The Charleton House Mysteries

The annual Charleton House Food Festival is about to begin. But the first item on the menu is murder…

Nestled in the idyllic setting of Derbyshire’s rolling hills, the ancestral home of the Fitzwilliam-Scott family seems an unlikely location for murder. But when a young man is killed recent thefts from local stately homes are put in the shade,...

Till death us do part… As a passionate couple take their marriage vows in an ancient chapel, death is already waiting in the shadows for one of the persons there present. When wedding photographer Nathan Wallace arrives in the stunning grounds of Charleton House, it seems that not everyone is pleased to see him. But nobody could have predicted...

He would make a lovely corpse…

When visitors gather deep in the frozen Derbyshire countryside for a sleepover in the opulent Long Gallery of Charleton House, joined by some notable guests from the past, no one expects that by morning Charles Dickens will have been murdered.

Sleep- and caffeine-starved catering manager Sophie Lockwood makes her...

The cycle of life and deathThe joyful Cyclemania event, hosted in the breathtaking grounds of Charleton House to celebrate the Tour of Derbyshire cycle race, is drawing to a close. But the summer sun is also setting on the life of one of the visitors.
When outspoken cycling activist Olivia Sharp is found lying atop the carefully arranged...

The winter bears a berry,
As red as any blood...

As December casts its chilly eye over Derbyshire towns bedecked in festive cheer, the skeletal remains of a forgotten man lie hidden in the cellar of the historic Black Swan pub.

The glow of a million fairy lights and the hauntingly familiar melodies of Christmas carols fill the vast halls of...

Death lies on her like an untimely frost…

As the spring sunshine warms the expansive grounds of Charleton House, ancestral home of the Duke and Duchess of Ravensbury, love is in the air. Well-respected theatre director Miranda Summerscale is on site, preparing her cast for a production of Romeo and Juliet as part of the Derbyshire Shakespeare...

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive…

For the first time since her engagement came to an unhappy end, catering manager and amateur sleuth Sophie Lockwood returns to London from Derbyshire to run the café for an art exhibition hosted by her employers, the Duke and Duchess of Ravensbury, in their splendid city home. On...

In Kate P. Adams’ delightful first collection of short stories, featuring old friends and new from the successful Charleton House Mysteries, enjoy a world of laughs, friendship, mystery and mischief.

A young woman accepts an invitation to meet her boyfriend’s parents over dinner, unaware that one of the guests will attend from beyond the grave....

Water is the life-giver and the death-bringer…

The night before the ancient well-dressing tradition in the Derbyshire village of Castledale, the dressers work feverishly to get the displays finished in time. However, someone has got in ahead of schedule. One of the wells is already dressed… with a dead body.

Despite being determined not to get...

Egypt, thou knew’st too well my heart was to thy rudder tied…

In a shadowy, atmospheric gallery of a Victorian building, a beautiful Egyptian sarcophagus is the main attraction of a new exhibition. But the mummified body inside is not that of an ancient pharaoh; it belongs to the chair of the museum’s trustees, who until recently was alive and...

Welcome to another collection of entertaining short stories from the beautiful Derbyshire hills. Fans old and new of Kate P Adams will delight in this intimate glimpse into the world of the characters that bring her novels to life, some of them not even human…

Can a murder from the past be solved when the only witness is a typewriter? Are the two...