Louise Douglas Books in Order

Olivia thought she had found her future with Luca Felicone, the boy she loved enough to elope with and estrange his family. After Luca dies suddenly, she returns to their seaside hometown, where grief, guilt and a dangerous new attraction collide.

Fen keeps her life small, working in a bookshop and raising her young son while hiding from a secret she cannot face. When newly separated Sean drifts into her world, friendship turns to love and both must decide whether to risk the past resurfacing.

After a chance meeting, Sarah seizes brooding Alex's offer of a new life in a tiny village far from everything she knows. There she discovers his glamorous wife Genevieve has vanished, and the people who adored her suspect Alex is hiding more than grief.

Hannah Brown's childhood in windswept Cornwall was lit up by her fearless friend Ellen, until a summer of obsession and betrayal ended in tragedy. Twenty years later Hannah sees a woman who looks just like Ellen, forcing her to confront what really happened.

In 1984, as miners' strikes divide her South Yorkshire town, Annie Howarth seems to have a safe life with her police chief husband. When the man she once loved reappears amid a local murder investigation, buried secrets and loyalties are pushed to breaking point.

When tragedy sends the family she nannies for back to their crumbling lakeside cottage, Amy cannot abandon the children she loves. The house holds the unsolved disappearance of their mother's sister, and Amy's search for the truth wakes dangers that never really left.

Edie has always blamed her formidable mother in law Anna DeLuca for the accident that destroyed her family, so Anna's death brings more relief than grief. But a legacy summons her to a neglected Sicilian villa where old secrets, ghosts and her ex husband await.

On remote Dartmoor in 1903, a nameless little girl and her badly injured mother are taken to All Hallows asylum, where nurse Emma hides the child in an attic room. Ninety years later, two lonely schoolboys hear footsteps overhead and uncover a haunting tied to the building's past.

In the long, hot summer of 1995, free spirited Alice Lang dazzles a faded seaside holiday park and unsettles those who love her most. When she vanishes and only her scarlet dress is found, the shock ripples forward to a disturbing discovery twenty five years later.

Mila Shepherd moves to the Breton town of Morranez to care for her orphaned niece and temporarily join the Toussaints Detective Agency. When two suspicious deaths rock the resort and a missing notebook surfaces, Mila and colleague Carter Jackson must expose a community's buried hatred.

In the aftermath of a devastating Sicilian earthquake, Irene Borgata vanishes from a roadside while her husband Enzo searches for help, leaving only questions behind. Decades later, retired detective April Cobain returns to Villa Alba to clear Enzo's name and picks apart a family's long protected lies.

After elderly Elisabeth Quemener dies, she leaves a mysterious parcel that can only be opened by a woman no one can trace. Working from a faded photograph, investigators Mila Shepherd and Carter Jackson hunt for Astrid Oake, uncovering a tragic love story that threatens Mila's fragile home at the Sea House.

During a ferocious heatwave and encroaching wildfires around Morranez, Toussaints Detective Agency is hired to find Briony Moorcroft, a vulnerable British teenager missing in France. As Mila and Carter race against time and Briony's failing health, new clues reopen questions about Mila's sister's death.

1864, Bristol. Journalist Nelly Brooks is horrified when a young seamstress she has just met is pulled from the docks, dead and wearing an emerald shawl Nelly was given to investigate. Determined to honour that trust, Nelly probes a web of wealth, power and murder that could silence her too.