Elizabeth EX Ferrars Books in Order

On a winter night in Devon, a drunken stranger is run over by Anna Milne, a widow from South Africa. The death looks accidental until Toby Dyke learns the victim carried Anna's address in his pocket.

Toby Dyke gets a mysterious call about the death of Lou Capell, who had spent the previous night at his flat. As he and George follow the trail, murder traps and baffling clues begin piling up fast.

Caught in a fierce storm, Toby Dyke and George rescue the distinguished botanist Edgar Prees from throwing himself off a cliff. By morning he has been shot dead, and suicide no longer seems simple at all.

Toby Dyke finds his friend John Lestarke-Toye dead in a ransacked room, seated almost peacefully at a desk amid signs of struggle. Toby and George take on a puzzle full of violence, confusion, and false impressions.

A gun hidden in a tenant's room is identified as the weapon that killed the room's former occupant on Hampstead Heath. Kay Bryant knows the people at No. 10 too well to believe any of them could be guilty, but one is.

At a wartime party in London, a famous playwright is murdered upstairs and one of the guests is arrested. Alice Church refuses to believe the accused woman is guilty and starts pulling apart the evening's brittle friendships.

Andrea Stone goes to a famous psychiatrist with an extraordinary confession: she believes she is married to a murderer, and she still loves him. Fear, obsession, and confession drive this tense psychological mystery.

The sleepy village of Wellford is shocked when Professor Verinder is murdered and the only witness is injured before seeing the killer. The obvious suspect looks far too obvious, which is where the real puzzle begins.

Journalist Celia Kent arrives at a Riviera hotel expecting a quiet holiday and finds strange guests, family strain, and a stockbroker with a troublesome tortoise. The animal's disappearance is only the first sign of coming violence.

What starts as an apparently straightforward death keeps changing shape as one theory after another collapses. Ferrars turns kindness, confusion, and multiple possible solutions into a satisfyingly tricky mystery.

Ruth Seabright, governess to Lester Ballard's son, finds Ballard dead in bizarre clothing and the child missing. Somebody has searched Ruth's room as well, turning shock into an urgent, deeply personal mystery.

Advice columnist Alex Summerill is used to untangling other people's troubles, not becoming trapped in some of her own. Ferrars gives her a death, a puzzle, and a steadily mounting sense that something is badly wrong.

A weekend on the French Riviera should be a pleasant escape for Major Mark Auty's guests. Instead, the gathering becomes a tightly wound mystery of timing, motive, and fatal opportunity.

Burnham Priors is a quaint English village, not a place anyone expects murder to settle. But once it does, the village's placid routines quickly give way to suspicion and alarm.

Arnold Thaine is shot dead in a room full of clocks, each ticking its own false rhythm. Ferrars turns that eerie image into a carefully managed mystery about timing, appearance, and deceit.

A cocktail party meant to welcome a fiancee goes badly wrong when poisoned food turns sociability into panic. Soon the questions are whether it was murder, whether the right victim died, and who had planned what.

A disappearance and the stories around it grow stranger by the page. Ferrars combines sharp social observation with a puzzle built on what people hide, and what others prefer not to notice.

Meg Jeacock rents out the furnished cottage next door without worrying too much about her new tenant's sinister air. That easy decision soon looks less sensible when death enters the neighborhood.

A case that looks settled begins to wobble as fresh facts undermine the obvious answer. Ferrars turns uncertainty itself into the engine of a sharp, quietly tense mystery.

Two deaths that may or may not be connected force everyone to rethink the first neat explanation. Ferrars builds a classic puzzle out of overlapping motives and carefully placed surprises.

When frail Alice Robertson dies after climbing the stairs she could no longer manage, the accident looks suspicious enough. Then rumors of forgotten valuables in the house make greed look like a possible motive.

What happens after a woman has been acquitted of murder and tries to build a normal life again? Ferrars takes that uneasy premise and makes it darker when another violent death brings the past back.

A meddler sees or knows too much, and curiosity turns risky fast. Ferrars has fun with gossip, misunderstandings, and the way a seemingly minor nuisance can stumble into deadly business.

Robin Nicholl heads to the island of Mull in search of solitude and finds instead four strange widows roaming the landscape in expensive jewels. Their presence unsettles the island long before murder arrives.

Journalist Margot Dalziel disappears on the way to her rural cottage, and her neighbors are quickly trapped in a web of suspicion. What looks like a senseless crime exposes a community already taut with fear.

A long-lost painting called the Decayed Gentlewoman returns to Colin Locke's life with explosive effect. Childhood memories, theft, legal complications, and murder twist together in a puzzle with old roots.

After leaving hospital, Caroline is meant to recuperate quietly at her sister's house in the West Country. Instead, her convalescence becomes entangled with danger, suspicion, and a mystery that refuses to stay restful.

Antonia Winfield has the uncomfortable feeling that a man in a brown suit is following her. Her supposedly restful trip to a Greek island becomes something very different when he turns up there too.

A cold thread of fear runs through this mystery as small clues harden into real danger. Ferrars keeps the violence mostly offstage and lets dread grow through motive, timing, and conversation.

Helena Sebright takes a temporary post in the newly independent African state of Uyowa, escorting a seven-year-old girl into an unfamiliar world. Politics, personal strain, and danger make the assignment far riskier than it first appears.

After being widowed on Madeira, Roberta struggles to manage her life until her half-sister arrives to help, bringing troubles of her own. The island setting soon proves fertile ground for murder and uneasy dependence.

An isolated setting and a strangely linked group of people give this mystery its eerie pull. Ferrars lets the odd atmosphere build slowly before the danger becomes impossible to ignore.

Holly Dunthorne returns to Roydon Saint Agnes to find a friend accused of attacking an old man and the one witness determined to stay silent. Then murder follows, and home becomes a place of dread.

A perfectly ordinary English bookseller becomes obsessed with an unusual woman and finds himself drawn into a web of scientists, politics, and spies. The trail leads from London to Madeira and grows steadily more dangerous.

A seemingly ordinary situation turns sinister as buried tensions rise and Superintendent Ditteridge has to sort truth from panic. The novel balances village atmosphere with steady police work.

A close little world, full of acquaintances, grievances, and old habits, is rocked by murder. Ferrars is especially good here on how well people think they know one another, and how wrong they can be.

Martha Crayle's trust is tested when a frightened girl arrives at the Guild for the Welfare of Unmarried Mothers. Before long, a benefactress is dead and compassion gives way to suspicion.

Dr Charles Gair is found hanging, but hanging is not what killed him. The case gets stranger still when investigators discover a second body, perfectly mummified, inside his unsettling house.

A supposed failure or scapegoat becomes central to a death that is not as simple as it first appears. Ferrars uses shifting loyalties and quiet malice to keep the puzzle moving.

On a wet, stormy night, the very ill novelist Dan Braile leaves the house for a walk and does not come back. His disappearance opens a tense mystery of family feeling, fear, and concealed truth.

Matthew Tierney finds his wife's strangled body and immediately becomes the obvious suspect. Hoping to escape the scandal, he heads to the seaside, only to discover that murder has traveled there with him.

An oddly bright image at the center of a dark case leads to secrets, misdirection, and murder. Ferrars keeps the tone civilized while letting suspicion spread through every conversation.

A country-house circle and a violent death put several ambitions on display at once. Ferrars turns small frictions and offhand remarks into a neatly tightening puzzle.

Virginia Freer's elderly patient dies, leaving behind a suspicious will, missing valuables, and more questions than money. With Felix suddenly back in her life, Virginia finds herself in the middle of three violent deaths.

Peter Corey goes to Madeira to check on an old friend's estranged husband and arrives to find Alec Methven dead. Another killing follows, and even Peter's strong alibi cannot keep him clear of suspicion.

A weekend with friends puts Virginia Freer face to face with a charming liar from the past. Then murder strikes, and Virginia and Felix have to cut through old grievances, false fronts, and village talk.

At the Institute of Pomology at King's Weltham, the arrival of Sam Partlett spreads discord through a close scientific community. When somebody else turns up dead instead, Inspector Day has to sort out experiments of a very different kind.

Virginia and Felix are drawn into a case tangled in family loyalties, half-truths, and private grudges. What looks like a domestic problem becomes far more dangerous once old hurts resurface.

Henrietta Cosgrove's eightieth birthday luncheon brings her stepchildren together under one charming thatched roof. The family celebration soon curdles into a macabre mystery when a long-hidden secret is violently uncovered.

Virginia Freer becomes entangled with an antique-dealing couple in her small town, and then one of them is murdered. What seems like a local upset turns into a sharp little puzzle about performance, greed, and deception.

Newly retired Andrew Basnett settles into an Oxfordshire village for what should be a quiet interval. Instead, an old murder, a blizzard, and a fresh killing pull the retired botanist into his first case.

Andrew Basnett is drawn into a case shaped by money, resentment, and respectable faces hiding ugly motives. His quiet, observant way of listening proves sharper than anyone expects.

Felix is laid up in Virginia's spare room when a friend's inheritance, an orphaned young cousin, and a disappearance stir the neighborhood. Kidnapping, suspicion, and murder follow quickly, and Felix is as skeptical as ever.

Andrew Basnett heads to Adelaide for Christmas expecting a pleasant holiday. Instead he finds an old, unresolved shadow hanging over the gathering, and before long the puzzle hardens into murder.

Andrew Basnett accompanies an old friend to a Berkshire village after a blackmail letter arrives. The threat seems ugly enough on its own, but murder soon proves that blackmail was only the beginning.

Andrew Basnett returns to Knotlington to help an old friend and walks straight into unfinished business. A past killing, uneasy local history, and fresh danger make this far more than a courtesy visit.

What begins as a death surrounded by anger and accusation turns into a bitter test of memory, motive, and self-control. Ferrars keeps shifting sympathy while tightening the case.

Virginia and Felix are pulled into a case where uneasy consciences, old lies, and a suspicious death refuse to stay buried. Their difficult partnership gives the mystery both its bite and its charm.

Two days before Christmas, Andrew Basnett is enjoying his usual holiday stay with friends in Berkshire when the season turns distinctly uncomfortable. Old suspicions, strained relationships, and a violent death show that there is indeed smoke, and probably fire.

The past presses hard on the present in this neatly tangled mystery. Ferrars shows how an old death, or what people believe about it, can still threaten the living.

Silence, rather than explanation, drives this mystery forward. As questions multiply and answers refuse to come, Ferrars turns hesitation and omission into the most dangerous clues of all.

Virginia Freer adopts an elderly, unwanted dog and soon finds herself entangled in another knotty case. Felix arrives, suspicions multiply, and a seemingly small domestic problem turns into murder.

Alison Goodrich takes a post at a wealthy couple's weekend retreat and quickly suspects her sister's supposed disappearance is not what it seems. When murder follows, she discovers just how sinister the household really is.

Family feeling and family resentment sit side by side in this dark domestic mystery. Ferrars patiently exposes what siblings and relatives will protect, and what they may kill to conceal.

A country visit that should relieve Andrew Basnett's post-book restlessness turns into a murder case. As he listens to village talk and watches old tensions surface, the quiet pleasures of rural life prove anything but harmless.

Retired headmaster Malcolm Chance expects a peaceful life in Ravenswood, but village curiosity and a troubling death upset the calm. Ferrars plays cleverly with appearances, asking whether witnesses really see clearly, or only what they expect.

When an elderly neighbor is killed in a hit-and-run outside Virginia Freer's house, Felix reappears just in time to complicate everything. What starts as an apparent accident soon opens into a darker chain of crimes.

A chance meeting with his nephew at the seaside pulls Andrew Basnett into a glamorous social circle and then into murder. When a woman is found shot after a dinner party, the case turns on observation, nerves, and hidden loyalties.

A night-time intrusion starts a final Ferrars puzzle in which fear, secrecy, and misdirection ripple through an apparently ordinary English setting. Quiet on the surface, the case grows steadily more uneasy as hidden motives come to light.