L C Tyler Books in Order

Struggling crime writer Ethelred Tressider is already battling deadlines and his formidable agent when his ex-wife disappears near his Sussex home. Once the case turns to murder, Elsie pushes him into an investigation that also tests his own story.

Chris Sorensen thinks he has his life under control until the sudden death of his girlfriend's father exposes awkward family secrets. Tyler turns that setup into a darkly funny, slightly slippery novel about love, sanity, and what is real.

Ethelred is supposed to have died in a plane explosion, but Elsie tracks him to a shabby French hotel full of stamp collectors. Then guests start dying, and she has to untangle the case before more bodies appear.

A country-house dinner ends with the host dead in his locked study and the police calling it suicide. Ethelred and Elsie are not convinced, especially once it becomes clear that nearly everyone present is hiding something.

Hoping research will revive his career, Ethelred takes Elsie on a Nile cruise and walks straight into danger. An attack on his life, an exploding engine, and a murder aboard turn the trip into a tight, floating whodunit.

In 1657, the body of a royalist spy is dumped on an Essex dungheap and the local authorities would rather look away. Young lawyer John Grey refuses to do that, and his search for justice leads into dangerous politics.

A fellow crime writer fears he killed another author during a drunken New Year's Eve blackout. Ethelred and Elsie soon realize the case is less about confession than about who set him up, and why.

A letter meant for someone else draws John Grey into a plot to kill Cromwell. As royalists and government men both assume he works for them, he has to uncover the conspiracy and stay alive long enough to stop it.

What looks like a drunken sailing death turns messier when the dead man's fiancee accuses an entire village of murder. Ethelred and Elsie pick through grudges, ex-lovers, and local schemes to find out who really wanted Robin Pagham gone.

During the plague year of 1665, a man with a knife in his back is found among the dead of London. John Grey is sent after a missing political letter, a trail that forces him through disease, fear, and determined killers.

A compact mystery that turns on the oldest question in crime fiction, why someone kills. Martin Edwards uses motive, deception, and hidden grievance to show how a seemingly simple case can keep shifting under the reader's feet.

After the Great Fire of London, a Frenchman confesses to starting the blaze and claims he had an accomplice. John Grey is sent to prove the story false, but the evidence points toward murder, madness, and dangerous interests at court.

At a memorial for a vanished celebrity biographer's subject, Ethelred unexpectedly meets the supposedly dead man himself, or someone claiming to be him. The return unleashes inheritance battles, old secrets, and a fresh run of violence.

Snow cuts John Grey's village off from the outside world just as a man is found savaged to death in the woods. With witchcraft panic rising around Alice Mardike, Grey has little time to prove superstition is hiding a very human crime.

A disliked academic comes to Sussex chasing a legendary golden statue hidden in old religious houses. When he is killed, Ethelred and Elsie must sort treasure lore, local history, and present-day greed into a workable solution.

When a shipbuilder claims he can prove Samuel Pepys is taking bribes, John Grey sends him away, and regrets it by morning. The man's murder drags Grey into Naval Office corruption, court maneuvering, and a case with very few safe allies.

Ethelred and Elsie head to a remote creative writing course, then snow traps the guests inside. When one of them vanishes and a grisly body turns up, they have to find the killer without help from the police.

Actress Kitty Burgess vanishes after the opening of Aminta Grey's new play, and a battered body soon turns up in the country. As John and Aminta investigate, theatre gossip and court scandal suggest Kitty's disappearance is part of something much larger.

In the decaying port of Eastwold, a by-election turns deadly when the Admiralty's candidate is hauled from the sea in a fishing net. John Grey investigates a town built on erosion, bribery, and the fear that another death is coming.

A failed Barbados planter and former slave owner returns to Essex carrying a blackmail secret and a long list of enemies. When he is found dead in an orchard, John Grey faces a case that cuts close to questions of justice and freedom.