Marian Babson Books in Order

Denny thinks he is rescuing a beautiful young wife from her cruel husband, especially once she puts a gun in his hands. Her plan seems simple until danger comes from a direction neither of them expected.

Two American teenage sisters travel to England for a dream trip that quickly turns frightening. After a violent attack, Amy watches the quiet mews below her window and waits for the assailant who may come back to finish the job.

While painter David is away in America, his wife Zita is left minding the child of his difficult ex-wife. Then the girl is kidnapped, a Thames-side search uncovers a corpse, and a bitter money feud erupts.

Four wealthy women board an Italian luxury liner from New York to Genoa expecting style and leisure. Instead, secrets and suspicion follow them to sea, and the voyage heads straight toward murder.

When a businessman vanishes after a trip, money disappears from the company vault, and his secretary is found dead in his car, nothing adds up. The case turns into a tense puzzle about flight, fraud, and what really happened on the road.

A large Irish Catholic family is edging through intermarriages, old loyalties, and domestic friction when murder intrudes. Humor, family chaos, and a wary cat sit alongside a darker question about who in the household can be trusted.

On the eve of London's Lord Mayor's parade, a missing child leads to fears of a larger plot hiding in plain sight. The search races toward a public celebration that may be far more dangerous than it looks.

Frances Armitage is hired to chaperone Twinkle, a difficult child film star shooting in England. When attempts are made on the girl's life, Frances has to protect a child who may be making enemies faster than adults can count.

A sick child, a fogbound Dartmoor estate, and an escaped killer collide just as a helicopter is meant to fly one family back to London. What begins as a rescue turns into a desperate fight for survival in the air.

A family of squatters takes over a house on a comfortable London street and throws the neighbors into chaos. Then the pregnant mother is found murdered, and the quarrels on Crozier Crescent grow much darker.

At Maude Daneson's rooming house, Christmas preparations are in full swing while a killer moves through London unnoticed. When murder reaches dangerously close to home, holiday cheer gives way to fear and suspicion.

A London evening paper's managing editor begins to suspect that the deaths of two reporters were no accidents. Chasing the truth means looking hard at the stories they were working, and at who wanted them silenced.

Dorrie Wilson joins a long line outside a department store for a much-hyped New Year's sale. By the fourth day, boredom, tension, and strange behavior curdle into something far darker than bargain hunting.

Dorrie Wilson joins a long line outside a department store for a much-hyped New Year's sale. By the fourth day, boredom, tension, and strange behavior curdle into something far darker than bargain hunting.

Stacey Orpington is escorting a priceless jewel collection from Massachusetts to London when it vanishes en route. The theft turns a routine assignment into a brisk mystery full of nerves, pursuit, and dangerous greed.

American pianist Trudi Kane is working in an English seaside resort when two young women are murdered. Her growing suspicion that the killer is close at hand makes every shabby performance and seaside friendship feel dangerous.

Jean Ainley's catering company is juggling power failures and elite lunches when the lights come back on to reveal a corpse. Running a business is hard enough, but now every client and colleague seems to carry a new risk.

Sir Wilmer gathers his family, banker, and solicitor, and the relatives assume a new will is coming. His actual announcement shocks everyone, and before long greed and hurt feelings turn fatal.

The Harpers swap their New England home for an English cottage, expecting a peaceful summer with a timid marmalade cat named Esmond. When someone tries to kill Mr. Harper, village charm gives way to secrets and suspicion.

The Harpers swap their New England home for an English cottage, expecting a peaceful summer with a timid marmalade cat named Esmond. When someone tries to kill Mr. Harper, village charm gives way to secrets and suspicion.

A ten-day cruise from Miami to Africa turns into a floating trap as panic and murder spread through the passengers. Far from shore, every new death makes the ship feel smaller and the danger harder to escape.

Widowed Rosemary Blake brings her children to a New Hampshire lakeside town for a house and cat exchange, hoping for a fresh start. Instead she finds a skittish sister, a prowling Maine coon, and a rash of deadly fires.

Widowed Rosemary Blake brings her children to a New Hampshire lakeside town for a house and cat exchange, hoping for a fresh start. Instead she finds a skittish sister, a prowling Maine coon, and a rash of deadly fires.

London's Fashion Week turns ugly when sabotage, harassment, and strange accidents rock a designer's studio. When the designer's lover ends up dead, the backstage drama becomes a full-blown murder puzzle.

Reggie and Midge turn their fading family mansion into an inn and agree to host a staged murder weekend for American visitors. A snowstorm traps everyone inside just in time for a real killing.

Silent film star Evangeline Sinclair comes to London for a retrospective, bringing her longtime friend Trixie Dolan. A murder in their shared house puts the aging actresses uncomfortably close to the spotlight.

PR man Douglas Perkins takes on a hot new country singer whose tour is shadowed by scandal, a chaotic entourage, and a domineering stage mother. When death hits the group, damage control turns into murder detection.

Recovering from heartbreak, American artist Leonora rents a cottage on an English estate to paint in peace. Instead she finds a body, an evasive household, and a country-house mystery that refuses to stay buried.

Perkins & Tate are hired to publicize a grand cat show and art exhibit, only to face a stolen golden cat statue and a deeply unpopular organizer found dead. Doug Perkins and Gerry Tate soon learn the humans are harder to manage than the cats.

A London tour group is already rattled by a mysterious death in Zurich when Perkins & Tate are asked to smooth things over. Then another tourist vanishes, and Doug has to stop thinking like a publicist and start thinking like a sleuth.

Evangeline is writing her memoirs when an old rival announces a competing book full of unflattering stories. The feud soon turns deadly, and Trixie and Evangeline must sort out old grudges before someone edits the cast for good.

Celebrity dentist Endicott Zayle calls in Doug Perkins and Gerry Tate after a model dies in his chair and an experimental anesthetic looks suspect. The PR problem quickly becomes a very personal murder investigation.

After her American college-age daughter vanishes in London, Dee Sawyer flies across the Atlantic to investigate. Meanwhile the missing girl stumbles through the city with amnesia, and someone nearby needs her memory never to return.

Hope Bradstone races from Boston to Brussels after a cryptic call about her missing brother's wife and child. A murder on the trail turns a family inheritance problem into a tense transatlantic chase.

Trixie and Evangeline head to Whitby for a chaotic Dracula movie shoot in a crumbling winter hotel. Rival actors, old grudges, and gothic theatrics set the stage for murder both on camera and off.

Shakespearean actor Winstanley Fortescue is pushed from a ladder and somehow wakes up in the body of the theater cat. While his own body lies in hospital, he prowls backstage for the person who wanted him dead.

Hunting for parts in London's pub-theater scene, Trixie and Evangeline make friends, steal scenes, and acquire an unwanted wolfhound. Then an actress dies on a staircase, threats pile up, and Trixie learns the danger is real.

Bettina Bilby agrees to board several neighborhood cats for a holiday weekend. Then a storm drops a pigeon carrying diamonds on her doorstep, and the quiet cat-sitting job turns into a scramble involving greed and murder.

In the writers' village of Brimful Coffers, mystery novelist Lorinda Lucas wants to kill off the sleuths who made her famous. When art and life start overlapping and bodies appear, the whole colony feels dangerously off balance.

Trixie and Evangeline end up in an unfinished Docklands penthouse surrounded by cash-strapped neighbors, vanished money, and simmering grudges. When a body turns up in the river, their latest housing disaster becomes a murder case.

In the writers' village of Brimful Coffers, mystery novelist Lorinda Lucas wants to kill off the sleuths who made her famous. When art and life start overlapping and bodies appear, the whole colony feels dangerously off balance.

Annabel Hinchby-Smythe takes a decorating job for a computer mogul and notices that only his cat seems to truly love him. After his sudden death and a startling will, she must protect the furry heiress and uncover the truth.

Annabel Hinchby-Smythe takes a decorating job for a computer mogul and notices that only his cat seems to truly love him. After his sudden death and a startling will, she must protect the furry heiress and uncover the truth.

Eleven-year-old Robin tries to steal a show cat to impress boys at his new school and accidentally witnesses a murder. Hiding the cat is hard enough, but the killer knows someone saw too much.

Eleven-year-old Robin tries to steal a show cat to impress boys at his new school and accidentally witnesses a murder. Hiding the cat is hard enough, but the killer knows someone saw too much.

Returning to her wealthy English family, Margot lands in the middle of her aunt Chloe's murder trial for killing her twin sister. When another body turns up and the family cat is shuttled next door, Margot starts digging into old lies.

Returning to her wealthy English family, Margot lands in the middle of her aunt Chloe's murder trial for killing her twin sister. When another body turns up and the family cat is shuttled next door, Margot starts digging into old lies.

Trixie and Evangeline join a grand actress on an errand for her dead Pekingese and instead find a body, a fire, and a rescued Japanese bobtail. House guests, inheritance fights, and another death push the pair into another comic tangle.

Trixie and Evangeline join a grand actress on an errand for her dead Pekingese and instead find a body, a fire, and a rescued Japanese bobtail. House guests, inheritance fights, and another death push the pair into another comic tangle.

Back in Brimful Coffers after a book tour, mystery writer Lorinda Lucas finds her neighbor and his cat under the thumb of an overbearing fellow author. Then village tensions turn deadly, and writerly feuds spill into murder.

Back in Brimful Coffers after a book tour, mystery writer Lorinda Lucas finds her neighbor and his cat under the thumb of an overbearing fellow author. Then village tensions turn deadly, and writerly feuds spill into murder.

When Vance's twin sister falls into a coma after a suspicious fall at her employer's remote castle, he impersonates her to investigate. Everyone may be fooled except the family's Angora cat, and the killer may strike again.

Trixie and Evangeline's kitchen fills with cookbook chaos when uninvited guests arrive, including the husband of a mysteriously dead food writer. When one visitor ends up murdered, the actresses and their bobtail cat start sorting recipes from lies.