Stella Whitelaw Books in Order

Jeanie Ross leaves a Scottish orphanage for a job as a seamstress in a fashionable London boutique. What starts as a bid for independence becomes a story about work, class, and love in a world that is not especially gentle.

One of Whitelaw's early standalones, this is a vintage romance shaped by restraint, attraction, and other people's expectations. Readers who like her simpler, relationship-led books will find the same plainspoken touch here.

A vintage Whitelaw romance with a sharper edge of danger, this novel mixes attraction, uncertainty, and the pull of unfamiliar places. It shows her early liking for love stories shadowed by risk.

A shared collection of strange and wonderful cat stories, with Stella Whitelaw contributing alongside Judy Gardiner and Marc Alexander. It is aimed at readers who like their animal tales a little eerie, magical, and affectionate.

Joanna Hamilton reluctantly escorts a rebellious teenage prizewinner through northern India while a film crew documents the trip. Amid the color and grandeur of the journey, she finds herself drawn to the difficult director Matthew Howard.

An early Whitelaw romance about new beginnings, emotional risk, and the pull between hope and reality. It comes from the same early period as her other relationship-driven standalones and has a clean, direct style.

Since her father's death, Reah Lawrence has dreamed of a mysterious man she cannot place. When she meets playwright Ewart Morgan and follows him to Florence, romance blooms, but answers wait on the stormy Sussex coast.

A traditional Whitelaw romance about longing, difficult choices, and the search for a steadier kind of happiness. It belongs to her early run of emotional standalones, where relationships matter more than melodrama.

Laurie hopes a move to Cumbria and a new career teaching the Alexander Technique will help her leave hospital trauma behind. Instead she clashes with Professor Reuben Vaughan, who challenges both her methods and her composure.

Cassy unexpectedly inherits Pennyroyal, a closed lead mine in Derbyshire, where a disturbing accident still casts a shadow. As she follows the trail with engineer Jake Everand, danger and attraction arrive together.

After a brutal stretch on the ward, Sister Jan Kimberley agrees to care for elderly actress Melisa Kerr and step away from hospital life. The change of scene is meant to help, but it brings fresh strain and unexpected feelings.

Kirstie has traded airline glamour for nursing, only to find herself combining both worlds in one demanding new role. This medical romance puts duty, travel, and a growing emotional complication under pressure.

Dr Hannah Forrester has fought to build a respected women's screening clinic, just as American doctor Aaron Kaczmar arrives to study her work. His visit coincides with a threat to the clinic, turning professional pride into personal turmoil.

Private boarding school Bellig Hills has been a refuge for Sister Troy Kingsbury after a traumatic past. When she is asked to give up her cottage for the head's brother, Jonathan, her hard-won calm is tested by close quarters and new emotion.

A practical guide for writers who need to boil a manuscript down to a clear, saleable synopsis. Whitelaw focuses on structure, presentation, and the common mistakes that can sink a submission.

A collection for cat lovers, filled with whimsical animal stories and offbeat characters. From Mafia Mog to Kipperbang and a mysterious glass cat, it shows Whitelaw's playful side away from crime fiction.

Sister Andrea West takes a medic's job on an oil rig off Aberdeen because she needs the work. There she collides with consultant Dr Duncan Hunter, whose doubts about women on rigs make a hard assignment even harder.

Joanna Hamilton reluctantly escorts a rebellious teenage prizewinner through northern India while a film crew documents the trip. Amid the color and grandeur of the journey, she finds herself drawn to the difficult director Matthew Howard.

Dr Shelly Smith is enjoying life aboard the cruise liner Clipper Countess until consultant surgeon Aidan Trent appears on board. Their shared past will not stay buried, and the voyage turns into an emotional test.

Lyssa agrees to marry Matthew even though she does not love him, then meets his father, Jeth, and understands what real passion feels like. The attraction is mutual, which makes every choice more fraught.

Recovering from a bad breakup and a traffic accident, Kira Reed goes to Barbados to learn about the grandfather she barely knows. Taking a job with his enemy, Giles Earl, means desire and hidden motives quickly collide.

Whitelaw breaks down the nuts and bolts of a book proposal, from shaping an outline to polishing your pitch. It is aimed at writers who want a clearer, more professional submission package.

New private investigator Jordan Lacey expects routine work in sleepy Latching, then finds a dead nun and clues to a hidden wartime fortune. As clients lie and danger closes in, even the police doubt her.

Jordan's new cases look small, from stolen water lilies to a wandering husband, until a body turns up in a burning showroom. With arson accusations circling back toward her, she has to clear her name fast.

Jordan is hired to follow a woman suspected of compensation fraud and to investigate missing stock at a department store. When a man dies on a high-tech funfair ride, the separate cases twist into one lethal puzzle.

Jordan takes on a paternity dispute and the suspicious death of a cross-dressing husband, only to find both cases tied to an older murder. The investigation brings danger, chaos, and more personal drama than she wants.

Jordan spends her nights watching for a garden vandal and protecting a handsome comedian from a stalker. Then the case opens onto murder and an international racket that is far more dangerous than it first appears.

Fiona Kimberley is murdered on her wedding day, minutes after saying her vows, and nearly everyone in Porthcudden seems to have a reason to want her dead. It becomes a classic suspect-rich puzzle in a Cornish setting.

What starts with missing fishing rods and stolen pedigree puppies turns into something far uglier for Jordan Lacey. A hanging in a church bell tower and missing diamonds pull her into a case with real bite.

After her aunt's death and a brutal family betrayal, Gina inherits her grandfather's shipping line and throws herself into work. Then her fiance disappears on their wedding day, and green eyes start watching from the mirror.

Holly Broughton has been cleared of trying to murder her husband, but she hires Jordan to learn who framed her and why. Three attempts on Jordan's life suggest she is getting dangerously close to the truth.

Back on the Countess Georgina, Casey Jones faces missing designer clothes, theft from the ship's boutique, and a passenger list full of tensions. What begins as shipboard trouble hints at a more serious mystery under the glamour.

Cruise director Casey Jones is used to demanding entertainers and difficult guests aboard the Countess Georgina. But when a diner collapses and later dies, Casey and cruise doctor Samuel Mallory are drawn into a very odd chain of events.

Jordan goes undercover on a Norway cruise as bodyguard to Joanna Carter, a woman convinced someone wants her dead. When Joanna is murdered and suspicion falls on Jordan, storms and secrets close in fast.

Casey abandons her holiday to join the Countess Aveline in Acapulco after crew member Tracy Coleman vanishes. Maybe Tracy jumped ship, but Casey suspects something far more sinister happened on board.

Actress Sophie Gresham is guarding a secret when a tough New York producer joins her theatre company. As her career suddenly changes course, the man from her past becomes important again in ways she did not expect.

Insurance investigator and out-of-work actress Harriet Dale stumbles into a stolen art claim tied to a cursed portrait and a 200-year-old unsolved killing. Attraction, fraud, and danger mix quickly once she starts asking questions.

This later guide walks writers through finding a publisher or agent and presenting a project persuasively. It is practical, encouraging, and very focused on getting the proposal right.

Framed as a secret manual recovered from a feline society, this playful book imagines what cats are really thinking. It is light, mischievous, and written for anyone who suspects their cat runs the house.

Crime writer Fancy Jones retreats to a Derbyshire writers' conference after someone tries to kill her in London. When a body turns up at the venue and a kidnapping follows, escape becomes impossible.

Jessica takes a job at Upton Hall expecting work, not emotional chaos. Caring for Lucas's children and his formidable mother is hard enough before her employer decides she would make the perfect wife.

Jordan Lacey heads to a Dorset jazz festival to protect a trumpeter's unruly daughter from a stalker. A cold case soon points to a darker link, and Jordan has to keep Maddy alive while hunting a killer.

Accountant Emma Chandler travels to Venice to investigate a missing fortune and lands in a maze of deceit, surveillance, and death. A body in the lagoon and a cloaked watcher make the beautiful city feel suddenly dangerous.

Thirteen-year-old Tessa helps run an animal sanctuary in Shetland and resents the veterinary student who keeps turning up there. Then she befriends a silver feral cat that seems to whisper in old Norse, and everything shifts.

Nineteen-year-old Holly Gray falls hard for American producer Luke Kenyon, only to be abandoned at the airport. Months later, a lost lottery win, a Barbados wedding, and Luke's reappearance drag her back into trouble.