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- Location(s): Launceston
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): First half 20th Century
Laura, an impoverished Cornish girl, meets her husband when they are both in service in Teignmouth in 1916. They have a baby, Charles, but Laura’s husband returns home from the trenches a damaged man, already ill with the tuberculosis...
Murder At Primrose Cottage (Flora Steele #3)
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
- Era(s): 1956
Join Flora Steele – bookshop owner, bicycle-rider, daydreamer and amateur detective – in her quest to solve a brand-new murder mystery! Cornwall, 1956: When Flora Steele sets off for a peaceful vacation with crime writer Jack Carrington in his...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
When a young man washes up, naked, on the sands of St Piran in Cornwall, he is quickly rescued by the villagers. From the retired village doctor and the schoolteacher, to the beachcomber and the owner of the local...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
Oliver Foxley is an acclaimed movie star and global heartthrob. But under the glare of the spotlight his ‘perfect’ life – and marriage – is slowly starting to crumble. Cara Penhaligon is a struggling young Cornish artist, and widowed...
The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon
- Location(s): Florence, Cornwall, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WWII and 2019
Italy, 1943. A missing painting. A war-scarred city. A brave young girl on a black bicycle risking her life for the country she loved… When Sofia loses her adored father, famous painter Riccardo, she is broken-hearted. Desperate to bring...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Away from the hotels and holiday lets, there is an unseen side of Cornwall, where the shifting uncertainties of the future breed resentment and mistrust. Melody Janie is hidden. She lives alone in a caravan in Bones Break: a...
A Body At The Tearooms (Kate Palmer #3)
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
Nurse Kate Palmer has only been living in Lower Tinworthy, a beautiful little village by the sparkling Cornish sea, for a short time but she’s already making a name for herself as the local Miss Marple. Although not everyone is keen...
- Location(s): Java, St Mawes
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
Jenni is a ghost writer. It’s a job that suits her well. Still haunted by a childhood tragedy, she finds it easier to take refuge in the memories of others than to dwell on her own. Klara was a...
A Body At Lavender Cottage (Kate Palmer #6)
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Nurse Kate Palmer is Cornwall’s answer to Miss Marple! But when a body turns up in her own garden can Kate solve the crime? Or is the murder a bit too close to home? Kate Palmer is stunned when...
A Body At The Altar (Kate Palmer book #4)
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Cosy Mystery, Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
Jilted grooms, sudden deaths, broken hearts and threatening letters. All in a day’s work for super sleuth Kate Palmer! Nurse Kate Palmer thought the pretty Cornish village of Tinworthy would be the perfect place for a peaceful retirement. She...
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