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The "Weaver" series by
The Weaver Series, Books 1-4
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The Weaver Takes a Wife
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Brighton Honeymoon
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French Leave
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The Desperate Duke
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John Pickett Mysteries by
Death Can Be Habit-Forming
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John Pickett Mysteries 1-5 box set
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John Pickett Mysteries 6-10 Box Set
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Pickpocket's Apprentice
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In Milady's Chamber
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A Dead Bore
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Books

Of Paupers and Peers by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 57,310. Language: English. Originally Published: September 24, 2018 by Sheri Cobb South. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Romance » Clean & wholesome, Fiction » Romance » Romantic Comedy, Fiction » Romance » Historical » General, Fiction » Romance » Historical » Victorian
Overworked and underpaid curate James Weatherly is resigned to a life of genteel poverty, never suspecting he is heir to a dukedom until a solicitor appears on his doorstep. Alas, on the way to claim his inheritance, James is set upon by footpads whose handiwork deprives him of his memory. Margaret Darrington is no stranger to genteel poverty herself, since the death of her father has left her...
The Desperate Duke by
Series: The "Weaver" series, Book 4. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 63,160. Language: English. Originally Published: December 15, 2018 by Sheri Cobb South. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Romance » General, Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Historical » General, Fiction » Romance » Clean & wholesome
A duke in disguise . . . a damsel in distress . . . a match made in—Manchester? When 23-year-old Theodore Radney becomes the Duke of Reddington after his father dies, the weight of his new responsibilities is enough to send him into a panic. Theo soon accumulates a pile of debts—and discovers he can't touch his inheritance until his father's will is probated. His brother-in-law, mill owner...
Into Thin Eire by
Series: John Pickett Mysteries, Book 9. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 63,420. Language: English. Originally Published: September 9, 2019 by Sonatina Press. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Traditional British, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy
Now you see her… Still haunted by memories of his last case, in which an innocent woman was accidentally killed, Bow Street Runner John Pickett welcomes the challenge of a new assignment in the West Country. Unfortunately, this time he'll have to leave his beloved wife, Julia, behind, as he'll be traveling in company with Harry Carson, a member of the Foot Patrol whose swaggering self...
For Deader or Worse by
Series: John Pickett Mysteries, Book 6. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 71,740. Language: English. Originally Published: August 19, 2018 by Sheri Cobb South. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical
John Pickett's greatest challenge yet...meeting his in-laws! After a modest wedding ceremony, Bow Street Runner John Pickett and his bride Julia, the former Lady Fieldhurst, set out for a wedding trip to Somersetshire, wher Pickett must face his gratest challenge yet: meeting his in-laws. Sir Thaddeus and Lady Runyon are shocked at their daughter's hasty remarriage--and appalled by her choice...
Miss Darby's Duenna by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 47,840. Language: English. Originally Published: August 5, 2019 by Sheri Cobb South. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Regency
A lady in distress . . . A gentleman in a dress? Amiable but clueless young baronet Sir Harry Hawthorne thought he was making a marriage of convenience to a childhood friend—until his fiancée catches the eye of dashing and dangerous Lord Mannerly. Suddenly Sir Harry's jealousy is roused to the point that he assumes the identity of his reclusive grandmother in order to keep the all-too-grown-up...
Put Me In, Coach! by &
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 20,010. Language: English. Originally Published: March 9, 2019 by Sheri Cobb South. Categories: Nonfiction » Children's Books » Fiction, Fiction » Children’s books » Boys & Men, Fiction » Children’s books » Sports & Recreation / General, Fiction » Children’s books » Sports & Recreation / Football, Fiction » Children’s books » Readers / Intermediate
Seventh-grade running back Cole Patterson is sure he could make big plays for the Oak Valley Middle School Mustangs, but the coach won't even put him into the game—and the coach is his dad! Now star linebacker Jack Riley is saying Cole wouldn't even be on the team if his dad wasn't the coach. When Cole finally gets his chance to prove Jack wrong, will he take it? Or will he do what's best for...
In Milady's Chamber by
Series: John Pickett Mysteries, Book 1. Price: Free! Words: 69,200. Language: English. Originally Published: September 1, 2013 by Sheri Cobb South. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical
Low Dealings in High Society... Estranged from her aristocratic husband through her failure to produce an heir, Lady Fieldhurst resolves to repay his neglect by taking a lover. Fate takes a hand when she and her paramour enter her bedroom and find Lord Fieldhurst lying on the floor—with her nail scissors protruding through his neck. Idealistic young Bow Street Runner John Pickett has spent most...
Death Can Be Habit-Forming by
Series: John Pickett Mysteries. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 82,180. Language: English. Originally Published: August 24, 2021 by Sheri Cobb South. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Romance » Regency
Having resigned his position at Bow Street in disgrace (at least in his own mind) and failed in his attempt to establish himself as a private agent, John Pickett toils away at a tedious job as a clerk in the City. When he is approached by a man wishing to hire him to extract a young lady being held against her will at an asylum for opium-eaters, Pickett jumps at the chance to prove himself, and...
A Dead Bore by
Series: John Pickett Mysteries, Book 2. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 63,310. Language: English. Originally Published: August 19, 2018 by Sheri Cobb South. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical
At your service, milady... Eager to escape London following the scandal of her husband's death, beautiful Lady Fieldhurst accepts an invitation to spend the summer in rural Yorkshire at the home of Sir Gerald and Lady Hollingshead. She soon discovers, however, that country life is not the panacea she imagined: tension reigns and tempers flare at Hollingshead Place, due in large part to Lady...
Baroness in Buckskin by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 54,910. Language: English. Originally Published: October 18, 2018 by Sheri Cobb South. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Romance » Romantic Comedy, Fiction » Romance » Historical » General
Oh, Susannah! Richard, Lord Ramsay, has been brought up from the cradle with a consciousness of his duty to his family and his name. His sense of responsibility has led him to install two elderly aunts in the Dower House; educate his cousin Peter Ramsay and employ him as a steward; and provide a home for poor relation Jane Hawthorne, who once served as his mother's companion. When a letter...
Moon over the Mediterranean by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 66,930. Language: English. Originally Published: November 3, 2018 by Sheri Cobb South. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Romance » Suspense, Fiction » Romance » Action/adventure, Fiction » Romance » Clean & wholesome, Fiction » Romance » Historical » 20th Century
Shady dealings in sunny places... In 1961, young schoolteacher Robin Fletcher is delighted to accompany her widowed aunt on a cruise from Barcelona to Venice—a voyage whose ports of call include some of the great cities of Europe. On her first night at sea, Robin is awakened by the moonlight flooding through her stateroom window. When she goes up on deck to admire the view, she witnesses one of...
Brother, Can You Spare a Crime? by
Series: John Pickett Mysteries, Book 10. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 80,880. Language: English. Originally Published: June 12, 2020 by Sheri Cobb South. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Traditional British, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy, Fiction » Romance » Clean & wholesome
When one of his colleagues witnesses a robbery in which one of the participants, a child, bears a striking resemblance to a certain Bow Street Runner, John Pickett realizes he has a young half-brother who has been apprenticed to a criminal gang. The brutal murder of the pursuing constable makes the crime far more serious than a simple robbery would be—and ten-year-old Kit is linked to the crime...
John Pickett Mysteries 6-10 Box Set by
Series: John Pickett Mysteries. Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 353,490. Language: English. Originally Published: December 7, 2020 by Sonatina Press. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy, Fiction » Romance » Clean & wholesome
Follow the further adventures of newlyweds John and Julia Pickett as they solve mysteries and struggle to make their unequal marriage work. "John Pickett…[is]…a little young, but wholly delectable." —All About Romance FOR DEADER OR WORSE After a modest wedding ceremony at the home of his magistrate, John Pickett and his bride Julia depart London for Somersetshire, where Pickett faces his...
Mystery Loves Company by
Series: John Pickett Mysteries, Book 7. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 66,760. Language: English. Originally Published: January 15, 2018 by Sheri Cobb South. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy
Returning to London after his honeymoon (For Deader or Worse), Bow Street Runner John Pickett soon discovers wedded bliss is not without its pitfalls, as he finds it galling to be financially dependent on Julia, his aristocratic bride. When he is summoned to the home of Lady Washbourn, Pickett finds he has something in common with the young countess: like himself, Lady Washbourn has married...
Waiting Game by
Series: John Pickett Mysteries, 4.5. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 25,370. Language: English. Originally Published: August 19, 2018 by Sheri Cobb South. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical
All things come to those who wait... Bow Street Runner John Pickett and Julia, Lady Fieldhurst seem to have arrived at an impasse as they wait for the annulment of their accidental marriage to come before the ecclesiastical court. In the meantime, Pickett is summoned to investigate the theft of almost two hundred pounds from a linen-draper's shop--but finds no sign that either the shop or the...
Nowhere Man by
Series: John Pickett Mysteries, 10.5. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 33,300. Language: English. Originally Published: October 1, 2020 by Sheri Cobb South. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Fantasy » Historical, Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Historical » General
Having resigned his position at Bow Street, John Pickett waits in vain for someone—anyone!—to engage his services as a private inquiry agent. As weeks go by with no responses to his newspaper advertisement, he has taken to spending his days wandering idly about London rather than admit his failure to his beloved wife Julia, the former Lady Fieldhurst. One day, while loitering amidst the crowds...
Family Plot by
Series: John Pickett Mysteries, Book 3. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 67,770. Language: English. Originally Published: October 3, 2019 by Sonatina Press. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy, Fiction » Romance » Clean & wholesome, Fiction » Romance » Historical » General
In disgrace—again!—with her aristocratic in-laws, recently widowed Lady Fieldhurst is exiled to Scotland with her three young nephews in tow. On impulse, she and the boys decide to stay at an isolated seaside inn under an assumed name, where they can enjoy a holiday far away from the scandal that still plagues the family. But trouble soon finds them when the boys discover an unconscious woman...
John Pickett Mysteries 1-5 box set by
Series: John Pickett Mysteries. Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 322,230. Language: English. Originally Published: December 3, 2020 by Sheri Cobb South. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy, Fiction » Romance » Historical » General
In this witty and romantic series, idealistic young Bow Street Runner and former pickpocket John Pickett, age twenty-four, meets beautiful widow Julia, Lady Fieldhurst quite literally over her husband's dead body. The two are destined to cross paths again and again. But nothing can ever come of a relationship between persons of such very different backgrounds…can it? "John Pickett…[is]…a little...
Too Hot to Handel by
Series: John Pickett Mysteries, Book 5. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 68,830. Language: English. Originally Published: October 3, 2019 by Sonatina Press. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Traditional British, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy, Fiction » Romance » Historical » General
When a rash of jewel thefts strikes London, magistrate Patrick Colquhoun deploys his Bow Street Runners to put a stop to the crimes. The Russian Princess Olga Fyodorovna is to attend a production of Handel's Esther at Drury Lane Theatre, where she will wear a magnificent diamond necklace. The entire Bow Street force will be stationed at various locations around the theatre—including John...
French Leave by
Series: The "Weaver" series, Book 3. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 50,910. Language: English. Originally Published: August 31, 2018 by Sheri Cobb South. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Regency
A most inconvenient marriage... Forced by bankruptcy and scandal into exile in France, Lord Waverly expects never to return to his homeland until, staggering home from a gambling hell in the wee hours of the morning, he encounters a young novice escaping from a convent. When she asks him to escort her to England, promising him that her English grandfather will reward him handsomely for her safe...
Pickpocket's Apprentice by
Series: John Pickett Mysteries, 0.5. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 25,750. Language: English. Originally Published: September 1, 2018 by Sheri Cobb South. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical
Prequel novella to the award-winning John Pickett Mystery series! When magistrate Patrick Colquhoun orders a habitual thief and ne'er-do-well transported to Botany Bay, he doesn't realize a fourteen-year-old boy has been left behind to follow in his father's footsteps—not until young John Pickett is hauled into Bow Street for stealing an apple from the produce market at Covent Garden. Feeling...
In the Family Way by
Series: John Pickett Mysteries, Book 12. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 82,080. Language: English. Originally Published: October 31, 2022 by Sonatina Press. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy
With a beautiful and clever wife, a growing investigative business, and a baby due any day, former Bow Street Runner John Pickett finally has a respectable life far removed from his beginnings as a juvenile pickpocket in the rookeries of St. Giles. Then his father returns from transportation to Botany Bay, and Pickett's hard-won respectability threatens to collapse like a house of cards. When a...
The Weaver Takes a Wife by
Series: The "Weaver" series, Book 1. Price: Free! Words: 53,180. Language: English. Originally Published: August 19, 2018 by Sheri Cobb South. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Romance » Clean & wholesome
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The lady is a shrew...and he's the man to tame her! Haughty Lady Helen Radney is one of Regency London's most beautiful women and the daughter of a duke, but her sharp tongue has frightened away most of her suitors. When her father gambles away his fortune, the duke's only chance for recouping his losses lies in marrying off Lady Helen to any man wealthy enough to take a bride with nothing to...
The Weaver Series, Books 1-4 by
Series: The "Weaver" series. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 220,380. Language: English. Originally Published: December 4, 2020 by Sheri Cobb South. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Romance » Clean & wholesome, Fiction » Romance » Romantic Comedy, Fiction » Romance » Royalty, Fiction » Romance » Historical » General
"A diamond that shines among the pearls." —All About Romance on The Weaver Takes a Wife Four witty and romantic Regency frolics suitable for all ages. THE WEAVER TAKES A WIFE Haughty Lady Helen Radney is one of Regency London's most beautiful women and the daughter of a duke, but her sharp tongue has frightened away most of her suitors. When the duke loses his fortune, he turns to his last...
Brighton Honeymoon by
Series: The "Weaver" series, Book 2. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 54,390. Language: English. Originally Published: August 31, 2018 by Sheri Cobb South. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Regency
A lady with a secret... A man with a mission... Sir Aubrey Tabor began with the most altruistc of motives. When the Brundys' (The Weaver Takes a Wife) seaside wedding trip is interrupted by a young woman claiming to be Mr. Brundy's sister, Sir Aubrey promises to do what he can in order to relieve his friend of an imposter whose presence poses a threat to marital bliss. But Polly proves to be...
Dinner Most Deadly by
Series: John Pickett Mysteries, Book 4. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 69,660. Language: English. Originally Published: October 3, 2019 by Sheri Cobb South. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy, Fiction » Romance » Historical » General
When Julia, Lady Fieldhurst returns from her sojourn in Scotland restless and out of sorts, her friend Emily, Lady Dunnington decides what Julia needs is a lover. Lady Dunnington plans a dinner party with carefully selected male guests from whom Julia may choose a paramour. Emily also invites a potential lover for herself: Sir Reginald Montague, a man whose urbane manner and dangerous good...
Peril by Post by
Series: John Pickett Mysteries, Book 8. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 73,830. Language: English. Originally Published: October 15, 2018 by Sonatina Press. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical
Honeymoon from Hades... The eighth book in the series finds John Pickett bound for England's scenic Lake District, where an unsigned letter has summoned him for an unspecified reason. Pickett and his wife Julia, the former Lady Fieldhurst, take a room at the Hart and Hound as the letter instructs him. Once installed there, however, Pickett can do nothing but wait for the anonymous contact to...

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