Rebecca Tope

Thea Osborne sets off to Frampton Mansell with confidence....

Thea Osborne, Cotswold house-sitter with an infamous reputation for getting mixed up in crime, is determined to avoid trouble this time....

It’s Christmas, and things are looking good at the Slocombe house. Thea’s daughter Jessica has come to stay, much to her stepdaughter Stephanie’s delight. But then things take a turn for the worse....

Nestled in the hills of the Cotswolds, the village of Duntisbourne Abbots is a well-kept secret....

Thea Osborne's latest house-sitting assignment is a little different to the rest. Along with her spaniel, Hepzie, Thea finds herself in the village of Chedworth....

In the wake of a series of unfortunate experiences house-sitting in the Cotswolds....

When Thea Osborne agrees at the last minute to house-sit for Oliver Meadows, she expects a few days of peace....

Thea Osborne and her canine companion Hepzie travel to the isolated village of Snowshill for their next assignment....

Thea Osborne hopes to spend a quiet Christmas house sitting for the Shepherds in the picturesque village of Stanton....

As undertaker Drew Slocombe drove to Greta Simmonds’....

Thea Slocombe, nee Osborne, is trying to settle into normal, domestic life. But in the course of an attempt to make friends locally, she finds the body of a close neighbour....

Thea and Drew have been married for a year and are settled in the village of Broad Campden, but Thea is chafing at the domestic routines she is expected to devote herself to, missing the novelty and adventure that house-sitting used to bring....

Granny's behaviour is a little peculiar, but so too are the Montgomerys' instructions to keep her trapped in the house....

Following a string of disastrous house-sitting assignments, and with troubles in her personal life, Thea Osborne is understandably apprehensive about her latest commission....

Two days before an auction of the contents of High Gates House in Borrowdale, Christopher Henderson bumps into Jennifer Reade, the heir to the entire estate, and the expected recipient of the proceeds of the house clearance sale....

Thea Osborne reconnects with her friend Emmy while on a visit to the church in Baunton, near Cirencester with her stepdaughter Stephanie. Emmy, now married to local farmer Nick Weaver, asks Thea to help them find their missing niece, Ginny....

Set in the picturesque town of Askham, near Ullswater, the story opens with the funeral of Humphrey Craig, the builder who converted Simmy's new house in Hartsop....

A handsome, if slightly shabby, stone house in Upper Oddington is home to Umberto Kingley as well as his three dogs and will be Thea Slocombe's latest house-sitting assignment....

Persimmon 'Simmy' Brown's wedding day to Christopher Henderson has arrived on a glorious summer's day in the pretty Lake District village of Threlkeld. While the day passes off without undue calamity, later a young man is found nearby, possibly the victim of a vicious attack....

Persimmon ‘Simmy’ Brown's baby has arrived, and her forthcoming nuptials are only a short month away. But when a former acquaintance of her fiancé's reminds him of an undertaking that he hasn't fulfilled, their lives soon take a sinister turn....