Ravenwood Mysteries (Tasmina Perry) Books in Order

Ravenwood Mysteries is Tasmina Perry’s foray into young adult gothic fantasy, written under the joint pseudonym Mia James with her husband John. The books follow life at Ravenwood, an elite London boarding school perched beside Highgate Cemetery, where old money, academic pressure and something far more ancient all collide.

The first novel, By Midnight, introduces April Dunne, a smart but unsettled teen uprooted from Edinburgh when her father loses his job. Ravenwood is her only option mid‑term, and she arrives to find a student body that is either intimidatingly rich, intimidatingly clever or both. Between the creepy new house, the urban legends surrounding the cemetery and the mysterious deaths in the neighbourhood, April realises that the school’s reputation for pranks and practical jokes is hiding something much darker.

April’s way into this world is through new friends and almost‑friends: conspiracy‑obsessed Caro, who treats the school like a live case file, and Gabriel, the beautiful loner who always seems to be in the right place at the wrong time. As she digs further, April discovers a hidden power of her own and a web of myths about guardians, monsters and avenging spirits that reaches deep into Ravenwood’s history. The tone balances crushes, classes and family rows with murder, secret societies and the politics of being an outsider in a glittering crowd.

Darkness Falls continues April’s story as the stakes climb. Having survived her first term, she is now entangled in rivalries within the supernatural community around Ravenwood, and the line between friend and enemy is blurrier than ever. The deaths are closer to home, the adults have more to hide, and April’s choices start to carry consequences for everyone she cares about.

The third book, Sleeping Angel, widens the lens of the series with a new mystery that still ties back to the school and Highgate. After a terrible incident late at night, one girl wakes with fractured memories and a sense that something is watching her. The story plays with questions of guilt, responsibility and how much of what happened was human and how much was not, while filling in more of Ravenwood’s eerie mythology.

Throughout the trilogy, readers can expect boarding‑school politics, slow‑burn romance and a strong streak of urban fantasy, all filtered through a very teenage sense of humour and frustration. The books are best read in order, as each one builds on previous revelations and on April’s changing understanding of herself, her family and the forces at work around the school.

If you like the idea of vampires and guardians lurking among the rich kids of north London, Ravenwood offers a moody, atmospheric escape with plenty of cliffhangers.