Susan Moody Books in Order

Photographer Penny Wanawake travels to California to find a missing friend and instead discovers she has been murdered. With private investigator Aaron Kimbell, Penny follows a trail through Washington society, racial tensions, and a valuable black orchid.

In Canterbury, Penny Wanawake becomes curious when a disliked schoolmaster and writer of lurid fiction dies in suspicious circumstances. The apparent heart attack does not convince her, and his many enemies give Penny plenty of motives to untangle.

Penny is called to Lower Ingleford after someone begins trying to kill Kendal Sartain, the local lord of the manor. Tampered brakes, explosions, and village grudges reveal that the quiet countryside is far less peaceful than it looks.

Penny investigates when absent-minded archaeologist Bruno Ferlinghetti and a collection of priceless gold statuettes vanish at the same time. The linked disappearances draw her into a case where history, greed, and deception all matter.

Penny Wanawake heads to California wine country, where an apparently glamorous setting gives way to intrigue and danger. Her sharp eye for people and refusal to accept easy answers pull her into another risky investigation.

Penny deputizes for her mother at a lavish hotel-planning conference on a private Aegean island. She expects professional squabbles and boredom, not a body, and soon finds herself trapped among guests with secrets and competing ambitions.

When Penny agrees to run a domestic agency for her neighbor, she expects routine problems, not the disappearance of a nanny. As the situation grows darker, Penny must uncover the dangerous story behind the missing woman.

After her American journalist father is assassinated, Frances Breet is drawn into a tense story of family history, political violence, and danger. The loss forces her to confront questions about identity and the people closest to her.

A child kidnapping lies at the heart of this suspense novel. As fear spreads through the people involved, private loyalties and old assumptions are tested, and the search for answers becomes a struggle against panic and deception.

Written as Susannah James, this romance expands the story of the Gold Blend coffee couple. Small encounters and growing attraction lead two guarded people to consider whether a familiar connection might become something much more serious.

Former biology teacher Cassie Swann is trying to make a living as a bridge professional when three pupils die at a country-house bridge weekend. To save her reputation and find the killer, she must investigate the rivalries inside the bridge world.

Cassie is hired for a high-stakes bridge game at a country estate, then learns she stumbled over the murdered Lady Portia Wickham in the dark. Convinced the police have the wrong suspect, she begins asking dangerous questions of the household.

The legacy of murdered Spanish artist Fernando Vincente shapes the lives of his sister Mercedes and her stepgranddaughter Tess. As Tess searches for lost paintings, she uncovers a family history marked by ambition, vengeance, and violence.

Hannah’s intense relationship with Lucas is shadowed by a terrible event from one long-ago summer. When her family is threatened, she can no longer avoid the truth, and must face the memories that have shaped her life.

A television image reconnects Cassie Swann with the unsolved murder of her father, Handsome Harry. As she investigates that old wound, threatening letters to an Indian couple from her bridge class escalate into a new and deadly case.

Published in the United States as Return to the Secret Garden, this sequel imagines Mary, Colin, and Dickon as adults. From Yorkshire to wartime France, London, and India, their childhood bond is tested by love, loss, and history.

This adult sequel to The Secret Garden follows Mary, Colin, and Dickon beyond childhood. Their lives move through love, marriage, war, separation, and a changing world, while the Yorkshire garden remains a lasting link to their shared past.

When Cassie’s bridge partner Naomi dies of an apparent overdose, the evidence points to suicide. But a newly discovered daughter, a secret lover, and Naomi’s fear of her husband convince Cassie that someone had a reason to make her death look simple.

A brutal village murder leaves Cassie Swann worried for Lolly, a member of her bridge group. The crime appears tied to a secret that has been buried for years, and Cassie must work out whose past has finally caught up with them.

Cassie survives a hit-and-run, only for a respectable man to confess and the police to close the case. When an Oxford student is murdered, Charlie Quartermain suspects the crimes are connected, and Cassie may be in danger again.

Flora never wanted children, but after her sister Georgie is murdered she becomes responsible for Georgie’s baby. When the convicted serial killer insists Georgie was not his victim, Flora begins a dangerous search for her sister’s real killer.

Written as Susan Madison, this family drama begins when teenage Josie is swept overboard during a sailing trip off the New England coast. Her parents and younger brother must endure grief, guilt, and the strain of trying to remain a family.

Written as Susan Madison, this novel follows gallery owner Mel, whose carefully rebuilt Vermont life changes after a friend’s miscarriage. As grief and desire reshape old friendships, Mel must decide whether she can risk a second chance at love.

Twenty years after finding the battered body of a manipulative childhood friend, Alice returns to the Kent coastal town where it happened. Revisiting one fateful summer means confronting old witnesses, family loyalties, and the possibility that her brother knows more.

Garden designer Theodora Cairns likes her quiet Cotswolds life until she learns her mother lied about her father. Her unexpected bond with troubled writer Fergus Costello pushes them both to face the childhood wounds they have avoided.

Twenty-three years after her sister Sabine was murdered while working as an au pair, Chantal returns to the Cotswolds house where it happened. Now a hotel, Weston Lodge brings old witnesses together and makes Chantal question the official story.

Kate survived a suspicious South American crash that killed her family, but remembers little about it. Years later, a new job, a threatening man, and another survivor of a related accident draw her toward a dangerous long-buried connection.

Former detective Alex Quick investigates when her art-historian partner, Helena Drummond, vanishes after reporting a stalker. A murdered woman in Helena’s home turns the disappearance into a case that exposes secrets Alex never knew her friend carried.

Alex Quick’s childhood friend asks her to look into the brutal murder of her brother, Tristan. As more deaths follow, Alex finds links to hidden lives, criminal networks, and a past that makes the case far more dangerous than it first appears.

While researching Venice’s art scene, Alex agrees to investigate thefts from an aristocratic palazzo. A suspect is murdered and her young friend is kidnapped, leaving Alex to sort through old families, priceless art, and a city full of secrets.