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This page lists novels that feature undercover agent Tamara Hoyland.

Funeral Sites

Jessica Mann

1981

A Tamara Hoyland novel.

"Everywhere Rosamund Sholto turns, people praise her brother-in-law’s charisma, power, and his impeccable personal life, married to the daughter of the legendary Sholto. And now the whole country grieves with the tragic widower. Only Rosamund realises how dangerous and ruthless Aidan is. She knows he would stop at nothing to prevent her exposing his past. From Switzerland to England, helped by the redoubtable Tamara Hoyland, Rosamund flees for her life in a chilling, thrilling chase-and-pursuit novel."

No Man's Island

Jessica Mann

1983

A Tamara Hoyland novel.

"Recently discovered oil on the barren and isolated island of Forway has caused a plan for evacuation so that the entire island can be used for an oil rig. The islanders, however, intend to declare their independence from England. Tasked to spy on the potential revolt, Tamara Hoyland soon realizes that her services as a detective will be more needed then her services as a spy. In addition to the politically volatile situation, bodies start to be uncovered."

Grave Goods

Jessica Mann

1985

A Tamara Hoyland novel.

"The coronation of Charlemagne on Christmas day in the year 800 was the central event of the middle ages and altered the history of the world. Now an exhibition is to come to London from Prussia, its centrepiece Charlemagne’s regalia lent by the family of the Princes of Horn. The English wife of the mid-nineteenth century Prince is the subject of a biography being written by Margot Ellice, whose main material is correspondence between her, and her sister. But someone is trying to kill Margot Ellice and Tamara Hoyland finds that her research seems to have aroused murderous passions. She will not be the only person to die as desperate attempts are made to discover what really happened to those ancient treasures ."

A Kind of Healthy Grave

Jessica Mann

1986

A Tamara Hoyland novel.

"In 1929 a man called Rex disappeared when his caravan was destroyed by fire. Rex had been a pornographic painter, imprisoned for obscenity. In the present day Tamara Hoyland infiltrates a new movement called ‘Watchwomen’ which claims that feminism has been hi-jacked by socialists or lesbians. What is the connection between Rex and Watchwomen? And are the individual watchwomen as innocent as they seem? Hoyland follows a serpentine trail through an investigation that proves her as subtle and ruthless as her quarry ."

Death Beyond the Nile

Jessica Mann

1988

A Tamara Hoyland novel.

"Tamara Hoyland, archaeologist and undercover agent, becomes the guide on a cultural tour of Egypt, in order to keep an eye on a government scientist. Her party includes the suspected scientist herself, plus a television star, a failed poet, a brother and sister who run an arts centre and a businessman. The highlight of their tour is a visit to an excavation on a remote island in Lake Nasser. By the time the party reaches the site tensions have built up between its members. By the time they leave there have been two murders. Are the deaths related? Is there more than one killer present? Is it possible that there has been a Christie-like conspiracy? "

Faith Hope and Homicide

Jessica Mann

1991

A Tamara Hoyland novel.

"Former undercover agent Tamara Hoyland thinks she’s left murder and mayhem behind when she retires from the British government’s secret department E to return full time to archaeological work. When a botanist Louise Dench, is found dead, apparently by suicide, Tamara wants to believe that her boy-friend, Louise’s colleague, isn’t involved. But he had a motive; he and Louise were fighting over the publication of ground-breaking discoveries made during the Brazilian expedition where Waugh mysteriously met his death. It had been funded by the Grail Foundation, and it is in its fortress on the north Cornish coast that the dangerous truth is revealed ."