Frances Fyfield Books in Order

Eileen Cartwright is certain she wants her solicitor's wife dead and calmly sets the plot in motion. Proving what she has done is harder, leaving Helen West and Geoffrey Bailey to untangle desire, manipulation, and evidence.

A naked woman's body is found near a seemingly placid Essex commuter village. Helen West and Geoffrey Bailey dig beneath the surface and uncover envy, passion, and a community much less tidy than it looks.

When pharmacist Pip Carlton's wife dies suddenly, grief is expected and questions are not. Helen West senses that the quiet, respectable story is wrong, and her doubts open the door to obsession and violence.

Bored by her respectable legal career, widowed solicitor Sarah Fortune seeks meaning in her unconventional care for lonely men. Then a wealthy client's charm hardens into obsession, and Sarah is pulled toward madness, pursuit, and murder.

Kathryn and David look like the perfect family, but suspicion and control are rotting the house from within. As small losses turn sinister and David's violence grows, the locked playroom becomes the clearest sign that everything is breaking.

Elisabeth, a gifted picture restorer who values privacy above almost everything, accepts work from a wealthy stranger. The commission draws her into a trap where money, desire, and the past close in until the people around her barely know where she has gone.

Helen West is exhausted by a slippery petty criminal who keeps avoiding conviction, even as office politics and personal strain pile up around her. When lives start colliding in dangerous ways, she and Geoffrey Bailey are pushed well beyond procedure.

Helen West wants to brighten her worn-out flat and steady her life with Geoffrey Bailey, but trouble arrives with her new cleaner, Cath. As a domestic violence case and a murder inquiry close in, private loyalties become impossible to ignore.

Sarah Fortune heads to a small Norfolk town to sort out an inheritance and put distance between herself and a demanding lover. Instead she finds an old suicide, a family at war, and a ghostlike drifter who may be more threat than legend.

Isabel Burley returns to care for her mother Serena, whose Alzheimer's is stripping away memory and control. In an isolated house eyed by local predators, old hurts flare into a tense story of need, guilt, and buried violence.

Helen West faces a rape case that cuts close to home when the accused is a police officer tied to Geoffrey Bailey. As evidence mounts and loyalties fray, the case shifts from apparent certainty to something far more poisonous.

Emma Davey's murder leaves her sister Elisabeth Kennedy, a scarred former police officer, obsessed with finding the killer. Seeking safety in her strange London home, Elisabeth instead finds herself drawn deeper into fear, revenge, and exposure.

John Smith cannot bear losing his twin brother Cannon to marriage, and the bond between the brothers turns dark. Sarah Fortune gives shelter to the woman caught between them, only to discover how possessive love can become.

American Henry Evans travels to an English coastal town to find Francesca, the woman he never forgot. Instead he discovers she is in prison for killing her child, and his refusal to believe it draws him into a town built on grief and lies.

Douglas Petty sues a tabloid over a vicious story, then his wife Amy disappears in a catastrophic train crash that leaves no body behind. As the search unfolds, Amy's vanished past proves far more troubling than the libel case.

After a bitter family rift shaped by religion, Anna Calvert watches her sister retreat into convent life. Then a new gardener arrives, and Anna realises the danger inside the sanctuary may be worse than anything outside it.

An artist sees a young woman fall to her death from the Dover cliffs, and the image begins to poison his new marriage. As his shaken wife turns to Sarah Fortune, the mystery widens into obsession, theft, and lives built on concealment.

Sarah Fortune is being harassed by a claimant who wants the flat she inherited from a former lover. When she crosses paths with a bullied tenant under siege from an upstairs neighbour, two housing disputes turn into one unsettling trap.

Shy accountant Rachel Doe is transformed by her friendship with the fierce and damaged Ivy Schneider. But Ivy's drowned child, abusive ex-husband, and unfinished hunger for justice pull Rachel into a dangerous family drama she barely understands.

When brilliant barrister Marianne Shearer dies in an apparent suicide, colleague Peter Friel cannot let the case rest. Her final trial, her private compromises, and a witness who knows too much slowly reveal how success can hide ruin.

As her much older husband dies, Diana Porteous braces for his greedy family to descend on the paintings he leaves behind. Her love for Thomas was real, but so was her criminal past, and she will need every trick she knows to survive.

A year after her husband's death, Diana Porteous is drifting until Sarah Fortune helps pull her into a hunt for stolen paintings. What begins as an art-world recovery job turns into a wary duel over hidden collections and the secrets in Di's house by the sea.

Widowed Diana Porteous throws herself into a portrait exhibition at her old schoolhouse by the sea. Then a mysterious woman tempts Di and Sarah Fortune into theft, an artist dies, and art, family, and guilt start to overlap.

Sarah Fortune is drawn to Jessica Hurley, a troubled woman desperate to return to the village she fled. When Jessica disappears, Sarah follows the wreckage of her past into a cold, closed community that wants old secrets left buried.