The Beatrice Stubbs Series Boxset Two: Eye-opening mysteries in sensational places

British crime fiction where characters become people and place is part of the story.

For lovers of intelligent crime fiction, three more heart-racing European adventures in one boxset.

Beatrice Stubbs of Scotland Yard: detective inspector, metaphor mixer and stubborn survivor.Battling crime by day and her own demons by night, the question is always the same.

Justice or the law?

“If you’ve not yet read Beatrice Stubbs, I envy you. What a treat you have in store.”


Cold Pressed: “Two things people fear the most? Change and death.”

Santorini. Turquoise seas, ancient ruins and beautiful sunsets. And a woman thrown from a cliff. The violent death shocks fellow passengers of the Empress Louise, a grand cruise liner packed with British tourists. DI Beatrice Stubbs flies to Greece to assist. When another lady is killed in her cabin, terror spreads like contagion. Murder is aboard and someone has Beatrice in his sights. Revenge is a dish best served cold.


Human Rites: “Judgement is in the eye of the beholder.”

Adrian Harvey has a stalker. Someone is stealing his post, vandalising his shop and making allegations to the police. And who is that nun? When DI Beatrice Stubbs is dispatched to Germany to investigate art theft, Adrian seizes the chance to flee the city. Yet the stalker is still on his heels. Adrian runs from danger to the remote island of Sylt. But danger follows and Adrian has run too far.


Bad Apples: “Some people are just rotten to the core.”

A police conference in Portugal is hardly a dangerous assignment, so Beatrice Stubbs invites family and friends for a holiday. It should be the perfect work-life balance. Until one of her colleagues is murdered. An eclectic alliance of international detectives forms to find the assassin. But are they really on the same side? Meanwhile, tensions rise at the holiday villa. A clash of egos sours the atmosphere and when a five-year-old child disappears, their idyll turns hellish. Trust can be a fatal mistake.


Beatrice Stubbs murder mysteries are contemporary crime novels with a timeless feel. The focus is on human interest and strong personalities.

If you enjoy Alexander McCall Smith, Jacqueline Winspear and David Hewson, you'll love Boxset Two.

• Snow Angel: An eye-opening mystery in a sensational place (The Beatrice Stubbs Series Book 7)
• Honey Trap: An eye-opening mystery in a sensational place (The Beatrice Stubbs Series Book 8)
• The Beatrice Stubbs Boxset One: Eye-opening mysteries in sensational places
• An Empty Vessel: The post-war British classic by Vaughan Mason
• Tread Softly: An eye-opening mystery in a sensational place (The Beatrice Stubbs Series Book 3)
• Raw Material: An eye-opening mystery in a sensational place (The Beatrice Stubbs Series Book 2)
• Behind Closed Doors: An eye-opening mystery in a sensational place (The Beatrice Stubbs Series Book 1)
• THE VICARAGE MURDER an addictive crime mystery full of twists (Monica Noble Detective Book 1)
• PENITENT: a Scottish murder mystery with a devilish twist (Detective Inspector Munro murder mysteries Book 9)
• Borderlands: A DCI Ryan Mystery (The DCI Ryan Mysteries Book 14)