JA Baker Books in Order

Alec and Peggy hope a clifftop cottage will help them recover from marital troubles and painful childhoods. Their sense of being watched intensifies when Peggy's estranged mother appears, claiming a secret that makes her question both her husband and her safety.

Trouble at her daughter Rosie's school disrupts Lissy's quiet life, while Erica and Beverley conceal problems behind respectable appearances. An old child's murder connects all three women, raising questions about responsibility, misplaced blame, and a growing desire for revenge.

Phoebe and her husband Martyn move to a village hoping to live quietly, but neighbor Anna insists on friendship. A storm and rescue bring their lives closer together, threatening to expose the past Phoebe has worked to keep hidden.

After ending her relationship, Eva moves from London to Whitby to search for the birth parents she never knew. Her worried friend Celia follows, and her furious former boyfriend's arrival turns that search for belonging into a dangerous situation.

Faye and Hugh move to Cross House seeking a fresh start after a traumatic year. Nighttime sounds convince Faye someone is entering their bedroom, and her investigation into the previous residents raises disturbing questions her husband refuses to take seriously.

Ray leaves city life for the village of Whitchurch, where an unsolved murder shadows his hoped-for new beginning. Threatening letters, vandalism, and damaged gravestones increase local tensions, making him suspect that the trouble may be uncomfortably close to home.

Grieving the loss of her husband and children, Esther becomes preoccupied with the woman living at number 19. Strange incidents in her own home and her neighbor's increasingly erratic behavior intensify an obsession that threatens her grasp on what is happening.

After a train crash, Leah seeks help from therapist Will, but their meetings bring unsettling visions of her dead brother. Memories of childhood and betrayals by friends emerge, deepening the mystery of what drove her onto the train.

Teacher Stella's settled life with partner Wade is shaken by threatening letters. Searching for their sender forces her to revisit a secret relationship and other hidden parts of her past, while the escalating harassment threatens everything she has built.

Leo's disappearance unsettles a Yorkshire village, drawing suspicion toward Ashton, who has returned after committing a childhood crime. A teacher recognizes his past and a neighbor reports him, while the missing boy remains in an unpredictable captor's hands.

Reclusive teacher Dominic Rose still mourns Clara, who vanished decades earlier. When newcomer Kate's son befriends a troublesome local boy, their attention turns toward Dominic, setting off a dangerous chain of events around his unresolved past and fragile present.

Widowed Grace returns to her childhood cottage, where recurring sleepwalking brings disturbing memories of her missing brother and father's death. She searches for the truth about her brother's disappearance as fragments of the past increasingly intrude on her new life.

Following his wife's murder, Peter begins a relationship with Alice, whom he meets through a grief group. His daughter Lauren cannot find evidence of Alice's past online, and her attempts to investigate the newcomer expose her to growing danger.

Deborah disappears, leaving her colleagues alarmed and the office buzzing with speculation about her fate. As fear spreads among those who knew her, she remains captive to someone familiar, making the mystery inseparable from the people closest to her life.

A woman and her husband move to isolated Winters End hoping to escape guilt and old secrets. Hostile neighbors unsettle their fresh start, but her growing fear becomes sharper when she realizes she is the community’s only wife.

A woman living under a concealed identity in a woodland cottage believes she has escaped her past. A watching stranger and threatening notes suggest that someone knows about the terrible mistake she made during the summer of 1976.

Melissa Crawford abducts a baby, convinced she is rescuing him from neglectful parents. An accident forces her into hiding, where the demands of caring for him and memories of a child she lost begin undermining her certainty.

Three siblings return home after their apparently exemplary parents jump from a bridge in a suicide pact. Hostile neighbors, unexpected visitors, and their mother’s missing body expose disturbing questions about a family already marked by their father’s cruelty.

Helena struggles to protect her adult daughters as addiction and overwork fracture their family. When local girls begin disappearing and dying, maternal concern turns toward suspicion, forcing her to question whether danger lies among the people closest to her.

Twenty years after an assault she kept secret, Penny Collins cares for her mother as painful memories resurface. Serving on the jury at her attacker’s trial gives her a chance to pursue justice, but convincing others becomes another struggle.

With her life falling apart, Blake writes to her estranged childhood friend Lucy to confront their shared past. Memories of secrets and broken trust unsettle her, raising fears about what Lucy has become and why she might welcome contact.