Angela Marchmont Books in Order

Back from South Africa, Charles Knox expects an awkward weekend, not murder. When his former fiancée’s husband is found dead at Sissingham Hall, shifting loyalties and hidden motives leave only Angela Marchmont cool enough to untangle the case.

Angela is drawn into the poisonous Haynes family, where an inheritance dispute has already been followed by three deaths. Friendship pulls her in, but finding the truth means sorting through old grudges, fresh accusations, and a killer who may still be at work.

A rest cure in Cornwall turns into a hunt for a legendary diamond necklace hidden in an old smugglers’ house. Anonymous letters, midnight intruders, and too many treasure hunters make this one of Angela’s trickiest cases.

Angela heads to the Italian Lakes to look into a pair of suspect spiritualists and finds a death that looks too neat to trust. Between fraud, old enemies, and holiday distractions, the truth is harder to pin down than ever.

A Hogmanay house party at a Scottish castle takes a deadly turn when Angela finds herself among diplomats, spies, and a fresh corpse. Snowed in and under suspicion herself, she has to solve the case fast.

After stumbling across a disfigured body on the Romney Marsh, Angela follows the trail from a country estate to a smoky London nightclub. Illegal drinking, jazz, and false identities turn a grim discovery into a knotty mystery.

A visit to her very respectable brother becomes awkward when a local farmer is shot dead and the obvious suspect may be too obvious. With reporters circling and Inspector Jameson compromised, Angela has to see past village gossip.

A face from Angela’s past turns her private secrets into a public catastrophe. As the whole country judges her, she has to fight for her life and trust the one man who may have every reason to walk away.

Asked to keep an eye on a princess hidden at an English school, Angela expects political nerves, not disaster. When the girl vanishes, the case widens into a dangerous race involving revolution, intelligence work, and a shaky foreign throne.

Before Angela can leave for a quiet Christmas in Saratoga Springs, her elderly neighbour loses a diamond ring. The search becomes a small but satisfying holiday puzzle, with room for romance and seasonal goodwill.

A wrongly delivered parcel leaves Angela with an ugly hat and a great deal of unwanted attention. Soon it’s clear the real prize is something else entirely, and several determined people are willing to use force to get it.

Stranded in small-town Illinois after floods halt her train, Angela falls in with a vaudeville troupe and takes up a theft case. It’s a brisk prequel that shows her helping an accused young man clear his name.

Trying to leave detection behind, Angela is pulled into one last case by a message from beyond the grave. Old betrayals, long-buried resentments, and her own guilty conscience make this a darker, more personal mystery.

Angela’s belated honeymoon on Rhodes is interrupted by a dead archaeologist, whispers of a curse, and a cryptic note slipped under her door. Blackmail, superstition, and a second death turn paradise into a trap.