Stephen Capel Mystery Books in Order

Vicar Stephen Capel expects a peaceful parish after working as a prison chaplain, but discovers a drowned man on Glastonbury Tor. Suspecting a connection to an earlier murder, he follows clues through the West Country while navigating uneasy police relations.

On holiday in Brighton, Stephen Capel retrieves a woman from the sea and discovers she has been stabbed. Suspected of murder himself, he and police officer Vicky Denning must find the killer as more women die.

An unexpected confession draws Stephen Capel into the murder of a software developer just before a crucial product launch. With Christmas approaching and another victim dead, he searches snowy Bath while struggling with changes in his own life.

Stephen Capel discovers a laboratory technician killed at the local school and becomes entangled in a mystery involving music. A connection to a girl’s disappearance twenty years earlier forces him to examine the past before another life is lost.

After Stephen Capel finds his closest friend apparently dead, a publisher receives a proposal containing death notices for people he knows. His own name appears on the list, and mounting suspicion threatens his search for the killer.

A body crashes through a window at Bath Abbey, drawing Stephen Capel and Vicky Denning into a dangerous treasure hunt. An old book and an ancient key offer clues, but the evidence may be deliberately misleading.

A novelist dies on a fairground ride without anyone apparently touching her. Stephen Capel and Vicky Denning investigate an impossible murder that connects literary ambitions, a hidden tunnel, and a long-lost Anglo-Saxon treasure with further threats to life.