Gillian Roberts Books in Order

A relationship-centered novel about men and women searching for simple solutions to problems that refuse to stay simple. Judith Greber explores intimacy, expectation, and the uneasy cost of getting it wrong.

Molly Michaels has built a life, a family, and a business, then her husband's corporate transfer uproots them again. Judith Greber turns relocation into a sharp story about marriage, ambition, and what gets silenced inside family life.

When actress and teacher Liza Nichols dies on Amanda Pepper's couch, Amanda becomes both witness and suspect. To clear herself, the Philly Prep English teacher starts asking questions the police would rather handle alone.

A sweeping family saga set against the history of Mendocino, California, from the mid nineteenth century onward. Across generations, the Ross family lives through migration, conflict, love, and the making of a town.

Trying to teach generosity at Christmas, Amanda helps organize a dinner for homeless guests at a rich family's mansion. After a death and a suspicious fire, holiday goodwill gives way to a tangled family murder case.

Hallie Bennett tries to hold onto her ambitions and her marriage as the decades roll from the 1950s into the 1980s. Career moves, children, compromise, and betrayal all test what a long partnership can survive.

A used book marked with desperate notes leads Amanda to a troubled marriage and then a murder. What starts as curiosity becomes a dangerous hunt through tutoring franchises, lies, and violence at home.

TV producer Lyle Zacharias drops dead at his own fiftieth birthday party, poisoned in front of a room full of enemies. When evidence points toward Amanda's mother, Amanda and C.K. have to move fast.

Amanda heads to Atlantic City hoping for a break, but a room mix-up lands her beside a corpse. Between casino glamour, bad luck, and a crowded suspect list, her vacation turns into another murder case.

Teaching summer school is bad enough, then Amanda's promising student April Truong vanishes. As racist threats spread through the city, Amanda chases a case that links prejudice, lies, and a missing girl.

A Mummers Parade turns deadly when a performer is shot in costume on New Year's Day. Amanda is pulled in when a fellow teacher uses her as an alibi, and the case opens into parade rivalries, family loyalties, and trouble at Philly Prep.

Amanda is already worried about Adam, one of her most troubled students, when a librarian is strangled and the boy disappears. With everyone ready to call him guilty, Amanda digs into the victim's life and the damage adults have missed.

A library benefit at Philly Prep puts Amanda in the orbit of old Philadelphia money and a censorship-minded protest group. When the protesters' leader is murdered, Amanda and C.K. must sort through class snobbery, family strain, and two lonely boys caught in the middle.

Billie August's first job with private investigator Emma Howe begins with a runaway teenager and opens onto fraud, buried secrets, and a baby's skeleton in a meadow. Marin County looks beautiful, but the case finds the rot underneath.

This collection gathers a dozen mystery stories, including two tied to Amanda Pepper. The pieces range from darkly funny domestic trouble to sharper tales of obsession, revenge, and small bad ideas turning deadly.

Gillian Roberts breaks mystery writing into practical pieces, from building a sleuth and hiding clues to revising a finished draft. It is a clear, encouraging guide for writers who want structure without losing their voice.

A woman in Amanda's book group dies in what looks like suicide, but Amanda doesn't buy it. At the same time, a frightened student vanishes, pulling her into a case about secrets, shame, and who gets failed first.

Emma Howe and Billie August are handed two difficult cases, a vulnerable young man accused of murder and a woman searching for her birth mother. The investigations slowly converge, testing both detectives in different ways.

Amanda and C.K.'s new detective venture gets its first client when patrician Claire Fairchild asks questions about her son's fiancee. Then Claire is murdered, and Amanda is left to untangle Main Line family secrets and her own uneasy future.

Amanda finds wealthy Tomas Severin dead at Philly Prep just as wedding plans are driving her crazy. With her name in his notebook and old money secrets swirling, she and C.K. dig into a family full of motives.

Halloween pranks at Philly Prep start small, then turn dangerous when thefts, threats, and student unrest pile up around science teacher Juan Reyes. Amanda must sort out mischief from malice before the school year turns explosive.

When Sasha's stepmother Phoebe is ruled a suicide, Amanda Pepper agrees to take a closer look. Another death inside Phoebe's house turns a doubtful case into a murder investigation with ties uncomfortably close to home.

A memoir of an eight-year relationship that ended in betrayal, upheaval, and near-destruction. Gillian Roberts writes about misplaced trust, grief, and the slow work of reclaiming a life.

A sharp look at Canadian literary prizes and the way they help build authors, reputations, and national culture. Roberts follows how award-winning books circulate, get celebrated, and get folded into bigger debates about identity.

A collection of fourteen mystery short stories, many rescued from magazines and hard-to-find anthologies. Roberts moves from slyly comic setups to darker turns, with the same sharp eye readers know from her novels.

This study looks at how the Canada-US border shapes ideas of culture, nation, and belonging. Gillian Roberts reads literature, television, and other media to show how that line means very different things to different communities.