Frances Brody Books in Order

Four months into her post at HMP Brackerley, Nell Lewis oversees a team of inmates catering a high profile village wedding. When the bride's father is discovered stabbed behind the marquee, Nell works alongside the police to untangle secrets among guests, staff, and prisoners alike.

In 1921, while taking tea with her London friend Doris in a smart Harrogate tearoom, Kate Shackleton witnesses Doris being attacked by a mysterious stranger. Tracking down the assailant draws Kate into her first investigation and shows her how much she enjoys solving other people's puzzles.

Responding to a stranger's letter, Kate Shackleton travels to Saltaire to meet mill worker Ronnie Creswell at Milner Field, a mansion whispered to be cursed. When Ronnie is found drowned and a young girl later vanishes, Kate uncovers industrial intrigue, village tensions, and secrets buried on the estate.

Newly promoted governor Nell Lewis arrives at HMP Brackerley, a run down women's open prison in Yorkshire, determined to turn it into a humane, forward looking institution. Her plans are shaken when a man's body is found in the grounds and a prisoner disappears, forcing her to balance reform with a hunt for a killer.

Leeds, 1914: sisters Julia and Margaret Wood face hunger, prejudice against their German Jewish father, and the threat of war. Entrepreneurial Julia keeps the family going with street selling while Margaret pursues suffragettes and romance, as both young women learn what courage really costs.

In North Yorkshire in 1930, a struggling brewery crowns a new Brewery Queen to promote its beer, inviting Kate Shackleton and her niece to the celebrations. When a drayman is found dead in the fermentation room, Kate follows a trail through family feuds, business rivalries, and village gossip.

In 1929 a porter unloading a special rhubarb train to London discovers a man's body stuffed in a sack, shot and unidentified. Scotland Yard calls in Kate Shackleton to trace the victim back to Yorkshire, where political tensions, industrial unrest, and a second killing make the case deadly.

Joining her photographic society on a trip to the newly opened Bronte museum, Kate Shackleton expects a weekend of moors and camera talk. Instead one of the seven photographers is murdered, and Kate must read rivalries, old loves, and carefully framed alibis as closely as any print.

During the 1927 solar eclipse at Giggleswick School Chapel, actress Selina Fellini asks Kate Shackleton to watch over her theatre troupe. When a fellow performer disappears in the darkness and is found dead, Kate links his fate to two earlier deaths and a company full of suspects.

Planning a peaceful August break in Whitby, Kate Shackleton visits old friend Alma, a fortune teller whose teenage daughter has vanished, leaving only a pawn ticket. At the local jeweller's shop Kate stumbles on a corpse, and seaside charm gives way to smuggling, secrets, and small town silence.

Honouring the dying wish of Freda Simonson, who witnessed a pub landlord's murder years ago, Kate Shackleton takes a holiday in Langcliffe to re examine the case. A missing local boy and another suspicious death soon turn the quiet Dales village into a maze of old grudges and new dangers.

Kate Shackleton is asked to find Lady Coulton's long hidden daughter, given up for adoption decades earlier. The trail leads to a supposedly haunted Leeds library where a mathematician is found dead and an Italian organ grinder is blamed, forcing Kate to connect past scandal with present murder.

Sent by the India Office to Yorkshire's Bolton Abbey estate, Kate Shackleton must trace a missing Indian maharajah who vanished while holidaying on the moor. When his body and a priceless diamond both go missing, she uncovers secrets that span country houses, imperial politics, and revenge.

Cyril Fitzpatrick hires Kate Shackleton to shadow his wife, Deirdre, who disappears for days with flimsy excuses. When disgraced banker Everett Runcie is found murdered in a Leeds hotel, Kate's marital investigation collides with the killing, drawing her into a web of money, marriage, and betrayal.

When two children discover their stone mason father lying dead in a quarry, only for the body to vanish before help arrives, their mother turns to Kate Shackleton. The search for the missing man exposes radical politics, buried family ties, and danger uncomfortably close to home.

When a pawnshop robbery in Harrogate turns deadly and a theater patron is found stabbed after a performance, Kate Shackleton is drawn into a tangle of stolen goods, ransom notes, and stage rivalries. Unpicking the connections tests both her nerve and her compassion.

In 1920s Yorkshire, amateur sleuth Kate Shackleton is hired by her friend Tabitha to find Tabitha's father, a mill owner who vanished years earlier from the village of Bridgestead. As she digs into mill politics, family tensions, and village gossip, buried secrets prove dangerous.

In early twentieth century Leeds, sisters Sophie and Rosa Moran grow up poor while their father works in the grand Thackreys' Bank. Childhood ties with heiress Lydia Thackrey draw the families together again when their father is dismissed, setting off a chain of choices that alters every future.

Growing up in 1920s Leeds, Jess Price is torn between her kind, unambitious father and her fiercely driven mother. A childhood bond with artist Wilf deepens into love as Jess fights to save her goddaughter from the orphanage, forcing hard choices about duty and dreams.

In 1914 Leeds, sisters Julia and Margaret Wood struggle to keep their German Jewish family afloat as poverty bites and war looms. Julia hawks pies in the streets while ambitious Margaret looks to a wealthy suffragette's son for escape, testing love, loyalty, and courage.