Colleen Cambridge Books in Order

Phyllida Bright keeps Agatha Christie's fictional country household running smoothly until a weekend house party ends with a corpse on the library floor. When another death follows, Phyllida turns her sharp eye and love of Poirot toward the guests.

At a village Murder Fête packed with famous crime writers, Phyllida Bright is hosting a cocktail party when a guest is poisoned. With every suspect skilled in fictional murder, she must sort ambition, rivalry, and deceit before the killer strikes again.

In postwar Paris, American expat Tabitha Knight befriends Julia Child and stumbles into murder when a woman's body turns up in Julia's building with a kitchen knife nearby. Then a note in Tabitha's handwriting pulls her straight into the case.

Phyllida accepts an invitation to a murder game at Beecham House, only to find the host truly dead before the evening ends. With Inspector Cork away, she must untangle motives hidden in both the game and real life.

Tabitha Knight and Julia Child watch a chef collapse after drinking rare wine at Le Cordon Bleu. The poisoning grows personal fast, sending Tabitha through postwar Paris and into secrets left behind by the war.

In London, Phyllida Bright leaves Mallowan Hall for the theater world and finds a string of suspicious deaths on and around the stage. Superstition rises, the pattern grows clearer, and Phyllida races to stop the next act.

A private showing at a Paris fashion house takes a deadly turn when Tabitha returns to find the couturier strangled with lace. As more trouble hits Maison Lannet, she and Julia Child chase clues through the city's stylish revival.

On the day of Abraham Lincoln's inauguration gala, a man is stabbed near the new president. Lincoln's aide Adam Quinn teams up with aspiring journalist Sophie Gates to learn whether the killing was a failed assassination or something else entirely.

After Fourth of July celebrations in wartime Washington, a body is found hanging beneath the unfinished Capitol dome. Adam Quinn and Sophie Gates trace the murder into a Confederate spy network just as the Union prepares to march toward Bull Run.

As war begins and Washington braces for attack, a member of the hastily gathered Frontier Guard is found murdered inside the White House. Adam Quinn, Sophie Gates, and Dr. George Hilton must solve the crime while Lincoln faces danger on every side.

Asked to observe a possibly straying husband at a dinner party, Phyllida instead witnesses a party game that hints at an old killing. By morning a guest is dead, and the evening's loose talk turns into a very real threat.

Phyllida travels to a seaside manor for Dr. John Bhatt's wedding, hoping for celebration and a little calm. Instead, family tensions boil over and a guest is found dead in the chapel, leaving her to investigate among quarrelsome relatives.

A medium warns Tabitha that danger is closing in on her grandfather and Oncle Rafe, and soon one of their old Resistance friends is dead. With blue flowers left by the bodies, the case pulls Tabitha into the darker corners of the Left Bank.

In Belle Époque Paris, Inspector Guillaume Devré investigates the death of a wealthy young man and finds a famous courtesan at the center of the scandal. The case pulls him through glittering high society and toward secrets of his own.