Shell House Detectives Books in Order

A chef’s body is discovered aboard a fishing boat during Mousehole’s Christmas celebrations. Ally Bright and Jayden Weston investigate his many enemies, while a letter found in his pocket connects the murder to a family mystery.

After a distressed young man visits her home, widowed Ally Bright learns he has been found at the foot of a cliff. She joins former police officer Jayden Weston to question the apparent suicide and uncover Porthpella’s secrets.

The Harper family hopes an investor can rescue its struggling Cornish vineyard, until a body is found among the vines. Ally Bright and Jayden Weston investigate an apparent accident that exposes buried bones and old family secrets.

Music legend Baz Carson gathers eight guests at his Cornish home for his seventieth birthday and plans a revealing memoir. When he is found dead in the pool, Ally Bright and Jayden Weston investigate the guests’ hidden motives.

Porthpella’s annual arts festival turns deadly when a murder disrupts opening night. With threatening notes circulating and another death spreading fear, Ally Bright and Jayden Weston search through artistic rivalries before the killer can strike again.

A storm isolates a luxury hotel after a former detective is found dead beneath a balcony. Guest Jayden Weston brings in Ally Bright, and together they investigate suspicious visitors, staff and connections to the victim’s troubled past.

Nature warden Pippa Grant discovers Axel Marks washed ashore near the estate where his mother works. Doubting the police explanation, she hires Ally Bright and Jayden Weston, whose investigation exposes tensions within the wealthy Grey family.