Lindsay Jayne Ashford Books in Order

Forensic psychologist Megan Rhys advises police investigating the murders of young sex workers. As deaths increase, questionable information and competing pressures complicate her work, leaving her to identify the killer while resisting attempts to manipulate her conclusions.

Megan Rhys investigates a young mother's murder marked by an apparent occult symbol. While a publicity-seeking police chief favors a ritual explanation, Megan studies the victims' lives, risking a dangerous mistake as further killings occur.

A conference trip gives Megan Rhys a chance to stay at her grandmother's cottage in Borth. The discovery of a preserved, mutilated body nearby turns the visit into an investigation involving uncertain dates and concealed grievances.

Megan Rhys's holiday in Borth is interrupted by a mutilated corpse and further unexplained deaths. This revised edition of Death Studies follows her effort to connect disparate victims and uncover secrets a determined killer wants buried.

This collection gathers autobiographical accounts of motherhood from women in Wales. Edited by Ashford and Rebecca Tope, the varied pieces explore experiences from pregnancy to children leaving home, with humor, tenderness, and difficult personal revelations.

While studying the effects of new prostitution legislation in Cardiff, Megan Rhys joins outreach worker Pauline in the red-light district. A recent murder and increasingly dangerous working conditions make the women's safety an urgent concern.

Forensic psychologist Megan Rhys is at Balsall Gate prison when inmate Carl Kelly dies with a disturbing expression on his face. Authorities favor an overdose explanation, but the circumstances leave her questioning whether something more sinister occurred.

In this fictional reimagining of Jane Austen's final years, governess Anne Sharp grows close to the novelist. Troubling tensions within Austen's family lead Anne to suspect that a dangerous secret may lie behind her friend's early death.

With her husband missing during World War II, Eva falls in love with Black American soldier Bill. Their mixed-race daughter Louisa later seeks the truth about her origins, confronting secrets Eva concealed to protect her from prejudice.

Twenty stories give Jane Austen’s minor characters new lives, revisiting familiar households and reimagining their relationships in different eras. From a modern wedding planner to overlooked members of the Bennet family, the collection explores lives usually left beyond the main narrative.

Agatha Christie boards the Orient Express under an assumed identity after her marriage breaks down. Two fellow travelers carry painful secrets of their own, and their journey toward the Middle East creates unexpected connections among the women.

Aspiring actress Estelle Thompson leaves 1931 Calcutta for London and reinvents herself as Merle Oberon. Concealing her Indian ancestry seems essential to her career, but discoveries about her family threaten the identity she has constructed.

After World War II, Rose Daniel searches Spain for a brother missing since its civil war. Her journey intersects with Lola, who rescued a baby during a massacre, bringing two women together around buried memories and unfinished grief.

In 1943, shipwreck survivor Alice washes ashore in Cornwall and is found by Viscount Jack Trewella. As she conceals her identity and grows close to him, his own hidden history complicates their chance to begin again.

Three women arrive in postwar Germany to help run a displaced persons camp. Martha, Kitty, and Delphine bring losses and secrets of their own, finding mutual support while caring for survivors struggling to rebuild their lives.

Ellen and Tony Wylde arrive at a Cornish farm in 1947 and discover strange objects and hidden connections to the villagers. Iris’s return to investigate her dead mother’s disappearance draws their lives together around secrets rooted in the property’s past.

Escaping London’s Blitz, Violet Rookwood finds refuge on a Cornish farm and discovers a seventeenth-century journal. Its account of Maria’s dangerous love for a fugitive priest echoes Violet’s growing connection with an Italian prisoner of war amid a later conflict.