Hazel Holt Books in Order

When estate agent Lee Montgomery disappears from Taviscombe, her fiancé asks Sheila Malory to help find her. Looking beneath the seaside town's tranquil routines, Sheila uncovers deception and violence among people whose lives intersected with Lee's.

An Oxford librarian dies beneath collapsed bookshelves, and Sheila Malory's godson suspects more than an accident. Possible blackmail links several suspects to the victim, drawing Sheila into wartime history and uncomfortable questions about her own past.

Sheila Malory investigates the disappearance of wealthy Edith Rossiter from a nursing home, where greedy relatives await her fortune. Missing sleeping pills and mysterious visitors complicate a case that exposes strained relationships between parents and adult children.

Poet Adrian Palgrave takes control of Taviscombe's annual festival and alienates local residents before being found murdered. Sheila Malory investigates his habit of exposing other people's secrets, including discoveries made while handling a deceased writer's papers.

Sheila Malory travels to a Pennsylvania university to teach nineteenth-century women writers, only to encounter a colleague's murder. Asked to help an interested police lieutenant, she investigates academic tensions while navigating unfamiliar surroundings and possible romance.

Sheila Malory finds elderly friend Miss Graham poisoned, a death that benefits a doctor planning a nursing home. An unexpected fortune and another suspicious death during a fireworks display complicate her search for a killer.

Actor David Beaumont's financial troubles worsen when his brother, a cathedral dean, refuses to sell their shared property. After two suspicious deaths implicate David, Sheila Malory investigates to clear her friend of suspicion and discover the truth.

During Graham Percy's annual visit to Taviscombe, Sheila Malory realizes the unwelcome lawyer is blackmailing three of her friends. Investigating his conduct reveals a man prepared to protect his own secrets through increasingly dangerous means.

Unpopular wealthy socialite Freda Spencer dies at a school reunion, prompting Sheila Malory to investigate. Old antagonisms and romantic entanglements provide numerous possible motives, with suspects including Freda's former lover and a much younger companion.

After novelist Beth's sudden death, her old friend Sheila Malory becomes literary executor and begins sorting her papers. The letters and manuscripts expose possible motives for murder, turning the task of preserving Beth's work into an investigation.

Sheila Malory welcomes her son Michael's engagement to Thea Wyatt, until a solicitor at Thea's firm dies after confronting her. With Thea under suspicion, Sheila and Michael investigate colleagues who had reasons to wish him dead.

Sheila Malory returns to teaching at prestigious Blakeney's Girls' School and encounters the death of its unpopular headmistress. Suspecting murder, she investigates tensions beneath the institution's respectable surface, where numerous people appear to have motives.

Reclusive former investigative journalist Leonora Staveley apparently dies from food poisoning, but Sheila Malory questions the explanation. Her friend's wealth, complicated past, and a mysterious visitor near her Exmoor home provide troubling avenues for investigation.

New veterinarian Malcolm Hardy saves Taviscombe's practice financially but quickly alienates colleagues and residents through his behavior. When he is murdered, Sheila Malory investigates a community full of grievances to determine which person acted on them.

Sheila Malory doubts that widower Sidney Middleton's death from carbon monoxide was an accident, especially since his stove was recently serviced. Hostility at his funeral challenges her impression of the quiet man and prompts closer investigation.

Arrogant doctor John Morrison arrives at Taviscombe's medical practice and misdiagnoses a patient who subsequently dies. When Morrison is later killed, Sheila Malory questions whether apparently random violence conceals motives connected to his work and personality.

Sheila Malory reluctantly tolerates cousin Bernard's visit to research their family tree until he dies suddenly in his rented cottage. His discoveries about relatives suggest potential motives, drawing her into an investigation where kinship offers little reassurance.

Sheila Malory's friend Charlie Hamilton is killed in the stables of the riding school he runs with his wife Jo. Further suspicious deaths follow, leaving Sheila to investigate troubling clues within Taviscombe's apparently peaceful equestrian community.

Retired nurse Annie Roberts recruits Sheila Malory to help compile Mere Barton's village history, then dies from mushroom poisoning. Sheila suspects murder and considers whether Annie's intrusive knowledge of her neighbors gave someone a reason to silence her.

Written as letters and incorporating language from Jane Austen's correspondence, this Regency mystery follows English gentry amid visits, courtships, and gossip. A murder exposes tensions beneath their civilized social world, alongside romantic complications in the early nineteenth century.

Sheila Malory volunteers at a charity shop in Taviscombe, where tyrannical supervisor Desmond Barlow makes himself widely disliked. After he is found stabbed, she investigates local secrets among numerous people who had reason to resent him.

Eva Jackson returns to Taviscombe after her journalist husband's death and plans to publish his unused writings. A suspicious garage fire followed by Eva's death draws Sheila Malory into questions about the couple's past and surviving papers.