Kourier and Ives Books in Order

A retired soldier and former Bow Street investigator attends a country house party to escape boredom. When a suspicious death interrupts the festivities, he reluctantly teams up with an inquisitive young woman whose curiosity proves both useful and dangerous.

Major Kourier’s uncertain courtship of Caroline Ives is interrupted when his friend is found dead outside St Paul’s. Investigating amid London’s Christmas celebrations, the pair must expose guarded secrets while deciding where their own relationship is heading.

On the morning of his Brighton wedding, Major Kourier discovers a stabbed guest washed ashore. The victim once courted his bride, Caroline, and investigating the murder threatens to bring dangerous secrets into their newly married life.