Vivian Conroy Books in Order

Lady Alkmene Callender finds London dull until a visiting Broadway star's wealthy uncle turns up dead. Suspecting murder, she investigates alongside journalist Jake Dubois, whose scepticism about her abilities complicates their search through the family's secrets.

Sent to Cornwall by her matchmaking father, Lady Alkmene Callender visits an archaeological dig and meets a prospective suitor. His arrest for murder brings her and journalist Jake Dubois into a mystery involving buried treasure and local legends.

A relative's apparent burglary murder leads Lady Alkmene Callender into an undercover investigation at a country estate. With journalist Jake Dubois, she follows missing jewels and family secrets toward an earlier death in India.

Vicky Simmons returns to Maine to open a British gift shop, only to find her old crush suspected of murder. A connection to a teenager's disappearance twenty years earlier draws her into investigating Glen Cove's secrets.

Costume maker Guinevere takes a summer job at a castle on a Cornish tidal island while her London theatre is renovated. A staged medieval trial ends in murder, drawing her and dachshund Dolly into local secrets that threaten the castle's future.

Lady Alkmene Callender attends a lavish masked party hosted by her father's old friend, expecting entertainment rather than murder. When a servant is accused, she investigates while her usual ally Jake Dubois conceals secrets of his own.

Vicky Simmons invites a mystery novelist to launch Glen Cove's book market with a signing and scavenger hunt. The discovery of a body interrupts the festivities and pulls the gift shop owner into another murder investigation.

While cataloguing a Cornish castle's treasures, Guinevere Evans hears that a jewelled wedding goblet lies buried in its gardens. Competing claims to the castle grow more dangerous when a body appears on the beach.

Vicky Simmons hopes to leave amateur detection behind and enjoy life in coastal Maine. Then a newspaper serial describes a murder, and she discovers a real body on the beach matching the story's victim exactly.

A woman dies after touching Merula Merriweather's butterfly at a Victorian zoological lecture, and Merula's uncle is arrested. Partnering with a disgraced aristocrat, she investigates the apparently traceless murder method while risking her own safety to prove his innocence.

A dying billionaire changes his chosen heir every midnight, giving each beneficiary one day to inherit if he dies. At a French Riviera villa, retired Scotland Yard inspector Jasper faces a gathering designed to encourage murder.

Visiting a friend's Dartmoor collection of rare specimens, Merula and Raven encounter a missing maid and rumors of monsters roaming the moors. Empty specimen jars and a stranger from Merula's past complicate their effort to separate local fear from a real threat.

Newly married Damaris Ramsforth finds her Greek island hotel disturbingly familiar, then is discovered beside a corpse. Retired inspector Jasper, a fellow holidaymaker, must untangle her unexplained connection to the place and its history of murder.

Delta Douglas co-owns a Montana stationery shop and hopes a hotel crafting event will advance her creative ambitions. When a guest is murdered and her friend falls under suspicion, Delta recruits her crafting companions to investigate.

An archaeological exhibition's supposedly cursed gold death mask attracts attention when murder strikes. Retired inspector Jasper investigates the people behind the display, while a journalist promotes the curse and police focus on a cat burglar.

Delta Douglas prepares a birthday card workshop for former model Lena Laroy, but threats and murder disrupt the celebrations. With her fellow crafters and a retired police dog, she investigates the trouble surrounding their glamorous customer.

At a Venetian masked ball, retired inspector Jasper recognises a woman whose death he investigated three years earlier. When she is found dead again the next morning, he must unravel the identities and motives behind both cases.

To attract customers to her Montana stationery shop, Delta Douglas hosts an artist's miniature mining display. A tiny staged death is echoed by a real murder nearby, leaving Delta to clear her guest and protect the business.

Former teacher Atalanta Ashford inherits her grandfather's fortune and his discreet detective work. Her first assignment takes her to a society wedding in Provence, where two murders threaten the celebrations and place the bride in danger.

Travelling to Tuscany with racing driver Raoul Lemont, Atalanta Ashford befriends an heiress aboard the Orient Express. When the young woman's father is murdered at a party, Atalanta must investigate guests whose secrets complicate the case.

A veiled stranger asks Atalanta Ashford to investigate her daughter's death on Santorini's cliffs. Working undercover as a wealthy family's new companion, Atalanta uncovers troubling secrets while questioning how much her mysterious client has concealed.

In snowy Salzburg in 1930, Atalanta Ashford encounters a murder linked to a jewel theft ten years earlier. The victim's criminal conviction raises questions about the old case, sending her through the secrets of fashionable society.

A birthday visit to Bonn leads Atalanta Ashford onto a Rhine cruise with a wealthy grandmother and her family. When a body is discovered, tensions over an inheritance turn the passengers into suspects in a murder investigation.

Atalanta Ashford travels incognito to an Alpine hotel after her friend Raoul Lemont loses his memory in an accident. A resident's murder makes her mission more dangerous, with snowbound mountains threatening to prevent their escape.

Atalanta Ashford enjoys spring festivities at a historic villa on Italy's Amalfi coast until a guest dies. With her friend Raoul accused of involvement, she must investigate the villa's tragic history to identify the killer.