A tranquil village.A poisoned cupcake.A murdered vicar. A simple case - or it should be. But all clues point to the Toot Hansell Women's Institute, and Detective Inspector Adams is about to discover there's much more to the W.I. than just bake s...
A festive tale of kidnapping, explosions, & stolen turkeys....
One should never meddle in the affairs of dragons, but someone has been doing just that. They’ve been making imitation dragon scale baubles that are nothing short of lethal, an...
Warring staff.
"Accidental" poisonings.
Topiary of dubious intent.
Throw in the full complement of the Toot Hansell Women's Institute and dragons doing yoga on the terrace, and DI Adams is starting to wonder if she ...
Bribery. Corruption. Murder. Who said local politics were boring?Suspicious deaths on the Skipton city council don't sound as though they should have anything at all to do with the Toot Hansell Women's Institute, and DI Adams would rather like to kee...
What've we got?Tigers. Snakes. Alligators. Tears in the skin of the universe. Susan shrugged. I think I saw a kraken in the sink, too. Find a missing book. That was the job the woman in the Doc Martens gave us. Easy money, right? ...
Zombies don't exist. You told me they don't exist.There's a corpse clawing its way out of a grave over there. I'm open to the possibility that I may have been wrong. I see dead people. And I'm not the only one. They're even on Faceboo...
Unicorns never were that bright, I said. That's why they're the only kind to stab their own entire species into extinction.Not quite the entire species, Callum said.When a man from Callum's past turns up at our door claiming to have lost both the las...
Rebellious Christmas wreaths. Mysterious welly-dwelling eggs. A plague of irate water fowl. And ten ladies of a certain age who are by no means the least troublesome of Toot Hansell's residents, as far as Detective Inspector Adam...
We'll do it, Callum said.Of course we will, I said. Why would we not stalk the scary magician who might be trying to raise his son from the dead? For free?Like it or not, when a sorcerer asks you to track a magician, you track a magician. It's that o...
There's a fine line between 'eccentric' and 'a danger to oneself and others'.And that line may just lie with the body in the freezer. That's certainly what DI Adams is thinking when said body turns up in Rose's freezer. Rose might not look...
Old gods rise. A jewel thief falls. A late night wish is tragically granted. And somewhere, on the edge of the dark or in the belly of an unknown machine, stories are born. Stories of heroic chickens and lost demons, dangerous golf gam...
Find Malcolm. His safety is your safety. Threat or promise, I wasn't hanging around to find out. Not when the sorcerer making it had just yanked me straight out of my skin for a friendly chat. But with our situation normal involving schemin...
A dragon is missing. A Beast stalks the Dales. And the hunters are coming … DI Adams' missing person is a human, not a dragon. But the trails of both lead straight to the village of Eldmere, where glimpses of a mysterious B...
Baton. Light. Chocolate. Duck.This is not DS Adams' usual kit. This is not DS Adams' usual case. She doesn't think it's anyone's usual case, not with the vanishing children and the looming bridge and the hungry river. Not with the snap-snap-snap. But...
Warring staff. 'Accidental' poisonings. Topiary of dubious intent. Throw in the full complement of the Toot Hansell Women's Institute and dragons doing yoga, and DI Adams is starting to wonder if she might have made a small misjudgement signing up fo...
I was expecting a throne made from the skulls of your enemies.It can be arranged.I'm not saying the entire magical population of North Yorkshire want us dead. Just the majority. Which is why we fled Leeds to hide out in the dubious safety of the seas...
Ay up, Mogs. Bringer of mad tidings. What is it this time?End of the world, I said.Can't get much madder than that. We hadn't planned a return to Leeds. Not yet, anyway. It was all a bit dicey, what with half the Folk in the city wanting us dead...
A body.A theft.A good cause gone bad … Miriam has never seen eye-to-eye with her sister. But when a body's dumped on the doorstep of a Women's Institute meeting and all signs point to Rainbow, Miriam knows her sister's being framed. Rainbo...
Walk softly, and carry a very big stick ... DI Adams fled London thanks to bridge-dwelling monsters and magical toasties – a one-time experience she's in no hurry to repeat. She's police, not some cryptid hunter. Leeds has other plans...