Daphne Neville

Very little is known about the late Nigel Taylor. He lived alone at Number 13, Hawthorn Road and kept himself to himself. When he died, villagers expressed their sadness but there was no-one to mourn. With the festive season upon the village, his passing is soon forgotten. But then early in the New Year, his landlady is found dead, seemingly murdered, inside the house Nigel had rented. Her untimely demise reopens recently unanswered questions: Who was Nigel Taylor? Who did he associate with? Where did he work? Why was his landlady murdered?At the forefront of those seeking answers are twin sisters, Hetty and Lottie, and their close friends. Always up for a challenge, the ladies begin their search for the truth and what better place to start than inside their favourite haunt, the Crown and Anchor.'Murder in Hawthorn Road' is the seventh in the Pentrillick Cornish Mystery series. Although part of a series, it can be read as a standalone.

Super-sleuth-cum-busybody sexagenarian twin sisters Hetty and Lottie are thrilled by the number of summer events taking place in the Cornish seaside village of Pentrillick. The church's young vicar is getting married, the Crown and Anchor is sold and closed for renovation work, and green fingered residents are polishing their horticultural skills ready for the newly created 'Pentrillick in Bloom' competition. Inhabitants are optimistic; the collective mood is cheerful, and everything points to a summer to remember. However, the mood changes when the lifeless body of one of the tradesmen working on the pub's refurbishment is discovered by a newcomer to the village. Does this dampen the spirits of our two indomitable lady super-sleuths? Not one bit. A crime to solve is just something else to add to their to-do list.'Death by Hanging Basket' is a light-hearted story and the sixth in the Pentrillick Mystery Series set on the south coast of West Cornwall.

There is much idle chatter in the seaside village of Pentrillick, for word has broken that Joseph Percival Williams, the village's erstwhile baker and oldest inhabitant, is dead.When sexagenarian twin sisters Lottie and Hetty hear the news, Lottie's first though is that, should it be sold, the Old Bakehouse might be a suitable home for her son, Bill, and his family currently living up-country.Over the ensuing weeks, details of the old baker's will are brought to light and inevitably several people arrive in the village hopeful of receiving a share of his legacy, but no-one foresees the dark secrets that will come to light as the history of his life is exposed.`The Old Bakehouse' is a light-hearted mystery and the fifth book in the Pentrillick Cornish Mystery Series set on the south coast of West Cornwall.

There is much excitement in the Cornish seaside village of Pentrillick. Sea View Cottage has been sold to Brett Baker, a playwright of some note and the creator of several popular, television, situation comedies. Consequently, when Brett offers one of his unperformed murder mystery plays to members of the village drama group for their next production, everyone it seems wants to be involved. Soon after rehearsals get underway a series of strange events occur which bear uncanny similarities to the play. Due to a lack of clues and a seemingly lack of progress by the police, sexagenarian twin sisters, Hetty and Lottie, attempt, just for fun, to see if they can establish who is behind the crimes, with of course a little help from their friends. 'Tea and Broken Biscuits' is a light-hearted story and the fourth in the Pentrillick Cornish Mystery Series located on the south coast of West Cornwall.

July 2017. Sexagenarian twin sisters, Hetty and Lottie, are very enthusiastic about having their attic converted into living accommodation and anticipate much excitement during the summer months while the work is in progress, especially so when Lottie's seventeen-year-old grandson, Zac, arrives to stay with them during the school holiday. However, what they have not anticipated is the discovery of an old suitcase concealed beneath the floorboards in the attic. Its contents suggest it was packed during World War Two and this puzzles them. Why is it there? Who did it belong to? Who put it there? And why is it hidden beneath the floorboards? "We need answers!" declares Hetty. And that was just what the sisters and their friends set out to find. 'The Suitcase in the Attic' is a light-hearted story and the third in the Pentrillick Cornish Mystery series located on the south coast of West Cornwall.

Anna Greenwood had never been to Cornwall, yet she'd had a strong desire to visit the county for as long as she could remember. As her twenty-third birthday was drawing near, she decided to satisfy that yearning by booking a fortnight's holiday. After searching the internet, she finally chose to stay at The Old Tile House in Penzance, for no other reason than she was fascinated by an old picture of the building and in particular its three tall chimneys. Her holiday began well. The weather was kind, she made friends and enjoyed the sights, but then new guests arrived at The Old Tile House and things changed in a most peculiar way. The Old Tile House is a standalone novella of 43,000 words and an introduction to Pentrillick, a village situated on the south coast of Cornwall which will feature in a new series of mystery books.

2012. Preparations are well underway for celebrations to commemorate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, and in the City construction work is almost complete and ready for London to host the 2012 Olympic Games. In Cornwall, the inhabitants of Trengillion, having decided they would also like to celebrate the Queen's sixty year reign, begin to organise festivities which, unbeknown to them, will long be remembered for all the wrong reasons. Meanwhile, for retired headmaster Ned Stanley, talk of the Diamond Jubilee stirs many memories and emotions, for it is sixty years since he first set foot on Trengillion's soil. Trengillion's Jubilee Jamboree is the 7th and final book in the Cornish Mystery Series. The series covers village life over a period of sixty years, from 1952 to 2012.

1999. Twelve years have passed since Trengillion was covered in a deep blanket of snow and since then much has changed. Ned Stanley, the village school's headmaster, has retired and the inn is, yet again, under new ownership. Throughout Cornwall, businesses are making final preparations for the half a million extra tourists predicted to visit the county in August for the much hyped solar eclipse. An event which, unbeknown to the residents of the peaceful fishing village, will bring in its wake far more than a large influx of holiday makers. A Celestial Affair is the sixth book in a series of seven set in Cornwall on the beautiful Lizard Peninsula. The books cover a timespan of sixty years.

1976; summer is fast approaching and the British Isles is on the verge of a severe drought. However, the hot, dry weather is welcome news for Cornwall's holiday trade, and Wild West enthusiast, Raymond Withers, and his long suffering wife, Gloria, who run Trengillion's Inn, anticipate a lucrative season. At the end of June, a stranger appears on the scene bearing the name Penwynton, causing consternation amongst locals, for the Penwynton name died out with the death of Charles ten years earlier. Consequently, the hundred year old mystery regarding Grenville Penwynton who vanished from the family home once again becomes a topical conversation. Meanwhile, the newly arrived students socialise with Trengillion's youngsters; Molly Smith makes elderflower champagne, and Ned, the village school's headmaster, reaches the grand age of fifty. Grave Allegations is the fourth in a series of seven books located in Trengillion on Cornwall's beautiful Lizard Peninsula. The series covers a period of sixty years.

December 1986 and Trengillion's residents are preparing to celebrate Christmas. On New Year's Eve, family and friends gather around a log fire at the Old Vicarage and tell ghostly tales of yesteryear. In mid-January the weather turns colder; snowflakes fall and the Cornish landscape is transformed into a white world; and with the coming of the snow, people and objects vanish into thin air, thus reviving old tales of mysterious happenings during blizzards in bygone days. The Old Vicarage is the fifth in a series of seven books set in Trengillion on the south coast of Cornwall. The series covers a period of sixty years.

Summer 1967. The Swinging Sixties are at their height and Trengillion in Cornwall is much changed since the early 1950s. Charles, the last of Trengillion's prestigious family, has died and his former home, Penwynton House, is up for sale, causing much consternation amongst villagers as to the future of the rambling neglected building. Inside Bluebell Woods, the children of the village, wrapped in a world of pop stars, music and fashion, spend much of the school holidays playing in and around their makeshift den. At The Ringing Bells Inn, Landlord Frank Newton and his wife, Dorothy, concede it is time to think of retirement. Meanwhile, visitors come and go and life goes on as normal. Or does it? The strange behaviour of some visitors raises many questions. A subsequent supposed accident causes much gossip, and the evolving summer turns out to be anything but normal. Sea, Sun, Cads and Scallywags is the third in a series of seven books located in Trengillion on Cornwall's beautiful Lizard Peninsula.

Summer 1953. Following their wedding, Ned Stanley and his bride head for The Ringing Bells Inn in Cornwall for a month-long honeymoon. Several days later they are joined by Ned's best friend, George Clarke, who has recently split up with his girlfriend. By nature, George is very much a happy-go-lucky young man, but within days of his arrival in Cornwall, strange dreams begin to disrupt his sleep. Dreams which, as the days unfold, dominate his thoughts, test his mettle, and threaten his very being. Polquillick is the second in a series of seven books located in Trengillion on Cornwall's beautiful Lizard Peninsula. The first - The Ringing Bells Inn - was released in April 2014.

February 1952 and the country is in mourning following the death of King George V1. On a train leaving London's Paddington Station, Ned Stanley is bound for Cornwall to convalesce after an energy sapping bout of glandular fever. He has accommodation booked at the Ringing Bells Inn located on the Lizard Peninsula in the small fishing village of Trengillion on Cornwall's beautiful south coast. Ned assumes his stay at the Ringing Bells Inn will be soothingly tranquil and a complete contrast to London where he teaches history at a secondary modern school. But the old Cornish village, Ned is soon to discover, has a guilty secret and he will rapidly find himself committed to resolve an intriguing mystery regarding the sinister disappearance of Jane Hunt, a local girl who worked at the Inn but has not been seen since she vanished the previous summer.