Valerie Keogh Books in Order

Cara Jenkins is a successful thriller author facing the unthinkable, a blank mind as she sits down to write her thirtieth novel. Anonymous letters at first seem like a distraction, then grow darker, pulling her back to an old scandal until she can no longer trust her own grip on reality.

Recently released from prison after a manslaughter conviction, Helen Appleby opens a small bookshop, convinced that shelves and stories will offer a fresh start. When sabotage and threats suggest someone wants her punished all over again, she must decide how far she will go to protect her new life.

Fiona Carlton has always been self-sufficient, until she falls deeply for sophisticated Richard and chooses to ignore that he already has a wife, Lydia. When both women uncover the truth about the man they love, jealousy and betrayal ignite a confrontation that could turn deadly for all three.

Natasha believes she has finally made it when she marries charming, wealthy Daniel and joins him on an all-expenses-paid cruise with her closest friends and their husbands. At sea, Daniel’s secrets begin to surface, and Natasha realises each of the wives has her own reason to see him dead.

Sarah Westfield feels trapped in a marriage to seemingly perfect Nick and is desperate for a way out. When he offers one last chance in the form of a baby, she reluctantly agrees, only to find motherhood far harder than she imagined, and her world shatters completely when their daughter Kaya disappears.

Hannah Parker is a woman who always believes she deserves more, especially from the men in her life. When she spots her former lover Mark Shepherd, now happily married with a family, she decides to win him back, no matter what that means for his unsuspecting wife and children.

A man marries glamorous Ann believing she will open doors to the life he thinks he deserves, regardless of whether he loves her. As the marriage turns sour and resentments deepen, he starts to see murder as the only clean way to untie himself from his beautiful mistake.

Bullied and overlooked as a child, Lissa McColl learned early that hurting others made her feel powerful. Nursing finally gives her respect and access to vulnerable patients, and being underestimated lets her get close enough to learn people’s secrets, sometimes with deadly results.

Since one fateful night, a quiet librarian has kept to herself, convinced there is safety in solitude. Letting a charming stranger into her carefully ordered life feels thrilling at first, until unsettling events suggest someone knows exactly what she has been hiding for years.

Ambitious solicitor Melanie Scott has just made junior partner when she meets Hugo Field, who seems to offer the future she wants. Then a stream of anonymous emails dredges up the name Anne Edwards and an old mistake, forcing Melanie to uncover who is targeting her before her career and safety are destroyed.

Still raw after her husband Richie’s sudden death, Cassie Macreddin buys historic Hindon House hoping its quiet rooms will help her heal. Instead she meets hostility, strange accidents, and a campaign to drive her out, and she has to fight to save both her new home and her own life.

When Allison’s wealthy husband Peter is found dead, she presents herself as a shattered widow, but relief runs under her grief. As the investigation exposes Peter’s many secrets, Allison must fight to keep her own past hidden, knowing that if his lies come out, hers might too.

Lonely and frustrated, Leigh Simon impulsively offers her spare room to Gina, a lively waitress who seems to make everything brighter. When Leigh returns from a work trip to find Gina gone without a word, the search for her lodger reveals just how little she really knew about the woman she invited into her home.

After a furious row with her husband, Jocelyn Dexter retreats alone to their country cottage and falls in with a glamorous set of local women. Amused by their secrets, she starts to pry, but when someone begins spying on her in return, Jocelyn realises she has walked into other people’s dangerous games.

After years nursing in Dubai and London, Jodie finally feels settled in a quiet Kent village with a new job and a man she loves. When she is suddenly suspended from work and a strange parcel appears at her door, a figure from her childhood steps out of the shadows and everything starts to crumble.

Misty, Gwen, Babs, and Dee all think they know the same charming man, and each believes she has the strongest claim on his heart. As his cheating and lies collide, the women’s anger spirals into a dangerous plan for revenge with consequences none of them can fully control.

For their twenty-fifth anniversary, Keri and Nathan’s children plaster a blown-up honeymoon photo across the city, celebrating their supposed marital bliss. Keri knows the image hides her own affair, and when her ex-lover reacts with threats, a funeral wreath, and a colleague’s death, she must decide how much truth her marriage can survive.

Mike West longs for a quiet settling-down with his fiancée, but a suspicious hit and run and a missing woman found dead soon land on his desk. When human body parts start turning up around Dublin, he fears a calculating killer is several moves ahead of the Gardaí.

At university, Beth, Megan, and Joanne swore never to speak of one shocking night. In their forties they look successful, but that buried secret has shaped every choice they have made. When Megan decides to tell her fiancé the truth, someone will do anything to keep the past hidden.

Molly Chatwell’s London life looks perfect, with a good job, happy family, and a lovely home, until her children leave for university and the house feels empty. A nightmare weekend away changes her in ways she will not admit, and when the police link a body to that trip, everything she treasures is threatened.

Newly promoted lawyer Melanie Scott wants to enjoy her success and the attention of charming Hugo Field, not revisit old mistakes. Anonymous emails naming Anne Edwards, a figure from her past, quickly turn sinister, forcing Melanie to uncover who is tormenting her before her hard-won future is destroyed.

Hoping to move his relationship with Edel forward, Mike West books a romantic break on remote Clare Island. When an islander dies in what looks like a bizarre accident, West is dragged into local feuds and long-held secrets that turn the trip into a working holiday from hell.

A man dies from cyanide poisoning with no enemies anyone will admit to, just as a string of motiveless crimes unnerves Dublin’s suburbs. When Edel Johnson reappears working with victims, Mike West juggles pressure from above with a threat that seems to have her firmly in its sights.

West and Garda Andrews are called to an abandoned house and find the body of a small girl hidden in a suitcase, with no missing-child report to guide them. As a second murder and a targeted smear campaign hit the team, restoring peace to Foxrock looks almost impossible.

An emergency call to St Monica’s church leads West to a chilling scene, a recently released rapist hanging from the beams above the altar. With vengeful suspects, church pressure, and public anger building, he must work out whether he is chasing vigilante justice or something far more twisted.

Diane’s smart house on a quiet London street was meant to be a place to recover from a trauma she cannot fully remember. Haunted by gaps in her memory, a crying baby she cannot find, and a hostile woman in a charity shop, she begins to fear her own mind as much as any stalker.

Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West investigates a graveyard murder in suburban Dublin where local woman Edel Johnson, whose husband has recently vanished, is the only clear link. Following her trail from Foxrock to a Cornish village, he must decide if she is victim, killer, or something in between.

For fifteen years, a woman has received weekly letters from her estranged twin Ellie, packed with confessions about Ellie’s friends, marriage, and a dangerous secret. When she finally turns to Ellie for help, those unburned letters become the only guide through a situation that could prove fatal.

Nicola Connolly’s violent dreams return, hinting that someone new is killing. Drawn once more into Tom Hudson’s investigations around Falmouth, she must decide how far she will go to stop another predator when every step threatens to reveal the truth about her own murders.

Nicola does not want to work with the police again, but when an eminent politician’s young son goes missing, Hudson and ambitious DI Jane O’Neill know her insights could save him. As they hunt for the child and a missing local woman, Nicola’s visions drag her close to the edge.

Still hiding her own crimes, Nicola Connolly is pulled back into Tom Hudson’s world when a new case in Falmouth suggests another predator is at large. Their fragile partnership deepens as Nicola risks exposure to help stop a killer who enjoys holding power over terrified victims.

Nicola Connolly is a calm, efficient nurse and a meticulous serial killer who takes three victims every six months to keep her urges in check. When she moves to Bath and senses another sadistic murderer at work, a disturbing connection forces her into an uneasy alliance with detective Tom Hudson.