Sara Sheridan Books in Order

When Lorna McLeish fails to arrive for a work placement, her friends Libby and Becka uncover evidence that she has vanished. Their search across Britain and Ireland exposes lies, bad money, buried pain, and a very real threat.

Edinburgh archaeologist Rachel Green inherits a small fortune from a woman she barely remembers from childhood. The unexpected gift pulls Rachel toward a Second World War mystery and a past shaped by ordinary people’s terrible choices.

As British rule in Hong Kong nears its end, twenty-year-old Kate works as an expensive escort alongside her friend Rosie. The money and glamour are intoxicating, but the women soon face the threatening currents beneath their elite world.

Josie’s traveller family buys a farm, hoping at last to claim a place of their own. After a devastating year leaves her isolated and grieving, Josie must defend her land and refuse the outsiders’ cruel expectations.

In 1842, ambitious Scottish botanist Robert Fortune travels to China on a secret mission for the East India Company. His task, to steal tea plants, draws him into a risky world of disguise, travel, and competing loyalties.

Imogen’s lively aunt suggests games of make-believe, from princesses to pirates and astronauts. But Imogen knows exactly what she wants to be: herself. A playful picture book about confidence, imagination, and saying no to other people’s labels.

In 1833, Lieutenant James Wellsted crosses the Arabian Peninsula to rescue missing shipmates. Accompanied by Zena, an Abyssinian woman forced into slavery, he faces brutal terrain, dangerous guides, and the moral cost of empire.

Brighton, 1951. Former Whitehall secretary Mirabelle Bevan investigates the death of a young Hungarian woman and uncovers gold dealing and fugitive Nazis. With postwar Europe still unsettled, the case calls on skills Mirabelle hoped she had left behind.

When debutante Rose Bellamy Gore vanishes from a Soho jazz club, Black saxophonist Lindon Claremont becomes the obvious suspect. Mirabelle and Vesta follow the clues through austerity-era London, where music, prejudice, and danger collide.

May Anderson leaves her sheltered Scottish island home for medical school in Manchester, determined to become a doctor. Falling for Brazilian football star Jesus Parasina introduces her to celebrity life and tests how much of herself she can keep.

In heatwave-struck Brighton, Mirabelle and Vesta investigate the deaths of a racing journalist and a cleaner. The apparently separate crimes lead them from the Pavilion to Cambridge and into the guarded world of Freemasonry.

A mysterious bequest sends Mirabelle Bevan searching for an RAF pilot who vanished during the Second World War. Her trail reaches Paris, where old Resistance ties, former Nazis, and Cold War suspicion make the past newly dangerous.

In 1824, newly widowed travel writer Maria Graham leaves war-torn Brazil for England on a smuggler’s ship. Her mission for the Empress of Brazil brings her into danger, desire, and the shadowy trade between two worlds.

Mirabelle escapes a fire at her Brighton home, but her racing-driver neighbour dies in the blaze. Determined to learn why, she follows a trail through Goodwood’s racing scene, a corrupt MP, and a deadly scam.

When Superintendent Alan McGregor is removed from a murder case involving an old school friend, Mirabelle investigates herself. Poisoned gin, illegal gambling, and a privileged cover-up leave her questioning both the evidence and McGregor.

In 1842, destitute widow Karina disguises herself as a cabin boy and stows away on a ship heading for Antarctica. Harsh conditions, betrayal, and a connection with the ship’s surgeon turn her escape into an eerie historical adventure.

A bullied child at a seaside sanatorium asks Mirabelle for help, while an Indian nurse’s unsettling behaviour raises further questions. As children begin disappearing, Mirabelle finds a mystery that reaches far beyond one troubled institution.

Sara Sheridan reimagines Scotland’s streets, monuments, and public spaces as tributes to real women whose achievements have often been overlooked. This inventive atlas uses place and story to ask who gets remembered, and why.

Mirabelle visits Superintendent Alan McGregor’s family in the Scottish Highlands, hoping for a quiet holiday. Then an American fashion buyer is murdered, and a close-knit village becomes a dangerous place full of Cold War suspicion.

Edinburgh, 1822. Newly widowed Elizabeth records a rare agave bloom at the Botanic Garden and befriends secretive botanist Belle Brodie. As the city prepares for a royal visit, their friendship becomes tangled in perfume, ambition, and hidden identities.