Gwen Moffat Books in Order

Gwen Moffat recounts leaving conventional army life for climbing in Wales, Scotland and the Alps. Her autobiography follows precarious jobs, motherhood and mountain adventures as she develops the experience needed to become a professional climbing guide.

In this companion to her earlier autobiography, Gwen Moffat describes life at home and in Britain's mountains. Moves prompted by her husband's career accompany accounts of climbing dangers, friendships and the pleasures of exploring wild landscapes.

Gwen Moffat's search for a home develops into an examination of her relationship with the environment. Concern for Welsh hill farmers leads her toward organic farming, conservation discussions and questions about industrial society's impact on nature.

Bett Martin is found dead in her husband's crashed Jaguar beneath a cliff near Plas Mawr Adventure Centre. Director Melinda Pink questions the apparent accident and investigates, discovering that the centre may conceal more serious activities.

Parry leads a mountain rescue team in North Wales and refuses to acknowledge that he is past his prime. Publicity after a rescue boosts his pride, but the much younger Catrin remains unimpressed by his performance.

Two climbers die on a sea stack off Scotland's coast, and police initially consider their deaths accidental. Their climbing friends argue that murder occurred, making themselves suspects and leaving Miss Pink to untangle the technical evidence.

A landslide isolates the Lake District village of Sandale during torrential rain, trapping Miss Pink amid blackmail and criminal activity. When a woman is murdered and another disappears, she investigates with an enigmatic man claiming to be press.

Climbing guides and their clients gather at a hotel in Skye's mountains, where jealousy and resentments create a volatile atmosphere. Miss Pink must investigate two disguised murders, drawing on her climbing knowledge and understanding of human motives.

Miss Pink visits a Welsh coastal village for Roderick Bowen's birthday after he has defeated plans for a reactor on his land. His suspicious fall and a woman's death in a fire demand a closer investigation.

Gwen Moffat follows the nineteenth-century California Trail across the American West, combining her own travels with accounts of emigrant wagon trains. Encounters with wildlife and landscapes lead toward the Donner Pass and reflections on pioneer hardships.

In Snowdonia, landlord Richard Judson angers local residents by letting trained guard dogs roam a nature reserve. When a vicious dog disappears, followed by Judson and his bailiff, Miss Pink investigates alongside detectives Pryce and Williams.

Eighteen-year-old Helen Weir joins a wagon train bound for California, initially hoping to marry a wealthy man. Hardships, grief and a series of violent deaths force her to confront dangers that test her resourcefulness and resolve.

Miss Pink visits a wealthy ranch in California's desert and explores its canyons on horseback. News of two women dying in a car plunging over a cliff draws her into an investigation involving conflicting identities and local secrets.

Miss Pink travels through the winter Rockies and visits friends at a ranch in Cougar Canyon. Nearby residents include wildlife poachers, and when bodies are discovered she questions whether grizzly bears really account for the deaths.

Miss Pink senses trouble in a Highland crofting village where handyman Ivar Campbell hints at secret intelligence work. After his cottage burns and he is murdered, she investigates residents whose relationships conceal deeper tensions and further danger.

At a Utah ranch, Miss Pink joins the search for Birdie, a girl seeking ancient ruins in the canyons. When Birdie is found murdered and another child vanishes, she investigates dangers hidden within the small community.

Miss Pink's publisher asks her to locate a travel writer who has disappeared while journeying through the Rockies. She follows his trail to Dogtown, where it ends abruptly and contradictory stories suggest that residents are concealing the truth.

Miss Pink arrives in the Oregon community of Sundown, where writers enjoy a cultivated lifestyle amid threatened wildlife habitats. A screenwriter's troublesome assistant intensifies existing tensions, and apparently civilized neighbors begin taking matters into their own hands.

Gwen Moffat retraces John Charles Fremont's 1848 expedition across Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. Her travel account follows the search for a western railway route, revisiting landscapes associated with the expedition's ambitions and disastrous hardships.

Exploring a New Mexico canyon, Miss Pink discovers human remains and a rifle in a cave dwelling. With nobody reported missing nearby, she stays in Regis to investigate secrets surrounding a young woman's recent apparent suicide.

Crime novelist Ruth Stanton returns from a research trip to learn that two village women have disappeared. Both are connected to local landlord Bill Lynch, raising troubling questions about what happened while she was away and where they went.

Explorer Vivien Reid turns to crime writing with editor Rupert Lasco, whom she later marries. Their Highland neighbor Alastair Semple resents the relationship, and his disappearance during snowy weather draws attention to the tensions surrounding his household.

DCI Ted Page investigates a series of murders after the latest victim proves to be crime journalist Angela Jones. Her secrets lead him from London to a spiritual commune and ancient corpse paths in the northern Pennines.

Conflict erupts in a Cumbrian hamlet when a returning husband clashes with a neighbor's son and his pit bull. After the boy dies, visitor Jack Pharaoh rejects the accidental verdict and investigates the violence beneath local tensions.

A drought exposes remains at a Lakeland reservoir, reviving memories of little Joannie Gardner's disappearance forty-five years earlier. When another violent death follows, Miss Pink investigates connections that the flooded dale had allowed residents to leave buried.

Former mountain rescuer Jack Pharaoh considers settling in Scawdale, but finds its peaceful appearance conceals community conflicts. A vulnerable resident disappears, and his connection with her makes him a suspect, forcing him to conduct his own investigation.

A young Scottish writer investigates a notorious plane crash at Ben Torboll that occurred forty years earlier. As she probes what happened, deception and betrayal threaten her safety and draw the people she loves into the danger.

While visiting a friend in the Canadian Rockies, Miss Pink becomes entangled in wealthy Charlie Gunn's family conflicts. His disappearance and violent death prompt an investigation through bitter rivalries, hazardous landscapes and a granddaughter's long-unexplained disappearance.

In the Washington town of Prosper, wealthy residents share a landscape with the troublesome Hubbell family and their ferocious dogs. Theft and blackmail escalate into violence, leaving investigators to examine conflicting alibis and secrets behind the community's divisions.

Miss Pink's holiday in a picturesque Lakeland dale reveals fraud, neglected livestock and damaging rumors beneath its welcoming surface. When the village busybody is found in a flooded stream, the elderly amateur detective investigates on the locals' behalf.

Two suspicious deaths disrupt the quiet Lake District village of Culchet, followed by five-year-old Kim Butler's disappearance. Fear of a criminal hiding among respected residents sparks vigilantism and blackmail, exposing dangerous passions beneath the community's peaceful appearance.

Sophie Daynes values her inherited Cumbrian boathouse, but her husband sees an opportunity for money and pursues a younger mistress. During a hot summer, suspicious figures nearby and a grisly package washed ashore intensify the surrounding mystery.