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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books
  • First Book:
    July 1981
  • Latest Book:
    April 2014
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Book List in Order: 29 titles



  • Charlotte and James Hall and their seven children live hard-working but peaceful lives as coal miners in the village of Hillsbridge during the early twentieth century until World War I changes everything...



  • Set in the Far East during the Second World War, this novel, an epic love story, follows the wealthy who seek their forbidden pleasures in the sanctuary of the grand hotels and on the perilous, embattled high seas...



  •   A young widow in an English mining village fights to build a successful business -- but her late husband’s past may come back to haunt her . . . The Great War is over, it is 1926, and Amy Hall is struggling to make a success o...



  • They could not have been more different, yet war was to forge a link between them which would never be broken . . . Alys Peterson: beautiful, pampered and rich, she wanted for nothing - except understanding . . . and love. Tragedy had touched her li...



  •   She grew up wanting for nothing -- but war and a family secret could put an end to her dreams: “This well-told story holds the reader’s attention.” -- Publishers Weekly   In the English coal mining town of Hillsbridge, Barbara Hall...




  • Twenty years after his supposed death in a yacht explosion, Greg Martin is discovered alive and well, and soon speculations arise as to the whereabouts of supermodel Paula Varna, who had been aboard the yacht with Martin that fateful day...



  • Dangerous family secrets lurk beneath the surface of everyday life as Juliet Langlois, an Australian, and reporter Dan Deffians investigate an old scandal involving Juliet's beloved grandmother, who took the blame for murdering her own son...



  • Ros Newman has disappeared, but the police are not concerned. They believe her high-pressure job at Vandina, a world-renowned fashion firm, and the obsessive jealousy of her hard-drinking husband have driven her to take an unannounced vacation.But Mi...









  • Tara Murphy left Ireland with high hopes of a better future in the new country. But the harsh reality of the Australian goldfields destroyed her dreams and scarred her forever.

    James Hannay thought that in Tara he had at last found the woman who co...




  •   After her father’s murder, an innkeeper’s daughter is drawn into a web of intrigue with roots in Revolutionary France: “A master of the gothic genre.” -- Booklist   Flora is left distraught after the shocking murder of her father...



  •   In this eighteenth-century gothic romance, a handsome stranger stirs up memories and emotions that may be a young amnesiac bride’s undoing. A tragic coaching accident leaves nineteen-year-old Davina Grimes without a family, with no memory of...



  •   After her mother is almost murdered, a young woman takes a job at a Cornish manor riddled with secrets in this gripping gothic saga. When Tamsin Hardy returns home from her post as a lady’s maid to attend her beloved mother’s sickbed, her ...



  •   A young woman attempts to reclaim her heritage and is drawn into mystery, danger and romance in this captivating gothic saga. Can Ella learn the truth about the fate of her mother and brother? One dark and stormy night, a terrified young moth...



  • The new romantic thriller from a master storyteller On a bright summer's day a young girl, carefree and smiling, receives an ominous warning from an old gypsy woman ? a warning that she will never be able to forget. Some years later, another young wo...



  • The new book from this popular author - At school Hannah and her three best friends, Laura, Jenny and Annabel, were known as The Inseparables. So when Laura calls out of the blue with the idea of holding a reunion, Hannah is excited at the prospect o...








  • A tale of love, heartbreak and romance - When she sets sail aboard the Maid of Morne, Regan Gardner believes that her wildest dreams are about to come true. Soon she will join her fianc, Robert, in Australia where fortunes are to be won in the gold r...



  • Following her Irish-born father's brutal murder in New South Wales, Erin Kelly finds she must fend for herself and her siblings in 19th century Australia's dark and dangerous land. However, to survive she must compromise her virtue, but she vows that...



  • When Dawn Stephens’ parents are killed in an accident, she is transplanted from her home in Canada to the small seaside town of Sturvendor in Somerset, to live with her uncle and aunt. She makes friends with her cousin Serena, and soon settles in w...



  •   A family of nine works to get by as the Great War looms over their English coal-mining town in this “sensitive and exceptionally polished” novel (Manchester Evening News). The Hall family lives under the brooding shadow of the Black Mounta...



  •   A dangerous secret changes the lives of two women living in an English mining town in this final entry in the historical Hillsbridge sagas. Jenny Simmons has always thought of herself as the ugly duckling of her family, so when she blossoms in...



  • A woman’s search for the truth leads her into terrible danger in this compelling tale of suspense. Following a skiing accident, journalist Sally Proctor is recuperating at her parents’ rural Somerset home when she hears about a local man, Brian ...



  • When Guy de Savigny, heir to estates in the Cognac region of France, hears of a reclusive German living on a tiny Caribbean island, his attention is immediately caught. This could be the man who, as a Nazi General, destroyed his family. Guy is determ...



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      An orphaned governess in Cornwall falls in love -- but what dark secrets is her suitor hiding? “A pleasure to read . . . Tanner is immensely skillful.” -- Booklist   Charity Palfrey is an orphan -- with no family of he...



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    A contemporary romantic thriller from a master storyteller
    During the course of a routine legal investigation into a Hong Kong company, high-flying lawyer Julia Wilson inadvertently taps into a sinister network of intrigue and corruption that seem...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Janet Tanner has published 29 books.

Janet Tanner does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Eden Inheritance, was published in April 2014.

The first book by Janet Tanner, The Hours of Light, was published in July 1981.

No. Janet Tanner does not write books in series.