L.C. Tyler

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2009
  • Latest Book:
    May 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Ethelred and Elsie

1 - The Herring-Seller's Apprentice (Jun-2009)
2 - Ten Little Herrings (Jul-2010)
3 - The Herring in the Library (Jun-2011)
4 - Herring on the Nile (May-2012)
5 - Crooked Herring (Aug-2015)
6 - Cat Among the Herrings (Feb-2016)

A John Grey Historical Mystery

1 - The Plague Road (Nov-2016)
2 - A Masterpiece of Corruption (May-2018)

Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • The Herring-Seller's Apprentice

    Ethelred and Elsie - 1

    In this Edgar-nominated cozy series opener, a second-rate British crime novelist and his quirky agent investigate his devious ex-wife’s murder. A mediocre mystery-writer (and thus a purveyor of red herrings), Ethelred Tressider has even less intere...

  • Ten Little Herrings

    Ethelred and Elsie - 2

    When we last saw Ethelred Tressider, he was pulling a disappearing act, eager to pack in his career as a mediocre mystery-writer, and happy to leave his (deservedly) long suffering agent, Elsie, holding the bag. But any bag that Elsie holds will soon...

  • The Herring in the Library

    Ethelred and Elsie - 3

    Ethelred and Elsie are an unlikely duo: He’s a deeply mediocre mystery writer (first encountered in the Edgar-nominated The Herring Seller’s Apprentice), and she’s his deeply nosy, chocolate-chomping agent. And yet they are stuck with one anoth...

  • Herring on the Nile

    Ethelred and Elsie - 4

    Ethelred Tressider's career is not, let's face it, what one might call glittering. This is not surprising: Ethelred lost any real interest in writing mystery novels many years ago, and his audience has never been truly excited about reading them. And...

  • A Cruel Necessity

    The theaters are padlocked. Christmas has been canceled. It is 1657 and the unloved English Republic is eight years old. Though Cromwell’s joyless grip on power appears immovable, many still look to Charles Stuart’s dissolute and threadbare court...

  • The Herring Seller's Apprentice

  • Crooked Herring

    Ethelred and Elsie - 5

    "You don’t believe me, do you?" asked Henry. "That I might have killed somebody." Well, really. The genuine murderer -- the real pro -- tends to keep track of that sort of thing. And he wasn’t dressed for murder. The tweed jacket, the checked wai...

  • Cat Among the Herrings

    Ethelred and Elsie - 6

    Robin Pagham is dead - drowned in a sailing accident. The reaction of everyone in the village on hearing this tragic news is that Robin must have been drunk. After all, that was what he did best - that and drug-dealing and breaking his former girlfri...

  • Not Forgotten

    in Malice Domestic 11: Murder Most Conventional



  • The Plague Road

    A John Grey Historical Mystery - 1

    A politically sensitive murder is detected amid the chaos of a deadly plague in this “stellar . . . well-crafted” mystery set in Restoration London (Publishers Weekly, starred review). It’s 1665, and the Black Death has London in...

  • Fire

    It’s the Autumn of 1666, and the Great Fire is still burning, the ashes of hundreds of houses and shops and St. Paul’s Cathedral choking the air. The people, too, are choking, raging at the French, the Dutch, at the foreigners who -- they are cer...

  • Herring in the Smoke

    Roger Norton Vane is dead. Twenty years ago he went for a walk in the Thai jungle with his partner and never returned. After years of wild speculation and fruitless searches, finally his death is to be made official and somebody will inherit his accu...

  • A Masterpiece of Corruption

    A John Grey Historical Mystery - 2

    In this mystery by the author of Crooked Herring, a lawyer in Cromwell’s England receives dangerous info that could stop a murder -- or get him killed. John Grey is a newly minted lawyer and would-be ladies’ man with a bad habit of poking his nos...

  • The Bleak Midwinter

  • The Maltese Herring

    Dr Hilary Joyner is neither well liked nor well respected among his academic peers. However, he believes his next project will bring him the recognition he deserves. He's working to uncover the truth behind the 'buried treasure story', a local Sussex...

  • Death of a Shipbuilder

    The sixth John Grey historical mysteryJohn Grey is visited at his London office by Thomas Cade, a shipbuilder, who tells Grey he has evidence that Samuel Pepys is taking substantial bribes in his position at the Naval Office. Grey sends him on his w...

  • Farewell My Herring

    Ethelred Tressider and his agent Elsie Thirkettle have been invited to lecture on a creative writing course at Fell Hall, a remote location in the heart of ragged countryside that even sheep are keen to shun. While Ethelred's success as a writer is d...

  • They Do it with Herrings

    Ethelred Tressider and his agent Elsie Thirkettle have been invited to lecture on a creative writing course at Fell Hall, a remote location in the heart of ragged countryside that even sheep are keen to shun. While Ethelred's success as a writer is d...

  • The Summer Birdcage



  • Too Much of Water

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

L.C. Tyler has published 20 books.

L.C. Tyler does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Too Much of Water, was published in May 2022.

The first book by L.C. Tyler, The Herring-Seller's Apprentice, was published in June 2009.

Yes. L.C. Tyler has 2 series.
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