Alanna Knight Books in Order

Knight's first novel is a Scottish gothic suspense story shaped by a loch, old legends, and an atmosphere of danger. A return to a haunted landscape brings the past into unsettling focus.

A gothic suspense story that uses an autumnal setting, local fear, and the idea of witchcraft to create unease. As suspicion grows, the central mystery becomes harder to explain away.

At a Scottish castle, old history and present-day uncertainty create a classic gothic suspense setting. A woman drawn into its secrets must decide whom to believe before the past becomes a real threat.

This gothic suspense novel, also published as *Dead Man's Moon*, follows love shadowed by loss and mystery. Its isolated atmosphere and buried secrets make the past feel dangerously close.

A romantic suspense novel where a symbolic white rose connects love, memory, and danger. Knight builds a gothic atmosphere around a heroine who must separate genuine affection from a troubling past.

A stranger's arrival unsettles an apparently ordinary life and brings old fears to the surface. This romantic suspense novel follows the uncertainty of deciding whether the newcomer offers help, love, or danger.

This edition presents Knight's historical novel about Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Osbourne under two titles. It explores their complicated relationship, creative ambitions, and the risks they take for a shared life.

Set around the Tay Bridge disaster of 1879, this historical novel follows people caught in the tragedy's human aftermath. Knight focuses on loss, responsibility, and lives changed by one terrible night.

A psychological suspense novel about a family whose polished image hides damaging secrets. As tensions rise, old resentments and private wrongdoing make the Wynsleys far more dangerous than they first appear.

A suspense story in which an unsettling image from the past points toward danger in the present. Knight combines emotional uncertainty with a growing sense that someone is concealing a threatening truth.

Published as Margaret Hope, this historical romance follows a captain whose service to a queen brings him into danger. Love and loyalty are tested as public duty collides with private hopes.

Published as Margaret Hope, this historical romance follows a woman living in the shadow of power. Court politics, private desire, and the risks of loyalty turn love into a dangerous choice.

Set against the era of the Spanish Armada and Orkney, this historical novel follows a woman whose position brings both power and danger. Political conflict and personal loyalties drive the story.

Published as Margaret Hope, this historical romance places a royal hostage at the centre of political danger. Duty, divided loyalties, and an uncertain love affair make escape from the past far from simple.

This historical novel imagines the relationship between Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Osbourne. Their love, ambition, and difficult choices unfold against the demands of art, travel, and Victorian expectations.

A psychological suspense novel set around an imposing castle and the secrets it contains. As old relationships and hidden motives collide, a place that seems protective becomes a source of fear.

This historical family saga follows lives on the Isle of Lewis from the 1850s into the twentieth century. Knight traces hardship, change, and the ties that hold a community together across generations.

Published as Margaret Hope, this historical romance sends its characters into a journey where danger and changing loyalties test their hopes. It combines period adventure with emotional stakes and a love story under pressure.

This play explores the private world of Robert Louis Stevenson, a writer who fascinated Alanna Knight throughout her career. It focuses on the human relationships and pressures behind the famous public figure.

Knight imagines the unexplored years of Estella from *Great Expectations*. Freed from the narrow role Dickens assigned her, Estella faces love, disappointment, and the difficult work of deciding who she can become.

A historical novel shaped by the Macdonald clan and the legacy of Glencoe. Knight explores kinship, conflict, and survival as private lives are caught within a painful chapter of Scottish history.

This illustrated record follows Robert Louis Stevenson's years in the South Seas. Knight gathers photographs and context to show the writer's travels, relationships, and life far from his native Scotland.

Inspector Faro reopens the gruesome convent murders after doubts arise about the man already executed for the crime. To prove whether a second murderer exists, he must question every assumption in the old case.

Before a royal visit to Scotland, an unidentified body appears below Edinburgh Castle. Jewelled cameos and an old mystery linked to Mary, Queen of Scots lead Inspector Faro toward politically dangerous answers.

Inspector Faro searches for Mabel Keller, the missing wife of Edinburgh's police surgeon. When her bloodstained cloak is found at a remote railway station, the inquiry becomes a hunt for a body and a killer.

While visiting the island where his mother lives, Inspector Faro learns that a family friend has been poisoned with arsenic. A wall of silence leaves him fearing that one of his own relatives is involved.

A suicide at the unfinished Tay Bridge opens a deeply personal Inspector Faro investigation. The case draws in his stepson Vince Laurie, poet William McGonagall, and a troubling sequence of sinister events.

A psychological suspense novel in which charm and deception become dangerous weapons. Knight follows the consequences when a carefully constructed relationship begins to reveal betrayal, manipulation, and a threat beneath the surface.

Inspector Faro's August holiday on Royal Deeside is interrupted when Queen Victoria calls on him for help. A murder involving her favourite spaniels leads him into a case with royal pressure and private danger.

Based on the television drama, this novel follows the changing fortunes of the Strathblair estate. Family tensions, local loyalties, romance, and the pressures of rural Scottish life shape the story.

Inspector Faro investigates a Victorian murder in which respectable lives hide cruel impulses. The case tests his ability to separate public reputation from private wrongdoing before another victim pays the price.

A suspense novel about a figure whose outward innocence conceals darker possibilities. As trust erodes and old fears return, the people around this apparent angel must uncover what is really being hidden.

A corpse discovered after an Edinburgh Castle banquet leads Faro to a far larger mystery. Queen Victoria's goddaughter, the Grand Duchess Amelie, has vanished, and Faro fears the cases are connected.

Inspector Faro confronts a violent and isolated family whose hunting traditions make them especially dangerous. Cut off from easy help, he becomes a target as he investigates a crime surrounded by silence.

A psychological thriller about obsession, fear, and the danger of trusting appearances. Knight builds suspense around a protagonist forced to confront a threat that grows more intimate and difficult to escape.

Inspector Faro enters a case where an arranged meeting has deadly consequences. As he follows a trail through Victorian society, private motives and carefully managed appearances make every witness suspect.

A young woman is found stabbed in snowy Coffin Lane, but her route makes no sense. When another killing follows, Inspector Faro must stop a feared serial murderer before Edinburgh panics.

Annie Kelty faces another short, fast-moving Scottish mystery. When danger closes in around an unsettling death, her curiosity and nerve lead her toward answers that others would rather leave hidden.

Annie Kelty is meant to deliver a valuable goblet to a buyer at Castle Roy. Train trouble, a broken-down bus, and a dangerous crossing of Loch Roy make her wonder whether she will arrive alive.

Annie Kelty's father is suspected after a murder in Edinburgh's Royal Park. With her policeman boyfriend involved in the case, Annie searches for the real killer before the evidence against Hamish becomes overwhelming.

In 1895, Rose McQuinn returns from America grieving her child and missing husband. A friend's troubling marriage leads her into a murder inquiry, and Rose decides to become an investigator herself.

In 1566, time traveller Tam Eildor investigates threats around Lord Bothwell and the court of Mary, Queen of Scots. Amnesiac and out of place, he is soon caught in dangerous plots and betrayal.

Alanna Knight explores chilling real murder cases from Edinburgh's past. This true-crime collection looks beyond sensational headlines to the victims, investigations, and social world surrounding violent deaths.

A family quarrel sets off troubling events in the shadow of a great minster. This compact mystery follows hidden resentments and old secrets as they build toward a threat that cannot stay buried.

Rose McQuinn leaves Edinburgh for Orkney, where an apparent murder draws her into island tensions and long-held secrets. Far from her usual allies, she must decide whom she can trust.

Rose McQuinn finds a woman's body near St Anthony's Chapel, but it vanishes before police arrive. Dismissed by everyone around her, Rose investigates alone and enters a deadly game of pursuit.

In 1889, Faro is ordered to escort Prince George of Luxoria from Scotland to his troubled homeland. With assassins in pursuit, even the Orient Express cannot guarantee safety, and Faro guards a dangerous secret.

At Falkland Palace in 1600, Tam Eildor is caught up in court intrigue surrounding King James and the Gowrie affair. A dangerous political mystery forces him to untangle treachery before it turns fatal.

Rose McQuinn is drawn into a mystery shaped by Edinburgh's past and the people still haunted by it. A ghost walk becomes the starting point for an investigation where fear may be covering very human motives.

Inspector Faro investigates a murder case shadowed by religious tension, private loyalties, and dangerous secrets. As the trail reaches Carasheen, the detective finds that a close-knit community is hiding more than one truth.

This collection brings together three Inspector Faro mysteries involving royal connections and high social stakes. Faro faces murder, missing identities, and dangerous secrets in Victorian Scotland and beyond.

In 1811, the Prince Regent discovers his mistress strangled in his bed by her pearl necklace. Fearful of scandal, he calls on time-travelling investigator Tam Eildor to find the murderer.

This true-crime account examines Burke and Hare, the notorious Edinburgh killers who sold victims' bodies for anatomical study. Knight explores the crimes, their setting, and the public horror they caused.

Autumn 1897 begins badly for Rose McQuinn when she loses both her fiancé, Jack Macmerry, and her dog. Refusing to give up investigative work, she is pulled into a case with painful personal stakes.

In 1860, young Constable Faro pursues a notorious Scottish criminal from the Borders into Kent. A burglary, a missing maid, and a suspicious rural community turn his first major case into a dangerous hunt.

In 1899 Edinburgh, the arrival of a circus seems to trigger a chain of alarming events, including a bank robbery death and apparent suicides. Rose McQuinn follows the clues toward a hidden killer.

Inspector Faro returns to Orkney hoping for rest, but an old friend's special assignment interrupts his visit. Island folklore, a missing girl, and suspicion directed at Faro himself turn the journey into a nightmare.

In 1901, Rose agrees to deliver a neighbour's supposed family legacy to her last living relative. When Rose is attacked on the train and two women are found dead in Edinburgh, the errand turns lethal.

A collection of shorter Inspector Faro mysteries, offering quick visits to Victorian Scotland and the detective's world. Each case highlights Faro's patient observation, his interest in motive, and his talent for finding overlooked clues.

In 1861 Edinburgh, a murdered woman is found with the nine of diamonds beneath her body. Young Detective Constable Faro suspects a pattern when another victim carries the same card, despite official disbelief.

A gothic suspense novel in which a visitor from the past disturbs a seemingly secure life. As old secrets surface, the threat becomes harder to dismiss and the truth proves more dangerous than expected.

This return to the world of *Great Expectations* imagines the years missing from Estella's story. Knight follows Estella beyond Miss Havisham's control, exploring love, survival, and the damage left by a cruel upbringing.

Rose McQuinn travels to the Balmoral Estate with her dog Vane and niece Mabel for an apparently quiet visit. Within forty-eight hours, death has reached the castle, and Rose must stop further bloodshed.

Alanna Knight offers concise, practical advice for fiction writers. Her rules cover ideas, character, plot, dialogue, revision, and the habits needed to carry a story from first spark to finished manuscript.

In 1864, Inspector Faro's settled life is shattered when convicted murderer John McLaw escapes. Conflicting sightings and fresh crimes suggest that the pursuit is far more complicated, and personal, than Faro expected.

In 1906, Inspector Faro's family gathers in Orkney after the death of son-in-law Erland Yesnaby. As unsettling events plague the grieving household, Faro and Rose McQuinn uncover reasons to doubt the official story.

Alanna Knight revisits the 1879 Tay Bridge disaster, when a train was lost in a violent storm. Combining historical context with human stories, she examines a catastrophe that shocked Scotland.

Rose McQuinn accepts an invitation to a luxury hotel on the Isle of Bute, only to learn she has been asked to investigate an unresolved murder from twenty years earlier. The old case soon proves dangerously alive.

In this personal memoir, Alanna Knight reflects on experiences she understood as psychic or unexplained. She recounts them in a conversational spirit, alongside memories of family life and a career spent writing mysteries.

In 1907, newly retired Inspector Faro expects a peaceful stay at a Yorkshire dower house built on a Roman site. Instead, a troubled household and an unexpected death draw him back into investigation.

Alanna Knight looks back on a long writing career that began during her recovery from serious illness. This warm memoir covers her books, research, friendships, and the practical business of becoming an author.

When Tam Eildor's time machine fails, he lands on a remote Scottish island in 1587. Stranded among locals resisting the greedy Earl Robert Stewart, Tam must navigate tyranny, suspicion, and murder.