Karen Woods

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  • Bibliography:
    44 Books
  • First Book:
    February 2004
  • Latest Book:
    June 2026
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Books in Order: 44 titles

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  • The Hustle

    You have to play to win in a game of life and death Danni had to grow up fast ??? as a girl, her mother left her alone and she had to raise herself, any way she could. Finding comfort and company in the pubs and clubs of her local stre...

  • Karen Woods

    A deadly choice. A secret between friends or a stab in the back?Four friends as close as they come. Until a girl’s weekend away leaves them with a shared secret that could destroy them all.But a secret is safe among friends, isn’t it? Tha...

  • The Escape

    A deadly choice. A secret between friends or a stab in the back?Four friends as close as they come. Until a girl’s weekend away leaves them with a shared secret that could destroy them all.But a secret is safe among friends, isn’t it? That’s wh...

  • The Trade

    Life is tough. Women are tougher.When Gina Turner’s husband, Scott, is sent down for a ten-year stretch, her world falls apart. It’s not just that she misses her husband, but the fact that the Proceeds of Crime team are gunning for all the couple...

  • The Truth

    All families have secrets. Some protect. Others destroy.Three sisters. A last wish from their dying mother. Can they forgive her?Brenda Smith shouldn’t feel lucky " she’s only got months to live, if that. But knowing this means she’s got one ...

  • The Con

    A mother will do anything to protect her child…Love and hate are no match for a prison’s wallsWhat would you do if your son was sent down? Any parent would want justice " but justice takes many forms. Would you take on his enemies, protect his ...

  • The Deal

    People can buy your silence, but not your loyalty…Macy Taylor was born in the shadow of Tavistock Square, at the heart of her Manchester estate. It’s got a reputation as a place where bad things happen. But it’s kept her secrets and she’s kep...

  • Tease

    Lust, power, revenge: the gripping new gangland thriller from Karen Woods – the writer to show you the dark side of Manchester.Two women – one too innocent, one who knows too much. They have secrets, but none as lethal as those they u...

  • Vice

    Betrayal, family loyalties, secrets: not all gangsters live in the east end.Two families run this part of Manchester: the Johnsons and the Bennetts. With the head of the Johnson family banged up, the Bennetts have made their move. But power comes at ...



  • Tracks

    You’ve got to fight for everything when you start with nothing.Susan Knight has a good life. So she turns a blind eye to the gambling winnings her husband Donny puts through the books at her salon. After all, he needs some way to unwind. At work, h...

  • Every Good Deed

    The Orthodox nuns of Saint Maria Skobtsova's monastery have been providing end of life care for Bishop John. Now, that he has reposed in the Lord, their duty is to see that he has a Christian burial. But burying a bishop is by no means a simple thing...

  • The Estate

    Best friends Melanie and Diane have grown up together on a 1980s Manchester council estate but when Diane gets pregnant mystery surrounds the identity of the father - is it honest, hardworking Gary or John, the layabout son of the estate pub landlord...

  • The Thirty Five Year Old Secret

    What would you do if you woke up one morning and learned you had lived for five years with a serial rapist/killer? How would you react especially when you knew he had been your stepfather? In this true story of Karen Woods, a fifty-something-year-old...

  • A Merciful Heart

    The Orthodox Nuns of Saint Maria Skobtsova's Monastery always strive to acquire merciful hearts, hearts that are remade into the image of God's own heart. St Issac the Syrian taught, "What is a merciful heart? It is a heart on fire for the whole of c...

  • Sins

    Prison Officer Joan lives with her cantankerous mother, has a dormant love life and low self-esteem. Her colleague and best friend Trevor is a middle aged man whose face would best be described as 'lived in' - he hasn't had a leg over in years.Katrin...

  • Torn

    Charlotte and Rico have been brought up apart but when Francesca moves back to Manchester the two seem set on a collision course. Meanwhile, Misty's mother Lisa has died and her ex-boyfriend's brother Tom is blackmailing her family. She hits the bott...

  • Curse the Rain

    The nuns of Saint Maria's Orthodox Monastery live quiet lives of prayer and service... until they don't. But then again, as Saint Basil the Great taught, troubles are the brooms and shovels that Christians can use to smooth the road ahead...and that ...

  • Flow Like Water

    Saint John of Kronstadt taught, "Those who are trying to lead a spiritual life have to carry on a most skillful and difficult warfare, through their thoughts, every moment of their life-that is, a spiritual warfare; it is necessary that our whole...

  • Whisper My Last Goodbye

    Harpur Murray is devastated when her heroin addict brother Brady commits suicide. But why can't her mother talk about the night her son died? Meanwhile, an internet romance with an old flame makes her question if she ever really loved her husband, Ne...



  • Bang Up

    While Mikey Milne is locked up, his shoplifter mother Rachel is forced to fend for herself. Her life is soon in danger when menacing local gangster Davo finds out that Mikey ripped him off for £10,000 and gives her 48 hours to pay up. Mikey's g...

  • The Square

    Alice Goodman has been forbidden from entering Tavistock Square for as long as she can remember but, now aged fifteen, the place looks tempting. Will she listen to her nana's warnings and steer clear or is she destined to make the same mistakes as he...

  • The Lane

    Elsie Barker has got in over her head and has disappeared off the face of the earth. Her son Johnny, fresh out of prison and hoping to go straight, attempts to track her down only to discover that his teenage sister is missing as well. Everything poi...

  • Team Handed

    Dawn Pritchard has a reputation but that hasn't stopped crime boss Jud Watson making her his fiancée. But Dawn has been seeing Jud's brother Larry behind his back and matters come to a head before a packed church on the day of the wedding. With La...

  • Grow Wars

    While crime boss Harry Jarvis has been languishing in jail, the Collins brothers have been steadily taking over his crime operation. Life has certainly moved on since Harry went inside. Unusual relationships have blossomed. The up and coming Collins ...

  • Riding Solo

    When her mother takes her own life after her father leaves, therapist Marcy Jordan vows to open a clinic aiding the broken-hearted. Although helping her clients proves therapeutic, Marcy quickly becomes embroiled in their lives: Harry and Grace have ...

  • Ghost of A Chance

    Love endures even after death. Cathy Reynolds, although a ghost, has been trying to help her husband Jake through his mourning for her following her murder, almost a year ago. Now, on her birthday, Halloween, she has an opportunity to push Jake an...

  • Covering Up

    The unexplained death of Kendal Wilson's mother hangs over her family like a dark, brooding cloud while the identity of her father remains a mystery her mother Mary took to her grave. Yet the secrets of Mary's death lie in a hidden diary she left beh...

  • Northern Girls Love Gravy

  • Teabags & Tears

    Sandra Partington has led a dog’s life. Abused by her husband and humiliated by her sister, she finds the strength to take revenge on both with spectacular consequences. In her fifth novel, Karen Woods deals with issues as diverse as domestic viol...



  • Sleepless in Manchester

    When Dalton’s family move to London, his girlfriend Fallon is heartbroken but promises her that, regardless of the physical distance between them, ‘love will conquer all’. Settling quickly into his new life he is soon seduced by another. In ...

  • Maggie's Hunt

    Maggie O'Shay's life is endangered by her stepfather's political campaign. Maggie's brother convinces Hunter Thomas, a former intelligence operative, to infiltrate Maggie's life and keep her safe without letting her know that he's her bodyguard. In t...

  • The Visitors

    When her gangster boyfriend Tim is sent down, Susie Jones’ life is thrown into turmoil. Left to run his criminal empire, Susie finds solace in new acquaintances made in Strangeways Visitors’ Centre with unforeseen consequences....

  • Bagheads

    As heroin addict Shaun Cook lies comatose in hospital following a suicide attempt, his family come to terms with his life and their part in his downfall. At turns funny and heart-breaking, Karen Woods' fourth novel sees her return to familiar territ...

  • A Mother's Eyes

    “Do not be afraid, Miriam, for you have found favor with Elohim.”Miriam’s head spun with the implications of this, of what this would mean for her life, of what this would mean for her people. She couldn’t take it all in. But she’d have the...

  • Broken Youth

    When rebellious teenager Misty Sullivan falls pregnant to a local wannabe gangster, she soon becomes a prisoner in her own home. Despite the betrayal of her best friend, she eventually recovers her self-belief and plots revenge on her abusive boyfrie...

  • Black Tears

    With Gordon locked up in Strangeways for 5 years, the characters from Karen Woods' debut novel 'Broken Youth' come to terms with life without him. As the clock ticks down on his sentence, Gordon broods on the injustice of his situation and plots swee...

  • Stalking the Phoenix

    College professor Alicia Jenkins thinks her painful past is behind her, but someone from her past has found her -- and wants her dead. More than that, the old enemy wants Alicia's new life totally destroyed before killing her. But like the mythical P...

  • Pudding Club

    After a failed marriage Rebecca Rooks has returned to comfort eating. Now she is overweight and she knows it. To make matters worse her best friend Gemma (who used to be a fellow fatty) has slimmed down, showing admirable self-control in the cake dep...

  • Get Geri

    Get Geri.A murdered pet, sick gifts, crank phone calls, and both her car and home have gone up in explosion and flames.Get Geri.Josh, Geri's boss, offers her refuge and protection. But who will protect her tender heart from Josh?Either her stalker...



  • Love and Arson

    Edward swore he'd make her regret breaking their engagement. Dani expected any attack would be against her. Instead, Edward's now the prime suspect in the house fire that killed Dani's mother. Dani has gone to meet the father she'd never known, walki...

  • Vengeance

    RT gave 4 stars! Mona Graves wants her former daughter-in-law, Rose Jacqueline, on death row for Nicky's murder. Mona lives for vengeance.R.J. wants Mona to leave her to live her life without being the target of an unrelenting qu...

  • The Bishop's Daughter

    When George Keppel, the Earl of Newport, broke off their romance, and married another woman, in 1809, Jane Sommersby was devastated. When his twins were born less than five months after that wedding, Jane swore she'd had a lucky escape; that she had ...

  • The Reluctant Countess

    In 1811, with the US and Britain on the brink of war, Theodousia (Dousia) Crawford Langley left her Virginia home to bring her young half-brother, her ward, William to England. William, following the murder of their father, is the heir to the Ducal t...

  • Suitors and Scoundrels

    It is December 1810. The family's expectation, and the rumor of society, is that Sarah Elham will marry George Blake, the Duke of Chishom. Sarah continues to hope that the man whom she once loved, Marc Lewis, the Earl of Barrow, will return from Indi...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Karen Woods has published 44 books.

The next book by Karen Woods, The Hustle, will be published in June 2026.

The first book by Karen Woods, Suitors and Scoundrels, was published in February 2004.

No. Karen Woods does not write books in series.
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