Betty Rowlands

Professor Lamont arrives at the Mariners Hotel, for a meeting with the guest in Room 106, where the body of Dr Whistler is found lying in a pool of blood. Suspicion lands on Lamont when his sister confirms that he had a knife with him that morning. It looks like an easy case to solve, but Detective Constable Sukey Reynolds' instincts are telling her otherwise.

Two fatal cases of food poisoning at the residential home where Melissa Craig's mother Sylvia is staying, are treated as accidental by the authorities. To Melissa's consternation, Sylvia has noticed some strange goings-on and decides to do some detective work of her own. And when another resident is taken ill Melissa starts to take her mother's concerns seriously...

When Sir Digby Kirtling’s estate manager, Una May, is found murdered in the grounds he becomes the prime suspect, as Una May is found to be pregnant with his child. But Crime Scene Investigator Sukey Reynolds has doubts.

A bestselling author is drowned in her bath just days after being threatened by a seriously disturbed fan who has subsequently disappeared. DC Sukey Reynolds and her colleague DC Vicky Armstrong are given the task of finding her. But the apparently straightforward case becomes more complicated - with numerous twists and turns along the way.

Former barrister Aidan Cresney takes up beekeeping as a retirement hobby. He confidently boasts that bees will never attack an apiarist 'who knows what he's doing'. Yet one day he is found dead after suffering multiple stings. When a second family member dies in similar circumstances, Melissa Craig, the Cotswolds' intrepid crime-writing sleuth, starts to uncover some disturbing secrets.