Lake District Mysteries by Rebecca Tope Books in Order

Four months pregnant and juggling home and her Windermere flower shop, Simmy agrees to deliver flowers to textile expert Eleanor Padgett in Dacre. A peaceful churchyard visit ends with the discovery of a young man’s body, drawing Simmy, Ben and Bonnie into a complex new investigation.

As High Gates House in Borrowdale is cleared for auction, Christopher Henderson encounters heir Jennifer Reade, who discovers a corpse in the cellar and pressures him to keep silent. When she herself is murdered, Simmy must solve a double mystery involving hidden histories and ruthless greed.

Invited to a Christmas party in Glenridding, Simmy Henderson expects seasonal cheer, not a dead man in the beck and an abandoned newborn baby. Caught between suspicious villagers and rising tensions, she works with DI Moxon to find a killer in the darkest days of the year.

At a funeral in Askham, near Ullswater, Simmy Henderson quietly admires the flowers on the grave and meets a young academic and a ninety-year-old matriarch. When the older woman is found dead on the fell the next day, Simmy is named prime suspect and must clear her own name.

On a glorious summer day in Threlkeld, Simmy Brown marries Christopher Henderson. After the guests leave, a young man is found badly injured nearby, and strained police resources fuel rumours. As speculation hardens into a sinister theory, Simmy and friends work to uncover what really happened.

Now living in Hartsop with Christopher and their new baby, Simmy is planning a wedding when an old acquaintance of Christopher’s reappears with a demand linked to a decade-old promise. Events turn deadly, and Simmy must confront secrets from his past to protect their future.

Pregnant and hoping for a quieter autumn, Simmy Brown is drawn into danger when a lodger at her parents’ bed and breakfast collapses in her arms, apparently poisoned. The trail leads to a controversial building project near Patterdale, destroying any chance of a peaceful run-up to Christmas.

Back from a rare holiday and newly engaged, Simmy hopes for calm until Christopher discovers his friend, antique dealer Jonathan Woolley, strangled in a Grasmere house. As old grudges against Jonathan surface, Christopher’s evasive behaviour leaves Simmy fearing that the man she loves is hiding something.

Juggling her florist shop, her father’s failing health and a serious relationship with Christopher, Simmy Brown takes an order for a retirement party in Staveley. When a daughter accuses her own mother of murder, Simmy, Ben and Bonnie are pulled into their most divisive case yet.

Winter in Windermere brings the death of Frances Henderson, an important figure from Simmy’s childhood. An unexpected bequest and the subsequent murder of Frances’s husband reveal old betrayals and family quarrels, while introducing auction specialist Christopher Henderson into Simmy’s complicated life.

Summer work supplying flowers to a hotel in Hawkshead should boost Simmy Brown’s struggling business. Instead she discovers a body in the lake and her friend Ben vanishes, apparently kidnapped. Following Ben’s cryptic clues, Simmy battles family worries and a ruthless criminal at the same time.

After a huge funeral for well-loved Barbara Dodge, Simmy Brown finds herself drawn into the complicated legacy of the dead woman. As old grievances and buried affairs surface around Troutbeck, another crime forces Simmy, Melanie and Ben to decide whom they can trust.

Valentine’s Day brings a rush of flower orders for Simmy Brown, some with unsettling reactions from their recipients. When a man is found dead in Coniston, her deliveries and a surprise visit from an old friend leave her piecing together obsessive messages, jealousies and a fatal confrontation.

Running her Windermere flower shop, Simmy Brown delivers a bouquet with a strange message to an elderly woman in Ambleside. Dark family secrets and a second death draw her into danger, especially when a suspect names Simmy as his alibi and DI Moxon fears for her safety.

Florist Persimmon "Simmy" Brown moves to Windermere seeking calm, then lands a lucrative society wedding. When the bride’s brother is found murdered in the lake, Simmy becomes a key witness and is pulled into a grieving family’s scandals, secrets and dangerously close-knit circle of friends.