Willo Davis Roberts

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  • Bibliography:
    94 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1966
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Black Pearl

1 - Dark Dowry (1978)
2 - The Cade Curse (Feb-1978)
3 - The Stuart Stain (Jun-1978)
4 - The Devil's Double (Sep-1978)
5 - The Radkin Revenge (Jan-1979)
6 - The Hellfire Heritage (Mar-1979)
7 - The Macomber Menace (Jun-1979)
8 - The Gresham Ghost (1980)

Related Books

1 - The Gallant Spirit (Sep-1984)
2 - Days of Valor (Nov-1983)

Book List in Order: 94 titles

  • Once a Nurse...but always a woman

    ONCE A NURSE…BUT ALWAYS A WOMAN San Francisco was to be a bridge to a new life for Noel Emery, R.n., when the pretty nurse put a tragic past behind her. As the jet carrying Noel circled San Francisco, her eyes met the blue gaze of a handsome ...

  • Nurse Kay's Conquest

    Armed with their shining diplomas, Nurses Kay Regis and Ginny Attison were out to set the California town of Mayerling on its ear. Kay was well aware that her best friend possessed more than enough charms and feminine wiles to capture the hearts o...

  • Nurse at Mystery Villa

    Upon her arrival as new office nurse in the small California community of El Campo Calor, Chris Royce made a resolution. She would keep Dick out of her mind and heart forever. He’d never meant to hurt her, he’d said, as he told her of the girl he...

  • Return to Darkness

    DO I KNOW YOU? Brianne Jorgensen was tired, to the point of exhaustion; she badly needed a vacation from the pressures of being a private duty nurse. She looked forward only to the chance to escape from other people's problems and pampered illnes...

  • The House at Fern Canyon

    WHO WAS SHE? It started in San Francisco. Dee Tyler found herself a war widow after three weeks of marriage. She came to San Francisco to meet her returning husband...and found herself stranded. The future seemed bleak. Then she met Enid Cassel...

  • The Waiting Darkness

    HEIRESS IN DANGER! At twenty, Valerie Andreason lived the life of a stranger in the home of her aunt, Hazel Patrick. The girl was six months away from coming into her father’s fortune, and the promise of freedom was almost more than she could be...

  • Invitation to Evil

    A LIFE FOR A LIFE The world came to a sudden end for Vonna Bracy, with the death of her husband, Matt. But no matter how she wanted to retreat, cast aside other people, the fact of her son forced her to face up to responsibilities. For Robby nee...

  • Shadow of a Past Love

    Come Back To Terror! Kerry Reneau was happy in San Francisco, and confident that the bitter past was safely locked in the dark corners of her memory. She kept herself busy, too busy to think of other people . . . of one person. It had been years s...

  • Shroud of Fog

    Hannah Starn had been the most vindictive old woman the town had known, and then, in the fog and darkness, she was dead--fallen from the tower window. Although Amy didn't grieve for her, she was desperate to know who had hated her guardian that much....



  • The Tarot Spell

    Catherine Sorenson nursed Sherm Addison for seven long years, until the old man died...and plain Catherine, unpretty Catherine, found herself two million dollars wealthier. The whole world suddenly stood open before her...but there had been only one ...

  • Devil Boy

    In Keathley Castle live an ambassador, an actress, a writer, a senator and a brilliant small boy they all fear is capable of murder... Ride through the iron gates of Keathley Castle, Miss Sabria Somers. Be governess to that strange little boy. You wi...

  • King's Pawn

    LOVE'S PAWN Isobel Hunter felt secure with George beside her as the truck braked to a stop beside the Anders house. There were too many unpleasant memories crowding recent days; now that she was back on the island, she was certain that everyth...

  • The Watchers

    Joan Gwayne must choose -- the death of her only child or her own chance to live! Death’s Pawn Gwayne Hall was not the refuge that Joan Gwayne would have chosen under other circumstances. The house of her ex-husband’s mother. It brooded ove...

  • The Terror Trap

    Unwelcome Guest To Cillay Montand, the house on Hillside Street seemed a haven from a world suddenly grown large...and uncaring. The old world, of family love and safety, was gone forever with the death of her parents, adn now this house and her A...

  • Becca's Child

    Misfortune's child. She came from halfway 'round the world to her mother's family, expecting to find a haven, only to be rejected, denied her birthright, denied even her name. What did Careth Donner owe this small Heather, who came into her life ...

  • Dangerous Legacy

    THE GHOST TOWN was sixty miles from civilization, from the nearest store, the the closest doctor, the only hospital...sixty miles of empty Nevada desert. The town was empty, except for the old woman Ramona had come to nurse in Fannie Oman's house...

  • The Face of Danger

    A STRANGER TO LOVE Sharlee Adams was a girl without a past, but she learned early in life not to waste her time wondering about the family that might have been. She was a plain girl, perhaps too plain; unattractive to men, she never knew dates ......

  • Inherit the Darkness

    Thomasina and Timothy were twins, although they didn't look at all alike. But from earliest childhood there was something... special... about them. Whenever one was hurt, the other would feel the same pain... and suffer the same consequences. It made...

  • Nurse Robin

    Nurse Robin Thale had no desire to leave her hospital job, even temporarily, to visit her sick, possibly dying uncle, in a small colony in the north of Michigan. Her reluctance had two causes: the inclement snowy weather in the North, and her wish no...



  • The Ghosts of Harrel

    CAROL'S ROOM had been left untouched since her tragic death, seven years before. Now Jane was in it, wondering if the former owner would object, would resent her presence. She had not wanted to come to Harrel, had protested the assignment as str...

  • The Nurses

    The book that does for the noblest profession what “Coffee, Tea Or Me” did for the airline stewardesses… These are THE NURSES: six girls, young, beautiful, meeting life head-on… Karen " oldest of the group, burned by passion...

  • Didn't Anybody Know My Wife

    • / General Fiction
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  • Key Witness

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

  • White Jade

    FACE IN THE FOG The year was 1885, and lovely young Cecilia Jade Cummings stood along in the fog swirling through San Francisco. Behind her she had left her crippled younger brother on the wharf where they had disembarked from their long voyage....

  • Expendable

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Stated first edition bound in black boards. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Rubs to the spine tips and corners. Remainder spray along the bottom page block. The dust jacket is frayed and worn at its spine tips and corners. The rear panel...

  • The Jaubert Ring

    THE DOOR OF FEAR SWUNG OPEN Lovely young Saunielle Hunter was three thousand miles from her Virginia plantation home when she knocked on the door of the magnificent San Francisco Victorian mansion on Fell Street. She had traveled across the con...

  • Cape of Black Sands

    LOVE AFFAIR WITH TERROR Lovely young career woman Lisa Campton had no idea of what Ragan Strangley was like when she came to his isolated house on a wilderness cape jutting out into the Pacific. She only knew that her publishing firm was intereste...

  • Act of Fear

    • / General Fiction
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  • House of Impostors

    LOST IN A LABYRINTH OF LIES Lovely young Melanie Bingham came to the old Bracut mansion in desperate flight for her life, trying to hide her identity with the name of a dead girl. Lying was something fearfully new to Melanie -- but she soon learne...



  • Don't Hurt Laurie

    "You have no consideration for anyone else! Now clean up this mess!" Laurie bent down to pick up the things she'd dropped. And Annabelle kicked her.... Laurie's been keeping a secret for as long as she can remember, a secret that she's afraid to t...

  • Dark Dowry

    Black Pearl - 1

    ORNAMENT OF EVIL The black pearl necklace - young, beautiful, enigmatic India Stuart-Bryce gazed at it with mingled awe and foreboding. This fabulous treasure was her sole legacy from the aristocratic father whose death had shattered her sheltere...

  • The Cade Curse

    Black Pearl - 2

    THRESHOLD OF TERROR The fabulous black pearl necklace was blood-warm around beautiful Carolyn Stuart-Brice’s throat, but icy fear filled her heart as she stood before the altar with the man she knew only as Jack Cade. This handsome, iron-willed ...

  • The Stuart Stain

    Black Pearl - 3

    DARK LEGACY The Black Pearls. Bethany Stuart had made the long and perilous journey from Victorian England to gold-crazed California to claim her family legacy. Behind her lay heartbreak - and ahead of her an unknown fate in a place of lawless m...

  • The Devil's Double

    Black Pearl - 4

    DOUBLE DANGER Beautiful young Rosalia Cade was far from home - and close to horror. She had accompanied ailing Odalie Kingman from the Cade ranch in northern California to the fortresslike Kingman mansion in violent 19th-century Los Angeles. Now...

  • The Radkin Revenge

    Black Pearl - 5

    CRUEL KISSES Theodora Peltier was on a voyage from exotic India to unknown California when she first felt Fergus MacLean’s lips crushing hers. But her flowering love was swiftly ripped to shreds when she learned that this handsome adventurer wa...

  • The Hellfire Heritage

    Black Pearl - 6

    Damning Desire. Beautiful young Sabrina Peltier vowed to wear the fabulous black pearl necklace only in mourning, after the shocking death of the man whom she adored. Yet the wounds of loss were barely healed when Sabrina found herself trembling ...

  • The Macomber Menace

    Black Pearl - 7

    POISONED KISSES Janie Cade was convinced no man ever would want her as a wife. From a burn, a scar branded her flesh, making her feel like an exile from happiness -- and when handsome, wealthy Felix Macomber asked for her hand in marriage, it seem...

  • Destiny's Women

    STRONG BEAUTIFUL INDESTRUCTIBLE VALERIE -- Passionate, young, proud, she remained untouched, until a bold Yankee officer taught her the meaning of surrender… ELLEN -- The beautiful widow of Mallows. Suddenly the war was at her doorstep and sh...

  • The Gresham Ghost

    Black Pearl - 8

    UNHOLY WEDLOCK Beautiful Patricia Stuart-Brice had dreamed of wearing her family’s fabled Black Pearl necklace at her wedding. But now the necklace loomed in her imagination like a nightmare noose. Patricia’s father had given her in marriag...



  • The Search for Willie

    Willie mysteriously disappeared from the small Nevada town where he had been prospecting for gold. Now, his fiancee Carrie and his sister Georgie have come to search for him. For reasons they do not understand, no one in the town admits to having...

  • The Girl With the Silver Eyes

    “There’s something strange about that kid.” At least that’s what everyone says, but they don’t know the truth. Perfect for fans of Stranger Things, this classic novel continues to enthrall.Katie Welker is used to being alone. She would rath...

  • The Face At the Window

    Raven House Mysteries - 56

    All she wanted was to be left alone. When Grace Huntington was discharged from the hospital after a long illness, she looked forward to the peace and solitude of her comfortable house in the country. Except for the neighboring family, there would be ...

  • A Long Time to Hate

    THE FIRST TIME, THEY WERE JUST GIRLS. Seven years ago, on a dark night in Redwood County, California, Donna Malloy and Kay Richards were forced to watch as a pyschoatic killer shot-gunned a 17-year-old friend. Then they were brutally raped. Don...

  • The Pet-Sitting Peril

    • / General Fiction
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    Nick is excited about the prospect of earning money by working as a pet-sitter for the residents of Hillsdale Apartments. After all, what could be easier than feeding cats and walking dogs? But Nick isn't prepared for a strong-willed Airedale twic...

  • No Monsters in the Closet

  • House of Fear

    A Windswept Mystery/Romance - 16

    Never has Brooke been so frightened. She and her younger brother arrive at Miss Tansy's to spend the summer. But Elsa, the housekeeper, refuses to let them see the old woman. During the next few days Brooke's fears grow. Miss Tansy is locked in a ...

  • Days of Valor

    Related Books - 2

    Jessie, beautiful Jessica, who thought she had lost the man she loved, found him again. Now they moved westward, by wagon train, a grueling torturous trip that only the strong survived. They married on the trail, Jessie and her Joel, and he promised ...

  • Eddie and the Fairy Godpuppy

  • The Sniper



  • Elizabeth

    Sunfire - 3

    In a time of treachery and terror, loving the wrong man could be a deadly risk. Did she dare follow her heart? When someone points an accusing finger and cries "Witch!" Elizabeth face a choice -- between a lie that could doom a friend, and the tru...

  • Keating's Landing

    Jake Keating's little girl had the run of the logging camp. with her big, smoky green eyes and her long dark hair, Maggie was the loggers' darling, the cook's helper, messenger when the dreaded accidents happened, observer of the interaction between ...

  • The Gallant Spirit

    Related Books - 1

  • Caroline

    Sunfire - 7

    Her disguise would keep her safe, but not from love. If only men and boys were going to California, then Caroline would become a -- boy! Caroline just wants the same adventures her brothers have. But they're headed west to California to find gold, ...

  • The Annalise Experiment

  • Baby-Sitting Is a Dangerous Job

    KIDNAPPED! From the moment she set eyes on the three Foster kids, Darcy knew being their baby-sitter would be no picnic. But the pay was twice her usual rate, and the job was for only a few hours a day -- surely an experienced baby-sitter like Darcy ...

  • Victoria

    Sunfire - 12

    Texas pride was in her blood, burning love was in her heart... A dashing Texan or a proud Mexican. Which man would win her love? To beautiful, lovely Victoria Winters, Texas in 1835 is a place where parties last for three days. It's also a place of...

  • The Magic Book

  • My Rebel, My Love

    Tapestry - 86

    ORPHANED AND PENNILESS, WINSOME REBEL CAME TO NEW YORK WITH A BRAVE HEART AND A TENDER HOPE... New York in the gay nineties was a paradise where anything seemed possible. Into the wondrous city came Rebel Moran, a spirited beauty searching for an...

  • Sugar Isn't Everything

    A detailed description of juvenile-onset diabetes (Type I) using a fictional form in which eleven-year-old Amy discovers that she has the disease, learns to treat it and to deal with her anger, and finally accepts that she CAN live with it....

  • What Could Go Wrong?

    Gracie and her cousins find themselves in the midst of a summer vacation gone awry in this thrilling adventure from three-time Edgar Award"winning author Willo Davis Roberts.Everyone thinks Charlie is nothing but trouble, since bad things tend to h...

  • Nightmare

    From the author of Don’t Hurt Laurie and The Minden Curse comes a thrilling and frightening story about a teenage boy who sets out to solve the death of a man who fell from a bridge onto the hood of the boy’s car. When a falling body stri...

  • Megan's Island

    From critically acclaimed author Willo Davis Roberts comes an Edgar Award"winning classic mystery about a twelve-year-old girl on the run with her family.Pack up and leave? Tonight? When Megan has just one week of school left before summer vacation...

  • The Minden Curse

    When Danny goes to a small village to live with his aunt and grandfather, it soon becomes apparent that he and his dog are afflicted with the Minden Curse--whenever catastrophes occur, they're sure to be involved...

  • To Grandmother's House We Go

    To avoid foster home care while their mother is recuperating from illness, three children run off to the home of a grandmother they have never seen, where they find a cold reception and a terrible secret....

  • More Minden Curses

  • Dark Secrets

    An innocent month in the country caring for an estate turns into a nightmare for Lisa, her brothers Sam and Mickey, her pal Jill, and Sam's friend Beau, when a fire breaks out and strange sounds haunt their nights...

  • Scared Stiff

    This bestselling classic mystery filled with “clever sleuthing” (Publishers Weekly) by two brothers looking for information about their missing mother from three-time Edgar Award­"winning author Willo Davis Roberts is a thrilling roller coaste...

  • Jo and the Bandit

    Jo's uncle and new guardian puts her to work at the mercantile where she meets a young bandit, whom she tries to help, until her uncle decides to use her as bait to trap the boy and his rough-riding friends....

  • What Are We Going to Do About David?

    When his constantly arguing parents decide to go their separate ways for a month, David is sent to spend time with a grandmother he hardly knows, a warm-hearted woman who teaches him the true meaning of family....

  • Caught!

    Running away from their grandmother, who is caring for them while their mother is away, Vickie and Joanie discover that their father is not in his apartment and that they have become caught up in a plan designed to capture a desperate criminal....

  • View from the Cherry Tree

    This bestselling classic mystery from Willo Davis Roberts about a boy who witnesses a murder is “taut with suspense” (Booklist, starred review).Though Rob saw Mrs. Calloway fall to her death, strangled by the leather strap of her binoculars, he w...

  • Madawaska

    Banished from their Nova Scotia homeland, they vowed to return with a will as fierce and mighty as the land that was theirs. 1755. It was a golden summer for newly married Soleil and Remi Michaud. But their peaceful life - and the lives of all Fre...

  • To Share a Dream

    Harlequin Historical - 231

    Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1699 Desperate to escape the dangers of their native Cornwall, three sisters journeyed to a new land. A place where church spires rose high above the bustling cobblestone streets and freedom reigned--until the witch-hunts...

  • Twisted Summer

    Twisted Summer Cici expected the summer to be special. She had no idea it would change her forever. Two kids, two lives, ruined before they even began. One, a girl, dead -- strangled in an empty cabin. The other, a boy, spending the rest of his life ...

  • Secrets at Hidden Valley

    Secrets at Hidden Valley As Steffi steps off the bus, the only thing she knows for sure is that this is the last place she wants to be. But she's stuck here, somewhere in northern Michigan, about to stay with a grandfather she's never met, ju...

  • How I Visited Yellowstone Park With the Terrible Rupes

    Lewis and Alison's vacation should be lots of fun. Driving to Yellowstone in a motor home, seeing all the fantastic sights, getting to know their new neighbors...the trip should be a blast. It turns out to be anything but. First they discover their ...

  • The Kidnappers

    "I didn't like Willie Groves, but I didn't hate him enough to want someone to kidnap him." Famous last words. Joey Bishop soon finds himself face-to-face with the kidnappers himself (as well as his archenemy) in this fast-paced, urban story that wil...

  • Pawns

    Teddi has recently been orphaned and she now lives with her kindly, older next door neighbor, Mamie. The times they share and the safety Teddi feels are precious. Then trouble appears in the form of Dora, Mamie's daughter in law. Not only did Mamie n...

  • Hostage

    Kaci enjoys reading mysteries and adventure stories as long as there are other family members around and especially when she has a big bowl of popcorn nearby. Sometimes, though, she longs for a little excitement and wonders what it would be like to h...

  • Undercurrents

    Nikki and her siblings aren't comfortable around their new stepmother and become even more suspicious when they all spend a summer at her newly inherited home by the sea and witness a strange figure in the tower of the house. Reprint....

  • Buddy Is a Stupid Name for a Girl // The Old House

    All Buddy ever wanted was a normal family. But with her mother dead, her father missing, and her brother on the road searching for him, Buddy has a hard time believing it will ever happen. Instead she’s living with relatives she hardly knows who re...

  • Rebel

    Her name was Amanda Jane Keeling, but from the time she was two, everyone called her Rebel. Rebel's first word was "No!" And it was downhill from there. As a toddler she resisted strained spinach and potty training. At five she refused to go to kind...

  • Rangeland Nurse

  • Blood on His Hands

    While on the run from the cops, young Marc goes in search of his father for refuge, but after so many miles with only his dog Rat to keep him company, Marc decides to give up his crazy life and come to terms with what he has done in the hopes of star...

  • The One Left Behind

    Mandy awoke in darkness. For a moment she didn't remember that Angel was gone, that she would not be coming back, and then the pain hit her like a physical blow. For the first time in her eleven years, Mandy is alone. Through a series of miscommuni...

  • Sing a Dark Song

    The Gypsy promised Dauna love...but for her love had long since died. It ended when she finally found the strength to declare her marriage to Galen a mistake, and ended it. It had taken her two years to get him out of her life...and now Galen was bac...

  • Surviving Summer Vacation

    A family vacation quickly goes awry in this fast-paced and funny mystery novel from Willo Davis Roberts. Winner of the Edgar Award! Twins Lewis and Allison are excited to join their new neighbors for an awesome vacation: they’ll be driving to Ye...

  • Murder at Grand Bay

  • The Dark Rose

    • / Gothic
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  • The Evil Children

    • / Gothic
    • Buy Buy

    THE DEVIL'S DELIGHT Skippy was twelve; Denny eleven. They had been thrown out of every school in this part of the state, give up as incorrigible, malicious, destructive - everything that children should not be. Even their family could not co...

  • The Gates of Montrain

    • / Gothic
    • Buy Buy

    HOUSE OF WOMEN …but which one was the murderer? Was it Sylvie, hiding behind a mask of insanity, plotting the destruction of imagined enemies? Or was it Olivia, matriarch of the family, who could see her world dissolving even as she watched? As si...

  • The Gods in Green

    • / Gothic
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  • Nurse in Danger

    • / Gothic
    • Buy Buy

    The voice coming over the phone was like a deadly purr. “Keep your mouth shut, nursie. Because, if you don’t -- you’re dead.” Nurse Denise Morgan hung up the receiver in an agony of trembling. She hadn’t really seen the man who had tried to...

  • Sinister Gardens

    • / Gothic
    • Buy Buy

    Insane Inheritance There were four Simister’s living in the twenty-eight room mansion that was falling apart around them. Three of them -- Bruce and Alexi, and their cousin Rob -- were waiting for their Uncle Jordan to die, so they could inherit...

Award-Winning Books by Willo Davis Roberts

Baby-Sitting Is a Dangerous Job
1987 South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award -- Children's
1988 Young Hoosier Book Award -- Grades 4-6
1989 Nevada Young Readers' Award -- Intermediate
Don't Hurt Laurie
1980 Young Hoosier Book Award -- Children's
1982 Georgia Children's Book Award -- Children's Book
How I Visited Yellowstone Park With the Terrible Rupes
1995 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Juvenile
Megan's Island
1989 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Juvenile
Twisted Summer
1997 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Young Adult
1999 Young Hoosier Book Award -- Grades 6-8


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Willo Davis Roberts has published 94 books.

Willo Davis Roberts does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Murder at Grand Bay, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Willo Davis Roberts, Once a Nurse...but always a woman, was published in January 1966.

Yes. Willo Davis Roberts has 2 series.
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