Lady Emily Ashton Books in Order

After the death of her distant husband, Lady Emily Ashton begins uncovering his hidden life among the treasures of the British Museum. What starts as curiosity turns into a dangerous hunt involving stolen antiquities, betrayal, and two very different suitors.

London society is obsessed with a cat burglar stealing treasures linked to Marie Antoinette, until one theft leads to murder. Lady Emily must solve the crime while scandal and a twisted fixation on her threaten to turn gossip deadly.

At a country house party, a hated host is murdered and Lady Emily's friend's husband is accused. To clear his name, Emily follows the case to Vienna, where politics, old grudges, and real peril wait.

Lady Emily arrives in Constantinople already surrounded by intrigue. Investigating the murder of a concubine inside the sultan's palace, she enters the harem and finds a hidden world where every alliance feels dangerous.

Recovering in Normandy after her honeymoon, Lady Emily discovers a body marked like a Ripper victim. The trail leads through Rouen and toward a brilliant killer who seems determined to make her his next target.

Back in Mayfair, Emily expects books, dancing, and politics, not a vandal marking London's elite in red paint. As private scandals are dragged into the light, disgrace gives way to fear and then to murder.

When Emily's childhood enemy begs for help in Venice, a family murder pulls her into a case shaped by old love and older secrets. A strange ring and a masked watcher lead her through the city's darker corners.

A marquess collapses dead at a Derbyshire gathering, and every guest seems to want something from his death. Emily digs through manor-house secrets, uneasy inheritances, and hidden romances to find the truth.

A pre-Christmas visit to Emily's parents turns complicated when jewelry belonging to an Indian royal family disappears. With diplomacy, a possible curse, and her own reputation at stake, Emily has to solve the theft quickly.

A Paris masquerade ends in murder when a woman posing as the elusive Estella Lamar is killed. Emily and Colin chase a tangle of false identities, missing years, and dangerous impersonations.

A winter storm, a vanished woman in the snow, and a London house that suddenly feels haunted pull Emily into a brief but eerie Christmas mystery. The mood is festive, but something uncanny is clearly at work.

At an engagement celebration on the French Riviera, an apparent suicide cuts the festivities short. Emily doubts the official verdict and digs into resentments, money, and performance beneath the glitter.

A holiday in Greece goes badly off script when a man long thought dead reappears, claiming to be Emily's first husband. Antiquities theft, buried truths, and old emotions make this one especially personal.

After a ballerina is found murdered outside the Mariinsky Theatre, Emily investigates among aristocrats, dancers, and radicals in snowy St. Petersburg. A mysterious woman in white gives the case a ghostly edge.

Planning a quiet Christmas at Anglemore, Emily and Colin instead face rumors of a monstrous black dog terrorizing a nearby village. Superstition, grief, and a secret gift lead them into a wintry investigation.

This short interlude finds Emily and Colin on Santorini at last, ready to marry after everything they have survived. It is a small, intimate pause in the series, with romance, travel, and a touch of tension.

In 1901, a dying command from Queen Victoria is followed by murders staged to echo England's dead kings. Emily and Colin race through London's underworld to stop a killer before the violence reaches the new reign.

A Christmas cracker gives Emily's son a strange clue, and soon a desperate Scottish father appears asking for help. Following the trail through snowy London, Emily and Colin try to reunite a family before Christmas Eve.

A body hidden among the ruins of Pompeii draws Emily into a case shaped by archaeology, buried history, and fresh danger. As she investigates, personal revelations make the search far more complicated.

In Florence, burglaries at Colin's daughter's palazzo turn serious when a man is hurled to his death. Emily and Cécile follow Medici-era clues through the city while a larger political threat hums in the background.

A pleasure trip up the Nile becomes a locked-circle murder when Emily's host dies from cyanide at dinner. Ancient artifacts, old loyalties, and a second story set in pharaonic Egypt deepen the puzzle.

A family visit to a Scottish castle turns grim when the duke's gamekeeper is murdered beside the loch. Emily finds the case tangled up with a seventeenth-century witchcraft accusation and village secrets that never died.

Snowed into a lavish Bavarian villa, Emily watches a series of suspicious mishaps close in on one loathed guest. The case opens onto old desires, trapped company, and a shadow from King Ludwig's world.

When London's brightest debutante dies from poison at her engagement ball, Emily and Colin are drawn into a high society investigation with royal attention. A second poisoning and clues tied to ancient Britain raise the stakes fast.

While traveling in India, Emily and Colin investigate a shooting along the Narmada River at Ahilya Fort. A wide suspect list and a parallel story about young Ahilyabai give the mystery added depth.