Elizabeth J Duncan Books in Order

In Llanelen, an unpopular bride vanishes on her wedding day and later turns up dead. Penny Brannigan was among the last to see Meg alive, and her questions lead from wedding gossip to a darker secret that could shake the whole town.

After inheriting a cottage from a beloved friend, Penny discovers letters and a painting that point to the long-ago death of a young Liverpool artist. Her search leads from North Wales to the art world, where buried relationships and missing works still matter.

As Penny and Victoria race to open their new spa before Christmas, a charming American disappears with a widow's money and then turns up dead. Penny investigates to clear her friend, while a string of thefts suggests the murder reaches further than anyone thinks.

Llanelen starts buzzing when a wealthy Vietnamese family moves into the big house on the hill. After Penny finds the teenage daughter buried in the countryside, she follows the case into local suspicion, old violence, and danger close to home.

Penny attends a clerical conference at Gladstone's Library with DCI Gareth Davies, expecting talks and quiet surroundings, not murder. When the bishop's secretary dies and another body follows, Penny helps trace blackmail, deception, and secrets hidden in shorthand notes.

When Glenda Roberts is found dead at the bottom of a former slate mine, Penny gets pulled in after her own hand cream turns up among counterfeit goods. The police see an easy suspect, but Penny senses a deeper family secret behind the killing.

During a Catskills production of Romeo and Juliet, leading lady Lauren Richmond is poisoned and then stabbed. Costume designer Charlotte Fairfax knows the company from the inside, and her curiosity makes her the perfect person to untangle rivalries, gossip, and motive.

A moonlight performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Paula Van Dusen's estate is meant to celebrate a wedding, until a family friend is murdered with a stolen prop. Charlotte Fairfax juggles costumes, money troubles, and long-buried secrets to find the killer.

Llanelen is buzzing over a visiting antiques television show when a quiet local woman turns up dead and her handmade quilt vanishes. Penny soon learns that a document hidden in an old clock may unlock both a family secret and the murder.

Charlotte Fairfax is busy costuming Much Ado About Nothing when a high-flying British director arrives and alienates nearly everyone around him. After his supposed suicide looks wrong, Charlotte starts pulling apart a cast full of grudges, ambition, and hidden alliances.

While sketching Gwrych Castle, Penny gets drawn into a restoration project that turns deadly when a volunteer is found murdered in an outbuilding. The case pulls her and retired detective Gareth Davies into the estate's history and an older unsolved crime.

At Llanelen's agricultural show, missing entries and a missing guild member seem like minor trouble until a body is found under the baked goods table. Penny suspects the obvious suspect is being framed and digs into a tangle of rivalries and secrets.

Penny organizes a formal dinner marking the end of World War One, only to find a historic Welsh chair stolen and a waiter murdered. The two mysteries appear linked, sending her into a race through old thefts, family ties, and buried grudges.

On an Anglesey painting holiday, Penny Brannigan finds a New Zealand journalist dead on a secluded beach. What looks like a fall soon points to murder and an older disappearance, while Penny faces unexpected changes in her own life.