Australian Amateur Sleuth

Live and Let Diet (Australian Amateur Sleuth, Book ONE) A fun cozy mystery. Sybil Potts moves to Little Tatterford, a small town in the middle of nowhere in Australia, seeking to find peace and quiet after the upheaval of her divorce. Although the town is sleepy and nothing has ever happened, her arrival coincides with a murder in the property adjacent to her cottage. Sybil soon finds she is at odds with the attractive Blake Wessley, the exasperated police officer who is trying to solve the murder. After Sibyl narrowly misses becoming the next victim, she turns her attention to the suspects. Is it the English gentleman, Mr. Buttons, who serves everyone tea and cucumber sandwiches, or her landlord, Cressida Upthorpe, who is convinced that her fat cat, Lord Farringdon, speaks to her? Or is it someone else entirely?

A group of philosophers at a Socrates convention. Sound like fun? Maybe not . . . but then there's the body.When one of the new boarders, an eminent professor of Socratic philosophy, is found poisoned by hemlock in a meal of quail, eccentric boarding house owner Cressida Upthorpe soon becomes the main suspect.Sibyl Potts, with the help of Mr Buttons, launches herself into the investigation, much to the consternation of stressed police officer Blake Wessley who is busy grilling the other suspects.As the body count mounts, will Sibyl be able to clear Cressida's name and find the real killer?Roast assured, it will all turn out well . . . for some.Natural-born Grillers is Book 2 in this USA Today Bestselling series, Australian Amateur Sleuth.

Sibyl doesn't barber a grudge despite the hair-raising murder. Will she brush herself off and get to the root of the matter?Obnoxious ghost hunters descend on Cressida Upthorpe's boarding house, convinced it must be a source of paranormal activity given that three murders have occurred there in a short space of time.After one of the ghost hunters is murdered with poisoned hair dye, Sibyl does her best to keep well away from the investigation, that is, until Cressida almost falls victim.With the bumbling detectives back in town and on the scene, Sibyl races to comb through the suspects before the body count rises.It's all in a dye's work.Book 3 in this USA Today Best-selling cozy mystery series.

There's something fishy in Little Tatterford. Can Sibyl solve the murder and make a snapper comeback?There hasn't been a murder in weeks, so Sibyl and her eccentric friends, Cressida Upthorpe and Mr. Buttons, are able to scale back their anxiety. Honeymooners, a famous businessman and his wife, book in to start their married life in bliss. After a breakfast of prawns, a tragic accident befalls one of them and they end up battered. The authorities, herring rumors, want to shut down the boarding house for safety reasons.The police believe the husband was the target but are all at sea and unable to catch a break. The protesters rally against the husband's company, which is destroying the local wilderness land. Will he rise to the bait?What with Blake's ex-girlfriend coming back to town, and a rival boarding house opening up nearby, can Sibyl keep a cool head, reel in the suspects, and save the boarding house from the authorities?Book 4 in this USA Today Best-selling series.

A fun cozy mystery series set in Australia. Sibyl Potts has finally been awarded her long-awaited property settlement, and her ex-husband has been sentenced for her attempted murder. Yet just as all seems well in her world, the body of one of Cressida's boarders is found in her cottage next to a half eaten ice cream sundae. When all the evidence points to Sibyl as the culprit, how will she solve the crime and prove her innocence?

Now that Dorothy is out of the way, Cressida employs a French Chef on the advice of Lord Farringdon alone. When a particularly untidy and rude builder is smothered by a mango, Mr. Buttons is discovered standing over the body. Instead of seeing Mr. Buttons as a murder suspect, the police believe he was the intended victim. As the intrigue mounts, Blake tells Sibyl not to interfere. Sibyl soon realizes this is no ordinary murder case and that Mr. Buttons has been hiding secrets from them all.