Dandy Gilver Books in Order

Bored after the First World War, Dandy Gilver starts snooping into missing diamonds and stumbles into a seaside death that does not look accidental. Her first investigation brings old family secrets and a new calling into view.

At the Queensferry Fair, the Burry Man collapses dead in front of the crowd, and nearly everyone has access to the whisky he was drinking. Dandy finds herself in a village mystery knotted up with tradition, piety, and local grudges.

Dandy follows a kindly minister to Fife, where village women whisper about a mysterious attacker who appears under the full moon. Whether the threat is real or manufactured, the fear behind it is deadly serious.

When a circus winters near Gilverton, Dandy's sons are thrilled and the local social scene turns curious. Then nasty tricks and a performer's death force Dandy behind the bright canvas facade of circus life.

During the 1926 General Strike, Dandy goes undercover as a maid after Lollie Balfour becomes sure her husband means to kill her. Below-stairs gossip, class tensions, and a house full of watchers turn the job into her first real professional case.

Called to Dunfermline to find a runaway heiress, Dandy expects inconvenience rather than danger. Then a possible suicide is joined by another death, and the missing-girl case collapses into chaos.

Remembering one perfect summer, Dandy agrees to help the Lipscott sisters find Fleur, now hidden away as a schoolmistress in a seaside girls' school. Going undercover as a teacher, Dandy finds vanishing staff, mounting corpses, and no easy way out.

With flu sweeping through the Gilver household, Dandy escapes to a hydropathic hotel where a family's doubts about their mother's death need answers. Ghost stories, dubious healers, and a suspicious corpse make the retreat anything but restful.

Dandy and Alec spend Christmas on the Banffshire coast after grim finds turn up in barrels of herring. Between fishing traditions, family tensions, and a thick fog of misdirection, the case grows darker by the page.

In dance-mad Glasgow, Dandy steps into a world of public ballrooms, backstreet dancehalls, and fierce competition. A suspicious death among the hopeful champions suggests the music is hiding something deadly.

Dandy and Alec reach bleak Lanark Moor after an asylum breakout and a convent fire leave the district in panic. Among frightened nuns, villagers, and patients, they face a case full of superstition, confusion, and very human malice.

Dandy and Alec head to Castle Bewer to solve a missing-person case tied to a family curse and a lost ruby. With Macbeth rehearsals, old feuds, and too many secrets backstage, the castle becomes a perfect place for murder.

Dandy arrives in Wester Ross for a birthday celebration and a possible family marriage, but the host is found murdered in her knot garden. Folklore, local silence, and tangled loyalties make the case more treacherous than it first appears.

Dandy Gilver and Alec Osborne are called to Cramond after a ferrywoman behaves strangely and seems to confess to a drowning. A quiet waterside village, tight-lipped millers, and dangerous undercurrents make this one of their murkiest cases.

Dandy Gilver looks into a plagiarism complaint in Dundee and finds a puppeteer murdered behind a Punch and Judy booth. The trail leads through publishing, theatre, and old secrets that refuse to stay buried.

In spring 1939, war worries are the last thing Dandy wants to add to with detective work, but an old friend begs for help finding her vanished husband. The search ends in a village murder and a wall of silence.