Diane Janes Books in Order

Diane Janes examines the shooting of Caroline Luard in Kent and the later murder of a railway passenger in Northumberland. Revisiting the evidence, she considers whether the man executed for the train killing could have been responsible for both deaths.

Three members of a Croydon family died suddenly within ten months in the late 1920s, yet no charges followed. Drawing on police files and contemporary records, Diane Janes reconstructs the deaths and proposes an explanation for the unresolved mystery.

A letter threatens to expose the secret Kate Mayfield has kept for more than thirty years. A dying woman demands the truth, forcing Kate to revisit a summer shaped by love, deception, and a death she hoped to forget.

Twelve years after her daughter’s abduction, Jo still receives photographs suggesting the child survives. Dismissed as hoaxes by police, the messages and a growing sense of being watched lead her toward disturbing questions about her own past.

A lieutenant dies after eating a poisoned dinner, and a strange telegram arrives on the day of his funeral. Diane Janes follows the international investigation and examines the family relationships and unanswered questions surrounding the unsolved 1931 case.

Living under a new identity, Jennifer has built a happy life in the Yorkshire Dales. A television investigation into missing women and a local murder threaten that safety, especially when suspicion falls on the man she intends to marry.

After surviving an attempted kidnapping, heiress Jude Thackeray begins trusting a new man. Meanwhile, two detectives reopen questions around the unsolved crime, finding inconsistencies that suggest the original attack concealed more than anyone was willing to admit.

In 1931, taxi driver Evelyn Foster died after being burned beside her car on the Northumberland moors. Drawing on original police files, Diane Janes reexamines her account of a mysterious passenger and the investigation that failed to identify her killer.

When a literary society member disappears before giving a controversial lecture, Frances Black and Tom Dod investigate. Her death leads them through rivalries, resentments, and secret romances as they ask whether her research exposed something worth killing for.

Ernest Brown awaits execution for murdering his employer when the victim's sister visits his condemned cell. Florence Morton doubts the case against him, and her search through conflicting accounts becomes a race to establish the truth before he hangs.

Troubled by her divorce proceedings, Frances Black travels to Devon to investigate a suspicious family death. An elderly man’s fatal fall and a vanished diamond lead her into a web of scandal, deception, and long-held grievances.

Wendy Thornton believes a neglected house is the perfect home for her family. An inheritance makes buying it possible, but exploring the property’s history uncovers disturbing secrets that threaten the life she hoped to build inside it.

Three sudden deaths unsettle a village already divided by its new vicar’s controversial changes. Visiting Tom Dod’s worried aunt, Frances Black joins him in investigating whether apparent accidents conceal a killer among the church’s feuding parishioners.