Sarah Rayne Books in Order

Sir Harry is drawn into a historical web of disguise, pursuit, and divided loyalties. Bridget Wood gives the story the feel of a costume drama with real danger under the surface.

Sir Harry becomes entangled in a dangerous historical game in which people seem to be moved like chess pieces. Bridget Wood turns power, rivalry, and strategy into a tense period mystery.

A dark historical tale of obsession, hidden motives, and old evil. Bridget Wood folds menace and mystery into a richly atmospheric early thriller.

A gothic historical mystery centered on faith, secrecy, and the meanings hidden inside the past. Bridget Wood uses an old church and its rose window as the doorway into danger.

A sinister lute and the legend surrounding it set off a dark historical mystery. Bridget Wood mixes music, menace, and buried evil in a compact early gothic thriller.

An early Bridget Wood historical suspense novel built around music, danger, and old loyalties. A treasured lute and the secrets tied to it draw the story toward darker territory.

Two survivors from a ruined future are thrown back into Ancient Ireland, where the Wolfkings once ruled and strange evil still walks. It is the opening move in a myth-soaked fantasy quartet.

The fight to restore the Wolfkings reaches across time, from ancient Ireland to a devastated future. Lost heirs, dark powers, and the throne of Tara give the second book a bigger, riskier sweep.

Two humans tumble into the timeless realm of Fael-Inis, the Rebel Angel, and are pulled into the battle for Tara. The story leans hard into myth, magic, and dangerous alliances.

The legacy of the Wolfkings rests with Ireland's royal sorcerers, but twisted forces want Tara for themselves. The final book turns the quartet toward its biggest magical struggle.

Catherine has spent her life trying to escape the blood-soaked legacy of Elizabeth Bathory. But when a journalist starts digging, the path leads back to the Carpathians and the terror her family never escaped.

A sinister piece of music has been hidden for centuries by an order of monks, but secrets like that never stay sealed. The hunt for the truth turns into a battle with old evil.

A Victorian rake's journals and a secret from Tibet draw modern characters into a nightmare of ritual, heresy, and hidden history. The stakes are enormous, and some truths were buried for good reason.

A sleeping curse stirs again in a family shadowed by it for centuries. This dark reworking of Sleeping Beauty mixes modern suspense with old, cruel magic.

When writer Tod Miller leans on his daughter Fael to help shape a new musical, a mysterious young man offers exactly the help they need. His price pulls Fael toward obsession and a dangerous house on Ireland's west coast.

A young widow and her small daughter find their lives shadowed by a much older Derbyshire legend. Rayne turns Little Red Riding Hood into a dark modern tale about inheritance, fear, and what waits in the woods.

Crime writer Joanna Savile arrives in a remote Scottish hamlet to research a novel and question a notorious former child killer. What she uncovers links a reclusive woman, an old family trauma, and a past atrocity in India.

Journalist Harry Fizglen investigates the past of enigmatic artist Simone Anderson and finds a mystery built around vanished twins. His search leads to Mortmain House and a century-old knot of linked secrets.

Lucy is drawn into the scandalous legacy of her grandmother, silent film star Lucretia von Wolff, whose life ended in a double murder and suicide. Family secrets running from Vienna to Auschwitz turn notoriety into real danger.

After a public tragedy, Antonia Weston retreats to a quiet market town hoping to disappear. Instead she becomes entangled in the dark history of Latchkill Asylum and a threat from her own past.

A bizarre experiment inside the sinister Calvary Gaol leaves a buried scandal behind. When the past starts leaking out, someone is willing to do anything to keep the truth locked away.

A locked London music hall has stood silent for more than ninety years under a mysterious restraint order. When Robert Fallon starts surveying it, he and researcher Hilary uncover a theatrical past that still feels dangerously alive.

Novelist Theo Kendal inherits the remote house where his cousin was murdered and hopes to learn the truth. Instead he finds his new book steering him into a violent buried history that reaches back toward him.

Michael Flint visits a long-abandoned Shropshire house with a grim reputation and finds its past waking around him. When Nell West enters the picture, the menace seems to sharpen around both her and her daughter.

A Cold War ghost village is reopened, and Ella Haywood fears a secret from childhood will surface with it. But the deserted manor at the heart of the village has older, darker plans.

An inherited house revives Benedict Doyle's childhood glimpses of his great-grandfather's past and a sinister Irish chess set. Michael Flint and Nell West discover a legend that may be reaching straight into the present.

A deserted house, ghostly piano music, and a vicious old crime pull Nell West and Michael Flint into another layered haunting. The mystery turns on music, memory, and a murderess whose story will not stay buried.

Michael Flint goes to Fosse House to trace the history of a lost choir and finds a place full of unease. Nell West's research in Oxford uncovers links to a shadowy figure who seems to belong to several eras at once.

Michael Flint and Nell West investigate a house marked by vanished twins, wartime grief, and much older secrets. The deeper they dig into Deadlight Hall, the more threatening its history becomes.

When Nell West uncovers a frightened message hidden in her Oxford shop, she and Michael Flint are drawn to a Dorset bell tower with a brutal past. An eerie song and an old bell refuse to stay silent.

A mysterious 1940s portrait leads Phineas Fox to a wartime secret that never really died. As he pieces together the truth, old cruelty starts casting a modern shadow.

Music historian Phineas Fox investigates the story of Roman Volf, a scandalous violinist tied to the murder of Tsar Alexander II. The trail runs from the 1880s into the present, and it is anything but safe.

A strange carving and a grim old liturgy draw Phineas Fox into a two-century mystery centered on the shadowy Ginevra. The case is steeped in music, obsession, and buried identity.

Phineas Fox follows a trail linking Franz Liszt, a notorious performer named Scaramel, and Jack the Ripper. What begins as music history turns into a dangerous hunt through Victorian scandal and violence.

An old scrapbook in a Warsaw library leads Phineas Fox to a wartime atrocity and a lost piece of music called the Dark Cadence. The deeper he digs, the more the past starts threatening the present.

While researching an Elizabethan manor, Phineas Fox uncovers the truth behind a deadly old dance and a chain of secrets reaching back more than six centuries. History, ritual, and present danger close in fast.

In 1908 London, Jack Fitzglen leaves the family theatre to hunt the legendary Talisman Chalice and stage a dazzling theft around it. Instead he walks into a gothic tangle of secrets, murder, and dangerous folklore.

After Great Uncle Montague dies, Jack Fitzglen goes looking for his secret iron box and finds an unknown play instead. The manuscript pulls the family into revenge, madness, and murder.

A stranger claims a Fitzglen committed a terrible crime in a remote Russian village, and Jack knows exactly which relative to suspect. Chasing the truth means stolen stone heads, old court intrigue, and real danger.