Veronica Heley Books in Order

Sue Stephens comes upon a car crash and quickly realizes the injured man in the road was not the one driving. As questions grow around handsome Charles, Sue has to decide whether he is victim, villain, or both.

Sarah thinks herself too sensible to land in real danger when Toby offers to help clear a remote family cottage. Then a tramp arrives, Toby's motives darken, and Sarah learns just how loudly fear can make you shout.

Widowed Kit returns from America hoping to reconnect with the son she was forced to leave behind years earlier. Instead she stirs old passions, is attacked, and finds herself fighting for more than her own life.

In 1881, sensible Frances Chard becomes governess at Broome Court and walks straight into gossip, curses, and a wounded lord everyone seems to hate. The deeper she looks, the more dangerous the house becomes.

One of Heley's early standalone mysteries, built around a death that exposes hidden motives and dangerous loyalties. It carries the tense, character-driven feel of her first suspense novels.

Wrongly accused of murdering his wife, Amory is condemned to silent labor as a hermit builder. Joanna of Leybourne finds herself drawn to him despite the danger and the impossible distance between them.

Penniless Sophia falls for a man she thinks is a poor relation, only to discover he is the powerful Earl himself. Love, revenge, and Jacobite intrigue make her future precarious.

A historical novel centered on Kate, whose future depends on nerve, loyalty, and the choices she makes under pressure. Heley mixes romance with danger and the constraints of the past.

Cast out in disgrace, the swordsman Gervase heads toward Malling and finds himself drawn not to the expected bride, but to her rebellious sister Beata. Medieval danger and forbidden love shape the story.

A short children's story about a young character nicknamed Sparrow, trying to find courage, belonging, and a steadier sense of self. Small events carry real emotional weight.

A child with a reputation becomes the center of a brisk story about standing out and dealing with the trouble that follows. Everyday tensions give it its edge.

A clever child's plans do not go quite as smoothly as expected in this short, lively story. It is about brains, pride, and learning that being smart is not the same as being wise.

Natasha wants a badge badly, but earning it means more than simply turning up. This early reader turns a small goal into a story about effort and honesty.

Freedom on wheels sounds wonderful until it outruns common sense. This short story captures the thrill of independence and the trouble it can bring.

A swing, a playground problem, and Natasha's feelings all matter in this gentle early reader. It captures the size of childhood worries without talking down to them.

A children's story about excitement getting a little too high and the courage needed when fun turns risky. Heley keeps the pace brisk and the feelings recognizable.

Natasha enters the world of Brownies, where excitement and nerves go hand in hand. The story turns a familiar childhood experience into something warm and reassuring.

A stubborn refusal sits at the center of this children's story, which explores family patience, choices, and change. The scale is small, but the feelings are not.

An early reader introducing Natasha through an everyday problem that feels very big to her. Heley handles small emotions and small victories with warmth and clarity.

When Natasha is faced with a dare, she has to decide whether fitting in is worth the risk. It is a gentle, readable story about pressure and finding the courage to choose for herself.

A school performance brings nerves, mix-ups, and the usual human complications. This short children's book turns a simple production into a story about teamwork and growing up.

A break-in shocks a familiar school world and forces the young characters to think carefully about blame, fear, and what to do next. Fast-paced and realistic, it turns an everyday crime into a moral test.

Trouble comes in pairs in this compact school adventure, where one problem quickly creates another. Heley keeps the pace quick and the dilemmas recognizable.

A school-set story that tackles bullying head-on through the eyes of children who have to decide when silence becomes part of the problem. Short, direct, and grounded in real pressures.

This short children's book asks what happens when someone needs help and everyone assumes somebody else will step in. It is about compassion, responsibility, and everyday courage.

A lively retelling of the life of St Paul for younger readers, showing how an unlikely man became one of Christianity's key voices. It makes a big biblical story accessible without flattening it.

Newly widowed Ellie Quicke is barely coping when a body is found near the altar at her church. Her curiosity, and her eye for what others miss, pull her into murder.

This illustrated Christian book uses symbols on an Easter tree to retell the story of Jesus. It helps children move beyond eggs and bunnies toward the meaning of the cross and empty tomb.

A children's novel about Kate learning to face fear instead of letting it run her life. Heley treats anxiety seriously but keeps the story hopeful and readable.

Set on Paradise Row, this short children's story follows Hawkeye, a sharp-eyed youngster learning when watching is not enough. Street life, loyalty, and quick decisions drive the action.

A horror video sends Kate's imagination into overdrive while her cruel cousin Claire makes life miserable at home and at school. An abandoned garden offers refuge, but it cannot keep fear away by itself.

Poison pen letters spread through Ellie's parish just as a church organist's death is dismissed as suicide. Ellie suspects the official story is much too neat.

A scare involving smoke forces young characters to react fast when fear starts spreading. It is a brisk school story about danger, responsibility, and keeping your head.

Ellie's sharp-tongued Aunt Drusilla appears to have died in a household accident, but Ellie is not convinced. Grief, inheritance, and family trouble make the truth hard to reach.

Ellie, still adjusting to widowhood, is dragged into another local crisis before she has found her footing. The case turns on vulnerability, misplaced trust, and the cost of underestimating people.

Banished from Eden Hall as a child, Minty returns twenty years later to a dying father and a family that still does not want her. In the village outside the gates, she begins uncovering old secrets and new danger.

Asked to visit a powerful, difficult man after his dog dies, Ellie expects an awkward favor and gets much more. Influence, committees, and personal grudges close around a baffling death.

The body of a young girl found in a neglected garden shocks Ellie's circle and puts friends under strain. As pity, gossip, and fear spread, Ellie refuses to accept the easy answers.

A children's resource book offering forty short lives of saints, each with Bible links, prayers, and related activities. It ranges from St Paul and St George to figures such as Mother Teresa and Florence Nightingale.

Inheriting Eden Hall gives Minty status, but not peace. As she tries to grow into her role, love, local duty, and family hostility all demand their price.

A grand music festival brings fresh chaos to Eden Hall, along with the magnetic singer Maxine and plenty of hidden agendas. Minty faces betrayal, strain, and new threats to the life she has fought to build.

When a church lunch leaves people sick and Ellie's homemade quiches under suspicion, embarrassment quickly turns into danger. Family pressure and a darker crime soon follow.

Still grieving a miscarriage, Minty returns to Eden Hall only to find herself shut out. While Patrick faces urgent troubles of his own, old enemies and buried secrets close in.

When caterer Coral, a friend and long-time client, is touched by death at two charity events, Bea knows it is more than rotten luck. Her domestic agency is pushed into its first murder case.

Ellie stumbles on a body with no clear identity, and a friend's grandson becomes the obvious suspect. She digs into names, appearances, and mistaken assumptions to find out who was really involved.

Velma wants Bea to look into her stepson Philip, and her charm does not make her any more believable. Family secrets, fuzzy truths, and a widening sense of danger keep Bea off balance.

A young mother is savaged to death in the local park, and Ellie cannot believe the case is as simple as it looks. The quiet suburb suddenly feels far less safe.

Lady Elisabeth Silverwood flees a notorious rake and is rescued by Robin Prior, a farmer who despises everything she seems to represent. Romance, revenge, and tangled household affairs quickly follow.

A routine agency matter turns treacherous when Bea is drawn into the orbit of people with far too much to hide. One wrong move, by anyone, could make a bad situation fatal.

Laid low with terrible colds, Ellie and Thomas are in no mood for drama until a headstrong student named Ursula brings it to their door. What starts as a domestic problem turns into murder.

A seemingly harmless request from a client leads Bea and her assistants into a web of half-truths. Pretence gives way to real menace as the job edges toward murder.

Ellie takes in a young rape victim and, acting on instinct, steps into a mess far bigger than she expected. Good intentions, family strain, and hidden motives make every choice risky.

The disappearance of Tomi, a performer from an award-winning short film, pulls Bea into a case of ambition, money, and deception. Her domestic agency may not do murder, but murder keeps finding it.

After seeing what looks like a ghost in a neighbour's house, Ellie's old friend Rose falls and hurts herself. The strange sighting is only the beginning of a deeply unsettling case.

While trying to help a small, eccentric musician who has been falsely accused, Bea stumbles into a darker world of exploitation and trafficking. Her agency work puts her close to people other investigators might miss.

Ellie has never trusted the shark-like local estate agent, and trouble touching Diana only sharpens her suspicions. Business ambition and personal obsession soon push the story toward murder.

A booby trap in the flats of powerful businessman Sir Lucas Ossett sends Bea hunting for the person who planted it. What begins as a targeted scare quickly opens into a full murder investigation.

Asked by a police friend to look into deaths that may be suicides, Ellie finds that mercy can hide very different motives. With young Mikey also under suspicion elsewhere, the pressure mounts from every side.

A collection of short stories, including several Ellie Quicke pieces and stories about three retired men and their families. It shows Heley's eye for ordinary lives under pressure in a shorter form.

A fake engagement ring, an alleged suicide attempt, and the Holland family bring trouble crashing into Bea's orderly life. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that someone is playing a dangerous game.

Vera's past comes crashing back when the wealthy father of her son reappears and wants the boy for himself. Ellie soon finds old violence, buried betrayals, and an unsolved murder tangled together.

When Ursula's family castle is besieged, she rides for help from her older betrothed, only to find real understanding with Benedict, the man sent to save her. The story blends medieval danger with a growing forbidden love.

Bea is dragged back into the poisonous affairs of the Holland family when pressure starts building around her house and agency. Besieged from several sides, she has to work out who is lying before the next attack lands.

When Rose's failing health forces Ellie to hire help, a carer recommended by her difficult daughter brings more worry than relief. Suspicion grows quickly, and not without reason.

When Bea's garden wall crashes down, it exposes far more than a row of back gardens. The damage opens up secrets, neighborly tensions, and a murder she cannot sidestep.

A fashionable boutique run by twin sisters becomes the setting for jealousy, bad marriages, and a suspicious death. Ellie has to pick her way through glamour, family strain, and dangerous ambition.

At a birthday party for twin girls, Bea senses trouble before the gathering turns truly sinister. Superstition, family tension, and violent crime force her to look past appearances fast.

A new Ellie Quicke mystery in which a seemingly small problem grows into something far more dangerous. As ever, Ellie has to sort everyday confusion from real menace before someone pays the price.

A housekeeper arrives with a briefcase full of family jewels and a story Bea cannot ignore. As the missing Lucas Rycroft's relatives close in, greed and old resentments turn the case deadly.

After a group of bored wives joke about ways to kill their husbands, one man dies in exactly the manner Diana suggested. Suddenly all five women are under Ellie's roof, and the case turns frighteningly personal.

The deaths of two beloved cats draw Bea into the disturbing affairs of the wealthy Tredgold family. What seems eccentric at first soon reveals cruelty, manipulation, and murder.

Thomas receives a string of letters saying he has been left money by someone unexpected, and Ellie cannot shake the feeling that the gift is trouble. Good intentions, inheritance, and murder prove a nasty mix.

Bea expects a quiet summer with her ward Bernice, until Bernice's schoolfriend Evelina arrives drugged, traumatized, and linked to a suspicious death at a country house. Bea has to decide whether she is sheltering a victim or a very dangerous liar.

Bea Abbot's new marriage is jolted when her husband Piers is caught up in theft accusations at a famous actress's Belgravia home. Missing jewels, a stolen memoir file, and murder turn a bad morning into a deadly case.

While Ellie is away, Diana's husband Evan is attacked and left for dead, and next-door neighbor Susan ends up caring for Diana's children. The deeper Susan and police officer Lesley dig, the more unsettling Diana herself becomes.

Ellie returns from Canada to find her home in chaos and her housing charity tearing itself apart. When a student falls to his death, money, blame, and bad feeling make the truth hard to reach.

Bea overhears three men plotting a murder and discovers the intended victim, a young man posing as a rough sleeper, left outside her garage to die. Giving him shelter means stepping into a conspiracy that is not finished with him yet.

At Marston Hall, another attempt on Julian's life coincides with the discovery of a dead woman in the stables. Bea has to untangle family history, inheritance fears, and old enemies before the next blow falls.

Bea arrives at Marston Hall to find chaos, rumors of buried treasure, and a body left behind by intruders with metal detectors. With a security guard and his dog also missing, the whole estate feels uneasy.

When Julian Marston-Lang's glamorous stepcousin Mona is found murdered in the garden, suspicion falls quickly on her vanished husband. Bea heads to Marston Hall convinced the obvious story is hiding something worse.