Sarah J Mason Books in Order

Ninety-year-old widow Kate Keepdown summons relatives to celebrate her birthday and hear her plans for her estate. Her solicitor fears the proposed arrangement will cause trouble, but even he does not anticipate a weekend ending in violent death.

Miss Seeton witnesses an armed robbery during a coach excursion and supplies sketches of the attackers. Returning to Plummergen brings no peace, as the retired art teacher finds suspicion and murder following her into village life.

Miss Seeton prepares drawings for a village competition while investigators confront a series of fires. When two bodies appear and her own cottage is set alight, her unusual sketches may hold the clues the police need.

An accusation that Miss Seeton helped a thief takes her to the police station, where she learns of a cocaine smuggling investigation. Cleared of suspicion, she uses her powers of observation to expose criminals operating within her village.

Scotland Yard struggles to connect burglaries involving an unlikely assortment of stolen objects, from valuable art to a stuffed polar bear. Miss Seeton's eye for detail reveals a seasonal pattern that could unlock the puzzling case.

A baby abandoned in a telephone box proves to be a kidnapped Scottish heiress. As police pursue the abductors, Miss Seeton accompanies the infant home and inadvertently encounters a conspiracy with consequences for the British monarchy.

Members of the Phoenix Group occupy an old manor lodge to practice living off the land. When one member is killed with bread dough, detectives Trewley and Stone investigate the strange death inside the idealistic community.

A supermarket chain's headquarters is already unsettled by computer problems and an interfering management consultant. When the consultant is found dead beneath frozen food cartons, Trewley and Stone investigate who turned workplace frustration into murder.

A wave of burglaries unsettles Plummergen while the village gathers for a cricket match. Miss Seeton's drawings of the sporting event contain unexpected evidence, giving investigators a new way to pursue the criminal disturbing their quiet community.

Plummergen is stunned when Nigel Colveden is arrested for murder, and villagers look to Miss Seeton to clear him. Before the art teacher can begin investigating, her own kidnapping turns an already troubling mystery into a personal danger.

Redingote's summer fete usually brings harmless mischief, but festivities turn grim when the local doctor's young wife is murdered. Detective Superintendent Trewley and Sergeant Stone investigate the death amid the complications of English village life.

The suspicious death of an unpleasant scientist places Trewley and Stone on a case involving a secret research project. His experience and her sharp intelligence must work together to establish what happened behind the victim's professional secrecy.

Preparations for Princess Georgina's arrival take a sinister turn when Miss Seeton unwittingly assists her abduction. The elderly artist must untangle the underground operation behind the kidnapping before Scotland Yard directs its suspicions toward her.

A gang steals valuable antiques from Plummergen, followed by the discovery of a woman's body. Retired art teacher Miss Seeton becomes involved in the investigation, bringing her unconventional talent for noticing clues to the troubled village.

While designing scenery for Plummergen's Christmas pantomime, Miss Seeton accidentally makes an archaeological discovery in nearby woods. A body soon follows, drawing her into a mystery that also involves a series of local bank robberies.

An accidental bid at an antiques auction leaves Miss Seeton owning an oak trunk she never intended to buy. Its unexpectedly valuable contents attract dangerous interest, turning a village outing into a threat to her life.

A needlework student dies after someone tampers with a sewing machine's foot control. Trewley and Stone examine the apparently accidental electrocution, following the evidence through a case in which everyday craft equipment has become a murder weapon.

An artist wants to coat Miss Seeton's cottage in chocolate, but she refuses his persistent offers. Meanwhile, elderly villagers die after dealing with an asphalt company, giving her sketchpad a more urgent mystery to address.

A school excursion to France introduces Miss Seeton to a count connected to Plummergen's wartime past. His return visit coincides with murder, while a hidden wartime bomb and her revealing drawings complicate another village investigation.

Break-ins at two optical shops accompany the disappearance of an optician who witnessed a bank robbery. Trewley and Stone investigate the possible connection, seeking to establish whether the crimes are designed to silence a crucial witness.

During the Second World War, a younger Miss Seeton answers the call to serve her country. Her sketching talent proves unexpectedly useful in uncovering sabotage, introducing the artistic intuition that will shape her later adventures as an amateur detective.

Sally Jackson finds a dying stranger on her porch and hears his cryptic final words. Dissatisfied with the police response, she investigates with encouragement from a housebound neighbor and support from an unexpected furry visitor.

A village wedding inspires a quilted record of Plummergen's history, with Miss Seeton contributing designs. Her intuitive sketches uncover connections among hidden Nazi secrets, a diplomat's mysterious death, and a South American dictator's troubling legacy.

A prize-funded holiday takes Miss Seeton to Glastonbury, where police suspect a kidnapped heir is being hidden. Her puzzling sketches and an unexpected balloon flight become part of an investigation complicated by murder and mounting danger.

A failed operation against Kent coast cigar smugglers leaves a man dead near Plummergen. While sketching an old smuggler's tomb, Miss Seeton encounters an American claiming family connections and helps police disentangle the village's past from present crime.