Phyllis A Whitney Books in Order

In job-scarce Poplar City, Ann Redfern gathers her friends and starts a cooperative service business. Odd jobs, money worries, and friction inside the group test whether the House of Tomorrow can really work.

Ginny heads to Chicago dreaming of illustrating children's books. A department store job, a chance to sketch for an author, and a hard lesson about patience push her closer to the career she wants.

Julie Nichols wants more than selling handbags, she wants to design store windows. A break in the display department brings rivalry, romance, and the question of whether talent and nerve will be enough.

Linell Wynn works late in a department store until murder turns its familiar aisles uncanny. When death strikes again, she is pulled into a tense mystery uncomfortably close to home.

Aspiring writer Lynn Sheridan leaves library work for a publishing house, hoping real life will give her better stories. Instead she is drawn into neighborhood troubles, neglected children, and danger that makes everything personal.

High schooler Val Coleman is pulled into the fight over Black families moving into the Willow Hill housing project. Friendships, school politics, and a crisis in race relations force her to stop standing on the sidelines.

Whitney shares practical advice on writing for young readers, from story ideas and work habits to the demands of the juvenile market. It is a useful look at the craft from someone who did it for decades.

Marel Gordon comes to the city determined to build a career as an illustrator. Marriage to fellow writer Chris Mallory brings love, but also the everyday compromises that can test two young ambitions.

Taffy Saunders lands on Mackinac Island to help her mother run a newly inherited hotel. Strange noises, unnerved guests, and eerie clues make it clear someone wants them to fail.

Linda comes home expecting comfort, but old expectations and unfinished emotions complicate her return. Whitney turns the homecoming setup into a gentle coming-of-age story about family, identity, and growing up.

Laurie and her practical sister Celia investigate the gloomy house next door while rumors swirl about a phantom stagecoach. Their curiosity uncovers an old family secret rooted deep in Staten Island history.

Susan Morris wants marriage, a home, and a clear future, but Chicago gives her harder choices than she expected. Work, roommates, and two very different men force her to grow up fast.

During the Civil War, Abbie Garrett watches love and loyalty split families and friends on Staten Island. As Douglas McIntyre wavers between North and South, Abbie and her fiery cousin Lorena are pushed into a painful rivalry.

Christie Allard arrives in a Midwestern town divided over migrant labor, hoping for a quiet escape. Instead she is drawn into a bitter local conflict that forces her to rethink her own life.

Angie and Mark follow a treasure map to the ghost town of Blossom, where strange sounds and watchful eyes suggest they are not the only hunters. A secretive local girl adds one more layer to the puzzle.

Orphaned Cathy MacLeod travels to Scotland carrying a box of surprises from her grandmother. Each clue leads her and her cousins deeper into family history, island legends, and a series of clever mysteries.

After a hurried Civil War marriage, Lora Blair enters her husband's cold Staten Island household, where his first wife's death still hangs over everything. Love, politics, and buried grief make home feel like enemy territory.

Melora Cranby returns to San Francisco on the day of the 1906 earthquake. As the city burns and rebuilds, her engagement, loyalties, and future are shaken just as violently.

Lisa Somers takes a job as a United Nations tour guide to step out from her famous father's shadow. New work, new friends, and an unexpected romance push her toward a larger sense of purpose.

Haunted by a recurring dream, Sara goes to San Francisco to win back the man she loves and learn the truth about her past. In an old mansion on Nob Hill, nightmare and reality begin to merge.

A strange clue shaped like a green cat draws a young sleuth into one of Whitney's brisk juvenile mysteries. Suspicious adults, hidden motives, and rising danger keep the case moving.

Skye Cameron arrives in New Orleans and finds herself trapped in a web of Creole family tensions and manipulation. The city, and the dangerous game around her, challenge everything she thinks she knows about herself.

A treasured sword becomes the center of a fast-moving juvenile mystery with danger close at hand. Whitney mixes travel atmosphere, family tension, and a steadily tightening hunt for the truth.

When Marcia's husband abruptly asks for a divorce, she flies to Kyoto determined to learn why. Instead she finds him entangled with a mysterious neighboring family and a problem that may be unraveling his sanity.

Lauré Beaudine rebels against her strict aunt and follows her actor father to 1890s New Orleans. Carnival season, family roots, and first love make her question what kind of future she really wants.

Susan Price spends the summer with her aunt in a small riverside town, only to find a big old house full of alarms, odd neighbors, and a face glimpsed in the pool. It is easy to see why this one won an Edgar.

Orphaned Camilla King is summoned to the vast Hudson River mansion linked to her mother's mysterious death. Instead of the family she hoped for, she finds gloom, near-accidents, and a house full of dangerous undercurrents.

Megan Kincaid is summoned to a Washington Square house in the 1870s to care for a troubled child tied to an old tragedy. The deeper she looks, the more she senses a household built on secrecy and grief.

Newly married Susan Hohenfield goes back to Africa expecting a difficult reunion with her father and finds a household already split by secrets. Old memories, diamonds, and suspicion begin to threaten both her marriage and her life.

Benita Dustin's trip to South Africa begins with a terrifying sight in the garden and only gets stranger from there. A cave, prowlers, and an old death make this one bigger than a simple puzzle.

Sent to Istanbul after failing school, Vicki Stewart soon gets caught in a mystery involving a gypsy prophecy and a missing horn-shaped pin. As trouble closes in, her fate becomes tangled with a far more reckless girl.

Gale Tyler's summer on Rhodes turns strange when a black-shrouded figure vanishes from a locked room. Hidden signals, family secrets, and a mysterious packet pull Gale and her brother into real danger.

Widowed Dorcas Brandt flees to Rhodes with her small daughter, hoping to outrun the shadow of her husband's illicit art dealings. Instead the island brings warnings, fear, and a threat that feels both ancient and immediate.

Tracy Hubbard reaches Istanbul under false pretenses, hoping to uncover the truth behind an old tragedy. Conspiracy, black amber beads, and a hostile household make every answer feel dangerous.

Miranda Heath goes to a gloomy old house tied to her sea-captain heritage and finds herself trapped in a bleak marriage and a family hungry for revenge. To survive, she has to piece together the tragedy of three captains.

Watching the forbidding house next door from her bedroom window, Robin Ward becomes fascinated by its strange inhabitants. A valuable jeweled pin and a neighborhood full of prejudice turn curiosity into menace.

An ominous idol and a trail of clues pull Whitney's young investigators into another tense adventure. Exotic atmosphere, suspicious behavior, and a mounting sense of danger give the mystery real bite.

A young woman is drawn into a family mystery where old loyalties and buried secrets refuse to stay buried. Whitney leans into suspense, emotional crosscurrents, and the feeling that danger is waiting just out of sight.

A curious shell becomes the first clue in a coastal mystery full of hidden agendas and close calls. Whitney keeps the stakes moving with brisk sleuthing and a strong sense of place.

Mallie Rice returns to the great house of Silverhill and finds a family warped by old power and old pain. The Hall of Mirrors, a fragile aunt, and relentless menace turn homecoming into a struggle for sanity and survival.

Eve North returns to her estranged husband's estate hoping to mend what was broken between them. Instead she walks into a topiary maze of jealousy, manipulation, and a deadly game symbolized by the black rook.

A supposedly ghostly figure throws this juvenile mystery into motion, but the real danger is human. Expect brisk sleuthing, eerie atmosphere, and a satisfying trail of clues.

Goblin Glen hides more than its eerie name suggests. A strange landscape, troubling clues, and young detectives who ask too many questions make this a classic Whitney juvenile mystery.

A single missing footprint becomes the clue that starts everything. Whitney builds a nimble mystery from small details, suspicious behavior, and the feeling that someone is always one step ahead.

Dina marries Glen Chandler and follows him to a remote lakeside estate where cold family loyalties feel almost supernatural. Glen's twin sister and the house's dark history turn marriage into a trap.

A woman returns to a remote island hoping to reconnect with the child she once gave up, only to find old wounds and fresh danger waiting for her. Whitney balances emotional stakes with steady suspense.

Leigh travels to Norway to find the actress who once loved her father, only to discover an old movie-set murder still poisoning the present. The whispers in the night make it clear that someone wants the past left alone.

A disappearing scarecrow sounds like a prank, until the clues point toward something more serious. This is one of Whitney's lighter, fast-moving mysteries for younger readers.

Trina's problems are not simple popularity woes, and Whitney treats them with sympathy rather than easy answers. It is a young adult novel about reputation, hurt, and the struggle to be understood.

A boy with a bad attitude is only the start of the trouble in this quick, clue-driven mystery. Whitney turns suspicion, misdirection, and youthful determination into a solid adventure.

Linda Earle comes to a snowbound resort to clear her stepbrother of murder. Between a brooding mansion, a blizzard, and a haunted little girl, the truth grows more dangerous by the hour.

Amanda Austin goes to Santa Fe to learn why her mother died and what her mother's family kept from her. Inside a dark old hacienda, heritage becomes as frightening as any ghost story.

A haunted mesa, strange signs, and a stubborn young sleuth make this one pure Whitney adventure. The mystery unfolds against a Southwestern backdrop that adds real mood.

Christy Moreland returns to a Newport estate to learn the truth about her father's death and protect her young son from the family's grip. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that murder is part of the story.

A missing or mysterious bird sets off another energetic juvenile case. Whitney keeps the tone adventurous while building a neat puzzle out of odd clues and human motives.

Whitney pairs romantic suspense with a family secret at the heart of a powerful household. The search for truth keeps tightening until the heroine has to decide whom, if anyone, she can trust.

A focused guide to writing stories and book-length fiction for younger readers. Whitney covers technique, specialization, revision, and the habits that help writers finish what they start.

A stone face and the secret behind it lure Whitney's young investigators into danger. It is a compact, atmospheric mystery built around observation, nerve, and persistence.

Schoolteacher Jenny Vaughn believes she can finally step out of her famous sister's shadow, until old guilt follows her to Laurel Mountain. Love, memory, and menace gather around the strange stone bull.

After her husband's death, Karen Hallam follows his last warning into the Tennessee Smokies. Family jealousy, disputed inheritance, and an old love make the search for truth painfully personal.

A single upsetting discovery begins toppling an entire family arrangement in this taut suspense novel. Whitney builds the tension through hidden motives, emotional fallout, and a heroine trying to stay in control.

Sharon Hollis enters a lavish Palm Beach estate as the bride of a powerful man and quickly senses hostility behind the welcome. Missing art, whispered warnings, and a menacing marriage turn luxury into nightmare.

Lindsay heads to her father's Arizona home after receiving an anonymous note about his sudden death. As she digs into her own past, the desert becomes the backdrop for buried family truths and fresh danger.

Journalist Carol sets out to write about the once-famous Monica Arlen and winds up uncovering secrets old Hollywood would rather forget. What starts as research becomes a very personal mystery.

Whitney's broadest writing manual looks at how she planned, shaped, and revised fiction. It is aimed at working writers, but it is also a revealing window into her own process.

A woman trying to rebuild her life is pulled back toward old family tensions and a truth that never stayed buried. Whitney lets the emotional uncertainty do as much work as the overt suspense.

Laurel is summoned to Key West by the father who abandoned her and finds herself pulled into a tangle of half sisters, buried treasure, modern piracy, and a death that still shapes the family.

A return to California's dramatic coast brings a heroine face to face with family secrets and growing danger. Whitney uses the beauty of Carmel and Big Sur to make the suspense feel even sharper.

Caroline Kirby returns to Maui after a disastrous marriage and learns that her childhood was built on concealment. Beneath the beauty of Hawaii waits a long-hidden death and the truth her grandmother tried to bury.

Seven years after her daughter vanished from a grocery store, Jennifer Blake receives a startling lead from Vancouver Island. Hope quickly tangles with inheritance, deception, and the question of who the child really is.

Christy Loren, reluctant heir to psychic gifts, heads to rural Virginia for rest and ends up investigating a death and a disappearance. Even visions of her own danger are not enough to stop her.

Clinical psychologist Lynn McLeod accepts an invitation to help her former husband's troubled daughter in the Virginia Blue Ridge. Instead she walks into revived passion, local murder, and the eerie pull of the singing stones.

Novelist Molly Hunt learns she has a twin sister in Charleston and is drawn into the life of a family she never knew. At a historic plantation, questions of identity lead straight toward an unsolved murder.

Alone in the world, Susan goes to Virginia to find her long-lost grandmother, a retired ballerina. Her search for family history stirs up old scandal and the possibility that an old death was no accident.

Set against old Hollywood glamour, this suspense novel follows a heroine drawn into secrets behind a famous past. As memory, image, and reinvention collide, the search for truth turns dangerous.

Lacey's return to Harpers Ferry sets off a confrontation with the violent history inside her own family. Whitney uses the town's layered past to deepen the suspense.

Hallie Knight answers a plea from her old friend's grandfather and heads to Topsail Island to look into Susan's disappearance. Inheritance fights, deception, and her own unsettling dreams make the search increasingly risky.