Ann Granger

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  • Bibliography:
    41 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1991
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Campbell and Carter

1 - Mud, Muck and Dead Things (Jan-2010)
2 - Rack, Ruin And Murder (Dec-2011)
3 - Bricks and Mortality (Dec-2013)
4 - Dead in the Water (Jan-2016)
5 - Rooted in Evil (Dec-2017)
6 - An Unfinished Murder (Jul-2018)
7 - A Matter of Murder (Jul-2020)

Fran Varaday

1 - Asking for Trouble (1997)
2 - Keeping Bad Company (1997)
3 - Running Scared (Dec-1999)
4 - Risking It All (Jan-2001)
6 - Mixing With Murder (Nov-2005)

An Inspector Ben Ross Mystery

1 - A Rare Interest in Corpses (Nov-2006)
2 - A Mortal Curiosity (Jun-2008)
3 - A Better Quality of Murder (Jan-2011)
4 - A Particular Eye for Villainy (Feb-2020)
5 - The Testimony of the Hanged Man (Feb-2020)
6 - The Dead Woman of Deptford (Oct-2016)
7 - The Murderer's Apprentice (Feb-2020)
8 - The Truth-Seeker's Wife (Jul-2021)

A Lizzie Martin Mystery

The Companion (Jul-2007)
A Mortal Curiosity (Jun-2008)

A Mitchell and Markby Village Mystery

1 - Say It With Poison (Mar-1991)
2 - A Season for Murder (Apr-1992)
3 - Cold in the Earth (Apr-1993)
4 - Murder Among Us (1992)
5 - Where Old Bones Lie (1993)
6 - A Fine Place for Death (1994)
7 - Flowers for His Funeral (1994)
8 - Candle for a Corpse (1995)
9 - A Touch of Mortality (Mar-1997)
10 - A Word After Dying (Nov-1997)
11 - Call the Dead Again (Aug-1998)
12 - Beneath These Stones (Mar-2000)
13 - Shades of Murder (Oct-2001)
14 - A Restless Evil (Dec-2002)
15 - That Way Murder Lies (Jan-2005)
16 - Deadly Company (Jul-2022)

Book List in Order: 41 titles

  • Say It With Poison

    A Mitchell and Markby Village Mystery - 1

    MARRIAGE, MYSTERY, AND MURDER The wedding of her godchild Sara is reason enough for Foreign Service Consul Meredith Mitchell to return to England to stay with her cousin, Eve Owens, glamorous film star and mother of the bride. When Meredith arrive...

  • Murder Among Us

    • / Police Procedural
    • Buy Buy
    A Mitchell and Markby Village Mystery - 4

    A PERFECT SETTING FOR MURDER The quiet little Cotswold village is in an uproar over the news that the rambling old Victorian landmark, Springwood Hall, is being turned into an up-market country hotel and restaurant. Some locals are miffed over an ...

  • A Season for Murder

    A Mitchell and Markby Village Mystery - 2

    MISTLETOE AND MURDER Pook's Common in the Cotswolds is a perfect place for Meredith Mitchell to return after several years abroad with the British Foreign Service. And Christmas promises to be a lovely time thanks to the warm welcome from her old ...

  • Where Old Bones Lie

    • / Police Procedural
    • Buy Buy
    A Mitchell and Markby Village Mystery - 5

    Meredith Mitchell has joined her friend, archaeologist Ursula Gretton, in the Cotswold village farmland, digging for the old bones of Saxon warriors. But it's the discovery of some very new bones that brings Inspector Alan Markby to the ancient buria...

  • Cold in the Earth

    A Mitchell and Markby Village Mystery - 3

    EVIL UNEARTHED Progress has overtaken the charming English village of Bamford in the Cotswolds -- and Chief Inspector Alan Markby resents the heartless desecration of his boyhood home. But when a bulldozer uncovers the corpse of a mystery man buri...

  • A Fine Place for Death

    • / Police Procedural
    • Buy Buy
    A Mitchell and Markby Village Mystery - 6

    BRUTAL YOUTH A teenage girl is slain in Bamford -- and the peaceful Cotswolds village will never be the same. Chief Inspector Alan Markby knows little about the victim -- an underage regular at a local pub who left in the company of an unknown man...

  • Flowers for His Funeral

    • / Police Procedural
    • Buy Buy
    A Mitchell and Markby Village Mystery - 7

    A THORN AMONG THE ROSES Meredith Mitchell had plenty of time to regret having impulsively greeted an old schoolmate, Rachel Hunter, at the Chelsea Flower Show. She and Rachel had never been close, yet Meredith was suddenly caught up chatting with ...

  • Candle for a Corpse

    • / Police Procedural
    • Buy Buy
    A Mitchell and Markby Village Mystery - 8

    WHO MOURNS THE FORGOTTEN DEPARTED? The last of the Greshams has died in the quaint Cotswolds village of Bamford. But the dowager's interment unearths something shocking in the Gresham family plot: the remains of a pregnant teenager who disappeared...

  • Asking for Trouble

    • / Private Investigator
    • Buy Buy
    Fran Varaday - 1

    Fran Varady is insolvent, unemployed and -- though for the moment she's got a leaky roof over her head -- about to be homeless. Her dreams of becoming an actress, nurtured when her father and grandmother were still alive, seem a long way off. But the...



  • Keeping Bad Company

    • / Private Investigator
    • Buy Buy
    Fran Varaday - 2

    A second crime novel featuring private investigator Fran Varady who is ridiculed by the police when she tells them about the kidnap of a girl witnessed by an alcoholic vagrant. Then, two days later, she is approached by a business associate of her fa...

  • A Touch of Mortality

    A Mitchell and Markby Village Mystery - 9

    MISCHIEF BY MAIL Meredith Mitchell's old friend, Sally Caswell, and her scientist husband Liam have moved from London to quiet, rural Oxfordshire, hoping they might enjoy a more peaceful atmosphere where Liam could concentrate on his latest projec...

  • A Word After Dying

    A Mitchell and Markby Village Mystery - 10

    MURDER TAKES NO HOLIDAY Inspector Alan Markby and his long-time friend Meredith Mitchell have taken a cottage in the country for a much needed holiday. But no sooner are they relaxing with a neighbor over a glass of blackberry wine, when Markby is...

  • Call the Dead Again

    A Mitchell and Markby Village Mystery - 11

    Meredith Mitchell and her long-time friend Inspector Alan Markby planned to do something special for the weekend--just to break the routine. As it happened, it was murder that changed their plans... Meredith is hesitant about picking up the hitchhik...

  • Running Scared

    Fran Varaday - 3

    Fran Varady, aspiring actress and private investigator, feared the worse when her friend Ganesh began updating his uncle's newsagent's shop. But even she couldn't guess at the trouble that would follow when a man bursts in and asks to use the toilet ...

  • Beneath These Stones

    A Mitchell and Markby Village Mystery - 12

    Sonia Franklin is found stabbed and her husband is the main suspect. However, some of the key witnesses are not quite revealing the truth and the case is destined to be far more complex than Superintendent Markby ever envisaged....

  • Risking It All

    Fran Varaday - 4

    When Fran Varady is approached by Private Investigator Clarence Duke, she mistrusts him on instinct. But she can't ignore what he has to tell her. Her mother, Eva, who walked out on Fran when she was only seven years old, has hired Clarence to find h...

  • Shades of Murder

    A Mitchell and Markby Village Mystery - 13

    In 1889 the late Cora Oakley's husband William was put on trial for her murder. The case was dismissed, but Oakley fled the country, never to be heard of again. Over a hundred years later, the only remaining members of the Oakley family are two elde...

  • A Restless Evil

    A Mitchell and Markby Village Mystery - 14

    The officer on duty at Bamford police station is skeptical when he takes a call from Guy Morgan. Morgan claims to have stumbled upon human bones in Stovey Woods in the heart of the Cotswalds, but surely animal bones are more likely? Morgan, though, i...

  • That Way Murder Lies

    A Mitchell and Markby Village Mystery - 15

    Meredith Mitchell is delighted when an old friend from her consular days, Toby Smythe, turns up on leave between foreign postings. But Toby has a problem -- or rather his relative Alison Jenner has -- and Toby wants to enlist the help of Meredith'...



  • Edith Ellen Eddy Julee

  • Mixing With Murder

    Fran Varaday - 6

    MICKEY ALLERTON HAS A PROBLEM. The best dancer at his night club has deserted him, and he wants her back. Which means amateur sleuth Fran Varady has a problem too. Unless she agrees to find Lisa, Fran's dog Bonnie will be for it, courtesy of one of M...

  • A Rare Interest in Corpses

    An Inspector Ben Ross Mystery - 1

    A classic mystery from “an accomplished veteran . . . [ who] knows her history and relates it with charm in this peek at Victorian morals and foibles” (Kirkus Reviews).   It is 1864 when Lizzie Martin takes up the post of lady...

  • The Companion

    A Lizzie Martin Mystery

    "In the corners of the room the shadows cast velvety veils. It would not be too difficult to imagine someone stood there and watched. I thought of Madeleine Hexham.... I glanced around me. It was likely that I'd been given my predecessor's room and t...

  • A Mortal Curiosity

    A Lizzie Martin Mystery
    An Inspector Ben Ross Mystery - 2

    It's 1864 and Lizzie Martin is leaving London for the south coast of England to be the companion of Lucy Craven, a teenager who lives in seclusion with her aunts and has recently lost an infant daughter to illness. En route, Lizzie meets Doctor Lefeb...

  • Mud, Muck and Dead Things

    Campbell and Carter - 1

    The first Campbell and Carter mystery from one of the nation's best-loved crime writers Lucas Burton hates the countryside. To him it's nothing but mud, muck and dead things. And he's right. When he turns up at a deserted farm in the middle of nowher...

  • A Better Quality of Murder

    An Inspector Ben Ross Mystery - 3

    Inspector Ben Ross and his wife Lizzie must probe into the private life of murdered Allegra Benedict to solve another grisly crime, in the third novel in this riveting Victorian crime series.As Inspector Ben Ross of Scotland Yard walks homeward one S...

  • Rack, Ruin And Murder

    Campbell and Carter - 2

    The second murderous instalment of the Campbell and Carter Mysteries.When old Monty discovers a dead body in his drawing room, it’s up to Inspector Jess Campbell to get to the bottom of the mystery.Monty is a recluse, holed up in his crumbling mano...

  • Bricks and Mortality

    Campbell and Carter - 3

    A murder mystery featuring a team of police investigators on the trail of an arsonist and killer in a small village in the English countryside.   A body is discovered inside of the smoldering ruins of Key House. The crumbling Cotswold manor has ...

  • Dead in the Water

    Campbell and Carter - 4

    In a sleepy Cotswold village, heavy rains reveal the body of a barmaid and troubling mystery for a local police inspector. As Christmas approaches in the sleepy English village of Weston Saint Ambrose, the rains bring the wettest winter on record and...



  • The Dead Woman of Deptford

    An Inspector Ben Ross Mystery - 6

    The sixth gripping Victorian crime mystery in Ann Granger's Inspector Ben Ross series.On a cold November night in a Deptford yard, dock worker Harry Parker stumbles upon the body of a dead woman. Inspector Ben Ross is summoned from Scotland Yard to t...

  • Rooted in Evil

    Campbell and Carter - 5

    A team of police detectives investigate the murder of man with a complicated family history in the English countryside.   When the body of a man killed by a point blank shot to the head is found in Crooked Man Woods, it appears to be a suicide. ...

  • An Unfinished Murder

    Campbell and Carter - 6

    In this traditional mystery set in a small English village, detectives from two popular series team up to solve a two decades old missing persons case. Mitchell and Markby come out of retirement to crack a cold case . . . As young chil...

  • The Murderer's Apprentice

    An Inspector Ben Ross Mystery - 7

    Ann Granger's seventh thrilling Victorian mystery featuring Inspector Ben Ross and his wife Lizzie.It is March 1870. London is in the grip of fog and ice. But Scotland Yard's Inspector Ben Ross has more than the weather to worry about when the body o...

  • A Particular Eye for Villainy

    An Inspector Ben Ross Mystery - 4

    The fourth thrilling crime novel in the Inspector Ben Ross series, and a brutal killing that brings the murder very close to home...When Mr Thomas Tapley is found bludgeoned to death in his sitting room, his neighbour Inspector Benjamin Ross of Scotl...

  • The Testimony of the Hanged Man

    An Inspector Ben Ross Mystery - 5

    In Victorian England, a Scotland Yard inspector and his wife investigate a condemned man’s claim about a seventeen-year-old murder. A hanged man would say anything to save his life. But what if his testimony is true? When Inspector Ben Ross is cal...

  • A Matter of Murder

    Campbell and Carter - 7

    Campbell and Carter are back in their toughest case yet in the seventh Cotswold village crime novel following An Unfinished Murder.   Two years ago, Miff Ferguson chose to opt out of the rat race. Since then he’s been living rough and happily ...

  • The Truth-Seeker's Wife

    An Inspector Ben Ross Mystery - 8

    Death descends on the New Forest...It is Spring 1871 when Lizzie Ross accompanies her formidable Aunt Parry on a restorative trip to the south coast. Lizzie’s husband, Ben, is kept busy at Scotland Yard and urges his wife to stay out of harm’s wa...

  • Mystery in the Making

    A COLLECTION OF 18 SHORT STORIES OF MURDER, MYSTERY AND MAYHEM Throughout her distinguished career, Ann Granger has penned an array of hugely entertaining and gripping short stories. To mark her thirtieth anniversary as a crime writer, eighteen of t...

  • Deadly Company

    A Mitchell and Markby Village Mystery - 16

    No one feels safe when there's a murderer in their midst...Ann Granger returns to her fan favourite series with the gripping sixteenth Mitchell and Markby novel, featuring her trademark strong and appealing characters, gentle wit and engrossing intri...



  • The Old Rogue of Limehouse

    Scotland Yard's Inspector Ben Ross and his wife Lizzie return in Ann Granger's gripping ninth Victorian mystery.It is the summer of 1871 when Scotland Yard's Inspector Ben Ross pays a visit to Jacob Jacobus, the old rogue of Limehouse: infamous anti...

  • Death on the Prowl

    The eighth Campbell and Carter novel from much-loved crime writer Ann Granger. Praise for Ann Granger's crime novels:'Characterisation, as ever with Granger, is sharp and astringent' The Times'Her usual impeccable plotting is fully in place' Good Boo...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ann Granger has published 41 books.

The next book by Ann Granger, Death on the Prowl, will be published in December 2024.

The first book by Ann Granger, Say It With Poison, was published in March 1991.

Yes. Ann Granger has 5 series.
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