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Belonging

Belonging
  • Author(s): Umi Sinha
  • Location(s): India, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century to early 1920s

Lila Langdon is twelve years old when she witnesses a family tragedy after her mother unveils her father’s surprise birthday present – a tragedy that ends her childhood in India and precipitates a new life in Sussex with her...

Beyond A Broken Sky

Beyond A Broken Sky
  • Author(s): Suzanne Fortin
  • Location(s): Somerset, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1945 and 2022

Some secrets are better left buried… 2022. Stained-glass expert Rhoda Sullivan is called to Telton Hall to examine a window designed by an Italian prisoner of war during WW2. It should be a quick job but when she and...

Chasing Shadows

Chasing Shadows
  • Author(s): Matthew J Evans
  • Location(s): Chichester, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

When DS David Angelis wakes from a coma, his world is turned upside down as he discovers he can see into the minds of others. Is he now a threat to his job, or will he use his supernatural...

Death of a Mermaid

Death of a Mermaid
  • Author(s): Lesley Thomson
  • Location(s): Newhaven
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Freddy Power walked out of her childhood home twenty-two years ago, and swore never to return. But now she’s back, helping run her family’s fishery in Newhaven in the wake of her mother’s death. It feels as if time...

Don’t Swipe Right

Don’t Swipe Right
  • Author(s): L M Chilton
  • Location(s): Eastbourne
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

They say romance is dead, but if Eastbourne barista Gwen can’t catch the mystery killer who’s targeting every man she’s ever dated, it’s about to get a whole lot deadlier. A twisty, fast-paced and darkly hilarious modern murder mystery...

Bad For Good

Bad For Good
  • Author(s): Graham Bartlett
  • Location(s): Brighton, Hove
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How far would you go? The murder of a promising footballer, son of Brighton’s highest-ranking police officer, means Detective Superintendent Jo Howe has a complicated and sensitive case on her hands. The situation becomes yet more desperate following devastating...

Madame Burova

Madame Burova
  • Author(s): Ruth Hogan
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Madame Burova – Tarot Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant is retiring and leaving her booth on the Brighton seafront after fifty years. Imelda Burova has spent a lifetime keeping other people’s secrets and her silence has come at a price....

Murder At The Priory Hotel (Flora Steele #4)

Murder At The Priory Hotel (Flora Steele #4)
  • Author(s): Merryn Allingham
  • Location(s): Sussex, Portsmouth
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1957

Join Flora Steele – bookshop owner, bicycle-rider, and amateur detective – as she faces her most puzzling case yet! Sussex, 1957: When Flora Steele and handsome crime writer Jack Carrington attend the grand re-opening of the Priory Hotel in...

Murder In A French Village (Flora Steele Mystery #7)

Murder In A French Village (Flora Steele Mystery #7)
  • Author(s): Merryn Allingham
  • Location(s): Provence, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s

Join bookshop owner Flora Steele and handsome writer Jack Carrington as they set off on a French adventure and solve a chilling crime! Jack is stunned to receive a call from his estranged mother, Sybil, asking him to drop...

Murder On The Pier (Flora Steele #2)

Murder On The Pier (Flora Steele #2)
  • Author(s): Merryn Allingham
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Mid 1950s

Meet Flora Steele – bookshop owner, bicycle-rider, daydreamer and amateur detective! Sussex, 1956: When bookshop owner Flora Steele goes for a walk along the pier she isn’t expecting to spot a young woman’s body in the stormy waters below....

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