Tilly Bagshawe Books in Order
The continuation of the Sidney Sheldon brand by best-selling author Tilly Bagshawe, featuring new thrillers and sequels.
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Tilly Bagshawe books in publication order
22 books
Mistress of the Game
by Tilly Bagshawe
1988
A new generation of the Blackwell family fights for control of its vast business empire. Ambitious heirs and bitter relatives pursue wealth and revenge, extending the family struggle begun in Sidney Sheldon's Master of the Game.
Adored
by Tilly Bagshawe
1999
Siena McMahon grows up inside a powerful Hollywood family but wants a career of her own. Sent to school in England, she returns determined to become a star, facing family rivalries, rejection and betrayal along the way.
Showdown
by Tilly Bagshawe
1999
Bobby Cameron inherits a struggling California ranch and trains wealthy clients' horses to keep it afloat. Young English rider Milly Lockwood-Groves joins him, hoping to escape family restrictions and prove she belongs in the racing world.
Do Not Disturb
by Tilly Bagshawe
2008
Honor hopes to restore her family's Hamptons hotel to its former glory. Rival hotel manager Lucas Ruiz competes for the same desirable guests, turning their professional contest into a struggle involving attraction, blackmail and dirty tricks.
Flawless
by Tilly Bagshawe
2009
Idealistic jewelry designer Scarlett Drummond-Murray enters the international diamond business, where beauty conceals ruthless competition. As her work draws her toward powerful dealers and mine owners, she must decide how much success is worth compromising her principles.
After the Darkness
by Tilly Bagshawe & Sidney Sheldon
2010
Grace Brookstein lives a charmed life until her husband disappears and she is framed for his hedge fund's massive fraud. Stripped of everything and sent to prison, she escapes with one goal: to find out who destroyed her life and take revenge.
Scandalous
by Tilly Bagshawe
2010
Cambridge student Sasha Miller is betrayed by her tutor, Theo Dexter, and leaves for America. After rebuilding her life, she plans revenge and approaches Theo's abandoned wife, Theresa, with the possibility of an unlikely alliance.
Fame
by Tilly Bagshawe
2011
Actress Sabrina Leon's career is threatened by a damaging video just as a new film offers another chance. During a country-house shoot, performers and rival producers bring personal ambition, romantic tension and professional grudges onto the set.
Angel of the Dark
by Tilly Bagshawe & Sidney Sheldon
2012
A series of murders targets wealthy older men and their young wives across the globe. Detective Danny McGuire and the son of one of the victims team up to hunt the "Angel of Death," a killer who vanishes without a trace after each crime.
Friends and Rivals
by Tilly Bagshawe
2012
Two old friends become rivals in the music business and in love. As professional ambition overlaps with envy and attraction, their shared history becomes part of a struggle over success, loyalty and the people they both want.
One Summer's Afternoon
by Tilly Bagshawe
2013
The annual cricket match between Fittlescombe and Brockhurst gives local hero Will Nuttley a chance to impress Emma Harwich. But Emma has her eye on Argentine rival Santiago de la Cruz, complicating Will's hopes of winning her back.
The Tides of Memory
by Sidney Sheldon & Tilly Bagshawe
2013
Alexia De Vere is the British Home Secretary, wielding immense political power. But her carefully constructed life is threatened when secrets from a tragic summer camp incident years ago resurface, endangering her career and the lives of her children.
Chasing Tomorrow
by Tilly Bagshawe & Sidney Sheldon
2014
Former con artist Tracy Whitney and her partner Jeff Stevens hope to leave high-stakes crime behind as they plan a future together. But an encounter with an old adversary breaks their alliance apart and puts Tracy at the center of a deadly trail tied to her former heists.
The Inheritance
by Tilly Bagshawe
2014
After her estranged father's death, Tati Flint-Hamilton fights to reclaim the family estate, Furlings. Wealthy newcomer Brett Cranley and his family have plans of their own, drawing the village of Fittlescombe into a bitter contest.
Reckless
by Tilly Bagshawe & Sidney Sheldon
2015
After tragedy shatters the quiet life she built with her son, former master thief Tracy Whitney is drawn back into danger. A violent cyberterror campaign and its elusive female architect put her on a collision course with corruption, false allies, and her own past.
The Show
by Tilly Bagshawe
2015
With Wraggbottom Farm in financial trouble, Laura Baxter turns to reality television for help. Her husband Gabe and the divided village face an uncomfortable choice as publicity threatens the quiet life they hoped to preserve.
The Bachelor
by Tilly Bagshawe
2016
Wealthy bachelor Henry Saxton-Brae buys Hanborough Castle while doubting whether he is ready to marry. Designer Flora Fitzwilliam arrives to restore the property and discovers that its new owner's personal life needs attention of its own.
Sidney Sheldon's A Silent Widow
by Tilly Bagshawe
2018
A series of Los Angeles murders targets psychologist Nikki Roberts's patients before she becomes a target herself. Investigator Derek Williams searches for answers as the crimes reveal connections to an au pair's disappearance in Mexico years earlier.
The Phoenix
by Sidney Sheldon & Tilly Bagshawe
2019
Ella Praeger joins a shadowy intelligence organization to hunt down the criminal mastermind responsible for her family's death. When a villain thought to be dead resurfaces to reclaim a criminal empire, Ella must discover her own unique abilities to stop them.
The Silent Widow
by Tilly Bagshawe & Sidney Sheldon
2019
Psychologist Nikki Roberts is targeted by a serial killer in Los Angeles who is murdering her patients. With the police suspecting her and a decade-old missing persons case in Mexico resurfacing, she hires a private investigator to find the truth before she becomes the next victim.
The Secrets of Sainte Madeleine
by Tilly Bagshawe
2022
Elise will do almost anything to protect her family's French chateau, even betray those closest to her. As her brother's inheritance becomes uncertain and Europe approaches war, love and divided loyalties threaten Sainte Madeleine's fragile future.
The Secret Keepers
by Tilly Bagshawe
2024
A boy's fatal accident at the Challant family's Riviera summer home ends an idyllic childhood in 1928. Years later, persistent whispers draw the four children back toward the house and the secret none can fully escape.
Where to start with Tilly Bagshawe
For glamour and family ambition: Adored → Showdown
For village rivalries: The Inheritance → The Show → The Bachelor
For revenge: Scandalous → Friends and Rivals
For a crime thriller: Sidney Sheldon's A Silent Widow
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Author bio
Tilly Bagshawe is a British novelist whose books explore ambition, money, romance and the damage people can do while chasing success. She writes glamorous family dramas as well as village stories and suspense novels. Her fiction often places private loyalties under pressure from public reputations, powerful businesses or a carefully guarded secret.
Born in London in 1973, Bagshawe became a mother at seventeen and later went to Cambridge with her young daughter. That experience gives her early life an unusual shape: parenthood and university were part of the same period, rather than separate stages. Before becoming a novelist, she worked in the City and then moved into journalism, contributing to newspapers including The Sunday Times, the Daily Mail and the Evening Standard.
Her sister, the novelist Louise Bagshawe, encouraged her to try fiction.
Another important early supporter was her Cambridge friend Tiff Loehnis, who became her agent and urged her to develop a detailed synopsis. Bagshawe has described that preparation as part of getting her first novel underway. She has also spoken about writing as regular work, with weekday routines and daily word targets, rather than waiting for an occasional burst of inspiration.
Her debut, Adored, follows a young woman from a wealthy Hollywood family who wants to make her own name. Family influence opens doors but also creates expectations, rivalries and resentment. Showdown turns toward California ranching and the world of racing, while Do Not Disturb builds its conflict around competing hotels. Across these settings, professional ambition and romantic attraction tend to become tangled together, making success a personal problem as well as a practical one.
Bagshawe also continued stories associated with Sidney Sheldon. Mistress of the Game returns to the Blackwell family and its business empire, carrying the struggle for control into another generation. Her Sheldon novels draw on a tradition of suspense built around wealth, revenge, secrets and people whose outward confidence conceals much less stable lives. Readers interested in that side of her work can also find it in Sidney Sheldon's A Silent Widow.
Revenge is another recurring engine in her own novels.
In Scandalous, a student's betrayal leads to a long pursuit of payback, while Friends and Rivals follows old friends competing in music and love. These stories give envy and wounded pride room to grow into larger conflicts. Bagshawe often uses several perspectives, allowing readers to see how a choice that looks reasonable to one character can become a threat to someone else. Her worlds may be privileged, but belonging within them is rarely secure.
The Swell Valley books bring those concerns into an English village, where inherited property, newcomers and local opinion all matter. More recent historical novels include The Secrets of Sainte Madeleine and The Secret Keepers, which move family tensions into earlier periods and French settings. Bagshawe is married to an American and is a mother of four. Author profiles describe her life as divided between Los Angeles and the Cotswolds, a combination of settings that also reflects the different social worlds found throughout her fiction.
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