Die?.

The third ‘Little Wychwell Mystery’, following ‘Did Anyone Die?’ and ‘A Very Quiet Guest’. Priscilla becomes the temporary and unwilling landlady of Walls, Barnabus’ playboy friend. Shortly afterwards Antholian (Tony), Boris the Great Dane, Priscilla and Walls all accidentally become involved in an Undercover Operation. Those who have been wondering about when they will encounter Charles, Priscilla’s elusive husband, and Felicity, Walls’ similarly absent fiancée, in person will be glad to hear that this is the book in which they both finally appear. The author would like ...

Singing through Stinker’s head, in time to the slow drum beat, were the words from Fauré’s requiem “Dies illa dies magna et amare, amare valde”…. Remember the first UK Covid Lockdown? Priscilla mainly remembers a glorious haze of wine and a warm beach, or, as she described it to Elodea, ‘very hard work researching her latest book’. Elodea remembers it for entirely different reasons. Lots of Little Wychwell characters together with some brand new ones gambol through this light detective fiction about Little Wychwell under lockdown. This is the ninth Little Wychwell book.

Why is Priscilla working for the Government? Why have Finn and Fiona decided to move into the Old Vicarage? Has having a third child made Barnabus rebellious? Will Elodea ever escape from her grandchildren?

This is the Sixth Little Wychwell Mystery and follows Did Anyone Die?, A Very Quiet Guest, All that Glisters is not Silver, Speak of the Wolf and Some People Go Both Ways. Barnabus and Walls are enjoying an escape from marital bliss to have a ‘boy’s only’ lunch by the river but their peace is shattered as figures from the past suddenly reappear in their lives. At the same time Elodea is also re-encountering a past acquaintance in Little Wychwell. Barnabus decides to investigate, but is this a mistake? The author of the Little Wychwell Mysteries is married with two children and lives ...

Is Little Wychwell really turning into Camelot? Who is Nimuë and what is the mystery at the White House? Can the villagers of Little Wychwell and Upper Storkmorton save the Boundary Oak from Developers? Finn, Flipper, Stinker, Barnabus and Elodea are all back in the tenth Little Wychwell Mystery.

Elodea has developed a strange fear of the scarecrow that stands in the Wheatley’s field. Is there really something sinister about it or is she suffering from an excess of imagination? Barnabus launches himself and Walls into a new mystery investigation and discovers that the villagers of sleepy Little Wychwell have more exciting village societies than he had expected. This is the Fifth Little Wychwell Mystery in the series and follows Did Anyone Die?, A Very Quiet Guest, All that Glisters is not Silver and Speak of the Wolf. The characters portrayed in these books are all entirely ...

This is the Third Demeter Chronicle and you are strongly advised to read the other two first (Hunting the Thingle and The Battle for Demeter) After the Battle for Demeter the Non-Existents combined with the Existents to run Demeter together as a planet that was fair, a planet that was just, a planet with no oppression and no wrong. Control, the Non-Existents’ intelligent machine, had made Mermasali, Ishali’s Mother, the new Leader of Demeter, together with a new intelligent machine called Control Two whom he had created with settings to limit its persona l power so that it could never ...