KAREN CHARLTON
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    • The Mystery of Mad Alice Lane
    • Smoke & Cracked Mirrors
    • Dancing With Dusty Fossils
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    • The Heiress of Linn Hagh
    • The Sans Pareil Mystery
    • The Sculthorpe Murder
    • Plauge Pits & River Bones
    • Murder on Park Lane
    • The Willow Marsh Murder
  • Detective Lavender Short Stories
    • Death At The Frost Fair
    • The Death of Irish Nell
    • The Piccadilly Pickpocket
    • The Mystery of the Skelton Diamonds
  • Catching the Eagle & February 1909
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    • February 1809
  • Seeking Our Eagle
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    • James Charlton Senior (1700-1770)
    • John Charlton (1746-1818)
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    • The mysterious William Charlton
    • The Family Tree: Ten generations
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The York LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY

Welcome to the world of
The York Ladies’ Detective Agency 


WARTIME BRITAIN
When the husband of Jemma James is declared 'missing in action' she returns to York to fulfil her lifelong ambition to set up a private detective agency with her best friend, Bobbie Baker with whom she shares a passion for Golden Age crime fiction.


The Mystery of Mad Alice Lane is an introductory short story, the prequel to the series, and it is published in Kindle ebook only.

 Smoke and Cracked Mirrors is the first full-length novel of the series and is available on Amazon in eBook, paperback and audiobook formats. Paperbacks are also available through good book stores.

​Dancing With Dusty Fossils, will be available on November 15th 2022 and is available to pre-order. 

All can be read as standalone works of fiction and are ideal for fans of Richard Osman, Alexander McCall Smith, Agatha Christie and the TV series, ‘Foyle’s War’.
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