Ellen Read

When a woman inherits a house in Charters Towers, her first thought is it’s a scam. Assured by the solicitor that it isn’t, she decides to make a quick trip and sort everything out. She has no intention of staying. The first person she sees when she arrives is the last person she wants to see....

Has Catherine Lacey been kidnapped by human hands, or has the ghost of Lacey Hall ridden away with her? Sophie, Catherine’s sister, can’t answer that question....

Benedict Archer, who is manager of Thornton Antiques in Melbourne and who has been secretly helping Alexandra learn more about her family business, is also invited....

Formerly published as The Dragon Sleeps Dragon statue. An ancient sword. A body on the doorstep. What secret has remained hidden at Thornton Park for the last eighty years? It’s 1927 in Victoria, Australia. A time after the Great War when women have more options opened to them. At a weekend...

Set in 1928 in Victoria, Australia. The Thornton family made its money in the goldfields during the 1850s and the antiques trade. Their principal home is Thornton Park, a lavish mansion close to Melbourne. They also own a home and a goldmine in Daylesford, where their close friends, the Bassetti...

Murder comes to Norfolk Island, but is the killer after Alexandra Archer’s Tahitian black pearl or a lost illustration of the rare Green Parrot? The Thorntons, along with a small team of people, mount an expedition to Norfolk Island, a small island in the South Pacific, to study the Green...

Murder on the High Seas. Thomas Thornton reads the newspaper article. Can the murder of a young German man, fatally stabbed during a voyage out of London to Melbourne, have anything to do with the Thorntons? Alexandra’s curiosity is piqued when a Prussian Count, who travelled on the same ship...