Lesley Thomson Books in Order

An early standalone about a chance meeting on the London Underground that binds together two very different women. When one of them is killed, the other has to rethink her life and decide what, and who, she is willing to fight for.

On a summer day in 1968, two nine-year-old girls play hide-and-seek in the ruins of a deserted village, and one of them vanishes. Years later, the disappearance still grips everyone who was left behind, especially the girl who survived it.

Clearing out her late father's house, Stella Darnell finds herself pulled back toward the unsolved murder that shaped her childhood. Kate Rokesmith's death ruined several lives, and Stella is determined to see what her detective father missed.

A folder of unlabeled photographs in her late father's darkroom draws Stella into an old case from 1966. One image points to a day that scarred a young girl for life, and Stella can't stop digging.

After a man dies under Jack Harmon's train, the verdict is suicide, but his brother insists otherwise. Stella and Jack follow the case back to a body found in a west London water tower, and to secrets nobody wanted disturbed.

This short prequel follows Stella at seven and a half, just after her parents split up. Hurt, angry, and tired of coming second to her father's job, the detective's daughter decides to run away.

A little girl's half-glimpsed memory from the baking summer of 1976 leads Stella toward a decades-old murder tied to Kew's Botanical Gardens. As she follows the trail into the world of botany, old secrets begin to bloom in dangerous ways.

When Helen Honeysett vanishes during an evening run along the Thames, only her dog comes home. Nearly thirty years later, Stella and Jack take the case and find a haunted stretch of towpath, shuttered households, and a killer hidden in plain sight.

Stella heads to the Cotswolds to reopen two linked disappearances, one from 1977 and one from 1999. In a village where rumor has hardened into truth, she has to find out who has been getting away with murder for decades.

Forty years after six-year-old Sarah Ferris was killed in an empty playground, Stella uncovers new evidence that reopens one of Hammersmith's most troubling cases. What began as a child's murder leads into jealousy, betrayal, and a past that never really ended.

Freddy Power returns to Newhaven after her mother's death, planning only a brief stay to help at the family fishery. Then her old friend Mags disappears, and the town's old loyalties, buried secrets, and unfinished passions drag Freddy back in.

Now living in Tewkesbury, Stella Darnell is pulled into a fresh killing when an investigative journalist dies in the abbey. His work points back to a wartime London murder, and Stella soon finds the past is still claiming victims.

After James Ritchie and his young son are found stabbed on a Sussex beach, DI Toni Kemp follows the shock back to Blacklock House. Its seven long-term residents form a close little world, and every one of them seems to be hiding something.

Stella and Jack rent a Sussex house for a family holiday, hoping for a quieter month together. Instead, Jack's stepchildren find a skeleton in a wartime pillbox at the bottom of the garden, and the break turns into another murder case.

Stella follows Jack and discovers he has been secretly visiting a psychic in hopes of reaching his dead mother. Then a trip to a Gloucestershire village leads to a body at a shrine, and Stella is drawn into an old murder and a revenge plot.