Miss Clara Vale Mysteries Books in Order

In wintry 1929 Newcastle, Clara Vale searches for a missing pantomime actress who is soon found dead. When her replacement also dies, Clara must untangle theatrical rivalries and concealed motives before another performer is killed.

Chemistry graduate Clara Vale inherits a detective agency after professional doors close to her. A fatal cinema fire gives her a first case, turning scientific observation into her strongest tool against a killer hiding behind an apparent accident.

An exhibition at Newcastle’s Hancock Museum draws Clara Vale into a mystery involving a false mummy and stolen antiquities. Her investigation leads to Cairo, where an international smuggling operation places both the evidence and her life at risk.

Clara Vale secretly investigates blackmail during a shooting weekend at Penford Manor. The discovery of a murdered trade unionist, linked to the threatening note, turns a discreet assignment into a dangerous search among the aristocratic guests.

Visiting Berlin’s fashion world in 1930, Clara Vale is drawn into a factory murder that implicates a Jewish family’s son. Political conspiracies, professional rivalries and an old flame’s secrets complicate her efforts to prevent another death.