Mitchell and Markby Books in Order

Meredith's friend Toby Smythe asks for help when his cousin Alison receives hate letters accusing her of a long ago murder for which she was acquitted. As Markby reluctantly agrees to look into the poison pen campaign, a fresh death turns a troubling echo of the past into a present day hunt for a killer.

House hunting in the remote village of Lower Stovey, Markby and Meredith are drawn into an old nightmare when bones are found in nearby woods. The remains revive memories of the "Potato Man," a serial rapist who vanished twenty years earlier, and someone in the village will do anything to keep the truth buried.

Two elderly Oakley sisters, living in faded grandeur, decide to sell their crumbling house and escape poverty. A young man from Poland arrives claiming a share of the estate, only to die of arsenic poisoning in a way that echoes a century old family case, forcing Markby to link past and present crimes.

When the body of Hugh Franklin's second wife is found on a railway embankment near the family farm, he becomes the obvious suspect. Markby doubts the simple answer, especially as twelve year old Tammy Franklin seems terrified of telling the full truth about what she saw that night.

Meredith gives a lift to a striking hitchhiker bound for a country house, where lawyer and Eurocrat Andrew Penhallow soon meets a violent end. As Markby investigates, the young woman vanishes, and the case spirals into questions of family loyalties, politics and a past Penhallow kept carefully concealed.

On holiday in the Cotswold village of Parsloe St John, Markby and Meredith meet a retired journalist obsessed with the suspicious death of lively Olivia Smeaton. Vandalism, a poisoned pony and another grisly death suggest Olivia's past still haunts the village, and that someone will kill to keep it hidden.

Meredith's old friend Sally moves to an Oxfordshire village with her volatile scientist husband, hoping for peace. Instead they get feuds with a goat keeping neighbour, a letter bomb and a very real threat from extremists. Markby and Meredith must work out who is stoking the violence before it turns fatal again.

Twelve years after teenage Kimberley Gresham vanished, a woman's body is unearthed in the family grave plot. Markby cuts short his holiday to investigate, while Meredith uncovers links between the dead girl, a powerful local family and secrets some villagers would rather stayed buried.

A chance encounter at the Chelsea Flower Show brings Meredith face to face with an old schoolfriend and, awkwardly, with Markby's ex wife. When a sudden death follows and suspicion falls close to home, Meredith and Markby find themselves digging through the glossy surface of a successful Cotswold business.

The murder of a teenage girl who left a pub with a stranger shocks Bamford, and soon another young woman from a prominent family is found dead in the family mausoleum. As Markby investigates, Meredith's friendship with the second girl pushes her into the dark heart of both households.

Joining an archaeological dig on farmland, Meredith expects Saxon skeletons, not a very recent corpse. When the victim proves to be the missing wife of a fellow archaeologist and her friend is threatened, Meredith and Markby must untangle old affairs, academic rivalries and a second killing.

Historic Springwood Hall has been converted into an upmarket country hotel, enraging preservationists and neighbours. At the glittering opening party, Meredith discovers a local campaigner stabbed in the wine cellar, drawing her and Markby into a case full of protests, scandal and arson.

A new housing development outside Bamford uncovers a man buried alive, while a local girl dies of an overdose and a site foreman is killed on a lonely road. Markby and Meredith probe the links between land deals, drugs and simmering rural resentments.

Foreign Office officer Meredith Mitchell returns to a Cotswold village for her goddaughter's wedding and finds spiteful messages, a murdered potter and family secrets boiling over. Working uneasily with Detective Inspector Alan Markby, she must balance loyalty and the search for a killer.

Back in the Bamford area and renting a cottage, Meredith Mitchell is just settling in when her friendly neighbour dies during a Boxing Day Hunt. With the crowded market square as a stage and plenty of witnesses, she and Markby must decide who turned a festivity into murder.