Andrea Frazer Books in Order

The Ear-Noz has settled with the Barraclough family, but Christmas makes everything more complicated. Daniel and Emma have a lot to teach him, and they still need to keep their unusual guest hidden from the grandparents.

Frazer brings a warm, wry eye to expat life in France, from everyday mishaps to the slow business of feeling at home. It is light nonfiction about place, people, and starting over.

The Stoney Cross Arts Festival is thrown into chaos when a vicious local broadcaster makes enemies everywhere he goes, then turns up dead. Falconer and Carmichael face a village full of hurt pride and buried history.

Joining a choral society should be a pleasant hobby for Virginia and Richard Grainger, but their first big performance ends in a very public death. Another follows, and the music suddenly sounds much darker.

In Castle Farthing, a spiteful old man is found drugged and strangled in his cottage, and nobody seems especially sorry. DI Harry Falconer and DS Carmichael must pick through grudges, gossip, and rising tempers to find the killer.

Bored Sebastian Snail decides Halloween is the perfect time to become a ghost hunter. With his friend Caruthers Caterpillar beside him, he heads for a haunted house in search of thrills.

Sebastian Snail decides that life at home could do with his special touch and turns interior decorator. His big plans sound excellent, but putting them into practice is a much messier adventure.

When Caruthers Caterpillar's boots are stolen, Sebastian Snail takes the case himself. The local policeman is no help, so Sebastian must sniff out clues and catch the culprit.

An old map in the attic of Pail Manor looks very much like a treasure map to Sebastian Snail. He and Caruthers set off in secret, hoping to find hidden riches before anyone else interferes.

Daniel and Emma discover a very odd little creature and bring him into the family's home life. Keeping the Ear-Noz safe and secret is hard enough, but helping him understand the human world is harder.

Falconer expects an awkward Christmas with Carmichael's family, not a corpse in a village church. Snow cuts Castle Farthing off from the outside world, leaving the detectives to solve murder with very little to work with.

Anonymous letters begin ripping open old secrets in Steynham St Michael, and panic quickly turns to murder. Falconer and Carmichael must untangle the poison-pen campaign before the village tears itself apart.

A restored old manse is ready to open as a luxury retreat, complete with a murder-mystery weekend for its first guests. Then fiction turns real, and Falconer and Carmichael are called to sort out the deadly mess.

A village band used to easy rehearsals and generous drinking gets a strict new musical director, and the mood turns sour fast. When resentment hardens into murder, Falconer and Carmichael follow the discord.

A tiny village school in Stepford Stacey should be preparing for a retirement, not a murder inquiry. Falconer and Carmichael uncover grudges stretching back years as the body count threatens to rise over Easter.

With humor and exasperation in equal measure, Frazer chronicles the early stretch of settling into life in France. Paperwork, practical problems, and local surprises keep this memoir busy and very human.

Renovation work on an old chapel brings strange sightings, red graffiti, and rumors of a local cult. Once a body appears on the altar, Falconer and Carmichael know they are dealing with more than village nonsense.

This short Christmas story follows a homeless man through a day of shopping crowds, indifference, and unexpected kindness. Frazer keeps it simple and warm, building toward a quietly moving ending.

Lady Amanda Golightly plans a festive trial run for guided tours at Belchester Towers, only for one of her guests to end up very dead. Amanda and Hugo plunge into a Christmas mystery full of eccentric friends and bad blood.

This compact collection pairs two very different short pieces by Frazer, one festive and humane, the other devilishly comic. Together they show how easily she could shift from warmth to mischief.

In Fallow Fold, the village activity circles are busy planning a new season when quarrels over timetables, loyalties, and status turn nasty. Falconer and Carmichael step into a murder case driven by rivalry and spite.

A community theatre's Christmas pantomime should be harmless fun, until tragedy strikes around the very first performance. Falconer is dragged from holiday peace into a short, sharp case full of backstage tension.

A new woman vicar tries to win over a skeptical village, but beneath the church socials sit money worries, grudges, and private desperation. Falconer and Carmichael arrive when parish tensions turn deadly.

On Christmas Day, Falconer and Carmichael are called to investigate the puzzling death of a young woman in her flat. At first it may be a tragic accident, but the facts refuse to sit neatly.

Frazer heads to Hell for a tongue-in-cheek fantasy in which the Devil learns there may be one sinless soul on earth. He is not pleased, and he means to do something about it.

Burns Night at a Scottish castle sounds like Hugo's idea of bliss and Lady Amanda's idea of suffering, right up until murder enters the party. Soon the Belchester crew are sleuthing through snow, secrets, and social polish.

A busy Friday night at a fish-and-chip shop turns ugly when chaos upstairs and trouble below spill into murder. Falconer and Carmichael have to sort through noise, temper, and bad timing to find the truth.

Reverend Florrie Feldman hopes for a quiet fresh start in Ford Hollow, but church politics and a disputed housing plan stir old resentments. When violence breaks through the village calm, Falconer and Carmichael are called in.

Frazer turns a move to France into a lively memoir of property disasters, bureaucracy, builders, culture shock, and cats. It is the story of two middle-aged Brits trying to rebuild a ruin and a life.

A reunion lunch between old schoolfriends begins with smug gossip and long-stored judgments. By the time Falconer looks into it, the past has turned poisonous enough to kill.

When reality TV winner Chadwick McMurrough moves into a renovated house in Fairmile Green, the neighbors are fascinated, then furious. Noise, peacocks, and old romantic baggage lead to murder, and Falconer has plenty of suspects.

Back at Belchester Towers, Lady Amanda faces an unwelcome houseguest, a new engagement, a breach in security, and then a run of murders among the domestic staff. Home has rarely felt so inconveniently murderous.

A short standalone story about the people and pressures polite society overlooks until it is too late. Frazer keeps the focus close, letting quiet strain build into something sharper and more unsettling.

A visit to a nursing home brings Lady Amanda Golightly face to face with a long-lost friend, Hugo, and a suspicious death. When the police dismiss her concerns, the pair decide to investigate for themselves.

Holmes invites Garden to a meeting of devoted Sherlock fans, expecting argument and posturing, not murder. A quarrel among enthusiasts turns lethal, and the new detective pair have another strange case on their hands.

Sherman Holmes and John Garden meet by chance at the Black Swan hotel and bond over Sherlock Holmes. When murder follows, the two enthusiasts turn sleuth and lay the foundations for their own detective agency.

Miriam Darling thinks a move will give her a clean start, but anonymous malice follows her and grows more dangerous by the day. Falconer investigates a hate-fueled case where rumor can do real harm.

Beauchamp's honeymoon trip to the Caribbean should be a treat, but Lady Amanda and Hugo are soon surrounded by murder, smuggling, and blackmail. Tropical sunshine does nothing to calm this gloriously chaotic mystery.

DI Olivia Hardy and DS Lauren Groves police a decaying seaside town where family strain and criminal violence sit side by side. Their first big case is brutal, messy, and much harder to contain than it first appears.

A woman's body is discovered in Castle Farthing Woods years after her death, and nobody seems to know who she was. Falconer soon realizes the case may point to a killer who has been hidden in plain sight.

Harry Falconer is finally about to marry Dr Honey Dubois, but his wedding day refuses to stay peaceful. With danger and death arriving at exactly the wrong moment, even the vows are under threat.

A disturbance call leads local officers to a horrific discovery, and Hardy and Groves are pulled into a major investigation. The case tests their nerve, their authority, and the fragile order holding the town together.