Valerie Wilson Wesley Books in Order

This accessible collection introduces young readers to Black women whose work in activism, the arts, sports, and public life helped shape history. Short profiles make big lives easier to meet and remember.

Scholarship student Nia Jones feels isolated at elite Endicott Academy, where racism and class tension never sit far below the surface. When her mentor Marcus disappears, she has to decide what future she can fight for.

Newark PI Tamara Hayle agrees to look into the suspicious deaths of her ex-husband's sons. When the pattern points closer to home, she fears her own son may be next.

Tamara is hired to shadow a wealthy Newark power broker's stepdaughter and her boyfriend, only to watch the case turn deadly. A political dinner, buried affairs, and too many suspects pull her in deep.

Tamara heads to Kingston, Jamaica, for a break and instead lands in the middle of a killing. Far from Newark, she has to sort through lies, danger, and people who spell trouble from the start.

June is not thrilled about her cousin's visit for Juneteenth, but Aunt Marshall's memories change the mood. Through family stories, the holiday becomes a living lesson about freedom, history, and belonging.

A grieving mother asks Tamara to reopen her son's unsolved murder, and the case hits a nerve. The trail leads from Newark's roughest streets into family secrets that cut close to Tamara's own life.

Popular radio host Mandy Magic hires Tamara after threats and vandalism begin to pile up around her. As murders follow, Tamara realizes the real danger lies in a past her client will not fully confess.

When Eva Hutchinson's husband walks out after ten years, her steady life falls apart overnight. What follows is a searching, funny, and painful look at marriage, independence, and what it means to start over at forty.

Willie becomes her troop's top cookie seller, then makes a risky choice with the money. Her heart is in the right place, but replacing what she borrowed is not going to be easy.

Working undercover in Atlantic City, Tamara searches for a missing teenage girl and finds something darker. Dead young women, crooked secrets, and high-stakes power games make this one of her most dangerous cases.

Three smart, independent women fall for the same rich, charming man over the same seven months. Wesley uses the setup to look at desire, self-deception, and the stories people tell themselves about love.

A hard-to-find Valerie Wilson Wesley title for readers exploring beyond her best-known series. It carries her usual interest in pressure, danger, and the complicated choices people make when ordinary life turns uncertain.

Through short, lively profiles, this book introduces young readers to Black scientists, doctors, healers, and inventors whose ideas and work changed everyday life. It is both informative and encouraging.

Willie volunteers to care for the class guinea pig so her strict teacher will like her more. Then the pet disappears, and her plan for a great school year goes badly off track.

Haunted by dreams of an old friend, Tamara agrees to help when the dead woman's son begs for answers. His death turns the search into a tense look at jealousy, lies, and old wounds that never healed.

Spring break should be fun, especially with cousin Teddy visiting. But when Willie feels left out by Tina, Teddy, and even her dad, jealousy turns a family outing into a lesson she did not expect.

Willie is sure Valentine's Day will be a flop unless she takes charge. Her efforts to guarantee cards and attention only create more confusion, embarrassment, and heart-shaped chaos.

Willie dreams of being the star of the school play, not a tree in the background. Disappointed and determined, she still manages to turn opening night into a memorable disaster.

Dani Carter's shaky marriage forces her to confront the long shadow of her mother's disappearance and tragic love affair. It is a family story about inheritance, longing, and the fear of repeating old mistakes.

A new school year brings nerves, a bigger class, and a bully named Mean Irene. Willie has to decide whether smiling through it is enough, or whether courage means doing something harder.

Willie loves Christmas and Kwanzaa, but family job loss and other big changes drain the joy from the season. As cousin Teddy struggles too, she tries to help bring the holidays back to life.

An old acquaintance asks Tamara to find a missing child, and chaos follows fast. When her son Jamal witnesses a brutal murder and becomes a suspect, the case turns painfully personal.

Willie heads into Christmas and Kwanzaa excited, then finds the season clouded by worry and change. With her family under pressure and Teddy acting unlike himself, she tries to make the holidays warm again.

Recently widowed Odessa Jones, a realtor, caterer, and reluctant psychic, is drawn into murder after her volatile boss is killed. To save an innocent co-worker, she must read people as carefully as she reads danger.

Odessa thinks a wealthy client's brunch will boost her catering business, until he dies after tasting her preserves. Now a suspect by association, she has to clear her name and uncover who wanted him dead.

Business is finally looking up for Odessa Jones until a young co-worker is killed in a hit and run. Odessa soon sees stalking, hidden connections, and fresh danger behind what everyone else wants to call an accident.

In 1926, Harriet Stone and the girl in her care move to Harlem hoping for a fresh start. By morning her cousin Junetta is dead, and Harriet has to figure out whom she can trust.