Sarah Selkirk Mysteries
3 primary works
Book 1
International cellist Sara Selkirk is apprehensive about the charity concert in Bath's famous Pump Room. It's the first time she will have performed in public since the death of her lover the previous year. But, in the event, Sara's performance is overshadowed by the death of the concert's organiser, Matthew Sawyer. In the ensuing police investigation, many secrets are uncovered including a stolen needlework collection, an immigration racket, a headmaster's adulterous affair with his secretary. What, if anything, do any of them have to do with Sawyer's death?
Book 2
Exhausted after a gruelling world tour, international cellist Sara Selkirk is looking foward to a few months' recuperation at her picturesque cottage near Bath. But her growing attraction to the music-loving DCI Andrew Poole causes her to make the mistake of joining an amateur operatics society. The Circus Opera Group is a motley crew: There's faded diva Helene and her autistic daughter Adele; vain, talentless composer Cosmo and his long-suffering girlfriend, Poppy. Not to mention Andrew's wife, who's beginning to grow suspicious. With this uneasy mix and clash of fragile egos, both Sara and Andrew predict trouble ahead. What they don't expect to encounter is sudden, violent death.
Book 3
When she finds her first cello teacher having problems, cellist Sara Selkirk sets her up as the resident music therapist for the clientle of the sulis clinic. A Dr Golightly runs the clinic, whose own family don't seem to enjoy the miraculous return to health enjoyed by the other patients.