Regency Detective

Does the truth really set you free? A missing serving girl. A swindled nobleman. An Irish mobster. London 1811. When her stepcousin Alexander Dovefield, the future Baron of Newark, asks for her help to find a missing serving girl from his favorite gambling hell, Lady Zoe Demas once again enlists inquiry agent Quinton Huxley to piece together the puzzle of who is cheating whom. What at first seems like a simple swindle takes a sinister and murky turn when bodies start to pile up. As they attempt to solve the mystery, Quinton also struggles with revelations about his own past . . . and what ...

Cambridgeshire, September 1813: Detective Stephen Lavender and Constable Ned Woods are lured to an isolated estate in the deadly marshland surrounding Ely, to investigate a murder.

Alnwick, Northumberland, 1813: Lady Percy's worries about spending her first holiday season as a new countess grow worse upon their arrival at Alnwick Castle. When the old duke calls her by the wrong name, she is left with unsettling questions: Who was this mysterious woman in the duke's past, and why does his fading mind cling to her memory so fiercely? Meanwhile, Lord Percy confronts a crisis outside the castle walls. Children are disappearing from neighboring villages, vanishing without a trace into the Northumberland wilds.

Captain Lacey is asked by Peter Thompson of the Thames River Police to help him investigate a cold case - the murder of a woman found near the docks Thompson patrols. The investigation was sidelined, considered unsolvable, but Thompson has long wished to find her killer. Captain Lacey joins him in the hunt, entering a part of society that is closed to outsiders. Meanwhile, he must deal with his daughter's debut and more developments in his new domestic life, including an anonymous blackmailer who's out to ruin Lacey any way he can.

The thrilling conclusion to the Lizzie & Darcy Mysteries duology, following Lizzie Bennet and Mr. Darcy from the Jane Austen Murder Mysteries series! A Bingley family curse looms over Lizzie's sister and Darcy's best friend—but are the dark forces at work supernatural or human? Lizzie...

The 13th installment in Stephanie Barron's fan favorite Being a Jane Austen Mystery series. Between novels, Victorian England's most beloved author doubles as a sleuth in often idyllic locales. November 1815. The Battle of Waterloo has left the British economy in shreds; Henry Austen, Jane's favorite brother, is about to declare bankruptcy. The crisis destroys Henry's health, and Jane flies to his London bedside.

A switched trunk, a dead courier, and a valet untangling secrets buried in baggage. When a Royal summons drags Julian Vane, twentieth Earl of Winhaven, to Brighton, he expects sea air, social peril, and the Prince Regent’s terrible taste in upholstery—not a corpse in a coaching inn and a diplomatic dispatch case gone missing in the baggage. Somewhere between London and the Royal Pavilion, a trunk has been switched, a courier has died “of natural causes,” and half the continent’s secrets are now rattling around in the wrong luggage. While Winhaven muddles through royal small talk ...

Vauxhall’s masks, whispered treason, and a valet determined to unmask the night’s real traitor. Julian Vane, Earl of Winhaven, makes one small sartorial error at Vauxhall Gardens: he arrives in a crimson velvet mask, on the same night a French spy is looking for an English traitor in — naturally — a crimson velvet mask. By midnight, there is a body in the ornamental basin, a Winhaven signet ring on the dead man's finger, and Inspector Gedge circling with the enthusiasm of a man who has been waiting for an excuse. Thorne has been waiting too. For the forged stitching, the wrong boots...

A bustling festival, a shocking murder… and a tearoom owner bound to the past—literally. Sidmouth’s Folk Festival is the highlight of the summer, and the owner of the town’s Jane Austen-themed tearoom, Trinity Bishop, is ready for a week of lively music, busy crowds, and endless cups of tea. But when the festival’s director is found dead, the festive atmosphere turns uneasy, and Trinity once again finds herself tangled in a murder investigation. With DI Cormac O’Malley determined to keep her out of police business, and festival-goers whispering rumors of jealousy, rivalry, and ...

A country house shooting party is meant to polish reputations and forge alliances; instead, it leaves one guest bleeding in the frosty grass and Winhaven’s gun in the wrong pair of hands. Julian Vane, twentieth Earl of Winhaven, wanted nothing more than to escape town for mud, birds, and bad brandy, but when ballistics, old grudges, and suspiciously convenient “accidents” start to line up, it becomes clear that someone is using the weekend’s sport as cover for a quieter kind of hunt. While the house whispers about duels and scandals, Thorne traces the truth through powder burns on ...

The hunter becomes the hunted when an amateur sleuth and her lost love search for a missing child. Over two years ago, Miss Rani Pemberton, an Anglo-Indian heiress, confessed her love to the handsome and illustrious Mr. Frederick Barrington. In response, he left England, and now she’s destined to marry the man her father has chosen for her. Yet, what does that matter? Love in marriage is not always possible. She must accept. Or must she? Avoiding her fate, Rani, along with her family, attends a hot air balloon ascension in London’s Hyde Park. The balloon crashes, and amid the frenzy, ...

In the second installment of the Q&Z Regency Mystery series, Quinton and Zoe must take on their most complex and chilling case yet. When the savage murder of a dressmaker bears a striking resemblance to a series of murders spanning two decades—including Quinton’s own mother—Zoe Demas and Quinton Huxley join forces again to unmask the killer. As the two of them draw closer to the truth, as well as each other, things take a dark turn when one of their friends is arrested for the present killing. Now they, alongside the diverse cast of characters they’ve come to rely on, must race ...

The theft of a priceless emerald neckless leads to murder and Blythe, the Dowager Duchess of Ashby along with Bow Street Runner Owen Kennedy must rely on a lie to find the killer before they become the next victims.

After refusing to become his partner in life, she never imagined becoming his partner in the pursuit of justice. Miss Elizabeth Bennet expected the morning after rejecting Fitzwilliam Darcy's proposal to be awkward. She did not expect to discover a dead woman hidden inside Lady Catherine de Bourgh's hedge maze. Lady Catherine wants the matter settled quietly. Since the victim appears to have died without violence, the coroner is willing, but Elizabeth refuses to believe the contrived cause of death. Armed with little more than keen observation, relentless curiosity, and a determination to ...

The choirmaster of Asterton lies dead in the rectory, poisoned by a wooden dart from a blowpipe. Miss Penny immediately suspects foul play. But who would want to kill such an inoffensive and well-respected pillar of the community? Assisted by her loyal cat, Onyx; her aunt's dog, Toby; and the ghost of Lady Caroline from the eighteenth century, Miss Penny delves into the darkest and most closely guarded secrets in Asterton, all while she must fill in for the deceased choirmaster as the new choirmistress.

Stolen greatcoats, a forged revolution, and a valet racing to stop treason tailored in wool. A dead man in the Thames is wearing the Earl of Winhaven's greatcoat. In the secret pocket: a list of Cabinet ministers marked for assassination. By morning, Julian Vane is under house arrest, his wardrobe is evidence, and London has decided that his cast-off coats are the uniform of a revolution. Thorne disagrees. Someone has been buying up the Earl's discarded wool, altering the linings, and dressing a hired actor as a People's Earl to incite the mob in his master's name. The trail runs from a ...

The knot was wrong. Only the valet knew why. When Foreign Office Undersecretary Henry Stanhope is found strangled in the Roxbury House library with the Earl of Winhaven's distinctive neckcloth knotted around his throat, the Ton decides it is finally time to take Julian Vane seriously — as a suspect. While Julian flails through alibis, botanical emergencies, and the treacherous geometry of ballroom etiquette, his valet, Mr. Silas Thorne, notices smaller things: a knot that was tied by the wrong hands, a smear of the wrong ink on the wrong cuff, and a house full of suspects who know far too...

At Newmarket, the fashionable new boot-blacking has one unusual property: it lames horses. Julian Vane, Earl of Winhaven, is too busy losing money on the races to notice the pattern. His valet, Thorne, notices everything — the grit embedded in the polish, the altered soles, and the stableboy who appears at every accident. When the favorite goes lame on race morning and a jockey nearly falls at pace, it is no longer a question of bad odds. Someone is running a very quiet campaign of sabotage through the boot rooms of Newmarket. And they have been using Thorne's own formula to do it. The ...

THE YEAR IS 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighborhood of St. Crispian’s. But Emma’s plans for a charmed and studious life are sabotaged by her eccentric Cousin Archibald, her formidable Aunt Eugenia, and the slightly odd denizens of St. Crispian’s. Emma M. Lion offers up her Unselected Journals, however self-incriminating they may be, which comprise a series of volumes. Armed with wit and a sideways amusement, Emma documents the curious realities of her life at Lapis Lazuli House.

When Shackleford and Daughters Detective Agency takes on its first real case — the theft of an emerald necklace from a wealthy Torquay widow, Arabella Shackleford expects nothing more complicated than a drawing room mystery. She is, in every possible sense, about to get more than she bargained...