Valentine Williams: 20 books

SYNOPSIS: What Happened To Selina Smith by Valentine Williams. A novella for young readers 12 + Based on real events in Market Drayton and surroundings in the 1880s. SELINA SMITH, 13, oldest of four children, leaves school at 13 and attends the May Hiring Fair where she is taken on by...

On the day of the execution, Voulland saw the tumbrils approaching. „Come,” said he to those who were at his side, „let us go to the high altar and see them celebrate the Red Mass.” „The Red Mass” is a bustling action tale of the French Revolution and of the sulky and wild young British...

The novel begins in Paris on the wedding night of Sally and Rex Garrett. A former member of the French Foreign Legion Rex mysteriously disappears on the night of his wedding. At The Pigeon House, a lonely inn, a band of conspirators await the arrival of a deserter from the Foreign Legion, who is their...

A little girl is orphaned in the Boxing Day Tsunami. No one knows who she is or what language she speaks. An aid worker visiting the orphanage discovers her name and wants to reunite her with family members, but the orphanage is in rebel held territory. A ransom is demanded. Aid worker Claire enlists...

Jane has been locked up in a high security hospital for killing her children. Well meaning intervention by Dr. Townsend begins to uncover early events in Jane's life. While attending her sister's funeral, Jane escapes and goes back to the Belgian caravan site where the murders took place. She connects...

Synopsis LOSING IT gives an authentic voice to a woman alienated by her madness and by the crimes she has committed. Referencing Plath’s The Bell Jar and the stories of Jean Rhys, the book allows us to enter her internal world, and we are drawn ever more closely into a conflict between sanity and...

An Espionage/Adventure Classic! With „The Return of Clubfoot”, Valentine Williams has penned a thrilling page-turner of mystery, love, adventure, and intrigue. Whilst spending a holiday in a small Central American Republic, Desmond Okewood, of the Secret Service, learns from a dying beachcomber...

It is 1914, but war has not yet broken out. Olivia Dunbar, a young English woman, is working in Germany as a private secretary. She obtains secret military information, and becomes entangled in a British secret agent operation, and encounters the terrifying Dr. Grundt, head of German counter-intelligence:...

Perhaps Valentine Williams’ finest mystery thriller. Set in WW2, folk singer and guitarist Andrea Hallam gets caught up in a Nazi spy ring while travelling alone in Morocco. Kidnapped by Nazis who believe she holds a dossier on Hitler, the tale travels from entertaining wartime banter to sinister...

A hard boiled mystery and suspense thriller set in Ukraine. A rich American magnate Stephen Selmar and his daughter Melissa are lured into Rumania by an arms dealer, the sinister Barm de Bahl „"The Fox"”, as part of a plot to boost the arms industry by fomenting a war between Rumania and Russia....

In the dark days just before the outbreak of WW1, Philip Clavering, a British Secret Service agent, is despatched to Europe to recover a gold box carried by a now dead agent, the box holding a deep secret. But the Kaiser’s man, Dr. Grundt, alias Clubfoot, is also on the trail of that box and its...

The setting is Canada, a fishing camp in the French Canadian section. Treadgold, ostensibly on vacation, has come on mysterious errand, which is concerned with some stamps in the possession of the village storekeeper. A haunted house -- a succession of deaths -- and a lovely girl further complicate...

Featuring vibrant illustrations, Too-Tall Foyle is a heart-warming new children's book series based on the life experiences of NBA veteran player Adonal Foyle. Too-Tall Foyle is a young boy who grows up on a tiny island in the Caribbean and overcomes various hardships and learns important life lessons...