Barbara Bothwell: 12 books

One evening on returning to her home in the New Forest Cleo finds her housekeeper dead in the pool and the husband missing. DCI David 'Steaming' Kettle is in charge of the investigation - with help from Cleo. She also encounters a stroppy teenager, the village gossip,a horse and participates in a very strange car chase. And meets a killer!

In this second Cleo Marjoribanks Murder Mystery she is back to help solve more murders - along with help from her journalist friend, Primrose Day. DCI David 'Steaming' Kettle and his team are on the job and he isn't happy with Cleo's interference. By the time an estate agent and two women golfers have been killed Steaming is almost glad of Cleo's help. Even when it puts her in danger.

Cleo and DCI David 'Steaming' Kettle finally manage to get away for a holiday - to Spain. They were looking forward to a restful and relaxing stay at a boutique hotel but life quickly becomes complicated. Between dead bodies, poltergeist night noises, drugs and antiques smugglers, plus a pair of teenagers looking for Angel, life isn't restful.

Why would someone want to murder two writers? Because they belonged to the same club? Or was it for some other reason? English travel writer, Trudi, lives in Florida and is the Sheriff's choice for culprit. She is a member of the writers' club to which the victims belonged. From information garnered...

Here comes Cleo again, driving her Rolls Royce Silver Wraith around the New Forest. And, of course, helping DCI David 'Steaming' Kettle to solve crimes. In this fourth book there is murder and the theft of antique amber. Lord Bernard Smythe owns Mitcham Manor and a collection of amber artifacts...

Trouble is not just to the village but to Cleo's house when she finds a body outside her garden. A young woman with red hair but unidentifiable. Eventually she is identified as Rozi, the Polish wife of Ian. A week later (when Cleo is in London) another young woman is killed and her body left in the...

A man's body is found in his car on the South Downs. Kevin Stewart is identified along with his next-of-kin - his ex-wife, Sarah. After the police visited her with the news she discovers - in the attic - some antique silver, a laptop and some papers. She removes the laptop, leaves the house (taking...

Summer 1958 and Long John Silver (Harry) and the Pirates were on tour when a theatre's ASM was killed, as was a member of the audience. Along the way the group's van is vandalised, Harry's girlfriend's clothes are shredded and there is an attempt on Harry's life. The group who open for LJS...

The body of a famous model is found lying on the road near her home. Was it an accident? If not then who killed her and why? The more time passes the longer the list of suspects. She was a wealthy woman married to an accountant and, as with newsworthy people, there are plenty of rumours. Friends...

The police have a problem trying to identify the body of a man, especially after he was mis-identified. Then DI Sinclair's girlfriend,Sarah, tells him about an old lady and a conman she had met on board a cruise. More old ladies also seem to have met conmen. The connecting factor is that the conmen...

How did Jose Monte, son of acrobats, become Joseph Montgomery? It all began in the late 19th century when a schoolteacher in the American Mid-West took pity on a young Spanish circus boy who could only speak a few words in English. As he wasn't athletic he was useless as an acrobat. The teacher gave...

On her wedding day Sylvia was a very happy young woman. Unfortunately, however hard she tried, everything seemed to go wrong. Eventually five years and two children later she gave up, packed and with the children left her husband. This was 1965 and as she was to discover over the next five years women...