G.J. Bellamy Books in Order

Private investigator Brent Umber interrupts his vacation to investigate a sudden death at the Brewster family’s grand ancestral home. As he persuades relatives, friends and servants to talk, shifting accounts complicate the question of murder or suicide.

Private investigator Brent Umber welcomes an invitation to help police solve a vineyard owner’s murder. With no obvious motive and few useful clues, he must draw out the people around the victim to discover why she was killed in broad daylight.

A man is shot during dinner at an expensive restaurant, yet apparently no one sees the killer. Private investigator Brent Umber, present on a date, takes on the puzzling case while his own romantic and domestic life grows complicated.

Brent Umber investigates an accusation that a detective killed a fellow officer he once trained. With few clues and uncertain suspects, Brent faces a difficult search for the truth behind a crime that threatens confidence in the investigators themselves.

Brent Umber books a skiing holiday after growing restless without a murder case. At Ghost Hawk Ridge, a young ski patrol worker’s apparently accidental death draws him back into investigation, where hidden motives and uncertain allies make an outsider vulnerable.

Asked to review an almost completed murder investigation, Brent Umber has only days to prevent a possible wrongful arrest. Exploring the hidden sides of admired victim Chris Kerr draws him into unfamiliar territory, where murder is only one of the crimes concealed.

At Lady Holme, home of Lord and Lady Hazlett, a death draws Sophie Burgoyne and her secret agents into an investigation. In the autumn of 1920, the Hampshire estate conceals dangerous secrets beneath its peaceful appearance.

Facing genteel poverty in postwar Britain, Sophie Burgoyne moves to London and opens an agency supplying domestic servants. Her connections to wealthy families soon draw her into murder investigations and a hidden struggle against enemies of the government.

At a Belgravia birthday celebration, Sophie Burgoyne’s agency plans to bring down the influential Lord Stokely. His political ambitions and hidden allies turn the operation into a struggle for survival as unrest threatens the peace of postwar Britain.

An escaped killer and a looming national crisis send Sophie, Ada and Flora undercover to Dredemere Castle. Beneath its celebrated beauty they encounter suspicion and fresh dangers while racing to prevent an assassination from threatening Britain’s fragile peace.

In spring 1921, Sophie Burgoyne’s agents investigate a murder in a respectable London garden square. A nearby Soviet household must remain undisturbed under Home Office orders, leaving them to uncover a killer without provoking an international diplomatic crisis.

A killing offers Scotland Yard a chance to penetrate a longstanding feud between two aristocratic families. Sophie Burgoyne’s agency goes undercover at Dumond Hall, where festivities, hostile relatives and the presence of a known spy make gathering evidence particularly dangerous.

A threat to London sends Sophie Burgoyne and her agents into royal circles during the 1920s. With king and country in danger, they must discover the people and methods behind a planned catastrophe before the opportunity to stop it disappears.

A comfortable surveillance assignment turns deadly when competing foreign agents converge around a London house in 1921. Sophie Burgoyne’s team must identify an assassin among the spies while an unseen threat moves dangerously close to their own operation.

In England in 1925, a death on a dark common draws former colonial policeman Freddie and observant secretary June into an investigation. The victim’s family closes ranks, forcing the unlikely partners to break through secrecy before they can identify a murderer.