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)
*Shortlisted for the 2026 CIBA Mystery & Mayhem Award!*
Welsh dragon Edna Pursuivant moved into Haringey House, a converted Georgian manor near London’s Hampstead Heath, seeking scholarly solitude after a years-long, one-sided romance. Unfortunately, she finds herself embroiled in the lives of the manor’s curious and pesky residents. While the Haringey crew may have gained renown as amateur sleuths, the one thing they are professionals at is meddling—particularly Marcel Envouter, who has installed himself in Edna’s life as her steadfast (and exasperating) best cat friend.
What begins as a simple favor—helping a smooth-talking local grocer find his long-lost mentor—spirals into a sinister game of espionage. In pursuit of the missing woman, Edna and her makeshift family are chased across Cornwall, poisoned in seaside inns, and forced to face down garden center adversaries. Along the way, they unearth a connected water scandal threatening to sink their own Hampstead neighborhood for profit—proving that for the Haringey House crew, danger has a way of flowing straight to their doorstep.
Wrestling with decades of rejection, Edna resolves to go it alone to recover the missing woman and save Haringey House from being swallowed by the London sewers. If she cannot let go of her own hardened self-reliance and let the others in, she’ll sacrifice the case, her home, and the only family she’s ever had.
Haringey House Detectives offers readers intelligent mystery plotting, literary prose, and surprisingly human characters navigating second chances and belonging.
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.