Jill Churchill Books in Order

A brisk, readable overview of the Plantagenet rulers of England, focused on the personalities as much as the politics. It is history written for readers who want the drama, rivalries, and family connections up front.

This early novel looks to the Ozarks for a family story shaped by land, inheritance, and hard choices. Janice Young Brooks builds a regional saga with strong emotions and a sense of place.

Blanche, the illegitimate half-sister of Margaret of Anjou, finds love with Sir Charles Seintleger during the Wars of the Roses. Court intrigue, separation, and war keep pulling them apart as the years pass.

This historical romance centers on desire that refuses to stay safe or sensible. Janice Young Brooks sets personal longing against social pressure, giving the story both sweep and emotional bite.

Garlanda Cheney survives shipwreck, loss, and a dangerous quest to learn who killed her father. Her path carries her from the Caribbean to Europe and into the orbit of Roque, a pirate she cannot forget.

The second pirate romance turns again to the sea, where inheritance, passion, and danger are never far apart. Valerie Vayle mixes adventure and stormy love in a story built for readers who like their historicals bold.

After her father dies at sea, Oriana Grey inherits a small shipping line and the farm at Greysteads. Holding on to both means facing danger, divided loyalties, and a future she never expected to claim.

Three generations of women carry this sweeping saga from Pennsylvania to Kansas and on to England. Frontier hardship, the Civil War, and family secrets shape a story about survival, ambition, and the lives women build for themselves.

This big historical novel follows lives shaped by memory, family pressure, and the long pull of the past. Janice Young Brooks builds the story on emotional choices that refuse to stay buried.

Lilia MacAllister leaves Scotland for the North Carolina colonies expecting a fresh start and finds a land dispute instead. Tragedy, a harsh bargain, and a stormy family dynasty force her to fight for both survival and love.

A sweeping historical saga about love, loss, and the pull of reinvention. Janice Young Brooks pairs family conflict with emotional stakes, giving the story the broad feel of an old-fashioned, character-driven romance.

This historical romance leans into passion, conflict, and hard choices in a world shaped by class and expectation. Janice Young Brooks builds the drama around a heroine forced to decide what she will risk for love.

A determined woman uses her intelligence, beauty, and nerve to climb in a world built to keep her out. But success does not solve everything, and love proves just as risky as ambition.

Mary Beecham rises from poverty into Victorian wealth, but comfort never makes life simple. Love, scandal, and the spice trade draw her into a sweeping saga about ambition, class, and the cost of wanting more.

Widowed mother of three Jane Jeffry already has enough to handle without neighborhood drama. When the shared cleaning lady is strangled with a vacuum cord, Jane starts digging through suburban secrets next door.

Set during World War II, this novel follows European and American women swept from Singapore into a brutal Japanese prison camp. It is a story of survival, fear, and stubborn friendship under impossible conditions.

Christmas is already hectic, with church bazaar politics and an endless afghan to finish. Then unwanted visitors arrive, two linked murders follow, and Jane finds that sleuthing is easier than knitting.

Anthony Wentworth unexpectedly inherits the Herron family paper empire and tries to use it for something better. His new relatives have other plans, and the family battle turns into a bitter saga of power, envy, and loyalty.

With her kids away for the summer, Jane takes a writing course and starts enjoying a little time for herself. That ends when a classmate dies after a potluck dinner, and Jane's quiche becomes part of the evidence.

Hollywood invades Jane's suburb when a film crew wants to use her backyard as a location. Then the set manager is stabbed, and Jane has to sort out movie-business rivalries before the killer strikes again.

Jane helps out at a reunion for Shelley's old high school girls' club and gets an earful of long-buried gossip. When one alumna winds up dead, the past starts looking very dangerous.

Jane, Mel, and Shelley head to a Colorado ski resort hoping for a break. Instead Jane finds a body in the snow, and a strange mix of genealogists, investors, and skiers turns the getaway into a murder case.

When a pompous attorney dies in a bizarre accident, most people seem quietly relieved. Jane soon suspects there is more going on, especially after another nasty death pulls her into the case.

A man inherits only a noisy macaw from his diamond-robber uncle and feels cheated. When the bird is stolen, he realizes Roger may be worth far more than he ever guessed.

At a pea festival and Civil War reenactment, one body does not get up after the show. Jane starts digging into museum politics, old money, and local grudges before the killer can add another victim.

A weekend trip to inspect a summer camp seems like a harmless civic chore for Jane and Shelley. Then they find what looks like a dead neighbor by the campfire, and the mystery only deepens when the body disappears.

Jane's annual Christmas caroling party gets stranger when Santa turns out to be an aggressive TV reporter. Before long the holiday season is full of ugly secrets, sharp grudges, and a murder Jane cannot ignore.

Jane and Shelley take on a lavish wedding at a crumbling old monastery turned hunt club. When a storm knocks out the power and a guest dies, the celebration turns into a locked-in murder puzzle.

The 1929 crash leaves Lily and Robert Brewster broke, until a great-uncle's will sends them to a sprawling Hudson River mansion. Then they learn his death was no accident, and another corpse in the kitchen makes them prime suspects.

Still adjusting to life at Grace & Favor, Lily and Robert Brewster find that small-town peace never lasts long. Another suspicious death pulls the siblings into a fresh Depression-era puzzle full of secrets and shifting loyalties.

Jane and Shelley sign up for a gardening class and expect dirt, advice, and a little neighborhood competition. What they get is an injured instructor, a pompous replacement, and murder buried under the compost.

While tearing down an old ice house, Robert Brewster uncovers a well-dressed mummified corpse on the Grace & Favor estate. Lily joins Chief Howard Walker to untangle the dead man's identity before a second body makes the case even messier.

Jane agrees to help restore a crumbling old mansion with an almost all-female work crew. Pranks, sabotage, and a deadly fall soon convince her that someone on the project is building toward murder.

Jane and Shelley head to a mystery writers' convention hoping for fun and maybe a little inspiration. Instead they get poison, egos, gossip, and a very real killer moving through a room full of crime experts.

A secret meeting at Grace & Favor, just before the 1932 election, brings a houseful of uneasy guests. When one man is murdered and a child disappears, Lily Brewster has to sort politics, gossip, and danger fast.

Shelley ropes Jane into sampling caterers for a local theater, which sounds harmless enough. Then rehearsals start producing more tension than applause, and Jane finds herself sorting out murder behind the scenes.

As 1933 begins, Lily and Robert volunteer at a nearby nursing home and quickly stumble into trouble. An old man is murdered in his bed, another body appears with the spring thaw, and the Brewsters are pulled into a chilly double mystery.

Lily and Robert Brewster expect calmer days at Grace & Favor, but Depression-era Voorburg has other ideas. Another tangle of secrets, suspicion, and sudden death turns their borrowed refuge into a fresh case.

Jane Jeffry is finally planning her wedding to Detective Mel VanDyne, but peace does not last. A self-defense class turns deadly, and Jane has to juggle in-laws, invitations, and murder before she can make it to the altar.