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Euphemia Martins Mystery Books in Order

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Explore the Euphemia Martins books by Caroline Dunford in order, with quick summaries, series background, and help choosing the best place to start.

Last updated: June 10, 2026

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17 books

1

A Death in the Family

by Caroline Dunford

2009

After her father's sudden death leaves the family near ruin, Euphemia takes a maid's place at Stapleford Hall under a false name. On her first day she finds a body, and solving the crime may be her only way to save herself.

2

A Death in the Asylum

by Caroline Dunford

2013

A collapsed kitchen floor sends Euphemia back to Stapleford House, where a visiting mystic and old family rumors stir the air. Soon she is following Bertram into a dangerous asylum investigation filled with manipulation and medical menace.

3

A Death in the Highlands

by Caroline Dunford

2013

Promoted to housekeeper for a trip to a remote Highland lodge, Euphemia finds angry locals, mysterious visitors, and danger circling the Staplefords. What looks like a winter household problem soon points toward attempted murder.

4

A Death in the Wedding Party

by Caroline Dunford

2013

Love is supposed to be in the air, but a murder at a wedding party ruins every plan. With suspicion spreading fast, Euphemia has only her wits, her humor, and her famous scream to get to the truth.

5

A Death in the Loch

by Caroline Dunford

2014

At a Christmas gathering in the Highlands, Euphemia is dragged back into service and into Fitzroy's latest covert game. Military secrets, foreign spies, and a baffling crowd of Mr Smiths turn the holiday into a trap.

6

A Death in the Pavilion

by Caroline Dunford

2014

Richenda hides out on Hans Muller's estate just as warnings about his past begin to surface. Euphemia finds herself probing old deaths, buried secrets, and a history that refuses to stay buried.

7

A Death for a Cause

by Caroline Dunford

2015

A police raid on a suffragette march lands Euphemia in a cell with women she barely knows and one probable killer. When another prisoner dies, she must solve the case from inside before she becomes the next target.

8

A Death for King and Country

by Caroline Dunford

2015

In the aftermath of the Titanic disaster, Euphemia is asked to search the survivors and the dead for Fitzroy. What begins as a grim duty turns into a much wider mystery when a letter from beyond the grave changes everything.

9

A Death by Arson

by Caroline Dunford

2016

A New Year's party at Richard Stapleford's Scottish castle brings blushing brides, ghost stories, and old grudges to the surface. Then the place is set alight, two bodies are found, and Euphemia must untangle a very personal mystery.

10

A Death Overseas

by Caroline Dunford

2016

At the great Ghent exposition, Euphemia expects marvels, not murder. When her chaperone is found dead beside a confession to terrorism, Euphemia, Bertram, and Rory dig for the truth among danger, science, and international nerves.

11

A Death at Crystal Palace

by Caroline Dunford

2018

What looks like a rare olive branch from Richard Stapleford pulls Richenda and the family to Crystal Palace. Euphemia soon realizes the outing may threaten not just the Staplefords, but far larger political interests as war draws near.

12

A Death at a Gentleman's Club

by Caroline Dunford

2019

A family lunch at the Bishop's club turns grim when a man is murdered before the police arrive. Bertram is asked to sort out the truth, and Euphemia soon finds herself investigating in the last place her family expected.

13

A Death at the Church

by Caroline Dunford

2019

Euphemia's wedding day should settle old questions about love and class, but a death in the church throws everything into confusion. With Rory convinced it is murder, even getting to the altar starts to look uncertain.

14

A Death at the Races

by Caroline Dunford

2020

Newly married Euphemia is sent across Europe with Fitzroy in an unofficial car rally that doubles as a spy mission. Sabotage, double agents, and a threatened assassination turn the race into a deadly test of nerve.

15

A Death in the Hospital

by Caroline Dunford

2020

In August 1914, Euphemia and Merry pose as nurses to identify a possible traitor among Fitzroy's wounded scouts. Suspicious deaths, black-market dealings, and a locked-down ward make the hospital every bit as dangerous as the front.

16

A Death on Stage

by Caroline Dunford

2021

With war underway in 1914, Euphemia goes undercover at a theatre where stranded French actors may be hiding more than stage secrets. Fitzroy refuses to stay sidelined, Bertram is critically ill, and every performance comes with real danger behind it.

17

A Death of a Dead Man

by Caroline Dunford

2023

A copycat killing tied to Griffin's past drags old secrets back into the light. With Fitzroy away and Griffin under arrest, a recovering Euphemia heads to Edinburgh's medical school to uncover the truth behind an earlier murder.

Series background & context

Caroline Dunford's Euphemia Martins books begin with a hard drop in fortune. In A Death in the Family, Christmas 1909 brings the sudden death of Euphemia's clergyman father, and with it the threat of poverty for her mother and little brother. Euphemia is only eighteen, cleverer than is convenient for everyone around her, and left with very few respectable choices. To help keep the family afloat, she goes into service under an assumed identity at Stapleford Hall. Before she has properly settled into the job, she finds a dead body.

That opening sets the pattern for the series. Euphemia starts below stairs, which means she hears what she should not hear and notices what her employers overlook. The books get a lot of life from the tension between servants and masters, polish and panic, rank and reality. The Stapleford family provides the ongoing pull, especially Bertram, who becomes far more important than he first appears, Richenda, who is chaotic in a way that is often both funny and dangerous, and Richard, whose schemes keep trouble close at hand. Later books bring in Rory McLeod and the slippery spymaster Fitzroy, both of whom widen the series beyond country house crime.

The setting is Edwardian Britain, but the books do not stay in one place for long. From country estates and Highland lodges to an asylum, a gentleman's club, Crystal Palace, the Ghent exposition, hospitals, and journeys across Europe, the series keeps moving. That movement helps the mysteries feel fresh. So does Dunford's tone. These are historical whodunnits with a lively sense of humor, a strong first-person voice, and a heroine who can be practical, scandalized, brave, and very funny, sometimes all at once.

What links the books is not only murder, but Euphemia's growth inside a rigid world. She begins with almost no power. She has intelligence, nerve, and a very clear sense of justice, but little official standing. Over time, that changes. Her role shifts, her relationships deepen, and the series broadens from household secrets and family malice into questions of politics, suffrage, espionage, and the coming war. The later books carry more state secrets and larger consequences, but they never lose sight of character.

She is never the sort of heroine who waits quietly for rescue.

If you like historical mysteries with a strong voice, this series has a lot to offer. You get dead bodies, suspicious families, hidden motives, and plenty of sharp turns, but you also get romance, loyalty tested by class and circumstance, and a real sense that Euphemia is growing up while the world around her grows darker. The books are cozy in wit more than comfort. There is real danger here, sometimes real grief too, but there is also warmth, intelligence, and the lasting pleasure of watching Euphemia outthink people who make the mistake of underestimating her.

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