Stella Duffy Books in Order

Private investigator Saz Martin searches for a mysterious woman called September, whose movements link London and New York’s criminal circles. Meanwhile, comedian Maggie falls for an elusive lover, and a murder draws their separate mysteries together.

An anonymous client hires Saz Martin to investigate celebrated therapist Maxwell North. His controversial healing process and a troubling succession of suicides lead her from memories of seventies San Francisco into danger in contemporary London.

Singer Siobhan Forrester hires Saz Martin to identify a stalker whose threats escalate into murder. Traveling with the band from London to New Zealand, Saz must navigate her client’s secrets and an attraction complicating the assignment.

A heartless princess moves into a London tower block determined to destroy happy relationships. Her magical campaign targets couples of different kinds, but unexpected feelings and a brother sent to stop her threaten her carefully cultivated cruelty.

Lisa appears to have everything: a loving husband, a comfortable home, and a successful business. Wanting excitement, she begins an affair with her best friend’s boyfriend and pursues another woman, risking the life she already has.

Saz Martin and her partner Molly are expecting a baby, and Saz hopes to leave dangerous investigations behind. A new case instead draws her through fashionable London and into troubling questions about family histories and past damage.

Lap dancer Sofia enjoys her chaotic, independent life until the angel Gabriel announces that she is carrying the next Messiah. Unexpected pregnancy and attraction to her divine messenger complicate a responsibility she never wanted to accept.

Edited by Stella Duffy and Lauren Henderson, this anthology contains 20 original crime stories by women writers, including Val McDermid’s “Metamorphosis.” The collection centers tough, complicated female characters in tales that range from darkly comic to violent, sexual, and noir-tinged.

This anthology brings together 21 short stories by women’s-fiction writers about relationships, work, friendship, and turning points. Jennifer Weiner’s contribution, “Good Men,” revisits a character from Good in Bed, while the other stories offer varied comic and romantic perspectives.

Mapmaker Cindy and Jack fall in love and build a relationship across New York and Los Angeles. After five years together, Cindy’s dangerous illness forces them to confront a test unlike any they have faced before.

Adjusting to parenthood with Molly and their baby Matilda, Saz Martin has temporarily stepped back from investigation. An unexpected visitor forces her to confront people and events from her youth that threaten the life she is building.

Hollywood actress Yana Ivanova shares a Beverly Hills home with sitcom star Jimmy and her assistant Penny. Their uneasy arrangement depends on carefully protected secrets, until anonymous threatening letters unleash suspicion, fear, and the prospect of murder.

Retiring dry cleaner Robert Sutton prepares to hand his South London shop to young Akeel. The objects customers leave in their pockets reveal hidden lives, while the two men negotiate change, memory, and an evolving community.

After her father’s death, young Theodora must survive through performance and exploitation in sixth-century Constantinople. Her determination to shape a different future carries her toward religious upheaval, political ambition, and the man who will become emperor.

Now empress beside Justinian, Theodora confronts religious divisions, vulnerable borders, and ambitious generals. Growing anger over taxation unites Constantinople’s rival factions, threatening the city and demanding political resolve from a woman who has fought hard for power.

This selection brings together Stella Duffy's short fiction from across her writing career, including stories previously heard on radio and appearing in print for the first time. It offers a concentrated view of her work in the form.

This illustrated Doctor Who anthology collects eight short adventures by different writers, each featuring a different incarnation of the Doctor. Ranging from ancient Alexandria to distant worlds, the stories move across time and space through comic, frightening, and reflective encounters.

In 1912, Walworth boys Tom, Jimmy, and Itzhak join a scouting voyage beyond their crowded South London neighborhood. Their dreams of adventure collide with tragedy, reshaping friendships and the working-class families whose hidden histories surround them.

Laurie and Martha have a comfortable countryside home, three children, and a promising future as Laurie’s architectural career advances. The arrival of a man from her past threatens the family and forces her to protect dangerous secrets.

Set in a remote New Zealand military hospital during the Second World War, this completed fragment finds Alleyn stranded by a storm when the soldiers’ payroll vanishes from a safe. A missing corpse, wartime tensions and a closed circle of staff turn it into a classic locked in investigation.