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All Creatures Great and Small: “If Only They Could Talk” and “It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet”

All Creatures Great and Small: “If Only They Could Talk” and “It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet”
  • Author(s): James Herriot
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): 1930s

This is the rural landscape of North Yorkshire. The life of a vet in the 1930s, beautifully written and a classic of its time.

Five Down

Five Down
  • Author(s): Tom Sibson
  • Location(s): York
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Now

Following a horrific murder in a sleepy suburb of York, a local journalist receives a cryptic clue from someone claiming to be the killer. The clue hints at where the next murder will take place. Teaming up with the...

Hope For The Railway Girls (Railway Girls #5)

Hope For The Railway Girls (Railway Girls #5)
  • Author(s): Maisie Thomas
  • Location(s): Manchester, Leeds
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WWII

Manchester, 1942 A new year brings new hope for the railway girls. Alison’s romance with the charming Dr Maitland is blossoming, but then she is posted away from Manchester. Working in a canteen isn’t part of her plan, nor...

Mortmain Hall

Mortmain Hall
  • Author(s): Martin Edwards
  • Location(s): London, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

ENGLAND, 1930. Grieving widows are a familiar sight on London’s Necropolis Railway. So when an elegant young woman in a black veil boards the funeral train, nobody guesses her true purpose. But Rachel Savernake is not one of the...

Talking at Night

Talking at Night
  • Author(s): Claire Daverley
  • Location(s): Montenegro, Norfolk, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Will and Rosie meet as teenagers. They’re opposites in every way, but over secret walks home and late-night phone calls they become closer, destined to be one another’s great love story. Until, one day, tragedy strikes and any possibility...

The Hidden Child

The Hidden Child
  • Author(s): Rebecca Griffiths
  • Location(s): Manchester, Saddleworth Moor
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

Connie splashed through puddles, the rain slapping her face. Everywhere was tarmac and concrete, fog and drizzle, but no sign of her child. ‘Have you seen my daughter? Please, you must’ve seen her?’ Connie’s face crumpled, preparing to cry....

Fake Alibi

Fake Alibi
  • Author(s): Leigh Russell
  • Location(s): York
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A wheelchair-using woman is strangled and her son, Eddy, is arrested. When his alibi falls apart, the police are satisfied that he is guilty. Only Geraldine doubts whether Eddy is cunning enough to kill his mother and cover his...

Someone Else’s Conflict

Someone Else’s Conflict
  • Author(s): Alison Layland
  • Location(s): Croatia, Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s/modern

Jay has chosen an itinerant life of busking and odd-jobbing, using rootlessness and stories to hide the guilt of his mistakes from the 1990s war in Croatia, beneath an outward layer of cheerfulness. When he arrives in the Yorkshire...

The House Fell on Her Head

The House Fell on Her Head
  • Author(s): Kate Mitchell
  • Location(s): Australia, Sheffield
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to WW21

When human remains are discovered in a buried Anderson shelter, Alice finds herself wrapped up in a murder mystery that brings back forgotten memories. In Australia, Frank hears of the discovery. He believes he knows whose body this is,...

Unnatural Ends

Unnatural Ends
  • Author(s): Christoper Huang
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1921

Sir Lawrence Linwood is dead. More accurately, he was murdered―savagely beaten to death in his own study with a mediaeval mace. The murder calls home his three adopted children: Alan, an archeologist; Roger, an engineer; and Caroline, a journalist....

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