Working-class mum and housecleaner Lois Meade plies her sleuthing skills once again after discovering a dead body--dressed in a suit of armor--in a chapel.[...]

The handsome new choirmaster in the village of Long Farnden may have been poisoned. Eager too crack the case, Chief Inspector Cowgill asks cleaner Lois Meade for help (again). Lois soon finds herself untangling a web of secrets, bigotry, and intrigue.[...]

When a newcomer arrives in the village of Long Farnden, claiming to be the nephew of a previous resident, housekeeper extraordinaire Lois Meade becomes suspicious, especially when small animals start turning up dead, and relies on the town gossips to help her get to the bottom of this matter. Origin[...]

The tenants of Lois Meade's terrace house in Tresham are frustrated by their neighbor's feisty pet cockerel, Satan. His owner, Clem Fitch, refuses to part with his feathery companion-making Lois's tenants fly the coop. Luckily, her son Douglas agrees to rent the house.
But when Clem and Satan a[...]

When the Long Farden village hall is in danger of being destroyed, the citizens form a committee to save it, with the usual grumps and curmudgeons included. But it seems someone opposes the preservation enough to set the historic building on fire. When a dead body turns up in the canal, Inspector Co[...]

She's worked through all the days of the week, turning up clues and scrubbing up both messes and murderers in the village of Long Farnden. But crime is a persistent stain, and Lois Meade is finding that sleuthing is rarely a spotless endeavor...
Magistrate Mrs. Tollervey-Jones represents the up[...]

"Lois Meade has scrubbed her way through the homes in Long Farnden, and she's not afraid of dusting cobwebs and killing a few bugs. But in her role as amateur sleuth, she's learning that if there's one thing to beware of, it's a snake in the grass... "
Spring has arrived in Long Farnden and wit[...]

Lois Meade has done enough buffing and polishing over the years with her cleaning business, New Brooms, to know that all that glitters is not gold. So when a bag of costume jewellery is the main clue in a murder, she has a strong suspicion that appearances may be deceiving...
After a woman is d[...]

Retiree Ivy Beasley, a college student? Interested in penning her memoirs, Ivy decides to take a creative writing course. But it's hard to find time to put pen to paper when this current chapter is so full of lies, jealousy and murder...
Rumors are flying around the village of Barrington about [...]