Severn House Publishers imprint: 631 books
by Janet Woods
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
A moving romance set in the 1920s - Julia Howard is a perfect daughter to her father, a now-bankrupt toy manufacturer who created a paper doll in her image. Julia longs for freedom, but marries wealthy businessman Latham Miller to please her father. Latham soon proves possessive and controlling, and...
Murder at the Queen's Old Castle
A mystery set in 1920s Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
A rare shopping trip for the Reverend Mother ends in brutal murder in this absorbing historical mystery.
Despite its regal name, the Queen’s Old Castle is nothing but a low-grade department store, housed within the decrepit walls of what was once a medieval castle, built at the harbour entrance...
A Gruesome Discovery
A mystery set in 1920s Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The Reverend Mother receives a decidedly gruesome gift in this compelling Irish historical mystery.
Ireland. 1925.
Like all who seek charitable contributions, Reverend Mother Aquinas is used to being gifted some fairly dubious items. But nothing like this. On opening the evil-smelling...
Shameful Murder, A
A mystery set in 1920’s Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Introducing the Reverend Mother Aquinas in the first of a brand-new historical mystery series.
Cork, Ireland. 1923. When, one wet March morning, Reverend Mother Aquinas discovers a body at the gate of the convent chapel washed up after a flood ‘like a mermaid in gleaming silver satin’,...
Death of a Novice
A mystery set in 1920s Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
The sudden death of a young novice nun raises a series of puzzling questions in the latest Reverend Mother historical mystery.
The Reverend Mother is delighted with her new entrant to the convent. Young Sister Gertrude is well-educated, has worked for an accountant and has an appealing sense...
Beyond Absolution
A mystery set in 1920s Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Reverend Mother Aquinas must discover who murdered a much-loved priest in the third of this compelling new Irish historical mystery series.
Ireland. 1925. Pierced through to the brain, the dead body of the priest was found wedged into the small, dark confessional cubicle. Loved by all, Father...
by Cora Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
When Inspector Field shows his friend Charles Dickens the body of a young woman dragged from the River Thames, he cannot have foreseen that the famous author would immediately recognize the victim as Isabella Gordon, a housemaid he had tried to help through his charity. Nor that Dickens and his fellow...
Shadows of the Dead
A 1920s London Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
DCI Paul Stark discovers that the bitter legacy of WWI casts a long shadow in the second of this intriguing historical mystery series.
London, 1921. Lord Johnny Fairfax has been found dead in his study, along with a second victim, a mysterious American who arrived unannounced the previous evening....
by Jeanne M Dams
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
When a wealthy Iraqi couple disappear following a concert at Sherebury Cathedral, American Anglophile Dorothy Martin investigates.
When Dorothy Martin and her husband Alan meet the wealthy Ahmad family, they are charmed by their courtesy, their perfect English, their delightful children and...
by Casey Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Introducing museum curator and amateur sleuth Miss Evie Barnum in the first of a deliciously quirky new historical mystery series.
Evie Barnum is in charge of her brother’s museum, a place teeming with scientific specimens and “human prodigies” including a bearded woman and the lizard...
Smile and be a Villain
A Dorothy Martin Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
A holiday on the picturesque island of Alderney leads to a case of cold-blooded murder for American Anglophile Dorothy Martin.
When Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired police detective Alan Nesbitt, decide to visit the beautiful island of Alderney in the English Channel, they hope for a...
Seventh Link, The
An English village cosy featuring The Colonel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The village of Frog End may be peaceful, but that doesn't mean that the Colonel’s life there is quiet – not with his friendly but nosy neighbour Naomi, desperate to know what he’s keeping in his new shed; the curious Miss Butler, who tracks his every move with her German U-boat captain’s binoculars;...
Beignets, Brides and Bodies
A cozy mystery set in smalltown Arizona
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Café owner Maggie Miller’s offer to help out the bridal shop owners next door leads to a case of cold-blooded murder in this light-hearted mystery.
Settling into her new life running a coffee and beignet café in the small town of Table Rock, Arizona, Maggie Miller expects nothing but smooth...
Beignets and Broomsticks
A cozy café mystery set in smalltown Arizona
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
During the traditional Halloween festivities, one of Maggie Miller’s customers comes to a sticky end in this entertaining cozy mystery.
It’s Halloween, and café owner Maggie Miller’s special pumpkin spice beignet promotion is proving popular. But the evening ends in disaster when Maggie...