Jan Jones

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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2002
  • Latest Book:
    November 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Kydd Inheritance

1 - The Kydd Inheritance (Jan-2011)
2 - Fair Deception (Oct-2008)

Penny Plain

1 - The Jigsaw Puzzle (Dec-2013)
2 - Just Desserts (May-2014)
3 - Local Secrets (Nov-2014)
4 - The Christmas Gift (Feb-2015)

Book List in Order: 18 titles

  • The Thingamajig

  • Stage by Stage

    Teaching full-time and acquiring all the oddball kids in the new intake are only the first of Beth's challenges when Alan leaves her after 25 years of marriage. She also has to turn her untidy Cambridge house into a B&B to make ends meet and then cou...

  • Fair Deception

    Kydd Inheritance - 2

    When Kit Kydd rescues Susanna Fair from an abduction attempt, it seems to be fate -- Kit needs to appear settled to be made his great-aunt's heir, and Susanna is an actress. By pretending to be engaged for the duration of a visit to Lady Penfold, Sus...

  • Fortunate Wager

    Caroline Fortune asks for little more than to train horses and continue her stealthy progress towards independence. To this end, she projects a cheerfully argumentative persona in the hope that the poten...

  • The Kydd Inheritance

    Kydd Inheritance - 1

    Secrets and skulduggery in Regency England! Nell Kydd's father is dead, her brother Kit is missing and her loathsome uncle is wrecking the family estate with his mismanagement. Add a perturbing lack of funds, an unwelcome proposal of marriage and ...

  • The Jigsaw Puzzle

    Penny Plain - 1

    Penny Plain's odd jigsaw puzzle doesn't baffle only her. New journalist in town Leo Williams is strangely interested in it too. Like the jigsaw itself, there is more to Leo than meets the eye, but it takes a mystery at an Art Deco gallery to fit the ...

  • Just Desserts

    Penny Plain - 2

    A pub with an odd menu, a missing 1950s test plane, the Salthaven WI Village Show, an unlikely development on the Enterprise Park, and Penny's eldest daughter behaving out of character. It can only be a Penny Plain Mystery ......

  • The Madness of Julia Bloom

    Julia Bloom takes early retirement from academia and leaves a comfortable and secure life in Sydney for an indefinite sojourn and study time, with no return date, in the Italian city of Florence in the early nineteen nineties. She meets up again with...

  • Local Secrets

    Penny Plain - 3

    The third story in the Penny Plain mystery series by Jan Jones. Picturesque Salthaven is being targeted with graffiti - especially the Seagull Brewery, owned by the family of Penny Plain's son's girlfriend. Meanwhile Penny's close friend, investigati...



  • The Christmas Gift

    Penny Plain - 4

    It is the run-up to Christmas, and Leo and Penny are investigating the mystery of a Christmas gift left in a 'safe place' as mentioned on the back of a WW2 wedding photo. Meanwhile, Leo's son Daniel has come to stay for the festive season, there have...

  • Fairlights

    The fortified pele tower of Fairlights, its beacon shining out across the harbour, has guarded Whitcliff for centuries. Sorcha Ravell thought she'd recruited the perfect restoration expert in Nick Marten - but he turns out to be dangerously attractiv...

  • An Ordinary Gift

    New job. New town. New house. Everything Clare needs for a fresh start. She could do without the ghosts, though... Determined to put an unhappy love affair behind her, Clare moves to Ely in the Cambridgeshire Fens to catalogue an early music library....

  • Only Dancing

    WHY WAS I HESITATING? WHAT WAS THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN? THAT THE MAGIC CLINGING TO THAT CRAZY, WONDERFUL TIME WOULD BE LOST? When Caroline visits the DAVID BOWIE Is... exhibition at the V&A Museum, she doesn't expect to be pitched headlong into a...

  • A Question Of Thyme

    When Jen answers an advertisement to create a 1915 herb garden for a TV documentary, she expects it to get her out of a money hole, not to change her life... Borderline recluse Theo Grainger is scarred mentally and physically from an appalling fall s...

  • An Unconventional Act

    When Jenny Castle appears in Adam Prettyman's theatre barn one evening saying she has come to sort out his finances and look after his children, he knows he needs the help and is unable to refuse. Full of self-blame after the death of his wife, he wa...

  • A Rational Proposal

    When Verity Bowman's uncle dies, she discovers that she's inherited his fortune - as well as his attorney, Charles Congreve. But there's a catch. Concerned that Verity would be tempted to give herself completely to frivolity, her uncle has stipulated...

  • A Respectable House

    Seven years ago, Kitty made the biggest mistake of her life when she was tricked into eloping with a scoundrel. Now her husband is dead at the hands of London's most dangerous criminal - and he's after Kitty, too. Guarding Kitty and her six-year-old ...

  • A Practical Arrangement

    Benedict Fitzgilbert's sister Lilith suggests he and her friend Julia Congreve pretend an attachment in order to keep the Marriage Mart matriarchs off his back. But beautiful Julia is the epitome of a society butterfly, and Benedict is far too focuse...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jan Jones has published 18 books.

Jan Jones does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Practical Arrangement, was published in November 2022.

The first book by Jan Jones, The Thingamajig, was published in December 2002.

Yes. Jan Jones has 2 series.
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