Francine Mathews Books in Order

Jane visits her friend Isobel at Scargrave Manor just as the Earl dies in agony and scandal begins to spread. When Isobel and the Earl's nephew fall under suspicion, Jane digs through gossip, letters, and poison to clear her friend's name.

On a holiday in Lyme Regis, Jane meets the brooding Geoffrey Sidmouth just as a hanging points toward the town's secret smuggling ring. Her search for the shadowy Reverend pulls her into danger, and into a very inconvenient attraction.

In Christmas season Bath, Jane agrees to watch over a young aristocrat at a masquerade, only to find a theater manager stabbed and a friend accused. Amid actors, flirtations, and false identities, she must separate performance from murder.

At the Canterbury Races, Jane watches a flamboyant Frenchwoman seize everyone's attention, then turn up strangled hours later. As invasion rumors spread through Kent, the case begins to look less like scandal and more like espionage.

Visiting Derbyshire, Jane finds the mutilated body of a supposed young man, only to learn the victim was a maid from Penfolds Hall in disguise. Old grudges, family secrets, and whispers of ritual murder lead her into rough country.

In Southampton, Jane joins her brother Frank in defending naval captain Tom Seagrave, accused of murder after a sea battle. When another killing follows, she must untangle wartime lies, loyalty, and political intrigue before the noose tightens.

At ruined Netley Abbey, Jane is drawn into Lord Harold Trowbridge's hunt for a traitor with French ties. Fires, sabotage, and murder follow as she tries to learn whether a captivating widow is spy, victim, or something in between.

Newly settled at Chawton, Jane inherits Lord Harold Trowbridge's private papers and the burden of protecting his reputation. Then a corpse appears in her cellar, and village scandal opens onto buried secrets with national reach.

In London society, a Russian princess's scandalous letters become public gossip before she is found dead on a minister's doorstep. When suspicion swings toward Jane and Eliza, Jane has only days to save them from the gallows.

Summoned to Windsor in 1861, Irish barrister Patrick Fitzgerald is pulled into Queen Victoria's troubled court as Prince Albert lies dying. After attacks on his household and a dead girl, he uncovers a secret dangerous enough to shake the monarchy.

Landscape designer Jo Bellamy comes to Sissinghurst to study Vita Sackville-West's White Garden and recover from family grief. Then she finds what seems to be Virginia Woolf's last diary, and the discovery pulls her into a literary mystery with real danger.

In fashionable Brighton, Jane finds a young woman dead in Lord Byron's bedchamber and must decide whether the notorious poet is cad, scapegoat, or killer. The case tests her judgment as much as her nerves.

A corpse in pilgrim's clothes turns up on the Pilgrim's Way near Edward Austen's estate just as a notorious widow prepares to remarry. Jane follows old debts, disguises, and a vanished gambler toward another death.

Snowbound at The Vyne for a Regency Christmas, Jane watches holiday cheer sour after a guest dies in what looks like an accident. Charades, old grudges, and closed room tension make every reveler a suspect.

While visiting her ailing brother Henry in 1815 London, Jane stumbles over a dying officer in the Prince Regent's library. His final clue sends her into a hunt for hidden treasure and a killer with much to protect.

This historical novel follows Jennie Jerome, the American-born woman who became Lady Randolph Churchill and Winston's mother. Barron traces her marriage, ambitions, affairs, and political instincts in a life lived between Gilded Age glamour and strict Victorian rules.

Ill and worn down in 1816, Jane travels with Cassandra to Cheltenham Spa hoping rest and the waters will help. Instead she finds a house full of uneasy strangers, and a crime that may be stopped only if she acts quickly.