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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1967
  • Latest Book:
    September 1981
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Nancy J. Buckingham, borned on 10 August 1924, and John Sawyer, borned in 4 October 1919, married in 1949, they had a son, David, and a daughter, Helen. They formed one of the most popular writting-team marriage. Their first books were published under her maiden name Nancy Buckingham since 1967, are classical gothic novels. In 1970s, they started to used the pseudonyms: Christina Abbey and Erica Quest. In 1980, they sold her first novels to Silhouette, and they mixed their names to create the penname Nancy John. They also published one novel as Hilary London. The last novels that they published are a popular police series as Erica Quest, protagonized by the Detective Chief Inspector Kate Maddox. Their last novel was released in 1992, and John Sawyer passed away in 1994.

Nancy J. Buckingham Sawyer was the eighth elected Chairman (1973-1975) of the Romantic Novelists' Association, and now was one of its Vice-Presidents.

Book List in Order: 19 titles



  • High in the Pyrenees, Lyn Calder puzzles over the perfect health of her 'patient,' and the hostility of Grant Addison, manager of the marble quarries. To Lynne, the job seems a golden opportunity - nurse to an elderly invalid at a beautiful chate...



  • Stalked by a menacing stranger, she had to find the man she loved before the shadow of the past destroyed them both... Carol knew very little about Clive Briers, the moody young artist she had married in haste. Now, after six months, he had disapp...



  • A girl who inherits property and business interests finds herself at odds with people around her, and is horrified to discover she comes under suspicion of murder. In this house, drawn to two men by deadly desires, could Dulcie Royle distinguish betw...



  • In the time-ravaged castle, only a frightened young woman stood between a devious killer and an innocent child... "I continued to climb until I reached the spot where I was to meet Craig, near the neat piles of felled trees. From my vantage point ...



  • Rhoda Galbraith was dead... Beautiful, self-involved, evil -- Rhoda had died in a fire, leaving Mark, her husband, free to marry lovely Jan Prior. And then one night Rhoda turned up at Jan's door, very much alive, offering to disappear pe...



  • Kit Anderson is living in Emma Baverstock's old house. Only one other person knows that she is really the heir of the house and fortune, and it seems that that person is trying to kill her. Kit Anderson is living in Emma Baverstock's old house. On...



  • For years it lay dormant at Mildenhall--then the drowned specter arose and led Kim Bennett to the brink of madness. Kim Bennett, a speech therapist, agrees to stay at the Sussex country home of her friend, Gwen Barrington, to help her nephew Drewâ...



  • For years it lay dormant at Mildenhall--then the drowned specter arose and led Kim Bennett to the brink of madness. Curse of Silence… As soon as she arrived at Mildenhall, young Kim Bennett recognized little Jane Barrington as an unusual case...



  • Helping a woman run a villa in Sicily as a guest house, Kerry finds things not straightforward and is caught up in a sinister plot that leads to a life and death chase through Sicilian mountains....






  • Actress Dulcie Royle is shocked to receive an inheritance from the father she had believed long dead. Her legacy is a Cotswold country house adjoining a pharmaceutical laboratory. Rather than sell, she is tempted to make a new life for herself in thi...



  • Shadowed and only dimly visible in the thick London mist on the bank of the river Thames, stood the great house called Edenhythe. And from the moment Rachel entered it, she knew fear. Penniless and haunted by the recent tragedy of her husband's mys...



  • City of Fear Vienna spelled happiness, then heartbreak for beautiful young Jessica Varley. Here she spent the tragically brief days of her idyllic marriage. Here a seemingly senseless accident killed her dashing, cosmopolitan husband, and sent Jes...



  • Following her father's death Sarah returned to the Elizabethan manor on Exmoor where she had spent a happy childhood. At first it seemed a magical place, but soon she felt a curious foreboding. What was it that Jerome, the heir, did on his visits...



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    When Gail Fleming receives the startling news that her uncle, the noted Czech writer Alexis Karel, has vanished from Deer's Leap, his English home, she leaves her job in New York at once and flies across the Atlantic to be with her invalid aunt. ...



  • With much disapproval from her family, Elinor Rosslyn’s mother had married a penniless, young English doctor and gone from Portugal to live in England. Now, after the sudden death of her parent’s, Elinor determined to go to Portugal to try to ...



  • Riding on the Yorkshire moors, Emma meets a handsome stranger. Later, she is horrified to learn he is the man convicted of murdering her father 13 years ago, Matthew Sutcliffe, and back from transportation to Australia. Now wealthy, having found gold...



  • A mistery brings death to Castle Kaunitz. After her stepdaughter announces her marriage to Gustav von Kaunitz, Victoria Wayland, living at the magnificent Schloss Kaunitz, is secretly attracted to Lorenz, a young heir....



  • In Madeira, motherless Marianna lives a carefree childhood. Her closest friend is Jacinto, the intelligent son of her father’s vineyard manager. But at 16, she is married off to an older man by her feckless father. In England, William Penfold turns...



  • Kit Anderson is living in Emma Baverstock's old house. Only one other person knows that she is really the heir of the house and fortune, and it seems that that person is trying to kill her. Imposter! The word echoed in Kit’s brain. She was Cathe...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Nancy Buckingham has published 19 books.

Nancy Buckingham does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Legend of Baverstock Manor, was published in September 1981.

The first book by Nancy Buckingham, Heart of Marble // Storm in the Mountains, was published in January 1967.

No. Nancy Buckingham does not write books in series.