Betty Rowlands

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1991
  • Latest Book:
    November 2019
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Full Series List in Order

A Melissa Craig Mystery

1 - A Little Gentle Sleuthing (Mar-1991)
2 - Finishing Touch // Murder in the Morning (Jun-1992)
3 - Over the Edge // Murder on the Clifftops (May-1993)
4 - Exhaustive Enquiries // Murder at the Manor Hotel (Apr-1994)
5 - Malice Poetic // Murder on a Winter Afternoon (1995)
6 - Smiling at Death // Murder in the Orchard (1995)
7 - Deadly Legacy // Murder at Larkfield Barn (1996)
8 - The Cherry Pickers // Murder in Langley Woods (1997)
9 - The Man at the Window // Murder at Benbury Brook (Jun-2013)
10 - The Fourth Suspect // Murder at the Old House (Jun-2013)
11 - No Laughing Matter // Murder in the Dining Room (Jun-2013)
12 - Sweet Venom // Murder in a Country Garden (Dec-2004)

Sukey Reynolds

1 - An Inconsiderate Death // Death at Hazel House (Nov-1997)
2 - Death at Dearley Manor (Dec-1998)
3 - Copycat // Death at Beacon Cottage (Jul-1999)
4 - Touch Me Not // Death at Burwell Farm (May-2001)
5 - Dirty Work // Death at Ivy House (Sep-2003)
6 - Deadly Obsession // Death on a Summer Morning (May-2005)
7 - Party to Murder // Death under the Apple Tree (May-2007)
8 - Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Dead // Death at the Mariners Hotel (Jun-2007)
9 - Smokescreen // Death at the Library (Oct-2008)
10 - A Fool There Was // Death on Clevedon Beach (Sep-2009)
11 - Miss Minchin Dies // Death in the Village (Apr-2011)
12 - Unnatural Wastage // Death at Sycamore House (Dec-2012)
13 - The Scent of Death (Aug-2014)
14 - Death at Sandy Bay (Nov-2019)

Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • A Little Gentle Sleuthing

    A Melissa Craig Mystery - 1

    First Melissa Craig Novel Melissa Craig has always prided herself on making a good living from crime, courtesy of her lively imagination, and with a string of crime novels to prove it. Now, she flees London, her devoted but over-protective lover and...

  • Finishing Touch // Murder in the Morning

    A Melissa Craig Mystery - 2

    Melissa Craig is a successful crime novelist who has left the hurly-burly of London to pursue her craft more single-mindedly in the Cotswolds. But the gentle country existence she planned for herself is instead fuelling her pen. Finishing Touch fi...

  • Over the Edge // Murder on the Clifftops

    A Melissa Craig Mystery - 3

    Successful Cotswolds thriller writer Melissa Craig, accompanies her friend Iris to the Cévennes, where Iris is running an art course and Melissa is researching the history of the Camisards for her next novel. Within a week, two bodies are found s...

  • Exhaustive Enquiries // Murder at the Manor Hotel

    A Melissa Craig Mystery - 4

    A DRAMATIC DEATH Melissa Craig is taking a break from her bestselling mystery novels to write something different--a play for an amateur drama group. They intend to present it at an old hotel in the Cotswolds... but now the hotel has become the scen...

  • Malice Poetic // Murder on a Winter Afternoon

    • / Amateur Sleuth
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    A Melissa Craig Mystery - 5

    THIS SCHOOL IS KILLER... Melissa Craig gets a quick study in murder when she visits Uphanger, an innovative new school in picturesque Gloucestershire. Uphanger's tyrannical schoolmaster, Stewart Haughan, is less than popular with his long-suffering ...

  • Smiling at Death // Murder in the Orchard

    • / Amateur Sleuth
    • Buy Buy
    A Melissa Craig Mystery - 6

    Following the third murder within six months, the village of Thanebury is living in fear. Local residents, when approached by the press, take refuge behind a wall of silence. Crime writer Melssa Craig, is getting a reputation in the Cotswolds for sol...

  • Deadly Legacy // Murder at Larkfield Barn

    • / Amateur Sleuth
    • Buy Buy
    A Melissa Craig Mystery - 7

    Women in the quiet Cotswold town of Stowbridge are living in fear of a sex strangler. At the same time, surrounding villages are suffering a spate of burglaries, one of which leads to the death of Gloucestershire's most prolific novelist, Leonora Jew...

  • A Hive of Bees

    Fortune has been tough on 25-year-old Julia Drake. Then through a chance reunion with Stephanie, she meets and falls in love with Luke Devereux. Julia is set to turn the corner, but along the way she discovers that Stephanie, brimming with self-confi...

  • The Cherry Pickers // Murder in Langley Woods

    • / Amateur Sleuth
    • Buy Buy
    A Melissa Craig Mystery - 8

    The Cotswold village of Upper Benbury is buzzing with rumour and gossip. The body of a young gipsy girl has been found in a discarded freezer, recently stolen from outside the house of one of its most prominent residents. A local newshound, hot on...



  • An Inconsiderate Death // Death at Hazel House

    Sukey Reynolds - 1

    First Sukey Reynolds Story The normally peaceful Gloucestershire village of Marsdean finds itself host to a murder scene. Lorraine Chant, wife of a wealthy businessman is found strangled in her home. On first inspection, the police suspect that she ...

  • Death at Dearley Manor

    Sukey Reynolds - 2

    Treated more as an employee than a husband, Paul Reynold's second marriage was a nightmare. His wife's obsession with money endeared her to few and when she is murdered, suspects are plentiful. Assigned to the case, DC Susan Reynolds is forced to con...

  • Copycat // Death at Beacon Cottage

    Sukey Reynolds - 3

    Miguel Rodriguez is a very discerning art thief - and he is as particular about his women as he is about his art. But when he discovers that Pepita, his mysterious new beloved, is an undercover policewoman with an eye on his plans for the biggest the...

  • Touch Me Not // Death at Burwell Farm

    Sukey Reynolds - 4

    When Sukey's son returns from a weekend away with his girlfriend's family, he has a strange request to make. Anita's aunt has become involved with the RYCE (Release Your Cosmic Energy) cult, and her worried family want Sukey and her partner, DI Jim C...

  • Dirty Work // Death at Ivy House

    Sukey Reynolds - 5

    A crime Sukey shouldn?t be investigating . . . if she wants to stay alive The work of a Scenes of Crime Officer is usually straightforward but this particularly gory murder is messy in more ways than one. Sukey's habit of getting overly involved in c...

  • Sweet Venom // Murder in a Country Garden

    A Melissa Craig Mystery - 12

    Aidan Cresney seems to be a model citizen. An active member of the parish council and a former barrister, he took up beekeeping as a retirement hobby. Cresney confidently boasts that bees will never attack an apiarist 'who knows what he's doing'. ...

  • Deadly Obsession // Death on a Summer Morning

    Sukey Reynolds - 6

    Sukey follows in fatal footsteps . . .
    When Arthur Soames is found with a broken neck at the foot of the iron staircase in his back garden there seems little doubt that his death was accidental. But his estranged daughter Sabrina insists he was mu...

  • Party to Murder // Death under the Apple Tree

    Sukey Reynolds - 7

    A Sukey Reynolds mysterySir Digby Kirtling, self-made millionaire and would-be member of the landed gentry, commissioned talented artist Philip Montwell to copy an impressionist painting. During the unveiling party, celebration turned to tragedy when...

  • Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Dead // Death at the Mariners Hotel

    Sukey Reynolds - 8

    A new Sukey Reynolds mystery - When ancient historian Doctor Whistler is found dead and the letter he claimed was from St Paul goes missing, all evidence points towards Dr Lamont. Constable Sukey Reynolds has an apparently straightforward case, but h...

  • Smokescreen // Death at the Library

    Sukey Reynolds - 9

    A Sukey Reynolds Mystery - A wealthy bestselling author is drowned in her bath just days after being threatened by a disturbed fan who has subsequently disappeared. The missing woman is the obvious suspect and DC Sukey Reynolds and her friend and col...



  • A Fool There Was // Death on Clevedon Beach

    Sukey Reynolds - 10

    A thrilling new Sukey Reynolds mystery - DC Sukey Reynolds reports a man acting suspiciously, but on investigation her suspicions seem to be groundless. Then the man is killed in a road accident . . . Meanwhile, Sukey is sent to deal with the grue...

  • Miss Minchin Dies // Death in the Village

    Sukey Reynolds - 11

    Adelaide Minchin is found dead in her bathroom. The verdict is accidental death, which her GP has challenged. Sukey agrees to make some enquiries, but the case has to take a back seat when the body of a teenage girl is found. As the two inquiries pro...

  • Unnatural Wastage // Death at Sycamore House

    Sukey Reynolds - 12

    When the body of a woman is found in a skip with a knife in her back, Detective Constable Sukey Reynolds will have to use all her wits to bring the killer to justice When the body of pretty Fenella Tremaine is found in a skip with a distinctive or...

  • The Fourth Suspect // Murder at the Old House

    A Melissa Craig Mystery - 10

    A compelling crime novel and a chilling tale of the emotional power of relationships. Cotswold-based crime writer Melissa Craig has acquired a reputation for solving real mysteries. But when her estranged father is found murdered in his own worksh...

  • The Man at the Window // Murder at Benbury Brook

    A Melissa Craig Mystery - 9

    Graham Shipley has come to the Cotswolds to take up a new teaching appointment and to make a fresh start after the break-up of his marriage. He is made welcome by the head of the school and by his new neighbour in Upper Benbury, crime writer Melissa ...

  • No Laughing Matter // Murder in the Dining Room

    A Melissa Craig Mystery - 11

    'A gifted and knowledgeable writer . . . engaging and readable' Financial Times Two fatal cases of food poisoning at Framleigh House, the smart residential home where Melissa Craig's mother Sylvia is staying, are treated as accidental by the auth...

  • The Scent of Death

    Sukey Reynolds - 13

    The death of a music lover at a house party sparks a complex investigation for Detective Constable Sukey Reynolds and her colleagues Lance Rainbird isn’t one for social chit-chat, so when he fails to turn up for the evening program of music afte...

  • Death at Sandy Bay

    Sukey Reynolds - 14

    A manor house hotel, a musical weekend… and a mysterious murder?

    Spring has arrived in the Bristol countryside and Sukey Reynolds is enjoying the fine weather and lovely views from her quaint apartment. She has found love with an i...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Betty Rowlands has published 27 books.

Betty Rowlands does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Death at Sandy Bay, was published in November 2019.

The first book by Betty Rowlands, A Little Gentle Sleuthing, was published in March 1991.

Yes. Betty Rowlands has 2 series.
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