Abbot Agency Books in Order

When caterer Coral, a friend and long-time client, is touched by death at two charity events, Bea knows it is more than rotten luck. Her domestic agency is pushed into its first murder case.

Velma wants Bea to look into her stepson Philip, and her charm does not make her any more believable. Family secrets, fuzzy truths, and a widening sense of danger keep Bea off balance.

A routine agency matter turns treacherous when Bea is drawn into the orbit of people with far too much to hide. One wrong move, by anyone, could make a bad situation fatal.

A seemingly harmless request from a client leads Bea and her assistants into a web of half-truths. Pretence gives way to real menace as the job edges toward murder.

The disappearance of Tomi, a performer from an award-winning short film, pulls Bea into a case of ambition, money, and deception. Her domestic agency may not do murder, but murder keeps finding it.

While trying to help a small, eccentric musician who has been falsely accused, Bea stumbles into a darker world of exploitation and trafficking. Her agency work puts her close to people other investigators might miss.

A booby trap in the flats of powerful businessman Sir Lucas Ossett sends Bea hunting for the person who planted it. What begins as a targeted scare quickly opens into a full murder investigation.

A fake engagement ring, an alleged suicide attempt, and the Holland family bring trouble crashing into Bea's orderly life. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that someone is playing a dangerous game.

Bea is dragged back into the poisonous affairs of the Holland family when pressure starts building around her house and agency. Besieged from several sides, she has to work out who is lying before the next attack lands.

When Bea's garden wall crashes down, it exposes far more than a row of back gardens. The damage opens up secrets, neighborly tensions, and a murder she cannot sidestep.

At a birthday party for twin girls, Bea senses trouble before the gathering turns truly sinister. Superstition, family tension, and violent crime force her to look past appearances fast.

A housekeeper arrives with a briefcase full of family jewels and a story Bea cannot ignore. As the missing Lucas Rycroft's relatives close in, greed and old resentments turn the case deadly.

The deaths of two beloved cats draw Bea into the disturbing affairs of the wealthy Tredgold family. What seems eccentric at first soon reveals cruelty, manipulation, and murder.

Bea expects a quiet summer with her ward Bernice, until Bernice's schoolfriend Evelina arrives drugged, traumatized, and linked to a suspicious death at a country house. Bea has to decide whether she is sheltering a victim or a very dangerous liar.

Bea Abbot's new marriage is jolted when her husband Piers is caught up in theft accusations at a famous actress's Belgravia home. Missing jewels, a stolen memoir file, and murder turn a bad morning into a deadly case.

Bea overhears three men plotting a murder and discovers the intended victim, a young man posing as a rough sleeper, left outside her garage to die. Giving him shelter means stepping into a conspiracy that is not finished with him yet.

At Marston Hall, another attempt on Julian's life coincides with the discovery of a dead woman in the stables. Bea has to untangle family history, inheritance fears, and old enemies before the next blow falls.

Bea arrives at Marston Hall to find chaos, rumors of buried treasure, and a body left behind by intruders with metal detectors. With a security guard and his dog also missing, the whole estate feels uneasy.

When Julian Marston-Lang's glamorous stepcousin Mona is found murdered in the garden, suspicion falls quickly on her vanished husband. Bea heads to Marston Hall convinced the obvious story is hiding something worse.