Anthea Fraser Books in Order

Anthea Fraser's first novel is an early romantic drama about love, pressure, and the plans other people make for your life. It is a compact story of emotional conflict and a woman trying to choose her own future.

For years Christy Drew quietly loved David Langley, only to see him marry her sister Jill. When Christy is finally drawn toward someone new, Jill's latest scandal threatens to upset the balance of everyone's lives again.

Recovering from a car crash that killed her mother, Laura goes to stay with family in a house called Four Winds. Once there, she is overwhelmed by terror and despair, and realizes the house is hiding something dreadful.

Student Sophie abandons her normal life in London and is drawn to Pendlemere beneath the shadow of Pendle Hill. The village's old stories of witchcraft begin to feel far too real when she senses she has somehow been there before.

Fleeing a failed marriage, Ginnie tries to build a new life in Westhampton after being forced off the road by another driver. When she suspects the man may be in her theater group, ordinary life starts to feel dangerous.

A young girl's wishes begin coming true, and what first seems uncanny soon turns frightening. Her horrified mother watches a once-gentle child change into someone cruel, with consequences that feel almost supernatural.

Chloe Winter flees family trouble for the Isle of Man, only to be hit by intense deja vu and darkly vivid dreams. Ancient legends, a magnetic stranger, and a sense of returning memory make the island increasingly sinister.

Ann Tenby is already uneasy about the hold her artist husband has over her daughter Briony. When Briony becomes obsessed with one of his paintings and starts suffering blackouts, Ann fears something far stranger is at work.

Written as Vanessa Graham, this is a relationship-focused novel about love under pressure and choices that refuse to stay in the past. It explores what happens when time puts feelings, loyalty, and commitment to a hard test.

The Prior family move into a house overshadowed by an ancient standing stone with a dark history. Soon the place seems charged with old pagan forces and an atmosphere that grows steadily more threatening.

Cherry Lester has only just become Simon Slade's new wife, but she cannot tell whether the marriage is a dream come true or a serious mistake. His past, his children, and his ex-wife make their second chance anything but simple.

Kate moves to a new flat with her small son and starts work in an antiques shop, hoping for a fresh beginning. Instead she lands in a community overshadowed by a series of murders and rising fear.

Natalie takes a temporary secretarial job and soon finds herself caught between loyalty, affection, and the growing demands of her boss, Roderick McLaren. Her feelings for him, and concern for his invalid father, make every choice harder.

A bitter New Year's party leaves plenty of people with reason to resent Nancy Pendrick. When she is later found strangled on a lonely lane, DCI David Webb must sort through old flames, fresh quarrels, and village secrets.

Housebound after breaking her leg, actress Jessica Randal thinks a rented village cottage will offer peace and recovery. Instead she finds herself trapped in a town stalked by a rapist and murderer obsessed with nursery rhymes.

When French student Arlette Picard vanishes from Broadshire University, DCI Webb is drawn into one of his most difficult cases. Jealousies, academic tensions, and a brilliant but troubling professor all complicate the search.

Jan Coverdale visits her half-brother in England and quickly senses something is wrong. When a dead man is found carrying his identification and talk turns to lost Incan treasure, DCI Webb is pulled into a strange and uneasy case.

A wealthy family's flower beds spelling out MURDER seem like a bad joke, until the matriarch is brutally killed. DCI Webb's investigation into the Walkers uncovers bitterness, revenge, and secrets that reach through the whole household.

Clare heads to Wales for a quiet break after learning the man she meant to marry was a fraud. Instead of peace, she finds herself drawn into fresh emotional and personal danger.

A group calling itself the April Rainers sends death warnings to people it has judged guilty of moral crimes. As the bodies mount, DCI Webb must discover who they are and why they have decided to become executioners.

When houses in Beckworth are marked with grotesque gargoyle graffiti, the vandalism looks nasty but petty. Then a newly arrived woman is found dead, and DCI Webb begins to fear the symbols are marking victims, not properties.

The bodies of the twins once known as the Lily-White Boys are found in an abandoned van outside Monica Tovey's home. As burglaries, football violence, and strange calls spread through Shillingham, DCI Webb sees one grim pattern.

A recent murder in Webb's hometown may be tied to something a woman saw in the night forty years earlier. Forced to confront old resentments and his own childhood memories, Webb digs through a town built on long-kept lies.

A secretive religious group known as the Revelationists begins spreading through rural Shillingham. When an undercover officer is drawn in and a wine merchant is murdered, DCI Webb suspects the cult is hiding something deadly.

Twin brothers Matthew and Philip Selby arrive in a Lakeland village shadowed by a stone circle, old hatred, and uncanny fear of crows. A gypsy's prophecy pulls them, and a skeptical journalist, toward a terrifying outcome.

Bad weather strands Helen Campbell at the Seven Stars Guest House, where a suspicious hit and run and a series of country-house break-ins upset the quiet. DCI Webb investigates while Helen uncovers clues of her own.

DCI Webb and his friend Malcolm Bennett are already stretched by a wave of violent shop raids when Bennett's family is rocked by two sudden deaths. For Webb, the case becomes one of the most painful of his career.

Emily takes a temporary job as secretary to reclusive writer Matthew Haig, expecting a fresh start. Instead she steps into a tense household where attraction, secrets, and real danger are all waiting for her.

A body in a pub parking lot looks uncannily like a case DCI Webb handled years before. As a high-profile criminologist publicly disputes the link, Webb pursues a theory that may lead to another tragedy.

Clare Laurie retreats to an isolated Welsh hotel after a broken engagement and a cloud of scandal. When she is mistaken for a gang member, her quiet escape turns into a dangerous game inside an international conspiracy.

A publicity stunt brings together twenty men who all share the name Richard Vine. Hours later, nine are dead, and DCI David Webb realizes the bizarre event was no accident, but a carefully planned attempt to kill the right Richard.

When a dying clergyman whispers the words The Twelve Apostles to Verity Ryder, the phrase seems to point toward her nephew Adam. DCI David Webb must unravel an old mystery before the past claims another victim.

Annabel Kendal dreads the annual family holiday because it revives memories of her aunt's unsolved murder nearly three decades earlier. Nightmares, family tension, and long-lost diaries may finally force the truth into the open.

Fay Marlow has never recovered from the birthday when her glamorous first husband abandoned her and their baby daughter. When he suddenly returns twenty years later, old loyalties and fresh fears unsettle the whole family.

Biographer Rona Parish is asked to write the life of bestselling novelist Theo Harvey, who died in suspicious circumstances. As she interviews family and friends, it becomes clear that his story is dangerous to tell.

Rona Parish takes on a series of articles about the market town of Buckford for its six-hundredth anniversary. A troubled old woman's memory soon points her toward a patchwork of past deaths that may fit together all too well.

As Rona Parish finishes a local history project, a young woman asks her to trace her birth parents. The search leads back to a murder committed twenty-five years earlier, and to questions someone still does not want answered.

Research into one of Marsborough's long-established families leads Rona Parish into a deeply private crisis. When a friend's sister-in-law is tormented by nightmares, old family secrets begin to break open in alarming ways.

Rona Parish's article on a famous local china-making family seems harmless enough, until it helps trigger a fresh tragedy. To solve it, she must uncover a much older story tied to the family's notorious ancestor, the Rogue in Porcelain.

While researching one of Marsborough's oldest families, Rona Parish becomes uneasy about the strange couple who have moved in next door. When their frightened daughter asks for help, a disturbing history begins to emerge.

Three seemingly separate lives are tied together by buried secrets and one unsettling stranger. As marriages strain and old lies come under pressure, the truth linking them all grows increasingly dangerous.

Rona Parish is asked to write about a reclusive artist who has vanished from her cottage. As she investigates the disappearance and a friend's apparent suicide, she begins to wonder whether guilt, not grief, lies at the center.

Widowed Anna hopes a South African safari might help her begin again, and is startled by her growing feelings for fellow traveler Lewis Masters. Back in England, her son's contact with a frightened young woman opens the door to fresh trouble.

A school photograph with one face deliberately blacked out sends Rona Parish into a cold trail of scandal and secrecy. The deeper she digs into a long-closed school, the more dangerous the missing identity becomes.

A reflective, non-fiction guide to cultivating calm, patience, and a steadier inner life. It focuses on small changes in outlook and habit that can help peace take root in everyday living.

A long-ago tragedy in the Lake District still haunts Adam and Kirsty's family. As they hunt for answers, a missing camera, threatening emails, and anonymous gifts suggest someone is determined to keep the past buried.

Rona Parish begins a magazine feature on life-changing experiences and interviews Frank Hathaway, a man haunted by war and a failed rescue. As his flashbacks sharpen, they reveal clues to a crash that may hide a much darker truth.

After her father's death, Caroline Cain takes a fresh start job with a famous novelist in the South of France. Caught between dependable Simon and the unsettling Giles Guthrie, she must decide whether safety or passion matters more.

Three families, scattered across Britain, have each been shaped by a painful loss. The suspicious death of a stranger in the Scottish Borders pulls their stories together, and the connections prove far darker and deadlier than anyone expects.

Rona Parish is interviewing a successful single mother when the woman is found dead before their second meeting. A second unfinished biography leads Rona toward hidden links, false appearances, and a killer who is still dangerously close.

Mark Richmond's chance detour to Scotland draws him into a tangled history between three families. As an old friend's illness worsens and buried betrayals surface, a ghostly young figure on the cliff path hints at truths no one wants uncovered.

A family birthday gathering is thrown into chaos when Jess Tempest witnesses something horrifying in her flat and old secrets start coming loose. As grief, fear, and deception collide, the Tempests face a danger that reaches far beyond one party.

Sixteen years after their parents died in what police called a murder-suicide, sisters Abby and Mia begin to remember that night differently. Flashbacks and family secrecy drive them toward a truth their grandmother tried to hide.

Rona Parish heads to Buckford to research local history, but an elderly woman's troubled memory leads her toward two mysterious deaths. When another victim collapses, Rona realizes someone is still trying to bury the truth.

Biographer Rona Parish agrees to write about novelist Theo Harvey, who drowned in baffling circumstances. As she interviews his widow, friends, and family, she discovers that someone would prefer his story stayed untold.

Rona Parish's latest magazine project leads her to a war veteran tormented by flashbacks and a failed rescue. As lost memories sharpen into evidence, an old crash begins to look far more sinister than anyone admitted.

A desperate young woman asks Rona Parish to find the secret boyfriend of the mother she lost to murder as a baby. The case soon points uncomfortably close to Rona's own circle.

A figure blacked out of an old school photo pulls Rona Parish into a long-buried scandal. The search for one hidden identity leads toward a closed school, fresh danger, and secrets that never really disappeared.

When an artist vanishes from her remote cottage, Rona Parish is drawn into the search by the missing woman's worried sister. A dead body in the studio suggests the disappearance may be part of a much darker picture.

A haunting music box sends a young heiress into a panic, and Rona Parish is asked to make sense of the nightmares that follow. What looks like fear of the dark may actually be memory struggling to return.

While writing about a distinguished pottery family, Rona Parish stumbles into a case that turns brutally personal. A handbag with her details and a corpse among the graves suggest the Curzons' old secrets are not buried at all.

Rona Parish grows wary of her cold, secretive new neighbors, especially when their sheltered daughter begs for help. Missing memories, a suspicious fire, and a shaky family story hint at something far worse than bad manners.