Daisy Hayes was born in London in 1922. Her father was a bank manager, hoping for a son, but he had to settle for a blind daughter. Now what do you do when your child is blind since birth and you have the means to do all that is necessary to help her? You hire a private tutor to stimulate her verbal abilities in the first years of her life, because you realize how vital language will become for her. Then you send her to an exclusive school where everything is done to develop the minds and resourcefulness of blind girls. There they teach them all these fancy techniques of spatial orientation and mind mapping. And before you know it, your darling daughter has acquired an exceptional intellect that just seems to draw murder mysteries like a magnet…

The Blind Sleuth Mysteries

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The Icarus Case (The Blind Sleuth Mysteries Book 16) by
Series: The Blind Sleuth Mysteries, Book 16. Price: Free! Words: 51,390. Language: English. Published: September 15, 2023 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth
While Daisy and Darren were hanging out at a small airfield, tragedy struck the Icarus skydiving club: a parachute failed to open and one of their new friends fell to her death. So Daisy had to help the police solve an intractable mystery: how could her chute have been sabotaged, as all chutes were always kept under lock and key in a special shed?
Back to Africa (The Blind Sleuth Mysteries Book 15) by
Series: The Blind Sleuth Mysteries, Book 15. Price: $1.45 USD. Words: 77,160. Language: English. Published: June 15, 2023 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical
When Daisy visited her son in prison, Jonathan told her about an old man serving a life sentence for a crime he hadn’t committed, and begged his mother to look into it. The facts had taken place in Zambia long ago, when it was a British colony, so Daisy started her investigation among ex-colonials living in England. But soon she had to go looking for the disturbing truth in the African bush.
Desiderata’s Lost Cause (The Blind Sleuth Mysteries Book 14) by
Series: The Blind Sleuth Mysteries, Book 14. Price: $1.45 USD. Words: 71,840. Language: English. Published: May 28, 2023 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical
In AD 76, at a time when the Church counted only a few thousand believers rather than untold millions, the first elected Pope was brutally murdered, and the very survival of the faith was at stake. But homicide was a purely private matter according to Roman law! Desiderata, professional ‘seeker of justice’, was entrusted with the daunting challenge of solving this baffling murder mystery.
Murder on the High Sea (The Blind Sleuth Mysteries Book 5) by
Series: The Blind Sleuth Mysteries, Book 5. Price: $1.45 USD. Words: 52,880. Language: British English. Published: January 3, 2023 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Adventure » Sea adventures
While doing a short stint as a masseuse on an ocean liner in 1960, Daisy Hayes had to deal once again with an impossible crime. A corpse found floating on the open ocean ahead of the RMS Histria was retrieved from the water. Then it turned out to be the dead body of a first-class passenger. Impossible! Or not? Our blind sleuth couldn’t wait to find out.
Daisy's Pushkin Duel (The Blind Sleuth Mysteries Book 10) by
Series: The Blind Sleuth Mysteries, Book 10. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 42,290. Language: Commonwealth English. Published: November 14, 2021 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
Christmas Eve of 1952, Daisy stumbled on a murder just being committed. She bumped into the culprit and the victim died in her arms. But at first the killer got away with it because the witness was blind. In 1986, during a stay in Zermatt with her old friend Beatrice, Daisy met him again, and that was when her “Pushkin Duel” finally came to a head.
Berlin Fall (The Blind Sleuth Mysteries Book 8) by
Series: The Blind Sleuth Mysteries, Book 8. Price: $1.45 USD. Words: 49,720. Language: Commonwealth English. Published: November 10, 2021 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
In 1972 Daisy had a patient who worked for MI6. And she was planning to visit Berlin with her old friend Margery, chemistry researcher at King’s College. Without even knowing it Marge had an indirect connection to a high-ranking communist party boss… Unwittingly the two ladies got mixed up in a dramatic spy plot that did not turn out the way the spymasters on both sides of the Wall had envisioned.
The Desiderata Riddle (The Blind Sleuth Mysteries Book 13) by
Series: The Blind Sleuth Mysteries, Book 13. Price: $1.45 USD. Words: 86,560. Language: English. Published: February 11, 2021 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Historical » Classical Greece & Rome
The quest for Desiderata, started in Rome in 1964, now leads to the German town of Trier, where Daisy Hayes and bishop Contini team up again to continue their research. In AD 67 Desi’s friends the Christians went through yet another period of persecution, and the blind young woman found it hard to decide on who’s side she wanted to be and what she intended to do with her life. Would she find love?
The Desiderata Gold (The Blind Sleuth Mysteries Book 12) by
Series: The Blind Sleuth Mysteries, Book 12. Price: $1.45 USD. Words: 87,080. Language: Commonwealth English. Published: December 14, 2020 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Historical » Classical Greece & Rome
In 1992 Daisy Hayes got a letter from an archaeologist about a mysterious message that had been dug up in Rome. With Morag, her deaf friend from the ‘project’ in 1964, she set off for the Eternal City and went looking for an ancient gold cache, hoping to solve a new mystery, and even more to reconnect with Desiderata, her soulmate from antiquity.
The Desiderata Stone (The Blind Sleuth Mysteries Book 6) by
Series: The Blind Sleuth Mysteries, Book 6. Price: Free! Words: 78,830. Language: Commonwealth English. Published: July 12, 2020 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Historical » Classical Greece & Rome
Daisy Hayes was a blind sculptress, invited to the Vatican Museums in 1964 to study archaeological artefacts by touch. In AD 64 a blind masseuse working at the baths in Rome overheard some important men plotting to set fire to the city and seize power. So, 1900 years later, Daisy uncovered a mysterious message from antiquity: the Desiderata stone.
Cockett's Last Cock-up (The Blind Sleuth Mysteries Book 4) by
Series: The Blind Sleuth Mysteries, Book 4. Price: $1.45 USD. Words: 61,000. Language: British English. Published: October 25, 2019 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
Chief Inspector Cockett was about to retire, but then a corpse turned up in the lock-up of his own police station. Inspector Manson, the young colleague who had to investigate the case, seemed to think that he, Nigel, was the culprit. Just because he was the only person who had the key to the cell! So Nigel phoned his old acquaintance Daisy Hayes, the only sleuth he knew who could solve the case.
The Nightlife of the Blind (The Blind Sleuth Mysteries Book 9) by
Series: The Blind Sleuth Mysteries, Book 9. Price: $1.45 USD. Words: 60,220. Language: English. Published: July 18, 2019 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical
In 1984, aged sixty-one, Daisy Hayes met an old blind classmate by chance. But it seemed Janet didn’t have such fond memories of her. “Remember the night Vicky died? I’ve always wanted to ask: did you push her down the stairs?” Suddenly Daisy was being accused of murder! “I must prove I was innocent, forty years ago.” To do just that, she had to go rooting in a distant past, with shocking results.
First Spring in Paris (The Blind Sleuth Mysteries Book 2) by
Series: The Blind Sleuth Mysteries, Book 2. Price: $1.45 USD. Words: 63,860. Language: British English. Published: March 15, 2019 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical
In 1946 Daisy and her friend Beatrice decided to move to Paris. Some very interesting things were going on there: existentialism, free love, and American jazz throbbing through the night in the cellar clubs on the Left Bank. Then one day, just as the two were settling into a new life, a very disturbing murder case was thrown in their path, and Daisy Hayes had to rise to the challenge once again.
Honeymoon in Rio (The Blind Sleuth Mysteries Book 3) by
Series: The Blind Sleuth Mysteries, Book 3. Price: $1.45 USD. Words: 58,220. Language: Commonwealth English. Published: February 1, 2019 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical
In 1952 Daisy Hayes, blind since birth and newly wed to a pilot, took off to South America on her honeymoon. Then an engine of the Super Constellation her husband was flying broke down: was it sabotage? They were grounded in Rio for repairs, and Daisy uncovered a murderous plot, her exceptional mind pitted against that of an elusive arch-criminal.
Daisy and Bernard (The Blind Sleuth Mysteries Book 11) by
Series: The Blind Sleuth Mysteries, Book 11. Price: Free! Words: 53,690. Language: Commonwealth English. Published: April 30, 2018 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense
In the summer of 1989 the Iron Curtain is unravelling and Daisy Hayes has just gone on pension. But then she is summoned by the police to testify about a baffling and gruesome murder. During the ride to New Scotland Yard, the blind lady reflects that, though she knows nothing about this case, it will be hard to prove her innocence without revealing the two murders she did commit—in a distant past.
Blind Angel of Wrath (The Blind Sleuth Mysteries Book 7) by
Series: The Blind Sleuth Mysteries, Book 7. Price: $1.45 USD. Words: 54,750. Language: English. Published: April 29, 2018 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Historical » United Kingdom
Swinging London in 1967. A man approaches the now middle-aged Daisy and makes demands she cannot ignore. He is a desperate father whose fifteen-year-old daughter—a hippie girl—has disappeared without a trace a year before. The police is powerless, or indifferent, or both. “You must help me to find her, Daisy Hayes. And you know why I’m asking you? It’s because I know that you’re a real killer.”
D for Daisy (The Blind Sleuth Mysteries Book 1) by
Series: The Blind Sleuth Mysteries, Book 1. Price: Free! Words: 62,220. Language: Commonwealth English. Published: April 28, 2018 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical
World War II. A Lancaster lands at its base in England after bombing Berlin, and a member of the crew is found dead. However, his young wife Daisy finds out that he has been murdered. But she is only a woman, blonde and pretty, and blind since birth: so who is going to listen to her? In the mayhem of the bombing campaign, who even cares? That is why she will have to find the murderer on her own.