Category Archives: Genealogical Mysteries

This post contains affiliate links. You can read my full disclosure statement here. Title: The Christmas Carol: A Jayne Sinclair Genealogical Mystery Author: M J Lee  Format: Paperback or Kindle Published: 2020 Synopsis: (from Amazon) “When an antique dealer asks Jayne Sinclair, genealogical investigator, to discover the provenance of a first edition of Charles Dickens’, A Christmas Carol, she is faced with one of the most difficult  challenges of her career. How does she find the family of the mysterious man in the hand-written dedication, when all she has is […]

Title:  Where’s Merrill? Author:  Gearoid O’Neary Format:  Paperback and Kindle Published:  2013 Synopsis:  (partial, from Amazon)  Where’s Merrill? is a uniquely crafted mystery thriller based upon real life historical events. In fact, it is two inter-related stories in one novel set in different time-frames, namely the past and the present. An Irish genealogist called Jed is commissioned by Tim, an American client, who needs to understand more about his mysterious maternal ancestry. Fate had dictated that Tim never got the chance to meet his grandparents, and he didn’t even know […]

Just finished reading the book The Lost Empress, the fourth in the series of Jefferson Tayte Genealogical Mysteries by British author Steven Robinson.  My love of this series, and the author, started in 2011 when I read the first book in the series, In the Blood. The main character of the series, Jefferson Tayte, is a professional American genealogist, who always seems to have a genealogical case that involves mystery and mayhem.  Each book is set predominantly in England, but American readers love the series nonetheless. Robinson writes great stories, […]

Title:  Relatively Dead Author:  Sheila Connolly Format:  Kindle Published:  2013 Synopsis: (from Amazon)  Abby Kimball has just moved to New England with her boyfriend and is trying to settle in, but the experience is proving to be quite unsettling, to say the least. While on a tour of local historic homes, Abby witnesses a family scene that leaves her gasping for breath—because the family has been dead for nearly a century. Another haunting episode follows, and another, until it seems to Abby that everything she touches is drawing her in, […]

Title:  In The Territory of Lies Author:  Lois Stickell and Peg Robarchek Format:  Paperback and Kindle Published:  2012 Synopsis: (from Amazon)  Which matters most…money or family? Linda Haverty needs money – desperately. Shea Dillon wants to break a family curse and save her daughter’s life. Rumors of a sacred manuscript that was once at the heart of a family squabble send Linda to the internet in search of the long-vanished document, which is surely worth millions. Her search leads to Shea, a distant relative, and the centuries-old tug-of-war over the […]

Title:  The Genealogist’s Guests Author:  Ann Simpson Format:  Paperback and Kindle Published:  2013 Synopsis: (from Amazon)  An imaginative saga that will leave you riddled with suspense. An unforgettable story with a riveting account of one family’s buried secret. A story packed with twist and turns, family drama, loyalty and friendship. A bizarre setting in the afterlife where a demon preys on the Ward family. While its members strive for normalcy they must come to terms with their past and soon realize it all began with a curse. As the mystery […]

Title:  Kindred Spirits: Family Ties Author:  Julie Wilson Format:  Kindle Published:  2014 Synopsis:  (from Amazon)  The first in the Kate Dean & Co genealogical mystery novella series – a tale of modern-day life, monosyllabic teenagers, lots of red wine and ghostly goings-on!  Having discovered she enjoys investigating family trees, Kate Dean decides to have a go at make a living out of it. T he Adlington case looks like all the rest – a straightforward tree to pass down the generations – but Kate isn’t expecting the extra ‘help’ she […]

Title:  It’s In the Genes Author:  Norma E. Rawlings Format:  Kindle Published:  2013 Synopsis:  (from Amazon)  Liz Carter is forensic scientist, the only daughter of Philip Carter, a linguist, and Alexandra, a nurse.  One day Liz’s parents are killed in a car crash and she finds herself alone in the world without any family.  As Liz searches for her dead parents birth certificates she un covers a mystery and to her amazement discovers that her mother had been married before to a scientist and had had two children.  What secrets […]