Andrea Frazer

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  • Bibliography:
    49 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2011
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Full Series List in Order

The Belchester Chronicles

1 - Strangeways to Oldham (Jul-2012)
2 - White Christmas with a Wobbly Knee (Oct-2012)
3 - Snowballs and Scotch Mist (Mar-2013)
4 - Old Moorhen's Shredded Sporran (Dec-2013)
4.5 - Trick or Threat (Jan-2015)
5 - Caribbean Sunset with a Yellow Parrot (Feb-2015)
5.5 - God Rob Ye Merry Gentleman (Nov-2015)
5.6 - God Rob Ye Merry Gentlemen (Dec-2022)

The Falconer Files

1 - Death of an Old Git (Aug-2011)
2 - Choked Off (Nov-2011)
3 - Inkier than the Sword (Aug-2012)
4 - Pascal Passion (Jul-2012)
5 - Murder at the Manse (Jul-2012)
6 - Music To Die For (Jul-2012)
7 - Strict and Peculiar (Sep-2012)
8 - Christmas Mourning (Nov-2012)
9 - Grave Stones (Feb-2013)
10 - Death in High Circles (Apr-2013)
11 - Glass House (Jan-2014)
12 - Bells and Smells (Oct-2014)
13 - Shadows and Sins (May-2016)
14 - Nuptial Sacrifice (Jul-2017)

The Falconer Files - Brief Cases

1 - Love Me To Death (Jul-2012)
2 - A Sidecar Named Expire (Jul-2012)
3 - Battered to Death (Feb-2014)
4 - Toxic Gossip (Sep-2012)
5 - Driven to it (Feb-2014)
6 - All Hallows (Oct-2013)
7 - Written Out (Feb-2015)
8 - Death of a Pantomime Cow (Oct-2013)

The Fine Line

1 - High-Wired (Aug-2015)
2 - Tightrope (Oct-2016)

Holmes and Garden

The Curious Case of the Black Swan Song (Apr-2014)
The Adventure of the Dead Wild Bore (Nov-2014)
The Bookcase of Sherman Holmes (Mar-2015)

Sebastian Snail

Sebastian Snail: Ghost Hunter (Nov-2011)
Sebastian Snail on the Treasure Trail (Dec-2011)
Sebastian Snail: Interior Decorator (Dec-2011)
Sebastian Snail: Private Detective (Dec-2011)

Book List in Order: 49 titles

  • Death of an Old Git

    The Falconer Files - 1

    A village detective series with a delightful slice of humor. In the village of Castle Farthing a mean-spirited, spiteful, curmudgeonly old man is found drugged and strangled in the kitchen of his cottage, with no obvious clues to the perpetrator of t...

  • Choral Mayhem

    New edition published by Accent Press 2014. Best-selling cozy crime author Andrea Frazer's back with her latest novel, Choral Mayhem. Who would believe that choral singing could prove such a deadly pastime? Virginia and Richard Grainger, new members ...

  • The Ear-Noz

    Daniel and Emma were just ordinary children leading ordinary lives - until one day - they discovered the Ear-Noz; or perhaps he discovered them! Whatever, one day, there he was at the end of the bed, staring at them with his big red eye. That he was ...

  • A Fresh of Breath Air

    An account of the hilarious mix-ups and misadventures that occur when a family abandons its everyday life and, metaphorically, jumps off the edge of a cliff into the unknown of a completely different life-style. Andrea and Ian Outen are townies, but ...

  • Sebastian Snail: Ghost Hunter

    Sebastian Snail

    Sebastian Snail is a very bored snail, and has always wanted to be famous. At Halloween, after throwing a big party for all his friends and neighbours, he decides to go ghost hunting with his best friend, Caruthers Caterpillar. At dead-of-night, they...

  • Choked Off

    The Falconer Files - 2

    A village detective series with a delightful slice of humor. The villagers of Stoney Cross were bustling about like hyperactive ants. In gardens, houses, and the village hall, figures flitted to and fro making last- minute preparations for their 'Gre...

  • A Christmas Ear-Noz

    The Ear-Noz had now settled in with the Barraclough family, but as the year moved into December, they discovered that he had no idea what Christmas was. He didn't know any Christmas carols - in fact, he didn't even know how to sing! He didn't underst...

  • Sebastian Snail on the Treasure Trail

    Sebastian Snail

    A bored Sebastian Snail decides to look through all the junk in the attic of his stately home, Pail Manor. As he sorts through things long forgotten, he finds an old family map which, to Sebastian's eyes, looks like a treasure map. Along with his fri...

  • Sebastian Snail: Interior Decorator

    Sebastian Snail

    Sebastian Snail has just finished decorating his hall. After he has scrubbed his shell clean, he decides he has done a magnificent job, and ought to advertise his services and good taste to others who would like to transform their homes. What he fail...



  • Sebastian Snail: Private Detective

    Sebastian Snail

    Sebastian Snail was bored. As usual! But when his oldest and best friend Caruthers Caterpillar had ALL his boots stolen from outside his house one night, Sebastian realised that this was a job for Sebastian Snail - Private Detective. Bobby Bluebottle...

  • Strangeways to Oldham

    The Belchester Chronicles - 1

    A Lady Amanda Golightly Murder Mystery From the author of The Falconer Files - a new series featuring an outrageously ill-assorted pair of amateur sleuths. An outpouring of English upper class eccentricities with the odd murder thrown in. Lady Amanda...

  • Love Me To Death

    The Falconer Files - Brief Cases - 1

    A Christmas short story. The first of an occasional series of short stories (covering the elapsed time between the books in The Falconer Files series.) On Christmas Day the two detectives are summoned to a block of apartments in Market Darley, to inv...

  • Murder at the Manse

    The Falconer Files - 5

    Murder at the Manse is the fifth installment of Andrea Frazer’s Falconer Files, a detective series chock-full of picture-postcard villages, dastardly deeds, and a delightful slice of humour. Jefferson Grammaticus and his business partners, Jocelyn ...

  • Music To Die For

    The Falconer Files - 6

    Music to Die For is the sixth installment of Andrea Frazer’s Falconer Files, a detective series chock-full of picture-postcard villages, dastardly deeds, and a delightful slice of humour. The last three Musical Directors of 'The Dalziels' had left ...

  • Pascal Passion

    The Falconer Files - 4

    Pascal Passion is the fourth installment of Andrea Frazer’s Falconer Files, a detective series chock-full of picture-postcard villages, dastardly deeds, and a delightful slice of humour. Shepford Stacey is an unassuming little village, its greatest...

  • A Sidecar Named Expire

    The Falconer Files - Brief Cases - 2

    The second of an occasional series of short stories covering the elapsed time between the books in The Falconer Files series. This story covers events that occur between the books 'Inkier than the Sword' and 'Pascal Passion' A young man and his girlf...

  • Inkier than the Sword

    The Falconer Files - 3

    A village detective series with a delightful slice of humor. In the quiet village of Steynham St Michael there is an anonymous letter writer at work, jabbing and stabbing at the past's Achilles' heels of many of the upright citizens living there. Aft...

  • Strict and Peculiar

    The Falconer Files - 7

    A village detective series with a delightful slice of humor. In the village of Steynham St Michael, the old Strict and Particular Chapel is, at last, undergoing renovation, to the delight of the local inhabitants, who believe it will prove useful as ...

  • Toxic Gossip

    The Falconer Files - Brief Cases - 4

    A Falconer short story in a more sombre mood. DI Falconer becomes involved in a gossip-fuelled hate crime, only to find himself questioning his own judgement when it comes to protecting Miriam Darling from her anonymous persecutors ......



  • White Christmas with a Wobbly Knee

    The Belchester Chronicles - 2

    A Lady Amanda Golightly Murder Mystery From the author of The Falconer Files - the second in a series featuring an outrageously ill-assorted pair of amateur sleuths. A delightful outpouring of English upper class eccentricities with the odd murder th...

  • Christmas Mourning

    The Falconer Files - 8

    A village detective series with a delightful slice of humor. It is winter 2010, and the UK is experiencing it's worst winter for years. This is catastrophic for DI Harry Falconer as he has rashly promised to spend Christmas with DS Davey Carmichael a...

  • The Best Christmas Ever

    From the author of the Falconer Files and the Belchester Chronicles.A thought provoking Christmas short story.Christmas Eve has arrived and the whole world, it seems, is intent on doing the very last of the last-minute Christmas shopping.In some, the...

  • A Breath of French Air

    A follow-on from 'A Fresh of Breath Air' and 'Sacre Bleu! - We're Here', this book charts the first full calendar year of the Outens' French adventure.From tussles with the language, through first visitors, to unwelcome surprises with the refurbishme...

  • Miss Goody Two-Shoes and the Devil

    Tongue firmly in cheek, and sprinkling spilt salt over her left shoulder to ward off evil, Andrea Frazer takes us on a trip to Hell, where the daily grind (and groan) is about to be interrupted by a very rare event.A pebble plinks on the vast black g...

  • Grave Stones

    The Falconer Files - 9

    The residents of Shepford St Bernard are preparing for a party in the church hall in response to a request to boost congregation numbers, only their new vicar is a woman, and a young one, to boot, and this is not to everyone's liking. The morning aft...

  • Snowballs and Scotch Mist

    The Belchester Chronicles - 3

    The batty old biddies are at it again... In this third 'cocktail' mystery, Lady Amanda Golightly receives an invitation to spend Burns' Night in Castle Rumdrummond in Scotland. Although she is dismissive of the idea, her old chum Hugo is thrilled at ...

  • Death in High Circles

    The Falconer Files - 10

    There is mischief afoot in the village of Fallow Fold. In the course of just one night, person or persons unknown have been on a spree of vandalism, scratching car paintwork, smashing colourful pots of flowers in full bloom, breaking greenhouse windo...

  • A Pair of Shorts

    From the sublime to the ridiculous! This pairing of stories certainly seems to cover that statement, with a story set in Hades and steeped in sin, alongside one about the season of goodwill to all and general happiness. I like the contrast. I hope yo...

  • All Hallows

    The Falconer Files - Brief Cases - 6

    DS Carmichael is accompanying his step-sons on their 'trick or treat' rounds in Castle Farthing, while DI Falconer holds the fort at Market Darley police station this Hallowe'en. In fact, it is DC Roberts who has drawn the evening's short straw and h...



  • Death of a Pantomime Cow

    The Falconer Files - Brief Cases - 8

    Carsfold has recently opened its new theatre and the Town's Women's Guild is to present its first live performances - the pantomime 'Jack and the Beanstalk' - over Christmas. DI Harry Falconer has managed to duck two days spent over the festive seaso...

  • Old Moorhen's Shredded Sporran

    The Belchester Chronicles - 4

    Another tongue - in - cheek romp for our intrepid decrepit heroes. Lady Amanda Golightly and her housemate Hugo Cholmondeley - Crichton - Crump return from their visit to Scotland to find a letter informing them that Hugo's sister will be arriving th...

  • Glass House

    The Falconer Files - 11

    New edition published by Accent Press 2014. Glass House is the eleventh instalment of Andrea Frazer’s Falconer Files, a detective series chock-full of picture-postcard villages, dastardly deeds, and a delightful slice of humour. A neglected house i...

  • Battered to Death

    The Falconer Files - Brief Cases - 3

    The third of a series of short stories covering the elapsed time between the books in The Falconer Files series. This story covers events that occur between the books 'Pascal Passion' and 'Murder at the Manse'. DI Falconer and DS Carmichael are both ...

  • Driven to it

    The Falconer Files - Brief Cases - 5

    The fifth of a series of short stories covering the elapsed time between the books in the Falconer Files series. Abigail Wentworth is looking forward to her reunion lunch with Alison Fairweather. They are old schoolfriends who met twice a year, usu...

  • The Curious Case of the Black Swan Song

    Holmes and Garden

    Sherman Holmes has reached a crossroads in his life, having inherited a large fortune from a hitherto unknown relative. John Garden also has a decision to make that will have a far-reaching effect on his future. The two happen to book into the same h...

  • Bells and Smells

    The Falconer Files - 12

    Reverend Florrie Feldman has put the unpleasantness of her old parish behind her and made a fresh start in the sleepy little village of Ford Hollow, a community at peace - on the surface. Underneath the calm facade the usual rivalries and petty jealo...

  • The Adventure of the Dead Wild Bore

    Holmes and Garden

    The recently-formed private detective agency of (Sherman) Holmes and (John) Garden is going from strength to strength. Holmes invites Garden to a meeting of the Quaker Street Irregulars, a society for die-hard fans of his near-namesake, Conan Doyle's...

  • Trick or Threat

    The Belchester Chronicles - 4.5

    The Rev. Goodfellow pays a visit to Lady Amanda Golightly at Belchester Towers, upset by the trick-or-treat antics of some local youths who are apparently using this innocent Hallowe'en pastime as a means of extracting money with menaces. Incensed at...

  • Caribbean Sunset with a Yellow Parrot

    The Belchester Chronicles - 5

    Lady Amanda Golightly's dutiful butler Beauchamp is getting married and she provides him and his bride with a wonderful present - a honeymoon in the Caribbean. There's just one snag - Lady Amanda and her friend Hugo are going too! One of Lady A's old...



  • Written Out

    The Falconer Files - Brief Cases - 7

    A regional television programme, Get One Over, where amateurs search for and discover antiques and valuable objects in junk shops, has captured the nation's zeitgeist and gone nationwide. The Christmas episode is to be filmed in Market Darley, and bo...

  • The Bookcase of Sherman Holmes

    Holmes and Garden

    After their decision to move into the world of sleuthing, Sherman Holmes and John Garden have a tricky time coming to grips with their new roles as private investigators. Things would work out just fine if people didn’t keep getting themselves murd...

  • High-Wired

    The Fine Line - 1

    If you like Rachel Abbott, Mel Sherratt, and Val McDermid, you’ll be gripped by this exciting new crime novel by best-selling author Andrea Frazer. High-Wired is the first volume in The Fine Line series, which sees Frazer show off her dark side as ...

  • God Rob Ye Merry Gentleman

    The Belchester Chronicles - 5.5

    A festive special, complete with Beauchamps Major and Minor. It's nearly Christmas in Belchester and the carol singers are out in full swing. So too are the thieves! A spate of burglaries is underway and the police are baffled. When Belchester Towers...

  • Shadows and Sins

    The Falconer Files - 13

    The thirteenth in the best-selling Falconer Files by Andrea Frazer. The body of a woman has been discovered in Castle Farthing Woods, and it appears that although she had been dead for years, nobody had ever reported her missing. DI Harry Falconer of...

  • Tightrope

    The Fine Line - 2

    After entering a house where a commotion has been overheard, two community police officers make a horrific discovery. Detective Inspector Olivia Hardy and Detective Sergeant Lauren Groves are dispatched to investigate, triggering a major investigat...

  • Nuptial Sacrifice

    The Falconer Files - 14

    After many trials and tribulations, eternal bachelor Detective Inspector Harry Falconer has finally decided to get hitched. His bride - the delectable Dr Honey Dubois!With his trusty sergeant Carmichael as best man, Falconer is in remarkably good spi...

  • God Rob Ye Merry Gentlemen

    The Belchester Chronicles - 5.6

    A short story in the Belchester Chronicles series by Andrea Frazer'I love all the books in this series, a bit of a giggle. Well worth a read.' Amazon reviewIt's nearly Christmas in Belchester and the carol singers are out in full swing. So too a...

  • The Complete Falconer Files Brief Cases

  • Murder and Mayhem

    Five diverse crime books. An opportunity to maybe break out of the mould and try something different.This exciting anthology brings together 5 mysteries that traverse dark deeds and tangled webs across England. In Choral Mayhem, new choir member...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Andrea Frazer has published 49 books.

Andrea Frazer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Murder and Mayhem, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Andrea Frazer, Death of an Old Git, was published in August 2011.

Yes. Andrea Frazer has 6 series.
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