The Thursday Murder Club meets upmarket anthropomorphic mystery in this clever British series about belonging, second chances, and the unlikely family you find along the way.
HARINGEY HOUSE DETECTIVES (Haringey House #1)
Welsh dragon and former Classics professor Edna Pursuivant moved into Haringey House—a converted Georgian manor near London’s Hampstead Heath—expecting scholarly solitude. Instead, she’s found herself embroiled in the curious lives of her eccentric neighbors: Marcel, a nudist Wiccan cat herbalist; Oswaldo, an anxious lemur accountant; Isabella, a glamorous charity director; and Roger, their salt-of-the-earth doorman. Together, they’ve inadvertently become London’s most unlikely amateur detectives.
What starts as a simple favor—helping smooth-talking grocer Anthony Earsmuth find his missing mentor—quickly spirals into intrigue and corruption, proving that for the Haringey House crew, danger has a way of flowing straight to their doorstep. Between dodging shadowy figures, getting poisoned in Cornish inns for sticking their snouts where they don’t belong, and facing down garden center adversaries, this makeshift family discovers that the most important mystery is discovering how to trust each other.
Haringey House Detectives is the first book in a witty and intelligently-plotted mystery series challenging a group of lonely souls to confront their pasts and find their place in their second acts—if London doesn’t sink them first.
Silence in the Swiss Mist (Haringey House #2)
Work in Progress
Retired Classics professor and Welsh dragon Edna Pursuivant has barely settled back into her quiet life at Haringey House when death comes calling again—this time with signs of foul play against a neighbor that the coroner somehow missed. She wants no part of it. But when the deceased collector’s family begs her to investigate a stolen family treasure, Edna can’t ignore what she saw.
A query that begins as a simple theft quickly unravels into something far more sinister. A single anachronistic symbol leads Edna and her crew to the mist-shrouded valleys of Switzerland, where centuries-old secrets have been deliberately buried—and where people are willing to kill to keep them that way.
Between gallivanting calamitously through alpine villages, eluding ambitious antiquarians, uncovering historical conspiracies, and getting dragged into their Swiss tour guide’s crusade for textile justice, the Haringey House detectives discover that some silences are worth breaking when you have the world’s most devoted (and disarrayed) found family at your side.
Silence in the Swiss Mist, the second adventure in the Haringey House Detectives series, digs into the stories we’re told, the truths we bury, and the courage it takes to speak up. It also proves that no amount of chocolate, cheese, or stunning mountain scenery can compensate for the occupational hazards of amateur sleuthing—especially when travel insurance doesn’t cover murder.