Nancy Buckingham: 18 books

Detective Chief Inspector Kate Maddox, off-duty and watching a Polo match, is vexed when expected to help when local celebrity Sir Noah Kimberley hasn’t turned up to present the trophies. A missing husband isn’t a police matter! But her reluctant enquiries turn into a complex double-murder investigation....

Detective Chief Inspector Kate Maddox arrives at her posting in the Cotswolds to be met by male hostility. She immediately has to solve the death of a wealthy local woman not an accident, but murder. The car involved is found to belong to newspaper editor, Richard Gower. Kate, finding herself attracted...

When orphaned Elinor Rosslyn is confronted by handsome Stafford Darville with news that her Portugese grandfather has died, Elinor is amazed, unaware she had relatives. She travels to Portugal to meet her grandmother, Contessa da Milaveira, and heal the family rift. At the Palacio, though by law she...

Dulcie Royce inherited property from her father, whom she had believed died when she was a child. There was the manor house in the Cotswolds, with a scientific lab attached. But both Max Tyler and Dr. Ian Hamilton seemed to want her to sell up and return to her acting career. Something was dreadfully...

Arriving for work at the Design Studio in the Coach House of Haslop Hall in the Cotswolds, Tracy Yorke finds her boss murdered. The police investigation shows that many people might have had cause to kill Oliver Medway — including Tim Baxter whom Tracy has started to love. She can trust nobody, and...

A beautiful woman found in the woods, strangled and raped, horrifies Detective Chief Inspector Kate Maddox. But she also feels a shameful twist of relief that the glamorous Corinne Saxon is no longer her rival. While investigating the murder, Kate is forced to suspect her boyfriend, newspaperman...

Gail Sherbrooke had believed her father died twenty years ago. And yet his obituary was now posted in the London Times. In an effort to find out the truth of the matter, Gail went to Switzerland to investigate. And despite her regrets for having done so, she found herself with a dubious legacy. Her search...

Newly windowed and penniless, young Rachel Harwood reluctantly returns to London from her beloved Sarawei to stay with the ship-owning family of her husband, who all treated him so unjustly. It is only because she is pregnant that she can accept their charity. But Rachel’s pregnancy upset the family—and...

While in London, Americanborn Kit Anderson visits Baverstock Manor where her mother was raised. Though invited, she is made horribly unwelcome and resolves never to make contact again. But through a chance meeting with the local doctor, Ross Vernon, she learns that another girl is impersonating her,...

Riding on the Yorkshire moors, Emma meets a handsome stranger. Later, she is horrified to learn he is the man convicted of murdering her father 13 years ago, Matthew Sutcliffe, and back from transportation to Australia. Now wealthy, having found gold, he still protests his innocence. Emma finds herself...

Blissfully happy, newly married Carol Briers is shattered when her husband Clive goes missing without a trace. Finding a receipt with the name C Ashley and an address, she sets out in desperate hope to talk to this man. Instead she finds Clive’s brother, Paul Ashley, and learns shocking things about...

In Madeira, motherless Marianna lives a carefree childhood. Her closest friend is Jacinto, the intelligent son of her father’s vineyard manager. But at 16, she is married off to an older man by her feckless father. In England, William Penfold turns out to be ruthless and abusive. Much later Jacinto...

Obeying her fathers deathbed wish, Sarah returns to live at the family mansion on Exmoor in Devon. She faces hostility, it being believed that her sister Felicity had eloped with the coachmans son after stealing jewellery. Desperate to clear her sisters name, Sarah finds that only her second-cousin...

Gail Fleming leaves her job in New York and rushes home to England when she hears the shocking news that her invalid aunts husband, the famous Czech writer Alexis Karel, has disappeared. Then Alexis is spotted in Europe together with her aunts glamorous nurse. This totally destroys Alexiss credibility...