Caroline Dunford Books in Order

Part diary, part survival guide, this funny nonfiction book follows life with a toddler from age two to three. It mixes humor, realism, and practical reassurance for parents deep in the daily chaos.

After her father's sudden death leaves the family near ruin, Euphemia takes a maid's place at Stapleford Hall under a false name. On her first day she finds a body, and solving the crime may be her only way to save herself.

A collapsed kitchen floor sends Euphemia back to Stapleford House, where a visiting mystic and old family rumors stir the air. Soon she is following Bertram into a dangerous asylum investigation filled with manipulation and medical menace.

Promoted to housekeeper for a trip to a remote Highland lodge, Euphemia finds angry locals, mysterious visitors, and danger circling the Staplefords. What looks like a winter household problem soon points toward attempted murder.

Love is supposed to be in the air, but a murder at a wedding party ruins every plan. With suspicion spreading fast, Euphemia has only her wits, her humor, and her famous scream to get to the truth.

At a Christmas gathering in the Highlands, Euphemia is dragged back into service and into Fitzroy's latest covert game. Military secrets, foreign spies, and a baffling crowd of Mr Smiths turn the holiday into a trap.

Richenda hides out on Hans Muller's estate just as warnings about his past begin to surface. Euphemia finds herself probing old deaths, buried secrets, and a history that refuses to stay buried.

City girl Lucy McIntosh inherits a crumbling Highland hotel and plans to sell it fast. Then the place gets under her skin, and saving it means fighting money problems, hostile staff, and a determined local landowner.

A police raid on a suffragette march lands Euphemia in a cell with women she barely knows and one probable killer. When another prisoner dies, she must solve the case from inside before she becomes the next target.

In the aftermath of the Titanic disaster, Euphemia is asked to search the survivors and the dead for Fitzroy. What begins as a grim duty turns into a much wider mystery when a letter from beyond the grave changes everything.

Reclusive novelist Annie Greig is pushed into the chaos of the Edinburgh festival when her bestseller heads for the stage. Then the actor cast as her fictional hero seems uncannily real, and Annie must decide what, and whom, she can trust.

A New Year's party at Richard Stapleford's Scottish castle brings blushing brides, ghost stories, and old grudges to the surface. Then the place is set alight, two bodies are found, and Euphemia must untangle a very personal mystery.

At the great Ghent exposition, Euphemia expects marvels, not murder. When her chaperone is found dead beside a confession to terrorism, Euphemia, Bertram, and Rory dig for the truth among danger, science, and international nerves.

What looks like a rare olive branch from Richard Stapleford pulls Richenda and the family to Crystal Palace. Euphemia soon realizes the outing may threaten not just the Staplefords, but far larger political interests as war draws near.

A family lunch at the Bishop's club turns grim when a man is murdered before the police arrive. Bertram is asked to sort out the truth, and Euphemia soon finds herself investigating in the last place her family expected.

Euphemia's wedding day should settle old questions about love and class, but a death in the church throws everything into confusion. With Rory convinced it is murder, even getting to the altar starts to look uncertain.

Newly married Euphemia is sent across Europe with Fitzroy in an unofficial car rally that doubles as a spy mission. Sabotage, double agents, and a threatened assassination turn the race into a deadly test of nerve.

In August 1914, Euphemia and Merry pose as nurses to identify a possible traitor among Fitzroy's wounded scouts. Suspicious deaths, black-market dealings, and a locked-down ward make the hospital every bit as dangerous as the front.

As war looms in 1939, Oxford graduate Hope Stapleford expects a dull London Season, not a missing debutante. With Bernie and the charming Harvey beside her, she stumbles into political intrigue that reaches far beyond society gossip.

With war underway in 1914, Euphemia goes undercover at a theatre where stranded French actors may be hiding more than stage secrets. Fitzroy refuses to stay sidelined, Bertram is critically ill, and every performance comes with real danger behind it.

War has begun, and Hope is shoved from an intelligence think tank into the typing pool, just as she is needed most. Dunkirk, invasion fears, and Nazi sympathizers force her into a mission where trusting the wrong person could be fatal.

In 1940, Hope is sent to a Scottish airfield where Harvey is working undercover as a mechanic. Strange sightings, possible sabotage, and old wartime grief make it hard to tell what is enemy action and what is something even harder to explain.

A copycat killing tied to Griffin's past drags old secrets back into the light. With Fitzroy away and Griffin under arrest, a recovering Euphemia heads to Edinburgh's medical school to uncover the truth behind an earlier murder.

This short Fitzroy tale plays with names, appearances, and the masks people wear. Fitzroy's charm is useful, but in a world built on performance and secrecy, it can be hard to tell who is deceiving whom.

A compact Fitzroy adventure in which duty and personal feeling begin to blur. As loyalties shift and boundaries give way, the story turns on nerve, timing, and the risks of stepping one move too far.

Romance and espionage sit side by side in this brief Fitzroy story. What should be a private interlude becomes another test of trust, secrecy, and the cost of living by cover stories.

During the Blitz, Hope is sent to the Ministry of Information instead of the front-line work she wants. As bombs fall, she becomes an ARP warden, Harvey fights fires on the docks, and danger closes in from every side.

The first Fitzroy story drops Dunford's slippery spymaster into a brisk seaside mystery. It is a short, sharp tale of observation, performance, and danger hiding behind a setting that should look harmless.

A quick Fitzroy mystery that leans into his wit, sharp eye, and habit of walking straight toward danger. It is a compact companion piece for readers who enjoy the spy side of Dunford's historical world.