Amy Myers Books in Order

The first After Midnight volume gathers short mystery and suspense tales meant to be savoured one unsettling story at a time. It is a good showcase for Amy Myers's feel for atmosphere and the quick twist.

At a shooting party at Stockbery Towers, the steward is found poisoned in Pug's Parlour. Suspected because of the food, master chef Auguste Didier turns detective to clear his name before another death follows.

The second volume gathers more short tales of mystery, suspense, and things that feel slightly out of place. It is an easy book to dip into whenever you want a quick chill or puzzle.

Auguste Didier leaves Kent for the Galaxy Theatre in London's West End, where he cooks for high society and works behind the scenes. Amid chorus-line glamour and opening-night nerves, a killer strikes.

Another collection of compact, atmospheric stories, this volume keeps the series' late-night flavour. The appeal lies in brief mysteries, uneasy moods, and neat twists.

This fourth volume continues the After Midnight mix of short stories best read one by one, late and quietly. Expect mystery, tension, and the occasional unsettling turn.

Part romance, part suspense, this story follows a heroine pulled toward love while danger and uncertainty gather around her. The mood is gentle on the surface, with sharper shadows underneath.

When the once all-male club Plum's agrees to admit women, odd pranks begin to trouble its calm respectability. Then poison and a dead member force Auguste Didier to hunt a killer in very polite surroundings.

A tender historical story shaped by love, loss, and the passing of time. Its emotional pull comes from family bonds, memory, and the lives people cannot quite stop looking back on.

Hoping for peace in Cannes, Auguste Didier instead finds himself near a series of jewel thefts linked to Faberge eggs. By the time a cricket match and old passions come into play, murder is close behind.

A historical novel of power, loyalty, and changing fortunes, with private lives caught up in larger struggles. Myers gives the story both emotional weight and a strong sense of period.

The fifth volume offers another selection of short mystery, suspense, and uncanny tales. Like the earlier books, it is made for dipping into one sharp, atmospheric story at a time.

A Dickens-themed banquet in Broadstairs ends badly when the chairman of the Society of Literary Lionisers collapses and dies. Auguste Didier has to defend his cooking and help uncover how the poison was delivered.

Christmas at Cranton's Hotel promises boar's head, ghost stories, and a house full of distinguished guests. Instead, Auguste Didier finds murder in the corridors and whispers of a plot against the Prince of Wales.

A warm historical romance with a strong sense of place, built around courtship, family expectations, and the complications of choice. Katie May's future is not as simple as it first appears.

At a Yorkshire estate preparing for a royal banquet, Auguste Didier's curious wife Tatiana discovers a body in a gloomy smoking folly. What follows is a locked tangle of identity, secrets, and possible murder.

Auguste Didier takes a temporary job at a shabby East End music hall, officially as chef and unofficially as bodyguard to a worried comedian. When the performer dies on stage, the search for the killer begins at once.

A young woman's life opens up in a larger, more glamorous world, but opportunity comes with a price. Myers balances ambition, romance, and class tension in a vivid period setting.

A character-driven historical saga about moving out of shadow and into a new life. Hope, heartbreak, and changing relationships give the story its pull.

A motoring run from London to Canterbury and the trial of a new electric car bring Auguste Didier into the orbit of inventors, rivals, and social climbers. Once murder breaks out, the kitchens are only part of his problem.

Set in 1914, the first Seasons of War novel follows the Rector and his four daughters in the Sussex village of Ashden. The coming of war changes the family, the village, and the shape of the future.

The war deepens its grip on Ashden, bringing fresh losses and harder choices to the Rector's family. Myers keeps the focus on ordinary lives under strain, where love and duty no longer run together.

A historical story about fate, family pressure, and the struggle to choose a life for yourself. Love and disappointment run side by side as the emotional stakes quietly grow.

In the spring of 1905, a picture-perfect village wedding prepares for a royal guest and an American heiress bride. Auguste Didier arrives to cook the banquet, then finds murder, deception, and a threat closing in on him.

As the war grinds on, grief and endurance shape life in Ashden. This installment follows the Rector's family through a harsher season, where tenderness and resilience matter as much as survival.

The final Seasons of War novel brings the Ashden story toward renewal without forgetting the cost of the First World War. Love, recovery, and altered futures give the book its quiet emotional force.

This standalone turns on identity, loyalty, and the disruption one powerful figure can bring into other lives. It blends family drama with the tension of old secrets rising again.

A historical tale of love, independence, and the pull between duty and longing. Myers keeps the focus on emotional risk, family pressure, and the cost of choosing a life on your own terms.

A story of renewal after loss, following lives shaped by love, duty, and quiet endurance. As the future opens up, long-buried feelings and difficult choices come with it.

Peter Marsh and his daughter Georgia reopen a 1929 murder in the Kent village of Wickenham, where Davy Todd was accused of killing Amy Proctor. Then a skeleton is found in the woods, and the past becomes impossible to ignore.

Rachel French finds an unpublished cookery manuscript and starts tracing its history, hoping it may help launch a new business. Two men warn her against each other, then an arson attack destroys her home and sets hidden secrets loose.

Set against a long country summer, this saga follows family tensions, old hopes, and new love. Beneath the calm surface, choices made in the past begin to change everything for the people at its heart.

When Alice Winters is found dead near a ruined tower, the old village tune that signals a miscarriage of justice is heard again. Peter and Georgia Marsh soon find the new murder tangled up with a notorious killing from 1968.

A historical family story about love, duty, and the secrets that shape a young woman's future. Myers builds the drama around changing loyalties and the hard choices that decide what sort of life she will have.

At a reunion of Battle of Britain pilots, Peter and Georgia Marsh hear of the unsolved 1970s killing of war hero Patrick Fairfax. Their digging soon reveals that the heroic public story hid a darker truth.

A short-story collection of murder tales with a darkly playful edge. Myers moves briskly from one setup to the next, mixing period atmosphere, irony, and the pleasure of a clever final turn.

A memorial plaque in a Kent church sends Peter and Georgia Marsh after a cold case tied to art forgery, 1950s Paris, and Arthurian legend. The search for truth, and for a lost golden goblet, proves unexpectedly dangerous.

East End chimney sweep Tom Wasp is flattered when he is asked to model for a painter in fashionable Chelsea. Then his fellow model, the warm-hearted Bessie Barton, is found murdered, and Tom cannot look away.

A wrong turn leads Peter and Georgia Marsh to an isolated Kent cottage and the buried history of the Fernbourne Five. Old suspicions of suicide and wartime scandal soon collide with a fresh killing in the present.

While following the trail of Georgia's missing brother in a Kent seaside town, Peter and Georgia Marsh stumble onto a local tale of a haunted fish and chip shop. Behind it lies an older murder and another disappearance that still matter.

The return of a man long thought gone stirs up old grief, buried truths, and dangerous questions. Myers turns that setup into a tense historical drama about memory, loyalty, and the cost of unfinished business.

Tom Wasp and Ned are drawn into another Victorian London mystery, this time in the shadow of Newgate and the city's rougher streets. What begins as a puzzling death soon grows into a dangerous case with high stakes.

A chance sighting of a 1938 Lagonda in an old barn pulls Jack Colby into murder. When the car's owner is shot dead, he starts uncovering rumours of smuggling, hidden compartments, and dangerous secrets.

A summer gala at a Georgian mansion draws Marsh and Daughter into an older killing linked to Jane Austen memorabilia. As they investigate the death of former owner Robert Luckhurst, present-day tensions turn deadly too.

Peter and Georgia Marsh meet a group of oddly dressed pilgrims preparing to reenact an old journey to Canterbury. But the original event, decades earlier, ended in murder, and the new version may do the same.

A short-story collection focused on crime, method, and motive, with Myers enjoying the puzzle as much as the atmosphere. The fun lies in watching each tidy setup turn in an unexpected direction.

Another prized classic car draws Jack Colby into a case shaped by rivalry, money, and deceit. The closer he gets to the truth, the clearer it becomes that someone is still calling the shots from the shadows.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are visited by two mysterious men acting for a very high-born client. A stolen letter with explosive consequences sends them into a race against time, with both reputations and politics at stake.

Jack Colby is asked to find one of the original cars from the 1907 Peking to Paris rally for a charity rerun in Kent. The hunt sounds eccentric enough, until it opens the door to a far more dangerous investigation.

What looks like a simple mix-up around a classic car quickly turns into murder. Jack Colby has to decide what was accident, what was design, and who is determined to keep the facts buried.

Jack Colby is pulled into the high-pressure world of motor racing when a classic-car trail turns murderous. Beneath the glamour and machinery of the pits, old grudges and risky ambitions are waiting.

A supposedly profitable classic-car deal promises a tidy reward, then turns deadly. Jack Colby has to sort real opportunity from fraud and work out who is willing to kill for money, ownership, and silence.

A murder case involving a classic car leaves reputations and possibly freedom on the line. As Jack Colby digs deeper, he finds that the truth could put him in almost as much danger as the killer does.

A warm but bittersweet historical saga about family ties, changing fortunes, and the search for happiness. As old certainties slip, the characters have to decide what they are willing to keep and what they must let go.

Jack Colby is hired to track down a missing Jaguar for former cabaret singer Adora Ferne, whose private collection holds a car from each old lover. A straightforward job becomes dangerous once greed, memory, and murder enter the picture.

At the Petit Trianon in 1906, a staged attempt to lure out Marie Antoinette's ghost goes badly wrong. The body found in the queen's bedchamber is all too real, and Auguste Didier has to find the killer.

In 1925, London's Bright Young Things descend on Wychbourne Court for a fancy-dress ball and midnight ghost hunt. Chef Nell Drury expects a hectic weekend, but not a sudden violent murder in the middle of the festivities.

Snowy Wychbourne Court hosts a reunion of Lady Ansley's old theatre friends and a revival of the Follies. What should be lively entertainment turns sour when buried stage-world secrets end in murder, and Nell Drury has to take notice.

Victorian chimney sweep Tom Wasp and young Ned find an antiquarian bookseller murdered near St Paul's Cathedral. Their search leads through London's literary underworld as Tom tries to save his friend Phineas from the gallows.

In the summer of 1926, new neighbours from an avant-garde Paris circle bring trouble to Wychbourne Court. When murder follows them, chef Nell Drury is drawn in again, especially when suspicion falls close to home.

When Peter and Georgia Marsh get caught up in a village feud between Tudor and Plantagenet descendants, a storm uncovers a hidden burial site. The newly found body, linked to an actor who vanished decades earlier, pulls them into another dangerous cold case.

Cara Shelley runs the Happy Huffkin coffee shop on the grounds of Tanton Towers, an eccentric stately home in Kent. Her happy routine ends when the much-loved but irritating country dancer Daphne is found murdered.

A ghost hunt in Tanton Towers' underground grotto follows an anniversary dinner for Lady Izzy's nephew, who died there ten years earlier. By the end of the evening, Cara Shelley is facing a very real murder.