Edie Baylis Books in Order

If you want London gangland drama with family warfare: Mirrors Never Lie → The Price of Betrayal → Trusting Blood
If you like rival families and casino power plays: Takeover → Fallout → Vendetta → Payback → Judgement
If you want a tense trilogy built around old secrets and stolen loyalties: An Old Score → Finders Keepers → The Final Take
If you prefer crime romance with high emotional stakes: The Status Debt → The Family Legacy → The Target of Lies
If you want her darkest early work: Until the End of Time → Escaping the Past → Vengeful Payback

Edie Baylis writes gritty gangland thrillers that mix crime, romance, family pressure and the kind of secrets that never stay buried. She is from the West Midlands and now lives in Worcestershire with her family, after years of working around the UK and abroad as a freelance consultant.

Those years on the move seem to matter. Baylis has said that meeting lots of different people gave her ideas for characters, and her books often feel crowded with rival families, uneasy loyalties, and people carrying old grudges. Even when the plots get dark, the emotions stay close to everyday things, love, status, revenge, shame, and the need to protect your own.

Her writing career started in a hotel room.

During a work stint away from home in 2016, she spent her evenings writing what became her first novel, Until the End of Time. That book launched the Downfall series and set the tone for much of what followed, dangerous relationships, damaged people, and lives that can spin into chaos very quickly.

In 2019, she decided to focus on writing full time. Since then she has built a steady catalogue of series fiction, including Hunted, Retribution, Allegiance, and Scarred. Rather than police procedurals or puzzle mysteries, Baylis tends to write about criminal families, gangland firms, and people trying to hold on to power when everything around them is shifting.

A good entry point depends on what kind of trouble you like.

Readers who want casino politics and rival families often start with Takeover, where Samantha Reynold is thrown into running the family business and has to learn fast how brutal that world can be. If you prefer something darker and more personal, Mirrors Never Lie opens the Scarred books with Zane Morelli leaving prison and finding betrayal much closer to home than he expected.

Baylis also writes series where the emotional stakes sit right beside the criminal ones. The Status Debt and The Family Legacy follow Tori Morgan through blackmail, family control, and dangerous loyalties. An Old Score begins with a live-in carer, a retired Soho dancer, and a long-buried prize that several people want badly enough to hurt for. Across the board, readers tend to get strong relationship drama with their gangland suspense.

Certain patterns keep returning in her work. There are tight family networks, women who are underestimated, men who confuse loyalty with control, and characters who can never fully outrun the past. Her settings move around places like London and Birmingham, but the real constant is pressure. Someone always owes, someone always knows too much, and someone is always ready to settle a score.

Away from the page, Baylis has described herself as a big reader and a self-confessed book hoarder. She also enjoys crochet, music, and anything a little quirky or unusual. That mix means the books can be hard-edged on the surface, but they are usually powered by recognisable fears and wants underneath.