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Browse Miranda Dickinson books in order, with summaries, reading-order help, series notes, and where-to-start advice for her romances and Cora Lael mysteries.

Last updated: July 11, 2026

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Fairytale of New York

by Miranda Dickinson

2009

English florist Rosie Duncan has built a new life on New York's Upper West Side and sworn off heartbreak. Then her brother arrives with a secret, and her growing friendship with publishing hot-shot Nate starts to shake her resolve.

Welcome to My World

by Miranda Dickinson

2010

Harri Langton sells dream holidays for a living, but she has never left the UK herself. When globe-trotter Alex Brannan returns and she helps with his chaotic love life, Harri is pushed to face the adventures she's been denying herself.

It Started With A Kiss

by Miranda Dickinson

2011

Wedding singer Romily Parker can't forget the stranger who kissed her just before Christmas. Her search for him turns into a year-long quest full of family chaos, false starts, and the growing suspicion that love may be closer than she thinks.

When I Fall In Love

by Miranda Dickinson

2012

Eighteen months after the biggest loss of her life, Elsie Maynard is trying to begin again. A new man, a chaotic choir, and a final trip to Paris force her to face grief, promises, and the future she still wants.

Take A Look At Me Now

by Miranda Dickinson

2013

When Nell Sullivan loses her job and her unreliable boyfriend on the same day, she uses her redundancy money to flee to San Francisco. The trip was meant to be a reset, but the city quickly begins to change her life.

I'll Take New York

by Miranda Dickinson

2014

Brooklyn bookseller Bea James and psychiatrist Jake Steinmann are both done with heartbreak when they meet at a party and make a no-relationships pact. Exploring New York as friends sounds safe enough, until the city starts working its usual magic.

A Parcel for Anna Browne

by Miranda Dickinson

2015

London receptionist Anna Browne lives quietly until a mysterious parcel arrives with a beautiful gift inside. Each new delivery draws her out of the shadows, changes how she sees herself, and deepens the question of who is sending them.

Searching For a Silver Lining

by Miranda Dickinson

2016

After falling out with her beloved grandfather just before his death, Mattie Bell is left with crushing regret. Teaming up with former singing star Reenie Silver, she sets out to mend an old wrong and uncover long-buried secrets.

Christmas in St Ives

by Miranda Dickinson

2017

As Christmas approaches in St Ives, heartbroken teacher Cerrie Austin is barely holding it together. While her friend Seren weighs a big decision, the town's festive plans begin to unravel and a new arrival threatens to change everything.

Somewhere Beyond the Sea

by Miranda Dickinson

2018

Grieving Seren MacArthur is fighting to save her late father's Cornish business when mysterious seaglass stars begin linking her to widowed single dad Jack Dixon. Their first real meeting puts them on opposite sides of a local battle, with love and livelihood both at stake.

The Day We Meet Again

by Miranda Dickinson

2019

Phoebe and Sam meet by chance at St Pancras and make a simple promise: if they're meant to be, they'll return a year later. As life pulls them in different directions, that one meeting becomes impossible to forget.

Our Story

by Miranda Dickinson

2020

Otty lands her dream job in a TV writers' room just as she's evicted, while Joe is struggling to get his spark back. Sharing a house and working side by side makes them an electric team, but off the page their connection is far messier.

The Start of Something

by Miranda Dickinson

2021

Housebound after a life-changing accident, former soldier Lachlan Wallace starts a conversation with the woman in the opposite flat by leaving a note in his window. Bethan Gwynne is rebuilding too, and their quiet exchanges soon become something harder to ignore.

The Secret Voices

by Miranda Dickinson

2022

When eight-year-old Hannah Perry disappears in a Suffolk village, DS Rob Minshull faces a case with chilling echoes of an earlier tragedy. Psychologist Dr Cora Lael may be the key, because her rare gift lets her hear the fear left behind in objects.

The Silent Child

by Miranda Dickinson

2022

A teacher's body is found at an abandoned Suffolk farm, and the investigation quickly turns darker. While DS Rob Minshull hunts a killer, Dr Cora Lael works with a traumatised girl whose silence may hold the key to the whole case.

All My Love

by Miranda Dickinson

2023

Archie, a newspaper editor's assistant, and Esther, an after-hours cleaner, connect through a discarded Post-it note. Both think they're in love with someone else, but as they help each other write the perfect confession, they may be missing what's right in front of them.

Leave No Trace

by Miranda Dickinson

2023

Another Cora Lael case takes Dr Cora Lael and DS Rob Minshull into a tense Suffolk investigation where hidden fear, buried secrets, and her unusual gift all play a part. The deeper they dig, the more dangerous the truth becomes.

The Deadly Echoes

by Miranda Dickinson

2024

Dr Cora Lael and DS Rob Minshull face another high-stakes Suffolk investigation, this time one shaped by the past as much as the present. As Cora follows the emotional traces others miss, old secrets begin to turn deadly.

The Unspoken Truth

by Miranda Dickinson

2024

Shona Pickton returns to Felixstowe after her conviction for a former beauty queen's death is overturned, only for her alibi to turn up dead. Terrified and desperate, she turns to Dr Cora Lael, who uncovers corruption much closer to home.

Things We Do for Love

by Miranda Dickinson

2024

Struggling actress Lucie Hart meets Hollywood star Theo Larkin at exactly the wrong moment, and their first clash is anything but romantic. But when a Shakespeare summer throws them together in Stratford-upon-Avon, career pressure and chemistry start colliding.

And Then There Was You

by Miranda Dickinson

2025

Merryn Rowe's quiet life in St Ives is shaken when an abandoned piano brings back memories of her vanished stepfather. Then a wounded former surfer appears at the keys one night, and music opens the door to unexpected change.

The Stolen Dead

by Miranda Dickinson

2025

A new Suffolk case draws Dr Cora Lael and DS Rob Minshull back into the shadows where grief, violence, and long-buried secrets overlap. Cora's gift offers a way in, but every answer seems to carry a new risk.

Where to start with Miranda Dickinson

If you want the New York stories: Fairytale of New YorkI'll Take New York
If you like warm, uplifting community reads: A Parcel for Anna BrowneSearching For a Silver LiningSomewhere Beyond the Sea
If you want a modern rom-com feel: Our StoryThe Start of SomethingAll My Love
If you want darker crime under her M.J. White name: The Secret VoicesThe Silent ChildLeave No Trace

Miranda Dickinson sub-series and character series

Cora Lael books in order

Explore this series
  1. Book cover for "The Secret Voices"

    The Secret Voices

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2022Cora Lael, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "The Silent Child"

    The Silent Child

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2022Cora Lael, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Leave No Trace"

    Leave No Trace

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2023Cora Lael, Book 3
  4. Book cover for "The Deadly Echoes"

    The Deadly Echoes

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2024Cora Lael, Book 4
  5. Book cover for "The Unspoken Truth"

    The Unspoken Truth

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2024Cora Lael, Book 5
  6. Book cover for "The Stolen Dead"

    The Stolen Dead

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2025Cora Lael, Book 6

Cora Lael books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "The Secret Voices"

    The Secret Voices

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2022Cora Lael, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "The Silent Child"

    The Silent Child

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2022Cora Lael, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Leave No Trace"

    Leave No Trace

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2023Cora Lael, Book 3
  4. Book cover for "The Deadly Echoes"

    The Deadly Echoes

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2024Cora Lael, Book 4
  5. Book cover for "The Unspoken Truth"

    The Unspoken Truth

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2024Cora Lael, Book 5
  6. Book cover for "The Stolen Dead"

    The Stolen Dead

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2025Cora Lael, Book 6

Miranda Dickinson collections, short stories, and related book types

Short Stories/Novellas

  1. Book cover for "Christmas in St Ives"

    Christmas in St Ives

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2017

Standalone Miranda Dickinson books

  1. Book cover for "Fairytale of New York"

    Fairytale of New York

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2009
  2. Book cover for "Welcome to My World"

    Welcome to My World

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2010
  3. Book cover for "It Started With A Kiss"

    It Started With A Kiss

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2011
  4. Book cover for "When I Fall In Love"

    When I Fall In Love

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2012
  5. Book cover for "Take A Look At Me Now"

    Take A Look At Me Now

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2013
  6. Book cover for "I'll Take New York"

    I'll Take New York

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2014
  7. Book cover for "A Parcel for Anna Browne"

    A Parcel for Anna Browne

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2015
  8. Book cover for "Searching For a Silver Lining"

    Searching For a Silver Lining

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2016
  9. Book cover for "Somewhere Beyond the Sea"

    Somewhere Beyond the Sea

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2018
  10. Book cover for "The Day We Meet Again"

    The Day We Meet Again

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2019
  11. Book cover for "Our Story"

    Our Story

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2020
  12. Book cover for "The Start of Something"

    The Start of Something

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2021
  13. Book cover for "All My Love"

    All My Love

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2023
  14. Book cover for "Things We Do for Love"

    Things We Do for Love

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2024
  15. Book cover for "And Then There Was You"

    And Then There Was You

    by Miranda Dickinson

    2025

Author bio

Miranda Dickinson is a novelist and singer-songwriter from the Black Country in England's West Midlands. She grew up in Kingswinford in a creative family, with stories, songs and performance all close at hand. Her parents were folk singers, and that mix of music and storytelling seems to have stayed with her. Long before publication, she was the child who dreamed of seeing her name on the shelves of the local library.

She always wanted to write.

As a teenager she filled notebooks with opening chapters, then stopped for about ten years after someone at sixth form told her writing books was childish. After studying Performance Art, she worked, sang, and got on with life. Then in 2001 a friend gave her an old computer. That clunky machine helped her find her way back to fiction, and the story she began there eventually became her debut novel.

That novel started out as Coffee at Kowalski's, was uploaded to Authonomy, and was spotted by an editor at Avon. Published in 2009 as Fairytale of New York, it became a Sunday Times top ten bestseller within weeks. Dickinson has often talked about how unlikely that felt at the time, which is part of what makes her career story so appealing. It reads less like a grand master plan and more like persistence finally paying off.

Much of her fiction sits in contemporary romance or women's fiction, usually as standalones. Books like Welcome to My World, It Started With A Kiss, A Parcel for Anna Browne, and Somewhere Beyond the Sea are full of ordinary people at turning points, new places, family baggage, fresh starts, and love arriving at inconvenient moments. Readers tend to come to her for warmth, humour, big-hearted communities, and characters who feel bruised but never hopeless.

Place matters in her books.

New York, St Ives, the Black Country, and other lived-in settings do a lot of work in her stories. So do creative jobs and creative dreams. In Our Story and Things We Do for Love, for example, she writes about writers, performers, ambition, self-doubt, and the messy business of building a life while trying to make art. Across the board, she returns again and again to second chances, grief, friendship, and learning to trust yourself.

In recent years she has also stepped into crime fiction under the name M.J. White. The Cora Lael books, beginning with The Secret Voices, show a darker side of her storytelling, but the human focus is still there. Even in crime, she is interested in damaged people, difficult choices, and the way the past keeps pressing on the present.

Away from the novels, Dickinson has written and performed music, vlogged about writing for years, and founded WriteFoxy to support other writers. She has sold more than a million books and been translated widely, but the interesting bit is how grounded she still seems in the place she came from. She lives in Dudley with her husband Bob and their daughter Flo, and she still comes across as someone who knows that making art is both work and a small act of stubborn hope.

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