CS Challinor Books in Order

Rex arrives at a snowbound manor hotel in East Sussex expecting a quiet Christmas and finds a suspicious death instead. As more guests fall victim, he must work through poison, grudges, and romance in a house no one can leave.

Rex flies to Saint Martin to investigate the disappearance of French actress Sabine Durand at an exclusive nudist resort. Behind the tropical sunshine, he finds jealousy, bad alibis, and plenty of reasons someone wanted her gone.

While visiting his son at a Florida university, Rex looks into the apparent suicide of a student found hanging in a locked dorm room. Campus gossip, hidden agendas, and fear for his son's safety push the case into darker territory.

Rex's housewarming at his Highland lodge goes badly wrong when a storm traps his guests and a woman turns up dead in the loch. Cut off from help, he must untangle old ties, fresh resentments, and a very personal case.

Florida realtor Angelica Lane lands a dream beachfront listing from a polished British client, then finds herself tangled in murder. As suspicion closes in and a colleague disappears, she has to clear her name and figure out whom to trust.

During a cruise stop in Key West, Rex and Helen stumble into a bizarre double murder at a Victorian bed and breakfast. With the inn's unpopular owners dead after Fantasy Fest, every guest and relative looks suspicious.

Rex and Helen attend a troubled Derbyshire wedding where poison strikes the bride and several guests. Family grudges, a vanished father, and more sudden deaths turn the country house celebration into a knotty case.

Rex heads to the Sussex village of Woodley to investigate the killing of Archie, beloved cat and muse to children's author Patricia Forsyth. It is a small case on paper, but neighborhood feuds and bruised egos make it anything but simple.

In this short Rex Graves case, a cabinet minister asks him to solve his daughter's hit-and-run death in London. The victim's fashion world circle offers no shortage of suspects, from her ambitious partner to her charming fiance.

A New Year's Eve party at Gleneagle Lodge turns deadly when the power fails at midnight and two guests are found dead. Storms, old grudges, and rumors of Jacobite treasure leave Rex with a house full of suspects.

Rex travels to Bedfordshire to help an old university friend after four neighbors are killed in a quiet community. Local gossip, tampered evidence, and buried secrets make this village case more dangerous than it first appears.

A glamorous young couple are found dead on Helen d'Arcy's street, and Rex cannot resist getting involved. What looks like a perfect life starts to crack as he digs into the pair's past and the tensions around their home.

After the death of his old mentor, Lord Murgatroyd, Rex heads to Canterbury when the judge's daughter suspects murder. A missing girl and a list of old enemies turn a quiet condolence call into a dangerous investigation.

Rex Graves and his new wife, Helen, attend opening night of a murder mystery play in Derbyshire. When the leading actress is shot backstage at intermission, Rex must sort through a cast full of masks, secrets, and old-fashioned sleuthing games.