Collections#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Quick Change: Tiny Tales of Transformation |
2014 |
Buy |
| Stocking Fillers: Twelve Short Stories for Christmas |
2014 |
Buy |
| Instead of a Christmas Card: Two Short Stories for December |
2015 |
Buy |
| Marry in Haste: 15 Short Stories of Dating, Love and Marriage |
2016 |
Buy |
Cotswold Curiosity Shop Mysteries Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Death at the Old Curiosity Shop |
2024 |
Buy |
| Death at the Village Chess Club |
2025 |
Buy |
| Death at the Village Christmas Fair |
2025 |
Buy |
Gemma Lamb Cozy Mystery Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Secrets at St Bride’s |
2019 |
N/A |
| Dastardly Deeds at St Bride’s |
2022 |
Buy |
| Sinister Stranger at St Bride’s |
2022 |
Buy |
| Wicked Whispers at St Bride’s |
2022 |
Buy |
| Artful Antics at St Bride’s |
2023 |
Buy |
Non-Fiction#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Sell Your Books! |
2012 |
Buy |
| Opening Up To Indie Authors: A Guide for Bookstores, Libraries, Reviewers, Literary Event Organisers … and Self-Publishing Writers |
2014 |
Buy |
| All Part of the Charm: A Modern Memoir of English Village Life: Volume 1 |
2016 |
Buy |
| Young By Name: Whimsical Columns from the Tetbury Advertiser |
2016 |
Buy |
| How To Get Your Self-Published Book Into Bookstores |
2017 |
Buy |
Short Stories/Novellas#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Lighting Up Time |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Owl and The Turkey: The Real Reason We Eat Turkey at Christmas |
2016 |
Buy |
| Mrs Morris Changes Lanes |
2021 |
Buy |
Sophie Sayers Village Mystery Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Best Murder in Show |
2017 |
Buy |
| Murder at the Vicarage |
2017 |
Buy |
| Murder in the Manger |
2017 |
Buy |
| Murder by the Book / Murder At The Well |
2018 |
Buy |
| Springtime for Murder |
2018 |
Buy |
| Murder Your Darlings |
2020 |
N/A |
| Murder Your Darlings / Murder At The Mill |
2020 |
Buy |
| Murder Lost and Found |
2021 |
Buy |
| Murder in the Highlands |
2023 |
Buy |
| Driven to Murder |
2024 |
Buy |
Staffroom at St Bride’s Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Secrets at St Bride’s |
2019 |
Buy |
| Stranger at St Bride’s |
2020 |
Buy |
Tales from Wendlebury Barrow Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Natter of Knitters |
2020 |
Buy |
| The Clutch of Eggs |
2020 |
Buy |
| Christmas with Sophie Sayers |
2023 |
Buy |
Debbie Young is a British author and blogger based in the Cotswolds, and the English countryside setting is central to most of her fiction. She began publishing cozy mysteries in 2017 with Best Murder in Show, the first Sophie Sayers Village Mystery, and has since built a substantial output across multiple series set in and around the fictional Cotswold village of Wendlebury Barrow.
Her fiction has a distinctive warmth and humor, drawing on the tradition of the English village mystery popularized by Agatha Christie. The Sophie Sayers series, which now runs to ten books, follows a bookshop assistant who repeatedly finds herself entangled in local murders. The Gemma Lamb series is set at a fictional girls’ boarding school called St Bride’s, blending cozy mystery with school story conventions. Her newer Cotswold Curiosity Shop Mysteries launched in 2024 with a fresh protagonist and setting.
Beyond fiction, Young has written non-fiction about self-publishing and village life, and her short story collections show her range within the cozy and comic register. She is also active in the Alliance of Independent Authors community and has written guides for other self-publishing writers. Her work consistently celebrates English rural life while finding comic and dramatic possibilities in its small-scale social tensions.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Debbie Young written?
Debbie Young has written 35 books across eight series.
What was Debbie Young's first book?
Debbie Young’s first book is Sell Your Books!, published in 2012.
What makes Debbie Young's mysteries cozy?
Young’s mysteries feature small English village settings, amateur sleuth protagonists, humor, and minimal graphic violence. The Sophie Sayers and Gemma Lamb series both center on likeable community members who stumble into local crimes, with a strong sense of place and English village life.