Lydia Travers Books In Order

Publication Order of The Scottish Ladies Detective Agency Books

Lydia Travers is a published author who writes using the pen name Linda Tyler. She is known for writing historical cozy crime novels and historical romance stories.

She is an author with award-winning writing. She was born in London but chose to move further and further north. She eventually settled down with her husband in a small village located on the edge of the Scottish Highlands.

She has had children with her husband and has also kept chickens and bred dogs along the way. She used to be a legal academic and practitioner. She has since moved on to writing as well as running her own self catering holiday accommodation.

Lydia enjoys singing as a member of the local choir. She also enjoys going out with her dog and they go on walks daily. She enjoys taking in reviews from all types of readers who have had a positive experience reading her stories.

She is known for the Scottish Ladies’ Detective Agency series of fictional stories which started in 2023. Lydia belongs to the Crime Writers Association.

The Scottish Ladies’ Detective Agency is the first book in the Scottish Ladies’ Detective Agency series of fictional novels by Lydia Travers. If you love a good cozy mystery story, then be sure to check this one out!

Main character Maud McIntyre is inspired with the idea to set up her very own detective agency– privately run, of course. Even though she knows what an agency contends with, Maud never thought that the first case that the group would take on would be murder.

The year is 1911 and the place is Edinburgh. Maud McIntyre decides that she going to form her very own detective agency. Her partner in the effort is Daisy, her lady’s maid. The two of them knew that they would be taking on larger cases, but they never thought that they’d have their first case be one about murder let alone be set in the Scottish Highlands in a large, beautiful house.

The Duchess of Duddingston is worried that a jewelry thief is going to have intents to target a party she is throwing over the weekend. She gets Maud to serve as an undercover guest in the hopes of nabbing the person responsible. Just like that, the agency lands their first case and are on a mission.

Maud starts following various clues all over the estate of Duddingston House. When she encounters the guests who are there for the weekend, she is eagle-eyed in the hopes that she can spot some suspicious characters that may show that they are the jewelry thief in question.

Maud and Daisy are following through on their quest to evaluate everyone when they are thrown for a loop: one of the guests in the home turns up dead. It is then that the pair of them realize that this is more than the hunt for a casual thief. This has just turned into the quest to track down a killer.

Any of the guests and the people among them could have done it. The question is who did it and why? Maud and Daisy start looking into the case and then they find out that an Edinburgh connection might end up having a clue they really need that could help crack the case.

Maud goes back to the city and is hoping that she will be able to work with Daisy to find out what exactly happened at Duddingston House and who exactly was murdered in the first place. Then she gets a phone call from the Duchess who wants her to help her, quick.

It is then that Maud is able to realize that the killer wasn’t just after one victim. They are still out there and still have targets. Maud and Daisy make their way to Duddingston House as quickly as they can. As they are going down the drive they are able to hear gun shots ring out loudly all the way across the estate.

The detectives are concerned that they may get to the Duchess, but not in time to save her. Can they get to their client and help prevent another murder? Will they be able to arrive quickly enough in order to catch the killer red-handed? Read this cozy mystery to find out what happens!

Murder in the Scottish Hills is the second book in the Scottish Ladies’ Detective Agency series by Lydia Travers. If you like a good cozy mystery or liked the first book in this series, be sure to check out the sequel.

Maud McIntyre has formed a detective agency along with Daisy, her lady’s maid. This time they are on their way to the Scottish Highlands but the two have no idea that they are about to find a body when they go on the train. Could this be their chance to catch another killer?

The year is 1911. Maud McIntyre has gotten a letter from Rose, a maid. She tells her that she believes that there is something odd going on in the house where she works. She doesn’t know what to make of it, and Maud and Daisy decide that it’s time for them to go out there and investigate.

In the middle of changing trains, Maud and Daisy are shocked when a man falls out in front of them from the carriage. He’s definitely dead, as there’s no mistaking his state and the bullet in his head that surely caused it.

They may be surprised, but Daisy and Maud are also elated. They cannot fathom that they have been waiting for so long for a new case to come to them, and here one has fallen at their feet. It seems only natural to take it on after the police say that it’s just an accident. The ladies believe they are wrong and that it is murder– and they intend to prove it.

When they get to the Scottish village, Daisy and Maud are able to finally go undercover so that they can look for the killer. They also start looking into the art dealer who employed Rose and her odd behavior.

The detectives are hard at work and are able to start putting together how things went down. Along the way, the duo wonder whether the man who was found dead on the train was killed intentionally so that something in the village could be covered up. Maud and Daisy are left to wonder who it is that would do this– but don’t have long to contemplate it as the art dealer promptly shows up dead.

Can they prove that these two deaths are links, and catch a murderer before they strike again? Read this mystery from Lydia Travers to find out!