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Start with The Windermere Witness and continue through all 12 books in the listed reading order.
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Start with The Windermere Witness
Book 1 by Rebecca Tope • Published 2012
Florist Persimmon "Simmy" Brown moves to Windermere seeking calm, then lands a lucrative society wedding. When the bride’s brother is found murdered in the lake, Simmy becomes a key witness and is pulled into a grievi...
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Lake District Mysteries By Rebecca Tope reading order
Ends with The Askham Accusation
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Book 1:The Windermere Witness
Rebecca Tope • 2012
Florist Persimmon "Simmy" Brown moves to Windermere seeking calm, then lands a lucrative society wedding. When the bride’s brother is found murdered in the lake, Simmy becomes a key witness and is pulled into a grievi...
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Book 2:The Ambleside Alibi
Rebecca Tope • 2013
Running her Windermere flower shop, Simmy Brown delivers a bouquet with a strange message to an elderly woman in Ambleside. Dark family secrets and a second death draw her into danger, especially when a suspect names...
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Book 3:The Coniston Case
Rebecca Tope • 2014
Valentine’s Day brings a rush of flower orders for Simmy Brown, some with unsettling reactions from their recipients. When a man is found dead in Coniston, her deliveries and a surprise visit from an old friend leave...
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Book 4:The Troutbeck Testimony
Rebecca Tope • 2015
After a huge funeral for well-loved Barbara Dodge, Simmy Brown finds herself drawn into the complicated legacy of the dead woman. As old grievances and buried affairs surface around Troutbeck, another crime forces Sim...
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Book 5:The Hawkshead Hostage
Rebecca Tope • 2016
Summer work supplying flowers to a hotel in Hawkshead should boost Simmy Brown’s struggling business. Instead she discovers a body in the lake and her friend Ben vanishes, apparently kidnapped. Following Ben’s cryptic...
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Book 6:The Bowness Bequest
Rebecca Tope • 2017
Winter in Windermere brings the death of Frances Henderson, an important figure from Simmy’s childhood. An unexpected bequest and the subsequent murder of Frances’s husband reveal old betrayals and family quarrels, wh...
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Book 7:The Staveley Suspect
Rebecca Tope • 2018
Juggling her florist shop, her father’s failing health and a serious relationship with Christopher, Simmy Brown takes an order for a retirement party in Staveley. When a daughter accuses her own mother of murder, Simm...
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Book 8:The Grasmere Grudge
Rebecca Tope • 2019
Back from a rare holiday and newly engaged, Simmy hopes for calm until Christopher discovers his friend, antique dealer Jonathan Woolley, strangled in a Grasmere house. As old grudges against Jonathan surface, Christo...
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Book 9:The Patterdale Plot
Rebecca Tope • 2020
Pregnant and hoping for a quieter autumn, Simmy Brown is drawn into danger when a lodger at her parents’ bed and breakfast collapses in her arms, apparently poisoned. The trail leads to a controversial building projec...
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Book 10:The Ullswater Undertaking
Rebecca Tope • 2021
Now living in Hartsop with Christopher and their new baby, Simmy is planning a wedding when an old acquaintance of Christopher’s reappears with a demand linked to a decade-old promise. Events turn deadly, and Simmy mu...
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Book 11:The Threlkeld Theory
Rebecca Tope • 2022
On a glorious summer day in Threlkeld, Simmy Brown marries Christopher Henderson. After the guests leave, a young man is found badly injured nearby, and strained police resources fuel rumours. As speculation hardens i...
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Book 12:The Askham Accusation
Rebecca Tope • 2023
At a funeral in Askham, near Ullswater, Simmy Henderson quietly admires the flowers on the grave and meets a young academic and a ninety-year-old matriarch. When the older woman is found dead on the fell the next day,...
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Lake District Mysteries By Rebecca Tope FAQ
What is the best order to read the Lake District Mysteries By Rebecca Tope series?
The recommended reading order is the numbered order shown on this page, starting with The Windermere Witness.
How many books are in the Lake District Mysteries By Rebecca Tope series?
There are 12 books currently listed in the Lake District Mysteries By Rebecca Tope series on GurusReads.
Where should I start with the Lake District Mysteries By Rebecca Tope series?
New readers should start with The Windermere Witness, the first book in the reading order.
Is the Lake District Mysteries By Rebecca Tope series complete?
Based on the publication years we have, the series appears likely complete and spans releases from 2012 to 2023.