BOOKS

Download a printable list of Marty’s books by series and in order.

The House for Lost Children
England, 1940. “Hello Gracie,” Louisa reaches out a trembling hand to the six-year-old little girl. Her dark eyes are wide with fear and Louisa’s heart shatters. She is devoted to the children in her new boarding school. But when the war comes closer than ever, can she keep them safe?

The London Ladies’ Murder Club mysteries
Fiercely independent Mabel Canning can’t wait to begin working for the Useful Women’s Agency. But when she discovers a body on her client’s doorstep, it’s time to add solving murders to her job description…

Potting Shed mysteries
Pru Parke, middle-aged gardener from Dallas, uproots herself and moves to England to start a new life, where she finds more than she bargained for—from digging up Roman ruins in a client’s garden to taking part in an outdoor Shakespeare production.

The First Edition Library mysteries
The First Edition Library mysteries are set in the lovely Georgian spa town of Bath. Here we find Hayley Burke, curator of an impressive collection of books from the Golden Age of Mystery—Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham, and all the rest. Too bad Hayley has never read a detective story in her life.

Standalones
Learn more about Marty Wingate’s historical novels, The Orphans of Mersea House and Glamour Girls.

Birds of a Feather mysteries
Julia Lanchester, daughter of a celebrity ornithologist, at last moves out of the family home at the age of thirty-eight to manage the Tourist Information Center in the village of Smeaton-under-Lyme on the Fotheringill estate in Suffolk. In the process, she ruffles more than a few feathers.