Reading Order for All the Books
Not sure where to start, or how the series tie together? Wondering about all those extra short stories that accompany the books, and if they need to be read in order as well?
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Beaufort Scales
Dragons and cake will always be a win. So how does one begin to discover said dragons (and cake recipes)? Well, one can start right here …
| Title |
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Description |
Get it! |
| The Tales of Beaufort Scales | A free short story collection that includes the very first Beaufort tale, plus others. More a companion than a prequel. | Free download | |
| Baking Bad | 1 | A tranquil village. A poisoned cupcake. A murdered vicar. And ... well, dragons. | Buy now |
| Yule Be Sorry | 2 | A festive tale of kidnappings, explosions, and stolen turkeys. With dragons, obviously. | Buy now |
| A Manor of Life & Death | 3 | Warring staff. “Accidental” poisonings. Topiary of dubious intent. A perfectly restful weekend in the country, really. | Buy now |
| A Game of Scones | 4 | Bribery. Corruption. Murder. And that's before the dragons and the Women's Institute get involved. Who said local politics were boring? | Buy now |
| A Toot Hansell Christmas Cracker | 5 | Twelve festive recipes and twelve strange little tales of Christmas in Toot Hansell. | Buy now |
| Coming Up Roses | 6 | There's a fine line between 'eccentric' and 'a danger to oneself and others'. And that line may just lie with the body in the freezer. | Buy now |
| Beast-Laid Plans | 7 | A dragon is missing. A Beast roams the Dales. And the Toot Hansell Women's Institute isn't going to stand for such nonsense … | Buy now |
| Bonfire of the Calamities | 8 | A stolen guy. A dumped body. A good cause gone bad. Mischief Night is coming for the Toot Hansell Women's Institute ... | Buy now |
| Something in the Waters | 9 | It never rains, but it pours. And in Toot Hansell, that goes double ... | Buy now |
| Book 10 | Coming 2026! | ||
| Recipes | Fancy baking the treats from the series? Every book has its own recipe collection - download them for free! | Free download |
Gobbelino London, PI
Which is a delightful and lovely description of the Gobbelino London books, and much more polite than mentioning all the bad jokes, terrible puns, and cats behaving badly. Well, not badly. Just like cats, really …
But you’re here because you’re not quite sure where to start with feline PIs and their human sidekicks, not to mention plagues of niceness, philosophical donkeys, and mermaids who are not as advertised. And while I still can’t quite explain the mermaids (or the unicorns), I can help with the reading list …
The Gobbelino London series is now complete, so you can read it cover to cover any time you like!
| Title |
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Description |
Get it! |
| The Cat Did It | Free short story collection (Not really a prequel, but a good introduction to the machinations of cats ...) |
Free download | |
| A Scourge of Pleasantries | 1 | Find a missing book. Easy money, right? Right. Except the book belongs to a sorcerer, and it's intent of tearing us - and the world - apart … | Buy now |
| A Contagion of Zombies | 2 | The dead are rising, and if we don’t stop them, fast, we’re going to be knee-deep in the zombie apocalypse before you can say mmm, brains … | Buy now |
| The Prim Reaper | A trilogy of tales involving a certain doily-loving, baking-fixated reaper who we met in Contagion. | Free download | |
| A Complication of Unicorns | 3 | When a man from Callum’s past turns up at our door claiming to have lost both the last herd of unicorns in England and his sister, I knew it should be a hard pass. The past has teeth. | Buy now |
| No One Expects Lemons | A (long) short story regarding Dimly animal rescue, as encountered in Unicorns. | Free download | |
| A Melee of Mages | 4 | Like it or not, when a sorcerer asks you to track a magician, you track a magician. It’s that or spend life as a hamster. | Buy now |
| On the Naming of Snakes | A short story involving Green Snake's true name, since we met him in Pleasantries and he refuses to leave. | Free download | |
| A Worry of Weres | 5 | I had one rule. No weres. But with a sorcerer threatening me with an out of body experience, I'm open to negotiation. | Buy now |
| A Sorcerous Address | A lengthy deleted scene from Weres, in which our scruffy heroes have the bright idea to break into a sorcerer's house. Because what could possibly go wrong with that? | Free download | |
| A Menace of Mermaids | 6 | The seaside was meant to be a safe place to hide out. We didn't count on dodgy mermaids, one-eyed pirates, and the kraken cult … | Buy now |
| An Act of Piracy | A lengthy short story involving pirates reclaiming their ships (well, one pirate, as met in Menace), as well as an actual short story involving housekeeping. | Free download | |
| A Collision of Catastrophes | 7 | We were looking for a friend. What we've got is the end of the world - unless we can stop it first ... The series finale in all its messy glory. |
Buy now |
| After The End | A collection of short stories from the end of the world as we know it (or at least as Gobbelino does) | Free download |
DI Adams (& Dandy)
The DI Adams tales have, of course, got themselves all interspersed with the Beaufort Scales stories. Does this mean you have to read all the Beaufort Scales books to follow what happens in Adams’ series? No, not at all. But should you wish to see how the two series tie together, you’ll find a second table below this one which will give you a bit of a guide.
But first – Adams’ own series:
| Title |
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Description |
Get it! |
| What Happened in London | 1 | The prequel, which explains not only why DI Adams headed for Yorkshire, but also what the deal is with ducks and chocolate ... | Buy now |
| A Gnome in the North | DI Adams thought things would be better up north. Less magic-y. But the North has its own ideas … | Free download | |
| All Out of Leeds | 2 | DI Adams' first Yorkshire adventure, involving stolen jewels, dangerous ponds, and corruption in high places. | Buy now |
| Don't Be Koi | It's just a pond, right? True, a pond in a sorcerer's house, but how bad can it be? | Free download | |
| Trouble Brewing in Harrogate | 3 | DI Adams has no problem with a nice pint. But this particular ale has teeth ... | Buy now |
| The Question of the Dog | It looks like a dog. It definitely smells like a dog. But Thompson knows better ... | Free download | |
| A Right Shambles in York | 4 | Tree and root. Steel and iron. And a city caught between ... | Buy now |
| Hazards of the Establishment | DI Adams might be done with York, but York isn't done with her ... | Free download | |
| DI Adams Book 5 | Coming late 2025! |
And then the whole tangled timeline of DI Adams and where her adventures tie into Toot Hansell, as much as she really wishes they wouldn't ...
| Title |
# |
Description |
Get it! |
| What Happened in London | D.A. 1 | The prequel, which explains not only why DI Adams headed for Yorkshire, but also what the deal is with ducks and chocolate ... | Buy now |
| Baking Bad | B.S. 1 | A tranquil village. A poisoned cupcake. A murdered vicar. And ... well, dragons. | Buy now |
| Yule Be Sorry | B.S. 2 | A festive tale of kidnappings, explosions, and stolen turkeys. With dragons, obviously. | Buy now |
| A Manor of Life & Death | B.S. 3 | Warring staff. “Accidental” poisonings. Topiary of dubious intent. A perfectly restful weekend in the country, really. | Buy now |
| All Out of Leeds | D.A. 2 | DI Adams' first Yorkshire adventure, involving stolen jewels, dangerous ponds, and corruption in high places. | Buy now |
| A Game of Scones | B.S. 4 | Bribery. Corruption. Murder. And that's before the dragons and the Women's Institute get involved. Who said local politics were boring? | Buy now |
| Trouble Brewing in Harrogate | D.A. 3 | DI Adams has no problem with a nice pint. But this particular ale has teeth ... | Buy now |
| A Toot Hansell Christmas Cracker | B.S. 5 | Twelve festive recipes and twelve strange little tales of Christmas in Toot Hansell. | Buy now |
| A Right Shambles in York | D.A. 4 | A charm is stolen. Metal is waking. And nature will tear the world apart to stop it – unless Adams can get there first. | Buy now |
| Coming Up Roses | B.S. 6 | There's a fine line between 'eccentric' and 'a danger to oneself and others'. And that line may just lie with the body in the freezer. | Buy now |
| DI Adams Book 4 | Coming late 2025! | ||
| Beast-Laid Plans | B.S. 7 | A dragon is missing. A Beast roams the Dales. And the Toot Hansell Women's Institute isn't going to stand for such nonsense … | Buy now |
| Bonfire of the Calamities | B.S. 8 | A stolen guy. A dumped body. A good cause gone bad. Mischief Night is coming for the Toot Hansell Women's Institute ... | Buy now |
| Something in the Waters | B.S. 9 | It never rains, but it pours. And in Toot Hansell, that goes double ... | Buy now |
| Book 10 | Coming 2026! |