International bestselling author

In the frigid north at Christmastime, a dutiful Canadian Mountie and his fiancee pay a visit to her boss's family estate. But when the elderly Mrs. Condrycke is found murdered, everyone's holiday is rudely interrupted. Though civilization is far away, when there is a Mountie in the house, justice is always close at hand.

International bestselling author

A Canadian Mountie investigates a murder among musicians in this mystery by the Edgar Award–nominated author of the Peter Shandy series.

“The epitome of the ‘cozy’ mystery.” —Mostly Murder

Canadian Mountie Madoc Rhys and his wife, Janet, visit Wales for birthday drinks and dinner, which quickly devolves into an encounter with modern-day druids and death...

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel

Is vulgarity grounds for murder? When a man who’d antagonized many with his greed and crass acquisitiveness is beaten to death with a magnum of champagne, there’s no shortage of suspects for Detective Felse to look into.

“A beguiling writer.” —Daily Telegraph 

When an old grave reveals two bodies, neither of which belong to the man named on the tombstone, Detective Inspector George Felse is called to investigate.

When Herbert Terrell falls off a mountain during his annual climbing holiday in Czechoslovakia, accidental death seems the inevitable verdict, but Terrell’s young stepdaughter Theodosia is not convinced.

Performers are gathered for a weekend folk music event at Follymead, a neo-Gothic country mansion. Most have come only to sing or to listen, but one or two have nonmusical scores to settle...

Edgar Award–winning series

After being ignored on her birthday by both her husband and son, Bunty Felse decides to visit a local pub. At the end of the evening she accepts a lift home from a morose young man who is convinced his life is over. And it may mean Bunty’s life is over too...

When Maggie Tressider awakes after a car crash convinced she has committed murder, private investigator Francis Killian, along with George and Bunty Felse, attempts to unearth the secrets of Maggie’s past.