Anita Waller Books in Order

After thirty-five years of marriage, Anna decides to leave her abusive husband and build a life in Sheffield. Her departure exposes suffering beyond her own and sets off a chain of events that could end in murder.

Jenny Carbrook has gone into hiding, leaving behind her daughter and letters that could expose her crimes. Determined to reclaim the evidence and regain control, she devises a strategy that threatens to entangle her family once again.

Years after Lavender Paulson’s death, her former fiancé Matt plans to marry Beth at the Paulson family’s manor. Disturbing incidents turn wedding preparations into a nightmare, suggesting that the past is far from ready to release him.

Lawyer and mother Liz Chambers hides a secret beneath her apparently successful life. When her young son is abducted and deaths follow, she must identify who wants revenge before her child becomes the next casualty.

Six children discover and remove a drug stash hidden near their woodland den. When the dealer turns up dead, reporting the body does little to protect them from criminals determined to recover the missing narcotics.

Friends Claudia and Heather leave their husbands and move into a flat together, hoping for a fresh start. Terminal illness and a fatal encounter disrupt their refuge, drawing them toward increasingly desperate solutions to their problems.

Village deacon Katerina Rowe discovers a dead man and rescues an injured woman near her husband’s pharmacy. After another attack, Kat shelters Beth and joins her investigation, unaware how many people want their questions silenced.

Two girls from the same village are found dead, prompting DI Tessa Marsden to enlist Kat, Mouse, and Doris. Their agency also searches for a missing son while a pregnancy complicates the separate murder investigations.

Pregnant deacon Kat Rowe starts a detective business with her friend Mouse while her criminal husband remains on the run. A widow’s search request conceals dangerous secrets, and Leon’s return threatens to turn their investigation into a personal nightmare.

A woman’s body is found on the Chatsworth estate, linking a murder investigation to a child who vanished ten years earlier. Kat, Mouse, and Doris assist the police, but a second discovery raises the stakes.

Private investigator Doris Lester plans a holiday with her friend Wendy, but an unexpected letter draws them into a troubled family’s secrets. A disappearance and murder force Doris to confront revelations from her own past.

The murders of two friends who work at a bookmakers leave DI Tom Fowler examining a journal and hidden family histories. Their husbands fall under suspicion, but a teenager’s disappearance turns the investigation in a troubling direction.

Childhood friends Wendy and Nell maintain their bond across separate lives in England and France, concealing painful realities from one another. When a figure from their past returns seeking revenge, decades of secrets threaten their friendship.

Christmas preparations are interrupted when the Connection team is asked to locate a vanished parolee. Fearing he intends to complete an earlier attempted murder, the investigators pursue him as his threats reach their own families and police colleagues.

The newly reorganized Connection Investigation Agency discovers decades-old remains behind its office on reopening day. Meanwhile, threatening notes precede two women’s murders, and the investigators must determine how the fresh violence connects to the old bones.

Five years after an intruder devastated John and Caroline Coates’s family, John asks the Connection Agency for answers. Tessa and Luke revisit the investigation with a former police colleague, hoping the truth can finally bring peace.

A young woman’s murder suggests that a serial killer has resumed after five silent years. DI Erica Cheetham and DS Beth Machin revisit earlier cases while trying to discover what prompted the return before more women die.

Two teenagers die in a shed fire on a Sheffield housing estate, leading detectives Laura Henshall and Will Peters to suspect misplaced revenge. Further blazes reveal a wider threat as they race to understand the arsonist’s purpose.

An author disappears while staying in Eyam to research a novel, her absence initially mistaken for a desire for solitude. The Connection Agency begins searching after her husband raises the alarm, and bodies soon complicate the case.

A prospective customer arrives at Janette’s home with sinister intentions and ends up dead in her cellar. Discovering she is pregnant, she begins a secretive life with her child, but concealment cannot guarantee their future safety.

The expanding Forrester Detective Agency takes on an apparently straightforward burglary, but the victim’s subsequent death changes everything. Matt and his colleagues investigate connections beyond the obvious suspects, placing their growing team in danger.

Detective Inspector Matt Forrester’s career is upended when his father is murdered. Joined by his researcher sister Hermia, he pursues the truth, only to discover that investigating their loss could put the rest of the family at risk.

Newly widowed Clare helps her friend Vic prepare to leave a troubled marriage. Finding Vic’s husband dead complicates their plans, while secrets from Clare’s own marriage suggest the murder may reach closer to her than expected.

A murdered woman’s final call draws private investigator Matt Forrester into a Sheffield case. When another victim is found, Matt and DI Karen Nelson recognize a pattern of revenge that threatens to keep expanding despite arrests.

Four women born on the same street have supported one another for more than thirty years. When Chantelle reveals her husband’s affair and he is later found dead, their close friendship becomes entangled in disturbing questions of loyalty.

A young stranger attends Christmas Eve mass in a Yorkshire village and is later found murdered in the churchyard. DI Adam France investigates a case whose buried secrets threaten Reverend Steve Rainforth’s carefully constructed life.

On her husband’s deathbed, Jess Harcourt reveals a betrayal involving his closest friends. When members of that circle begin dying, detectives Will Stewart and Claire Landon investigate a campaign of revenge rooted in long-hidden marital secrets.

Council worker Ray Eke discovers the body of a girl missing for three years, revealing evidence of prolonged captivity. Another disappearance brings his former life into the investigation, unsettling assumptions about a man everyone considers gentle.