Flora Steele Mystery Books in Order

A walk by the sea turns deadly when Flora spots a young woman in the waters below the pier. With Jack's help, she digs into tangled relationships and village secrets to learn whether Polly Dakers was pushed.

When Flora Steele opens her bookshop one morning in 1955 Sussex, she finds a dead young man among the shelves. To save her shop and uncover the truth, she teams up with brooding crime writer Jack Carrington.

Flora and Jack head to Cornwall for a quiet break and find a body in the orchard of their rental cottage. The case soon opens onto old wartime secrets and troubling questions about Jack's family.

At St Saviour's church, Flora and Jack find the curate dead beneath the bell tower, a strange note in his hand. Bell ringers, mistaken identities, and fresh accidents turn the case into one of their trickiest yet.

At the grand reopening of the Priory Hotel, a singer drops dead mid-performance. Flora follows the trail of a missing ruby ring into jealousy, lies, and another death waiting in the Sussex woods.

When unpopular newcomer Percy Milburn disappears, Flora and Jack find his body in a ruined farmhouse cellar. Plans to modernize Abbeymead have made him enemies everywhere, and soon the killer strikes again.

A plea from Jack's estranged mother sends Flora and Jack to France, where a killing in Paris leads them to a Provençal village full of tensions. Soon Flora suspects Sybil was the real target.

Freshly married Flora and Jack are drawn into another case when a stranger dies outside Abbeymead with clues leading to Cleve College. At the uneasy campus, past drownings and academic ambition make a dangerous mix.

During a historical reenactment at a Sussex castle, a well-liked council worker falls from the ramparts. Flora and Jack dig through money troubles, love triangles, and a second death before history repeats itself.

When Flora visits the village library with a retirement gift, she finds the librarian murdered and an old acquaintance standing nearby. A missing first edition and a second body turn books into deadly evidence.

At a Sussex bonfire celebration, a respected society chief falls from his parade float and Flora knows it was no accident. Rivalries, smoke, and a second corpse bring real danger to the festival night.

Flora and Jack's Venetian honeymoon ends abruptly when a hotel receptionist is found in the Grand Canal. A stolen painting, a missing housekeeper, and a vengeful family drag them straight back into sleuthing.

Abbeymead's autumn fair turns deadly when cheesemaker Gilbert Barrow crashes in, killed by his own prize cheese. Flora and Jack investigate jealous relatives, business rivals, and a case stranger than it first appears.

At a party for Ambrose Finch's long-lost son, the cook collapses on the kitchen floor with cyanide in the air. Flora and Jack soon find that every guest seems tied to the Finch family's buried conflicts.