Issy Brooke: 12 books

A fresh, uncomplicated nineteenth-century adventure with a strong, unconventional amateur detective: escape with Lady Cornbrook into the fun side of history. Cordelia, Lady Cornbrook has lost her husband, her home and she's about to lose her patience. She should have been enjoying a...

Sometimes you only see what you expect to see… It’s July, it’s hot, and it’s chaos as usual in the small town of Upper Glenfield, Lincolnshire, England. Penny May and her excitable dog, Kali, are trying to lead a quiet life. Long country walks, arts and crafts, and meals out with her...

A fresh, uncomplicated nineteenth-century adventure with a strong, unconventional amateur detective. Escape with Lady Cornbrook into the fun side of history. Discovering the killer is the easy part … but can Cordelia bring them to justice? Politicians tend to have more enemies than...

**This time, it’s personal… ** Penny’s sister and her two teenage children have turned up, fleeing a disastrous domestic situation. But the feckless husband and father, Owen, follows and in four short weeks he manages to irritate every other person in the town. It’s no surprise when...

A fresh, uncomplicated nineteenth-century adventure with a strong, unconventional amateur detective. Escape with Lady Cornbrook into the fun side of history. Cordelia, Lady Cornbrook confronts her past. It's not pleasant, but luckily she's armed with a short, stabby sword. It's late...

A fresh, uncomplicated nineteenth-century adventure with a strong, unconventional amateur detective. Escape with Lady Cornbrook into the fun side of history. Brooding, plotting, keeping secrets and the odd spot of murder: these things are pretty much compulsory on the stereotypical dark winter...

A fresh, uncomplicated nineteenth-century adventure with a strong, unconventional amateur detective. Escape with Lady Cornbrook into the fun side of history. When love and murder are different sides of the same coin... Cordelia, Lady Cornbrook has embarked on that most Victorian of pastimes;...

FIVE full-length standalone light historical mysteries in one volume! Join Cordelia, Lady Cornbrook and her eclectic household as she fights crime, unearths secrets, and fends off the advances of unsuitable men. These Victorian murder mysteries are set in Britain in the 1840s, and take a light,...

The isolated and rural farming county of Lincolnshire, England is a place you come from - not move to. Except for Penny May. She’s tired of the stress of her job in London, and it’s time for an early retirement. In an effort to reclaim the exuberance of youth that she once had, she gets...

Where do you start investigating when every woman in the town has a reason to want the victim dead? Penny May and her bonkers dog, Kali, are settling into the small town of Upper Glenfield, Lincolnshire, England. But secrets are festering behind the net curtains and neat front lawns. When an...

**Lighting up the shadows might reveal some unpleasant truths… ** It’s Christmas in the small British town of Upper Glenfield! This is a time of peace and love to all, right? Wrong. A local busybody is found dead. But was it their act of sabotage that went wrong, was it murder...

Sometimes it’s hard to like the ones that you love… Julie Rose, a local dog-walker, was a saint. She was warm, generous and helped everyone around her. But when she’s found dead in a locked bathroom, darker secrets begin to creep into the light. The pleasant middle-aged woman was not...