Emma Kennedy Books in Order

Emma Kennedy offers a comic guide to understanding parents, from their embarrassing behavior to their puzzling habits. Addressed to younger readers, it treats family authority as something to decode and manage through irreverent advice and exaggerated explanations.

Ten-year-old orphan Wilma hopes to discover her parents’ identities by becoming a detective. Finding a renowned investigator living nearby, she sets out to win an apprenticeship, gathering clues and suspects with help from her enthusiastic beagle Pickle.

Emma Kennedy recalls childhood camping holidays in the 1970s, when her family’s hopes for a happy break repeatedly collided with rain, wind, and mishap. The memoir revisits the discomforts and comic disasters of trying to enjoy the outdoors together.

A mummified body discovered at a Gothic mansion clutches a mysterious key, drawing Wilma and beagle Pickle into an unsettling case. Strange events and the secrets of the Blackheart family challenge the young detective to solve the mystery quickly.

Young detective Wilma investigates a series of poisonings among performers at Cooper Island’s vaudeville theater. Assisted by her beagle Pickle, she must identify a disguised menace before the killer brings the curtain down on her own investigation.

In 1989, Emma and friend Dee head to America hoping to make their fortune, only to find work elusive. Traveling from California to New York on scant money, they depend on strangers while enduring a succession of improbable setbacks.

Cooper Island faces a new threat while detective Theodore Goodman struggles with a growing caseload. His young assistant Wilma Tenderfoot and her beagle Pickle tackle the mystery as Wilma edges closer to discovering the truth about her own origins.

The arrival of American troops disrupts a poor Welsh mining village preparing for the war’s next stage. Amid suspicion and division, eleven-year-old Anthony must choose between following popular opinion and standing up for what he believes is right.

After her wedding is canceled, Rachel returns to live with her mother Eleanor in a house full of unspoken history. A devastating event forces the pair toward a truth concealed for decades, reshaping Rachel’s understanding of family and her future.

Discovering her late mother’s letters gives Emma Kennedy a new way to understand a complicated relationship. The memoir examines hidden family history, childhood shame, and the distance between the mother she knew and the woman preserved in correspondence.