Mel Sherratt Books in Order

In the market town of Somerley, Kate, Chloe and Lily join forces to open The Coffee Stop, each hoping the cafe will help mend a different kind of heartache. When tragedy and money troubles strike, their new friendship is tested along with the business.

When glamorous Steph Ryder is found murdered, DS Allie Shenton starts close to home, probing her powerful husband, friends and family. As lies and alibis fall apart and more bodies appear, Allie races to expose a killer hiding in plain sight.

Housing officer Josie Mellor spends her days helping vulnerable tenants on the Mitchell Estate, from abused partners to isolated young mums. As tensions rise and violence escalates, Josie’s own controlling marriage begins to mirror the cases she’s trying to escape.

On the notorious Mitchell Estate, widow Cath Mason opens her door to women fleeing violence and hardship. Anonymous threats, missing possessions and a teenager’s murder soon suggest that danger is far closer to home than she imagined.

Caren Williams returns to the estate she once fled and finds herself living opposite her old enemy Gina Bradley. With Gina’s daughters leading a girl gang and old grudges resurfacing, rivalries on Stanley Avenue erupt into a bitter, sometimes deadly, street war.

A companion to The Estate novels, this book gathers diary entries from key characters, new scenes set around the Mitchell Estate and glimpses of people who will appear in *Written in the Scars*, adding extra layers to the series without giving away major twists.

After the death of her husband and unborn child, Charley Belington moves into a new flat, grateful for the kindness of her landlady Ella. But Ella’s troubled past is tilting into obsession, and Charley soon realises she has invited a very dangerous woman into her life.

A body is found on a canal towpath with a magnetic letter in his pocket, then another victim appears with a letter hidden in her clothes. As DS Allie Shenton follows the eerie trail, she must decode a childlike game before a calculating killer spells out his final move.

When one of the notorious Johnson brothers is murdered and a bag of cash goes missing, DS Allie Shenton is thrown into a forty-eight-hour race to stop a gang war. With an old stalker circling her family, she has to decide how much she is prepared to risk to end the violence.

Best friends Sam and Louise have shared everything since school, from running a busy market stall to raising Louise’s teenage daughter. But secrets about marriage, money and the past begin to surface, forcing them to ask how well they really know each other.

On the Mitchell Estate, single mum Donna yearns for love, soldier Lewis returns home shattered by war, and women like Megan and Mary hide wounds the world cannot see. Their lives intersect in a story about trauma, bad choices and the possibility of healing.

Six months after teenager Deanna Barker is stabbed, assaults on local youths shake the town of Stockleigh. As Detective Eden Berrisford hunts the attacker, her niece Jess vanishes, turning the investigation into a desperate race to save another girl from becoming a statistic.

Market traders Sophie and Beth love being at the heart of Somerley gossip, but behind the banter lie a stale marriage, a tempting newcomer and fears about Beth’s secretive daughter. When hidden truths emerge, their friendship and livelihoods are pushed to the edge.

Riley and Sadie work side by side at Chandler’s Shoes, one still grieving her husband, the other convinced she’ll never meet the right man. When the shop is threatened with closure, their plan to save it forces both women to rethink love, loss and what they want from life.

The small city of Stockleigh reels as three women are brutally attacked within days. Detective Eden Berrisford’s search for a pattern leads her to Carla, a survivor rebuilding her life while her abusive ex-husband is released from prison and heading her way.

Reinventing herself with a new name and fake CV, Esther lands a job at glamorous PR firm Parker-Brown with one goal ’ revenge on someone who wronged her. As she worms her way into her boss Tamara’s life, lies, schemes and a sudden death spin far beyond her control.

A killer is attacking people where they should feel safest, in their homes and workplaces, and DS Grace Allendale is the new detective tasked with stopping them. When the trail points toward the Steele crime family ’ her own flesh and blood ’ she has to choose who she stands with.

Widowed Sadie and commitment-shy Riley rely on their jobs at Chandler’s Shoes and on each other. When the shop faces closure, their fight to keep it open brings new friends, new risks and the chance that both women might finally find the love they thought they had lost.

Sophie and Beth run a lively market stall in Somerley, trading gossip as easily as they sell produce. Behind the smiles, Sophie is tempted by a handsome stranger and Beth is haunted by heartbreak and fears for her daughter, until long-buried secrets force everything into the open.

Hannah has spent years caring for her mum on Hope Street and is left adrift after her mother’s death and a shocking family secret. When workaholic Doug moves in opposite after a health scare, a gentle romance blossoms, but both neighbours are hiding more than they admit.

Decades after leaving Hope Street, Livvy returns with her teenage daughter, Pip, to the sister she has not seen in years. Hannah is torn between anger and relief, and as the women work together in Hannah’s new bookshop, past mistakes and new beginnings collide.

When toddler Tyler falls from a balcony at Harrison House, DS Grace Allendale and DC Frankie Higgins are first on the scene. Everyone insists it was an accident, but as Grace probes the estate’s debts, gangs and divided loyalties, it becomes clear too many people are lying.

A schoolgirl is strangled during a cross-country run, her body left in a field behind her school. Two days later, a young mother is found murdered in a city park. With no clear link between victims, DS Grace Allendale must spot the pattern before the killer strikes again.

Sixteen-year-old Erin Ellis is attacked and dies in the arms of her best friend just yards from home, written off at first as a mugging gone wrong. DS Grace Allendale digs into the tight-knit community and uncovers motives that reach back to a case she’d rather forget.

A local journalist who has been interviewing women abducted and held for ten days wakes up in a dark room, realising she has become the fifth victim. Stripped of her identity, she must revisit her own buried secrets if she is to outthink a captor who never speaks.

Sarah lives a secluded, controlled life with her husband Richard in a dream house miles from anywhere. When grieving couple Juliette and Danny move in next door and strange glimpses of a little girl unsettle them, Sarah will do anything to keep her own deadly secrets buried.

On the Limekiln Estate, DI Allie Shenton investigates the brutal killing of Billy Whitmore, a man with plenty of enemies. As more bodies turn up and pressure mounts from the press and public, Allie must unpick a tangle of loyalties before a vulnerable family pays the price.

Two men are murdered on opposite sides of Stoke, each hiding a tangle of secrets. With a single photograph linking their social circle and an old case resurfacing, Detective Allie Shenton and her team race to discover who is lying to protect a killer among friends.

Called to what looks like a murder–suicide, DI Allie Shenton quickly realises both victims were executed and the trail leads to a property owned by drug dealer Kenny Webb. With another dealer taken out and an old nemesis stirring, Allie must dismantle a violent network before anyone else dies.

In the Staffordshire Moorlands, DI Marsha Clay’s first big case begins when a grandfather is found dead, his wife viciously beaten and their young granddaughters missing. As another death and a long-ago accident come to light, Marsha must untangle decades of resentment to bring the girls home.