Fiona Veitch Smith Books in Order

Entrusted with his father’s sheep, young David must face a frightening beast to protect the flock. This illustrated story imagines his childhood while exploring courage, family belonging, and the contributions a small child can make.

When the prophet Samuel visits David’s farm in search of Israel’s next king, the young shepherd discovers an unexpected future. This illustrated Bible story explores self-worth and the importance of character beyond appearance, talent, or popularity.

A childhood investigation into stolen garden plants introduces Natalie to a South African exile and his son. Years later, their paths cross again as apartheid’s legacy, political conspiracy and emerging love complicate a community peace-garden project.

A holiday with his friend Jonathan becomes dangerous when David encounters a king who hurls a spear at him. This illustrated retelling of Saul’s attack explores friendship, forgiveness, and trust in God during frightening circumstances.

Israel’s soldiers are afraid to face Goliath, leaving young David to confront a much larger enemy than the beasts he has known. This illustrated retelling connects his courage and trust in God with challenges familiar to young readers.

Invited to stay at King Saul’s palace, David faces the uncertainty of making friends with the king’s lonely son. This illustrated retelling imagines the beginnings of David and Jonathan’s relationship, exploring the difficulties and rewards of reaching out to someone new.

Transported through time to Bethlehem after the birth of a new king, David discovers that danger threatens the child. Facing the Hairy Beast once again, he must find the courage to help protect the baby Jesus.

Newly employed at a London newspaper, Poppy Denby investigates the suspicious death of a suffragette seven years earlier. Her search through the politics and secrets of the 1920s makes the young reporter a target herself.

Jealous of their father’s favorite, Joseph’s brothers devise a cruel plan to frighten him by throwing him into a well. Their actions lead to his sale to passing traders, beginning a journey far from the family he knows.

Sold into service in Egypt, Joseph brings order to Potiphar’s chaotic household with help from his imaginative cow companions. But Potiphar’s jealous wife creates trouble, testing his ability to hold onto integrity in an unfair situation.

Joseph lives in Canaan with his father, brothers and a collection of mischievous cows. His dreams and his father’s favoritism stir resentment, while a colorful new robe becomes a reminder of love that should extend to everyone.

Reporter Poppy Denby covers a Russian art exhibition where an armed robbery leaves a guard dead and a Fabergé egg missing. Secrets concealed inside the treasure draw her into political intrigue as another murder threatens her newspaper colleagues.

Joseph remains forgotten in prison until Pharaoh’s troubling dreams remind a former fellow prisoner of his gift. Summoned to interpret them, Joseph faces an opportunity that could finally change his circumstances and help Egypt prepare for its future.

Unjustly imprisoned in Egypt, Joseph meets a baker and a butler troubled by mysterious dreams. Interpreting their visions offers a chance to help others and perhaps change his own future, though promised assistance may not arrive.

In Roman-occupied Judea, Pontius Pilate’s daughter Claudia resists an arranged marriage and falls for a Jewish Zealot sent to kill her. Their forbidden attraction becomes entangled with competing loyalties, political unrest and the events surrounding Jesus’s final days.

Reporter Poppy Denby and her editor travel to New York for a three-month stay. Their encounter with murder in Manhattan draws them into another investigation, testing Poppy’s instincts far from the familiar streets of London.

Placed in charge of Egypt’s food supplies, Joseph encounters the brothers who once sold him when famine drives them to seek help. They do not recognize him, leaving him to choose between revenge and generosity toward his fearful family.

Joseph waits in Egypt for his brothers to return with young Benjamin. Their reunion offers the possibility of recognition and reconciliation, but unresolved wounds from the past stand between him and the family he has long missed.

Poppy Denby attends an auction of Nefertiti’s death mask at an explorer’s country estate. When a guest is murdered and someone begins stalking her, she must look beyond rumors of a curse to identify the danger among the bidders.

A primary-school science club travels back to 1843 to meet inventor Charles Babbage and learn about his Difference Engine. With only an hour to return, the children must explore the beginnings of computing without becoming permanently stranded in the nineteenth century.

On holiday in Newcastle, reporter Poppy Denby becomes involved in the death of a celebrated artist. Her pursuit of the truth brings professional curiosity into conflict with danger, turning time away from her newspaper into another murder investigation.

Poppy Denby investigates the death of a gifted woman scientist at Oxford’s History of Science Museum. The case revives troubling elements of her past and threatens her relationship, forcing her to confront more than the murderer’s identity.

In wintry 1929 Newcastle, Clara Vale searches for a missing pantomime actress who is soon found dead. When her replacement also dies, Clara must untangle theatrical rivalries and concealed motives before another performer is killed.

Chemistry graduate Clara Vale inherits a detective agency after professional doors close to her. A fatal cinema fire gives her a first case, turning scientific observation into her strongest tool against a killer hiding behind an apparent accident.

An exhibition at Newcastle’s Hancock Museum draws Clara Vale into a mystery involving a false mummy and stolen antiquities. Her investigation leads to Cairo, where an international smuggling operation places both the evidence and her life at risk.

Clara Vale secretly investigates blackmail during a shooting weekend at Penford Manor. The discovery of a murdered trade unionist, linked to the threatening note, turns a discreet assignment into a dangerous search among the aristocratic guests.

Visiting Berlin’s fashion world in 1930, Clara Vale is drawn into a factory murder that implicates a Jewish family’s son. Political conspiracies, professional rivalries and an old flame’s secrets complicate her efforts to prevent another death.