Ellie Quicke Books in Order

Newly widowed Ellie Quicke is barely coping when a body is found near the altar at her church. Her curiosity, and her eye for what others miss, pull her into murder.

Poison pen letters spread through Ellie's parish just as a church organist's death is dismissed as suicide. Ellie suspects the official story is much too neat.

Ellie's sharp-tongued Aunt Drusilla appears to have died in a household accident, but Ellie is not convinced. Grief, inheritance, and family trouble make the truth hard to reach.

Ellie, still adjusting to widowhood, is dragged into another local crisis before she has found her footing. The case turns on vulnerability, misplaced trust, and the cost of underestimating people.

Asked to visit a powerful, difficult man after his dog dies, Ellie expects an awkward favor and gets much more. Influence, committees, and personal grudges close around a baffling death.

The body of a young girl found in a neglected garden shocks Ellie's circle and puts friends under strain. As pity, gossip, and fear spread, Ellie refuses to accept the easy answers.

When a church lunch leaves people sick and Ellie's homemade quiches under suspicion, embarrassment quickly turns into danger. Family pressure and a darker crime soon follow.

Ellie stumbles on a body with no clear identity, and a friend's grandson becomes the obvious suspect. She digs into names, appearances, and mistaken assumptions to find out who was really involved.

A young mother is savaged to death in the local park, and Ellie cannot believe the case is as simple as it looks. The quiet suburb suddenly feels far less safe.

Laid low with terrible colds, Ellie and Thomas are in no mood for drama until a headstrong student named Ursula brings it to their door. What starts as a domestic problem turns into murder.

Ellie takes in a young rape victim and, acting on instinct, steps into a mess far bigger than she expected. Good intentions, family strain, and hidden motives make every choice risky.

After seeing what looks like a ghost in a neighbour's house, Ellie's old friend Rose falls and hurts herself. The strange sighting is only the beginning of a deeply unsettling case.

Ellie has never trusted the shark-like local estate agent, and trouble touching Diana only sharpens her suspicions. Business ambition and personal obsession soon push the story toward murder.

Asked by a police friend to look into deaths that may be suicides, Ellie finds that mercy can hide very different motives. With young Mikey also under suspicion elsewhere, the pressure mounts from every side.

Vera's past comes crashing back when the wealthy father of her son reappears and wants the boy for himself. Ellie soon finds old violence, buried betrayals, and an unsolved murder tangled together.

When Rose's failing health forces Ellie to hire help, a carer recommended by her difficult daughter brings more worry than relief. Suspicion grows quickly, and not without reason.

A fashionable boutique run by twin sisters becomes the setting for jealousy, bad marriages, and a suspicious death. Ellie has to pick her way through glamour, family strain, and dangerous ambition.

A new Ellie Quicke mystery in which a seemingly small problem grows into something far more dangerous. As ever, Ellie has to sort everyday confusion from real menace before someone pays the price.

After a group of bored wives joke about ways to kill their husbands, one man dies in exactly the manner Diana suggested. Suddenly all five women are under Ellie's roof, and the case turns frighteningly personal.

Thomas receives a string of letters saying he has been left money by someone unexpected, and Ellie cannot shake the feeling that the gift is trouble. Good intentions, inheritance, and murder prove a nasty mix.

While Ellie is away, Diana's husband Evan is attacked and left for dead, and next-door neighbor Susan ends up caring for Diana's children. The deeper Susan and police officer Lesley dig, the more unsettling Diana herself becomes.

Ellie returns from Canada to find her home in chaos and her housing charity tearing itself apart. When a student falls to his death, money, blame, and bad feeling make the truth hard to reach.