Michelle Salter Books in Order

While visiting Devon for her father’s wedding in 1923, Iris Woodmore becomes involved in a mystery surrounding a skeleton found on a private beach. A fresh murder suggests old smuggling secrets may threaten her father and his bride.

Reporter Iris Woodmore investigates a local election in 1920 and uncovers disturbing questions about her mother’s death six years earlier. A missing friend and connections to Crookham Hall draw Iris toward secrets that have shaped her own family.

Plans for a railway and hotel threaten Waldenmere Lake in 1921, dividing residents over the future of their community. When General Cheverton is murdered, reporter Iris Woodmore investigates the interests and resentments behind the struggle to control the land.

Back home in 1922, Iris Woodmore is drawn to Reverend Archie Powell while investigating threats against businesswoman Constance Timpson. The disappearance of two factory workers deepens the mystery, bringing her reporting into dangerous contact with hidden local tensions.

A Christmas visit to Winchester turns deadly when a pantomime’s leading actress is murdered during preparations for a royal visit. With her friend’s brother under suspicion, Iris Woodmore investigates the theater company and encounters an enemy from her past.

In 1919, Merewood Hospital prepares to close while caring for soldiers wounded in the war. A nurse’s disappearance and a fresh death expose tensions between staff, drawing attention to secrets that threaten the institution’s already uncertain future.

Iris Woodmore hopes to leave London and escape a man threatening to expose her secret. When he is murdered after their confrontation, she must clear her name while protecting the identity of the person who could establish her alibi.

In Edwardian London, suffragette Coral Fairbanks and Scotland Yard detective Guy Flynn approach the fight for women’s rights from opposing sides. A murder at the National Portrait Gallery forces them to combine their knowledge and investigate together.

On census night in 1911, suffragettes hide inside Parliament while detective Guy Flynn stands guard. When a woman is poisoned near Big Ben, he and Coral Fairbanks investigate connections between prominent families, an artist, and the women’s clandestine protest.

During the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary, a figure known to both Coral Fairbanks and Guy Flynn is murdered in Westminster Abbey’s cloisters. The suffragette and detective reunite to find the killer amid the royal celebrations.

Suffragette Coral Fairbanks and Scotland Yard detective Guy Flynn return in a fourth historical mystery. This announced installment continues their investigations in Edwardian London, pairing two sleuths whose lives place them on different sides of the law.