T.E. Kinsey Book & Series List (2024)

Full Series List in Order

A Dizzy Heights Mystery

1 - The Deadly Mystery of the Missing Diamonds (Mar-2021)
2 - A Baffling Murder at the Midsummer Ball (Aug-2021)

A Lady Hardcastle Mystery

1 - A Quiet Life in the Country (Dec-2014)
2 - In the Market for Murder // The Spirit Is Willing (Dec-2016)
3 - Death Around the Bend (Jun-2017)
4 - A Picture of Murder (Oct-2018)
5 - The Burning Issue of the Day (May-2019)
6 - Death Beside the Seaside (Oct-2019)
7 - The Fatal Flying Affair (Dec-2020)
8 - Rotten to the Core (Jun-2022)
9 - An Act of Foul Play (Dec-2022)
10 - A Fire at the Exhibition (Sep-2023)

Book List in Order: 13 titles

• A Quiet Life in the Country

  • Dec-2014
  • / Cozy Mystery

  A Lady Hardcastle Mystery - 1
  

  Emily, Lady Hardcastle, is a widow with a mysterious and unconventional past. When she moves from London to rural Gloucestershire in 1908, she has her heart set on a quiet life in the country. But when she and her maid come upon a body in the woods, ...

• In the Market for Murder // The Spirit Is Willing

  • Dec-2016
  • / Mystery

  A Lady Hardcastle Mystery - 2
  

  Spring, 1909, and Lady Hardcastle, amateur sleuth and all-round eccentric, is enjoying a well-deserved rest. But a week after a trip to the cattle market, Spencer Caradine, a local farmer, turns up dead in the pub, face-down in his beef and mushroom ...

• Death Around the Bend

  • Jun-2017
  • / Mystery

  A Lady Hardcastle Mystery - 3
  

  September 1909, and Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Florence, have been invited to Lord Riddlethorpe’s country estate for a week of motor racing and parties. They both agree that it sounds like a perfectly charming holiday. But when one of the driver...

• A Picture of Murder

  • Oct-2018
  • / Amateur Sleuth

  A Lady Hardcastle Mystery - 4
  

  Late October 1909, and the season of ghouls and things that go bump in the night has descended on the village of Littleton Cotterell.Lady Hardcastle and her trusted lady’s maid, Florence, find themselves hosting a colorful cast of actors whose ...

• The Burning Issue of the Day

  • May-2019
  • / Amateur Sleuth

  A Lady Hardcastle Mystery - 5
  

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  January 1910. A journalist has been killed in a suspicious blaze. Everything points to a group of suffragettes, but the apparent culprit insists she is innocent.

  When Lady Hardcastle receives a letter from a suffragette requesting her urgent...

• Death Beside the Seaside

  • Oct-2019
  • / Amateur Sleuth

  A Lady Hardcastle Mystery - 6
  

  July 1910. Lady Hardcastle and her tireless sidekick Flo have finally embarked on a long-overdue seaside break. But just as they’re wavering between ice creams and donkey rides, their fellow guests start to go missing -- and the duo find themsel...

• The Fatal Flying Affair

  • Dec-2020
  • / Amateur Sleuth

  A Lady Hardcastle Mystery - 7
  

  August 1911. Emily Hardcastle and her inimitable lady’s maid Florence Armstrong are enjoying a fine summer until Harry, Lady H’s brother, turns up out of the blue with a mystery for them to solve.A routine parachute test at a local aeroplane ...

• The Deadly Mystery of the Missing Diamonds

  • Mar-2021
  • / Cozy Mystery

  A Dizzy Heights Mystery - 1
  

  Missing diamonds. Mysterious deaths. And all that jazz.London, 1925. With their band the Dizzy Heights, jazz musicians Ivor ‘Skins’ Maloney and Bartholomew ‘Barty’ Dunn are used to improvising as they play the Charleston for f...

• A Baffling Murder at the Midsummer Ball

  • Aug-2021
  • / Cozy Mystery

  A Dizzy Heights Mystery - 2
  

  A locked room. A mysterious death. Just another gig for the Dizzy Heights.When London’s finest jazz musicians, the Dizzy Heights, are booked to play the glitzy Midsummer Ball at a country house in Oxfordshire, they expect a weekend filled with ...

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• Rotten to the Core

  • Jun-2022
  • / Cozy Mystery

  A Lady Hardcastle Mystery - 8
  

  Summer 1911. A scorching heatwave engulfs the quiet town of Littleton Cotterell and brings about an unusually early harvest. The villagers are thrilled, but events quickly turn sour when one of them turns up dead in an apple orchard, stabbed through ...

• An Act of Foul Play

  • Dec-2022
  • / Cozy Mystery

  A Lady Hardcastle Mystery - 9
  

  November 1911. Lady Emily Hardcastle is celebrating her birthday by seeing a play at the Duke’s Theatre in Bristol with her maid and confidante, the inimitable Flo. Act One is a triumph. Then Act Two opens with a body on stage—a real one....

• A Fire at the Exhibition

  • Sep-2023
  • / Cozy Mystery

  A Lady Hardcastle Mystery - 10
  

  May 1912. After the previous year’s deadly heatwave, it’s been an uneventful spring in Littleton Cotterell. Though for Lady Hardcastle and her fiercely loyal lady’s maid Flo, at least there are the provincial delights of the village...

• An Assassination on the Agenda

  • May-2024
  • / Cozy Mystery

  They’re hoping this visit is a return journey—but it might be a one-way ticket to murder.July 1912. Lady Hardcastle and her tenacious lady’s maid, Florence Armstrong, are enjoying a convivial gathering at the home of their dear frie...

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