Veronica Heley

Ellie opens the door to a man who is a stranger but instantly recognisable as the father of her housekeeper's young son....

Bea Abbot's plans are disrupted by the unexpected arrival of one of her clients, bearing a brown leather briefcase full of expensive jewellery....

Bea Abbot's friend, Leon Holland, has asked for her help in establishing an alibi. But why would he need one? Find out....

The fake diamond in Dilys Holland's engagement ring implies that all is not well with her marriage....

Raven-haired Sophia knew him as Philip Rich, a poor relative of the Earl of Rame. And she knew that he awakened in her a craving that her betrothed, Sir John Bladen, could not satisfy....

Can Bea locate Philip and the missing Millais, and extricate the girls and the booty without falling foul of someone who already has several murders to his credit....

Bea Abbot is asked to find the man or woman who laid a booby trap for Sir Lucas Ossett, the powerful head of an international company....

Matthew Kent was an entertainer known to be a modest man in private, so why had he staged this grotesque charade in death? And why is his daughter so keen to hustle away his remains?....

Troubles never come singly. Ellie’s old friend and housekeeper falls off a ladder and hurts herself after seeing a “ghost” in a neighbour’s house....

While out collecting some Portuguese laurel for the formidable flower arranger Mrs Dawes, feisty widow Ellie Quicke comes across a dead body...a corpse without an identity....

Ellie's friend on the police force asks her to enquire about some deaths which might or might not be suicide....

Ellie has always disliked the local big estate agent - aka Great White Shark - and is distressed when her daughter Diana announces that she is carrying his child and about to become his fourth wife.....

When Ellie Quicke's friend, Felicity, witnesses a Pitbull savage a young mother in the park, she goes into shock and calls on Ellie for help....

Ellie Quicke, although comfortably re-married, is still inclined to act hastily....

Bea Abbot and her husband have been running a highly successful domestic agency for many years....

Bea Abbott runs a domestic agency which does not “do” murder....

There’s nothing sinister about Zander’s request for Bea Abbott to accompany him on an errand to a grieving widow, but it’s an awkward situation....

While Bea Abbot worries that she’s lost control of her domestic agency, she’s asked to find some domestic help for an eccentric little musician falsely accused of murder....

Ellie Quicke is shocked when her daughter, Diana, turns up at her door with a suitcase in tow. Bunny Brewster has died of an overdose, and Diana's husband, Evan, is convinced that she is responsible for his friend's death....

Ellie Quicke believes in helping people in trouble. But it would appear that her latest good deed has returned to bite her when she takes in a weeping girl who needs somewhere to stay....