Hazel Holt

When Sheila Malory is badgered by Annie Roberts to write the village history, she grudgingly agrees. After Annie dies of food poisoning, a victim of her love of freshly-picked mushrooms, Sheila finds the circumstances too suspicious not to investigate.

Malcolm Hardy, the new partner at Taviscombe's veterinary practice, is not a popular man; but without his money the surgery would have to close. Within a few weeks of starting his new job he seems to have upset most of the town: firing one of his long-serving colleagues; installing his girlfriend as veterinary assistant at the surgery; refusing to treat stray animals for free; accusing another colleague of malpractice as well as being seen out with a married woman. As far as Sheila Malory is concerned there is little to like about the new vet. But despite his unpopularity it is still a shock when Hardy collapses and dies at the surgery. And when the post-mortem reveals that his death was unnatural, suspicion instantly falls on his former colleagues. Could somebody at the practice be a killer? Or might the thoroughly unpleasant Malcolm Hardy have other enemies with murder in mind?

Bernard Prior asks his cousin, Sheila Malory, to help him research the family history. When visiting Sheila he dies in suspicious circumstances and although he was a bully and a bore, there was no reason for cold-blooded murder. What secrets has he found buried in the family history?

Eva Jackson has moved back to her childhood home in Taviscombe after the untimely death of her beloved husband Alan. During a coffee morning she mentions to Sheila Malory that she fears Alan might have died an unnatural death. When Eva's body is discovered after a supposed insulin overdose, Sheila wonders if the killer might still be at large...

Deep in debt David’s only hope is his brother Francis. As the Dean of Culminster Cathedral Francis refuses to help. When he is found dead David is the prime suspect.

When pretty but avaricious Lee Montgomery disappears in the little seaside town of Taviscombe, her fiancé Charles Richardson enlists Mrs Malory’s help. The dauntless Mrs Malory soon suspects the worst. Little does she realize the terrible secrets her investigation will reveal …

It is twenty years since Leonora Staveley retired as an investigative journalist to live on Exmoor, surrounded only by her beloved animals. Living as a virtual recluse, her house filled with the relics of an extraordinary life, no-one was too surprised when she suffered a fatal bout of food poisoning. But Sheila Malory suspects something far more sinister was involved in the death of her friend. For a number of people had good reason to want this wealthy lady out of the way. And aside from the obvious suspects, just who was the mysterious young man seen camping near Leonora's house days before she died...?

When Michael Malory announces his engagement to Thea Wyatt, his mother, Sheila, couldn't be more delighted. But when a senior solicitor at Thea's firm dies shortly after an altercation with her, Thea is the prime suspect for his murder. However, when Sheila and Michael start the hunt for the real killer it begins to look as though practically anyone had both the will and the opportunity to kill him...

Sheila Malory's excitement about teaching at a university in America was tempered by anxiety, but nothing could prepare her for a visit soon to be shattered by murder. When the victim is identified as Max Loring, the brother of one of Sheila's new colleagues, she embarks on her own investigation.

While filling in for a friend at a local charity shop in the quiet English town of Taviscombe, Sheila Malory employs her detecting skills when the store's ill-tempered supervisor is found dead and everyone in town is a suspect.

Sheila Malory investigates the disappearance of Mrs Rossiter, a wealthy nursing home resident, whose scheming daughter has been trying to get her hands on a substantial inheritance.

When the quiet, unassuming widower Sidney Middleton is found dead in his cottage from carbon monoxide poisoning, Sheila Malory is deeply disturbed. On recent meetings the old man had seemed in rude health and the official explanation that the ageing wood-burning stove was faulty just doesn't seem to add up.

When Charlie Hamilton is found dead in his stables from a blow to the head, with only his horses as witnesses to his final moments, the entire community is shaken. Especially since Charlie's is just the first in a series of shocking and suspicious deaths. Mrs. Malory is on the case, but the trail of clues, from an unlucky horseshoe to a lethal electric fence, proves to be anything but a smooth ride.

Sheila Malory is swept up in the organization of the Taviscombe Festival, and has to spend more and more time in the company of the unpleasant Adrian Palgrave whose overbearing manner makes him unpopular with almost everyone. But the village is shocked when his lifeless and bloody body is found. Mrs Malory has impressive credentials when it comes to solving murders, but with so many suspects, she hardly knows where to begin.