Severn House Publishers imprint: 631 books
by Paul Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
April, 2028, and independent Edinburgh is facing a mounting crime wave. Experts from the utopian university-state of New Oxford recommend an extreme deterrent – a maximum security prison alongside the central tourist zone. At the prison opening ceremony, the unthinkable happens – an Edinburgh...
Murder at Mullings
A 1930s country house murder mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
An intriguing 1930s country house murder mystery: first in the brand-new Florence Norris series
In its 300-year history, there has never once been a scandal at Mullings, ancestral home of the decent but dull Stodmarsh family. Until, that is, Edward Stodmarsh makes an ill-advised second marriage...
Murder Take Three
A British Country House mystery
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
1950s Private Investigator Donald Langham discovers that truth is stranger than fiction when he investigates a murder on an American movie set.
Having just started work as a professional private investigator, Donald Langham’s first client is American movie star Suzie Reynard, currently shooting...
by Sarah Rayne
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Antiques dealer Nell West is valuing the contents of her late husband Brad’s childhood home, Stilter House. Set on the remote Derbyshire Peaks, there was once a much older property there, in which the notorious Isobel Acton committed a vicious crime. Warned against visiting the house by an elderly...
Bell Tower, The
A haunted house mystery
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
“The haunted-house theme is one of the most venerable in the genre, and Rayne has given it new life in this series, drawing again and again on the secrets contained within structures built originally to keep us safe”
Booklist Starred Review
A 400-year-old crime continues to menace the present...
Death Shall Come
A country house murder mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Ishmael Jones is faced with a dead body and a missing mummy in this highly entertaining, genre-blending mystery.
Death shall come on swift wings to whoever desecrates this tomb …
Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny have been summoned to remote Cardavan House, home of the world’s...
by Fiona Buckley
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
August, 1582. The queen’s spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, has ordered Ursula to keep an eye on her new neighbour, Giles Frost, who is rumoured to be spying for King Philip of Spain. Arriving at Knoll House on the pretext of teaching his two daughters embroidery, Ursula’s secret mission is to...
The Graveyard Shift
A paranormal mystery
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Pepper Martin returns in a new ghostly mystery when she is contacted by the ghosts of Eliot Ness and Al Capone . . .
Pepper Martin, now Community Relations Director of Garden View Cemetery, is contacted by the ghost of Eliot Ness, one of Cleveland's most famous dearly departed. According to Ness,...
Crooked Street
A Joanna Piercy police procedural
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy investigates the disappearance of a young husband - and discovers all is not as it seems.
Jadon Glover is good-looking, professional, reliable and a perfect husband, according to his wife. So when he fails to return home one miserable March night, she rings...
Two Strangers
An historical saga set in 1920s London
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
An intelligent, slum-dwelling teenage girl takes drastic measures to survive when her father throws her out of her home, in this spellbinding historical saga
Poplar, London, 1920. Fourteen-year-old Victoria Keats is horrified when her father demands that she go to work for wealthy Mr Preston...
Wheel of Fire
A British police procedural
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
A mysterious fire at a Somerset manor house leads to a complex and intriguing case for Bristol detective David Vogel.
When Sir John Fairbrother, head of one of the world’s biggest private banks, burns to death, along with his nurse, in a catastrophic fire at his Somerset manor house, Detective...
by Veronica Heley
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Ellie Quicke is back - Ellie and her new husband Thomas are called to deal with student Ursula, who has staged a sit-in at church. Ursula challenges Ellie to solve three mysteries: a broken engagement, a disappearance and a death. As she investigates, Ellie suspects there is more to these events than...
Good Time Coming
A sweeping saga set during the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
"Harris tells a powerful story of war’s destruction of property, people, hopes, and morals during the Civil War in Louisiana. This is top-notch historical fiction, thoroughly researched and vividly presented, revealing the Civil War in all its brutality. Publishers Weekly
“This story of...
Shocking Assassination, A
A Reverend Mother mystery set in 1920s' Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
“Well-drawn characters, including a lead capable of sustaining a long series, complement the clever plot”
Publishers Weekly Starred Review
Reverend Mother Aquinas is asked to prove a young man’s innocence in the second of this atmospheric new Irish historical mystery series.
Ireland....