Samantha Hayes Books in Order

A baby disappears in 1992 after being left alone for only a moment. Thirteen years later, solicitor Robert Knight starts digging into his wife Erin's guarded past and finds a secret that could wreck their family.

Nina Kennedy knows someone is stalking her, toying with her sanity and threatening the people she loves. As her fear collides with the story of a child in a home full of whispers, the truth becomes harder to outrun.

Mary Marshall has always been the steady center of her family, until the past she never shared comes back. When her daughter Julia discovers the body of one of her students, old secrets and present danger collide.

TV presenter Carrie Kent is thrown into nightmare when her son Max is fatally stabbed at school. With the only witness refusing to speak, Carrie has to push into a world of fear and violence to learn the truth.

Heavily pregnant Claudia hires nanny Zoe just as brutal attacks on pregnant women rattle Birmingham. With her husband away and danger edging closer, Claudia's unease grows while DI Lorraine Fisher hunts a killer.

Arriving in Radcote for a break, DI Lorraine Fisher finds her sister's household under strain and the village haunted by new teen deaths. As suicide notes pile up and her nephew Freddie grows more troubled, the case turns darker fast.

Back in England after devastating news, Isabel feels watched by someone who knows her too well. At the same time, DI Lorraine Fisher is under pressure on a major murder case, and the two threads close in on one another.

Four months after Rick vanishes on a simple trip for a newspaper, his wife Gina gets a call linking him to a country hotel. She and her daughter follow the lead into a place that feels wrong from the start.

Lorna's tightly controlled life starts to unravel when she receives a text from Andrew, the ex-lover who shared her darkest secret. There is just one problem: Andrew died the day before the message was sent.

After a hit-and-run leaves Ella in hospital, she wakes to flowers and a card for a devoted wife. The trouble is, Ella has never been married, and the life waiting outside her room may be built on lies.

Years after her little sister vanished from a beach, Claire gathers the same friends who were there that day for a reunion at the family farm. When another girl disappears, old loyalties and buried secrets crack open.

A marriage-mending date night turns into disaster when a couple come home to find their little girl alone and the babysitter missing. Days later, the mother is arrested for murder and forced to rethink everything she ignored.

A year after her husband Will vanished, a woman spots his face in a photograph on another family's mantel. She moves closer to the house, and the locked room upstairs suggests his disappearance was only the beginning.

A single mother accepts an unexpected gift and soon realizes it has opened the door to danger. Her daughter goes quiet after finding something hidden in their new home, then vanishes, leaving her mother desperate and exposed.

What looks like a cozy family evening is anything but: her husband is gone, the man beside the fire is a stranger, and he has photos that could ruin everything. To protect her son, she has to play along.

Leah thinks her shabby new house is the fresh start she and her children need, until her controlling ex-husband moves in next door. With old terror back on the doorstep, every ordinary day becomes a trap.

Belle's new fiancé should be cause for celebration, but her mother recognizes him instantly as a man from a terrifying past. As wedding plans gather speed, buried lies and old fear threaten to destroy the whole family.

Three months after her husband's death, a mother gathers her daughters at the family holiday home in Scotland to discuss their inheritance. His last revelation drags a buried secret into the open and turns grief into danger.

A stranger talks her way into a wealthy family's house as the new housekeeper, but cleaning is the least of her plans. She is searching for something buried in her employer's past, and both women may have reason to fear.

On her wedding day, a bride can't stop watching her mother, especially since her sister's fiancé was murdered at his own wedding last year. As the ceremony begins, family loyalty and suspicion become impossible to separate.

After nobody collects neglected little Mila from art class, her teacher takes her home to wait in the warm. Minutes later the child is gone, the police suspect kidnap, and a birth certificate raises an impossible question.

Since marrying a doctor and becoming stepmother to his two daughters, she has lived by strict household rules meant to keep them safe. When one rule is broken, the past they never discuss comes crashing back.

A wife and mother slips out every Thursday night, telling harmless lies to protect the life she loves. Then a man from her past reappears, even though she believed she killed him twenty years ago.