Liza Cody Books in Order

Ex-policewoman Anna Lee is handed a dead-end case, or so it seems, when wealthy parents doubt their daughter died in a simple car crash. Her search pulls her into London's shabby film world and a life built on lies.

A routine custody job turns ugly when Anna Lee and a teenage girl are kidnapped and hidden away. While her colleagues race to find her, the case opens onto gangland violence and some very dangerous adults.

Anna Lee starts by tracing a missing con man and ends up far beyond London, following fraud, grudges, and old secrets. A corpse on the moors shows that what looked petty has turned murderous.

Anna is hired to find brilliant teenager Tina Hahn, but the girl resurfaces in shock and linked to a hotel-room shooting. To understand what happened, Anna has to untangle Tina's hidden second life.

Anna joins the security team around rising pop star Shona Una after a stream of threats. The singer's chaotic entourage, ego, and fear make protection almost impossible, and Anna knows danger is getting closer.

In 1974, young wardrobe assistant Fay Jassahn crosses from Kenya into Ethiopia with a letter and too little sense of the risk. Her impulsive trip becomes a tense journey through upheaval, danger, and hard lessons.

What begins as a search for missing stock and a missing girl takes Anna from London to Florida. Family deceit, money trouble, and murder keep reshaping the case as she closes in.

Eva Wylie guards a junkyard by night and wrestles as the London Lassassin by choice. One bad job drops her into a gang war, a bombing, and an uneasy rescue that could cost her everything.

When a streetwalker's murder leaves local women terrified, Eva reluctantly agrees to teach them self-defense. The favor drags her into vengeance, street danger, and truths she would rather not face.

Barred from wrestling and nearly broke, Eva thinks her luck has changed when she finds a bag full of cash. Then her long-lost sister returns, and the money brings more violence than freedom.

Birdie Walker wants justice for her dead rock-star husband, Jack, and the music business will not give it freely. To protect what may be left of his legacy, she has to outplay people who profit from memory.

This collection gathers Liza Cody's early short fiction, including the Anthony Award-winning title story. Across seventeen pieces, women in tight corners fight for survival, dignity, or one small break.

Years after gifted musician Elly Astoria was murdered, a writer sets out to recover her story. The search becomes part biography, part cold case, and part trip through the bargains that shape fame.

Nita Tehri has built a quiet, orderly life, until a dead baby is found near her home and suspicion lands on her. What follows is a frightening portrait of prejudice, gossip, and a system quick to look away.

Lady Bag roams the West End with her greyhound Electra, surviving on wit, memory, and too much cheap wine. When she spots the man she calls the Devil, the streets she knows turn sharply dangerous.

Fresh out of prison and trying to stay sober, Lady Bag is reunited with Electra and her friends. A half-made promise sends her back toward trouble, where kindness and bad choices are hard to separate.

Seema, a London gardener with a careful life, is drawn in by an older man who seems worldly, rich, and impossible to resist. Seduction slides toward coercion as the story turns strange and dangerous.