Susan Howatch Books in Order

Newly married Sarah Hamilton travels to her husband Jon Towers's clifftop house in Cornwall, where his first wife died in a fall years before. As small accidents begin to echo that death, Sarah must decide whether she is losing her nerve or being lined up as the next victim.

Rachel Lord accepts an invitation to celebrate Decima's coming inheritance at a lonely house on the Scottish coast. Decima is convinced her charming husband plans to murder her, and among the six guests shifting stories, jealousies and quicksand make every choice feel perilous.

After a frantic late night phone call from her sister Gina, Clare Sullivan flies from New York to Europe, only to find Gina missing. Following a trail through Paris and London, she uncovers lies, dead bodies and a household where everyone seems to have something to hide.

Skeptical Nicola visits Colwyn Court and finds it taken over by Tristan Poole and his seductive nature food circle. As illness, accidents and eerie rituals mount, she begins to suspect the group is far darker than it appears and that someone wants the estate for themselves.

When determined Mark Castallack marries enigmatic Janna and finally claims Penmarric, a brooding mansion on the Cornish cliffs, he thinks he has won everything he ever wanted. Instead he sets in motion decades of rivalries, affairs and divided loyalties that tear his family apart.

Three years after a bitter split from her husband Neville, Karen travels to Scotland to see if their marriage can be repaired and to ask what became of her twin, April. When April's luggage turns up buried near their remote croft, suspicion and danger close in.

In nineteenth century Ireland, the de Salis family fight to hold their estate, Cashelmara, through famine, political unrest and private disasters. Told by several voices across three generations, the novel charts obsessive loves, betrayals and a haunting struggle between duty and desire.

Orphaned and penniless, Marianne agrees to a marriage of convenience with enigmatic Axel Brandson and moves to his isolated family house in the marshes. Whispers of murder, a vanished heir and a hostile household leave her unsure whether she has married a protector or a killer.

Ambitious Dinah Slade crosses the Atlantic hoping to save her crumbling English home and falls in love with American financier Paul van Zale. As Wall Street booms and crashes, she is swept into his family's boardroom wars and dangerous emotional entanglements.

Heiress Vicky van Zale is pushed into an arranged marriage meant to secure her family's financial empire. Used in turn by her ruthless father, charming husband and dangerous lover, she must find the courage to seize control before their ambitions destroy her.

Set around Oxmoon, a beloved family estate in Wales, this epic saga follows several generations of the Godwin family from 1913 through the 1960s. Shifting narrators reveal buried scandals, obsessive loves and rivalries as fortune turns and the cost of clinging to power mounts.

In 1930s England, priest and academic Charles Ashworth is sent to the cathedral city of Starbridge to uncover dirt on a controversial bishop. What begins as a covert inquiry becomes a shattering spiritual and psychological crisis that exposes his own buried secrets.

Mystic priest Jonathan Darrow believes a powerful vision is God's command to leave his monastery and return to the world. As he reconnects with his adult children and a new love, his unsettling psychic gifts push him toward both healing and disaster.

During the Second World War, ambitious Archdeacon Neville Aysgarth thinks he can secure the perfect career, marriage and family. Bereavement, remarriage and buried compromises force him into a painful reckoning with ambition, class and faith in a church under pressure.

In the restless 1960s, young aristocrat Venetia Flaxton is drawn into a secret relationship with Neville Aysgarth, the married Dean of Starbridge Cathedral. Their intense affair unfolds amid theological controversy, testing ideas of love, loyalty and the cost of desire.

On the eve of his ordination, Nicholas Darrow investigates the suspicious death of brilliant Christian Aysgarth. Convinced darker forces may be at work, he plunges into risky exorcisms and tangled relationships that nearly destroy his vocation before he learns what true healing means.

Decades after the events of Glittering Images, Bishop Charles Ashworth faces the year of his third catastrophe. Grief, scandal and buried guilt drive him toward breakdown, until a searching spiritual confrontation forces him to question the certainties he has lived by.

When fragile Alice Fletcher stumbles into St. Benet's in London, she is captivated by Nicholas Darrow and his thriving healing ministry. As she joins the team, dazzling spiritual gifts, obsession and disturbed lives collide, raising hard questions about power, integrity and grace.

City lawyer Carter Graham seems to have everything, from a lucrative career to a carefully chosen marriage. When uncanny events with an occult edge begin to shred her ordered world, she turns to St. Benet's and Nicholas Darrow, confronting the lies her success rests on.

Gavin Blake sells sex to London's richest men and thinks he controls the game. Drawn into the orbit of St. Benet's and fundraiser Carta Graham, he discovers his world is run by people who would rather see him dead than let him walk away.