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Beaufort Scales Mystery Books in Order

by Kim M. WattLiterature & Fiction

9 books and 1 novella from Baking Bad (2021) to Something in the Waters (2025). Rated 4.7 across 379 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. What Happened in London

    Novella 0.5 2024 4.4 (70)

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  2. Baking Bad

    Book 1 2021 4.4 (75)

    A simple case - or it should be. But all clues point to the Toot Hansell Women’s Institute, and Detective Inspector Adams is about to discover there’s much more to the W.I. than just bake sales and jam-making....

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  3. Yule Be Sorry

    Book 2 2022 4.7 (40)

    One should never meddle in the affairs of dragons, but someone has been doing just that. They've been making imitation dragon scale baubles that are nothing short of lethal, and kidnapping delivery drivers all over the Yorkshire Dales....

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  4. Manor of Life and Death

    Book 3 2022 4.6 (32)

    Warring staff. 'Accidental' poisonings. Topiary of dubious intent. Throw in the full complement of the Toot Hansell Women's Institute and dragons doing yoga, and DI Adams is starting to wonder if she might have made a small misjudgement…

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  5. Game of Scones

    Book 4 2023 4.8 (31)

    Suspicious deaths on the Skipton city council don't sound as though they should have anything at all to do with the Toot Hansell Women's Institute, and DI Adams would rather like to keep it that way....

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  6. A Toot Hansell Christmas Cracker

    Book 5 2023 4.8 (30)

    Get some dragons in your Christmas with this collection of twelve short stories from the world of the Beaufort Scales mysteries, plus twelve festive recipes....

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  7. Coming Up Roses

    Book 6 2023 4.7 (24)

    There's a fine line between 'eccentric' and 'a danger to oneself and others'. That's certainly what DI Adams is thinking when a body turns up in Rose's freezer.

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  8. Beast-Laid Plans

    Book 7 2023 4.9 (21)

    A dragon is missing. DI Adams' missing person is human, not dragon, but the trails of both lead to the village of Eldmere, where glimpses of a mysterious Beast have drawn in the nation's monster hunters.

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  9. Bonfire of the Calamities

    Book 8 2023 4.7 (30)

    Miriam has never exactly seen eye-to-eye with her sister. But when a body's dumped on the doorstep of a Women's Institute meeting and all signs point to Rainbow, Miriam knows her sister's being framed....

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  10. Something in the Waters

    Book 9 2025 4.8 (26)

    When Toot Hansell’s water supply turns murky, it's easy to blame the notoriously soggy Yorkshire weather. But this winter, the rain's endless, the water's undrinkable, and the village is slowly turning into a marsh.

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for Beaufort Scales Mystery is also the best order to read them in. Novellas and short stories sit between the novels they follow, numbered the way the publisher numbers them (0.5 comes after book 0). They are optional — you can skip them without missing the main story. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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