Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Vampire Menace

Quirky, comic cosy crime: a time-travelling altruist must solve a mystery in fin-de-siecle Paris; A book series inspired by The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - and now with its own prize recognition, cult following and a string of hugely popular author appearances; Second in a series that is being compared with the greats of surreal humour - Wodehouse, the Marx Brothers, Blackadder et al.

Intrepid librarian Shona McMonagle, erstwhile Marcia Blaine Academy prefect, finds herself in an isolated French mountain village, where she must solve a mystery involving the mayor, the cheesemonger, the soprano Mary Garden – and even Count Dracula himself.

Never underestimate a librarian.

"Audacious, witty and fun." Herald

Intelligent cosy crime series with razor-sharp wit and an unlikely hero, for fans of P.G. Wodehouse and Muriel Spark.

Intrepid, fifty-something librarian Shona McMonagle, erstwhile Marcia Blaine Academy prefect, finds herself in an isolated French mountain village, where she must solve a mystery involving the mayor, the cheesemonger, the soprano Mary Garden, and even Count Dracula himself.

Shona has been personally selected by school founder Marcia Blaine to travel back in time for this important mission in fin-de-siècle France – a curiously Gothic setting. But she finds it all very confusing. Why, for example, have so many people been torn to death by wild animals, what are Maman and the mayor up to, and is the reclusive aristocrat really suffering from toothache?

It’s a race against time to solve the mystery. It is also a very tall order – but as Shona is wont to remind herself: Never underestimate a librarian!