Gretta Mulrooney Books in Order

Mulrooney's first published book for younger readers is an early look at the trouble that starts when one messy problem opens into several more. It is a quick, readable story with her usual feel for tension and consequence.

This early book for children and teens brings a darker edge, with suspicion, menace and close-to-home danger driving the story. It is slim, direct and already alert to the ways fear spreads through a family or group.

One of Mulrooney's early books for younger readers, this short novel turns on deceit, loyalty and the trouble that follows when trust gives way. Even here, she is interested in pressure, secrets and the cost of bad choices.

Rory Keenan looks back on a childhood shaped by his larger-than-life mother, Kitty, a woman who could be funny, exasperating and impossible in the same breath. It is a warm, unsentimental novel about family love, embarrassment and loss.

Ill Nina Rawle hires cheerful carer Joan Douglas for reasons Joan does not yet understand. As Nina revisits her past in Northern Ireland, buried guilt and political violence close in on both women's lives.

A teacher draws a recently orphaned girl into her new blended family, hoping love will give the child a safe home. Instead, old resentments and competing loyalties turn domestic life into a painful test.

Liv Callaghan escapes her alcoholic husband by returning to the Cork cottage she has inherited from her grandmother. There she meets her first love again and is forced to ask whether going back can ever mend what life has broken.

Martina's bond with the older, affluent Cecelia Buchanan becomes a lifeline after her father's death. But the adult world Cecelia offers, full of beauty, attention and a dangerous younger man, is not as safe as it first seems.

This slim collection brings together humorous and bittersweet short stories shaped by memory, family and the pull between generations. Small moments carry real feeling, and the tone shifts neatly between wit and ache.

Set in London, this novella follows several people whose lives brush against one another as old losses, private scars and long-kept secrets come back into view. Short, quiet and emotionally sharp.

A broken heart, an unlikely friendship, a con woman and a fading film star collide in this offbeat novel of longing and reinvention. Mulrooney treats the odd turns of ordinary life with warmth and bite.

When an unpopular woman disappears and the police give up, her stepdaughter asks private investigator Tyrone Swift to find her. The missing person case leads him into a wealthy family, a valuable house and secrets powerful people want buried.

Fifteen years after Teddy Bartlett was beaten nearly to death in woodland outside London, his father hires Tyrone Swift to find out why. Ty steps into a damaged family where old betrayals have never stopped doing harm.

Thirteen-year-old Martina is reeling from her father's death when she befriends the wealthy Cecelia Buchanan. The friendship opens a glamorous new world, but it also exposes her to adult desire, manipulation and disappointment.

May welcomes orphaned Elva into the fragile new family she is building with her husband and stepson. But grief, jealousy and old obligations threaten to pull them all apart.

A man confesses to murdering his girlfriend before hanging himself, but his estranged wife refuses to believe the story. Tyrone Swift follows the cracks in the case and finds secrets stretching far beyond one violent night.

Creepy messages and the sense of being watched hang over this Tyrone Swift mystery from the first pages. As Ty works the case, the watcher in the background starts to feel less distant, and far more dangerous.

Tyrone Swift is hired to revisit the drowning of Kim Woodville, a young woman who died at her family's lakeside house two years earlier. Bruises, police errors and a second death suggest the truth has been buried close to home.

On her first day back at work in Berminster, widowed DI Siv Drummond is handed a double murder in woodland by the River Bere. The deeper she looks, the more the case turns on hidden links and private lies.

Airline pilot Greg Roscoe is found stabbed to death in his cockpit, and Tyrone Swift is hired by his mother to clear his name. What starts as a murder case quickly opens into adultery, family damage and a long trail of lies.

After two sisters are attacked on a ferry crossing, one is dead and the survivor can remember almost nothing. Tyrone Swift must piece together what happened while the family's past keeps slipping out in dangerous fragments.

Six years after Lyn Dimas vanished on a trip to the shop, builders uncover her body in a derelict warehouse. Siv Drummond reopens the wound and finds a family still shaped by lies, shame and unfinished business.

On the eve of his wedding, Sam Goddard is pulled from the Thames with a sedated teenage girl and a note that points to suicide. His fiancée hires Tyrone Swift, convinced the official story hides something far uglier.

A dead man turns up at the crematorium before anyone even knows he has died, and the victim's only friend is missing. Siv Drummond follows a cryptic message back to Mallow Cottage, where an old grievance has turned lethal.

Tyrone Swift travels to an isolated Welsh community to visit an old friend, only to find him dead on the coastal path. Cut off from easy help, he digs into a supposedly idyllic settlement built on secrecy and fear.

In 1945 Daisy Moore takes a job at the Dolphin Hotel in rural Oxfordshire, only to find a guest murdered with one of the hotel's stone dolphin ornaments. Her wartime skills pull her into a village full of grief, prejudice and lies.

Minutes before a little girl's fourth birthday party, she and her grandfather are found murdered in the family's coastal home. Siv Drummond must dig through buried secrets and a dark family history before the killer strikes again.

Steve Buckley spots a photo of a man who looks exactly like the little brother he was told died years ago, and hires Tyrone Swift to investigate. The search uncovers missing records, old letters and a family story that never added up.

In postwar Fernfield, Daisy Moore is drawn into another case when a hotel guest vanishes and is later found shot dead in a stolen car. The clues lead through false tears, buried histories and a town that still watches outsiders closely.

A woman is found dead in an artist's studio, and the man who owns it claims he remembers almost nothing after a drunken party. Siv Drummond has to crack a tight-knit seaside community where everyone knows more than they are saying.