Rhys Bowen

Evan arrives in Llanfair and promptly finds a body on the mountain, introducing the village cast who will complicate his life across the entire series.

A developer threatens to change Llanfair forever, and when someone is killed, Evan must navigate village politics to find the truth.

The village choir is preparing for a major competition when a member turns up dead, and Evan investigates amid songs and suspects.

A French student comes to Llanfair for a language exchange programme and is soon at the centre of a murder investigation that stretches back decades.

A film crew descends on the village to shoot a movie, bringing glamour, conflict, and a suspicious death that Evan must untangle from among the cast and crew.

A women's college hiking group arrives in Llanfair, and when one of them dies on the mountain, Evan's investigation leads somewhere closer to home than expected.

A skeleton is uncovered in the village, and the old secrets attached to it prove more dangerous than anyone in Llanfair anticipated.

A little girl goes missing from a village fete, and the search forces Evan to confront a cold case from years earlier that was never properly resolved.

A documentary filmmaker investigating a local legend is found dead, and Evan must separate Welsh myth from very real and present danger.

The series concludes with a case that tests everything Evan knows about his village and the people he thought he understood completely.

Molly flees Ireland under desperate circumstances and arrives at Ellis Island, immediately entangled in a murder that will define the life she builds in New York.

Molly takes over the cases of a private investigator who dies suddenly, stepping into his work and his dangerous enemies without much preparation.

Molly goes undercover in a garment factory on the Lower East Side to investigate the exploitation of immigrant workers, and finds conditions far worse than expected.

A senator hires Molly to investigate strange happenings at his Hudson Valley estate, where séances and family secrets are tangled up with something more sinister.

A young man on death row maintains his innocence, and Molly — working against time and a hostile establishment — investigates the original crime to find the truth.

Molly returns to Ireland on a case and finds herself navigating the tense political atmosphere of Dublin at a moment of rising nationalist sentiment.

A young woman is found unconscious in Central Park with no memory of who she is, and Molly's investigation leads into the world of New York theatre.

An outbreak of typhoid among New York's wealthy families suggests something more deliberate than a natural epidemic, and Molly follows the evidence into the city's grandest houses.

Molly investigates a case connected to the world of stage magic, crossing paths with the great Houdini himself in 1904 New York.

A Chinese bride goes missing before her wedding, and Molly investigates in Chinatown — a community she must earn the trust of before she can find the truth.

A wealthy industrialist is found dead at his Newport mansion over a holiday weekend, and Molly must identify the killer from among the assembled family and guests.

Molly — now pregnant — takes on what should be a simple case and finds herself drawn into a conspiracy that puts both her and her unborn child in danger.

Molly travels to Paris, following a friend who has vanished into the bohemian world of Montmartre, and finds art, danger, and a mystery rooted in the city's shadows.

A series of strange deaths on the New York subway seems impossible — each victim alone in a locked carriage — and Molly's investigation leads somewhere deeply unsettling.

A Christmas novella in which Molly and her family are caught up in a case involving an abandoned baby and a crime that cuts through the holiday warmth.

The 1906 San Francisco earthquake provides the backdrop as Molly travels west and finds the chaos of disaster covering up something deliberately criminal.

A second Christmas mystery in which Molly investigates a haunting at a grand house, discovering that the ghost story conceals a very human crime.

The first book co-authored with Clare Broyles, in which Molly investigates a case touching on Irish immigrant communities and the violent labour conflicts of early twentieth-century New York.

Molly is drawn into a case involving a missing heiress and a world of wealth and deception that stretches from Fifth Avenue to the city's immigrant quarters.

A case takes Molly into the emerging world of moving pictures in New York, where the glamour of early cinema conceals exploitation and murder.

The most recent Molly Murphy mystery, continuing the series into its third decade with Bowen and Broyles at the helm.

Georgie arrives in London, broke and socially imperilled, and is promptly recruited by Her Majesty to solve a discreet problem involving a dead Frenchman in her bathtub.

Georgie is tasked with chaperoning a German princess through the London season, which turns murderous with impressive speed.

A shooting party at a Scottish estate provides both sport and a corpse, and Georgie must identify the killer amid a gathering of people who all have reasons to want someone dead.

Georgie travels to a Transylvanian castle for a royal wedding and finds the gothic setting rather too well-suited to the death that follows.

A commission to retrieve a stolen jewel takes Georgie to Nice, where the social world of the French Riviera conceals theft, murder, and a great deal of very good food.

Georgie spends Christmas in a Devon village where the twelve days of the holiday are punctuated by a suspicious number of deaths.

A young Australian is brought to England as an unexpected heir to a dukedom, and when he is threatened, Georgie is asked to keep watch — and investigate.

Georgie travels to Hollywood, where royalty still means something among the movie studios, and finds that Tinseltown's glamour conceals the usual quota of villainy.

A body is discovered in the grounds of Kensington Palace, and Georgie's investigation leads her into a world of royal secrets and Edwardian scandal.

Georgie and her unsuitable boyfriend Darcy travel to Ireland, where old grudges and a suspicious death make the visit considerably less restful than planned.

Georgie is sent to the Italian lakes on a royal errand and finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy with European dimensions and immediate personal danger.

Georgie finally gets her wedding, but the preparations are complicated by a series of deaths that make even the happiest occasion feel rather ominous.

The newlyweds travel to Kenya and find British colonial society a rich source of dangerous secrets and people with excellent reasons to kill.

Back in England, Georgie is house-sitting a Cornish estate when a death occurs that echoes the plot of a famous novel far too precisely.

A Christmas house party in Scotland goes predictably wrong, and Georgie investigates a death among the assembled guests with her usual mixture of incompetence and insight.

A trip to Paris in the 1930s brings Georgie into contact with the expat artistic community and a theft with very dangerous political consequences.

A culinary competition at a country house provides Georgie with an unusual setting for a murder investigation, and the suspects include some of England's most celebrated cooks.

A Christmas gathering of European royals brings old tensions to the surface, and when a death occurs Georgie must navigate the politics of monarchy to find the truth.

The most recent entry in the series, continuing Georgie's adventures in 1930s Britain with Bowen's characteristic wit and period precision.