Black & Dod Books in Order

When a literary society member disappears before giving a controversial lecture, Frances Black and Tom Dod investigate. Her death leads them through rivalries, resentments, and secret romances as they ask whether her research exposed something worth killing for.

Troubled by her divorce proceedings, Frances Black travels to Devon to investigate a suspicious family death. An elderly man’s fatal fall and a vanished diamond lead her into a web of scandal, deception, and long-held grievances.

Three sudden deaths unsettle a village already divided by its new vicar’s controversial changes. Visiting Tom Dod’s worried aunt, Frances Black joins him in investigating whether apparent accidents conceal a killer among the church’s feuding parishioners.