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Mother’s Boy

Mother’s Boy
  • Author(s): Patrick Gale
  • 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)

Murder At Primrose Cottage (Flora Steele #3)
  • Author(s): Merryn Allingham
  • 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...

Not Forgetting the Whale

Not Forgetting the Whale
  • Author(s): John Ironmonger
  • 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...

Summer in a Cornish Cove

Summer in a Cornish Cove
  • Author(s): Kate Ryder
  • 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

The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon
  • Author(s): Suzanne Goldring
  • 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...

The Lip

The Lip
  • Author(s): Charlie Carroll
  • 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)

A Body At The Tearooms (Kate Palmer #3)
  • Author(s): Dee MacDonald
  • 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...

Ghostwritten

Ghostwritten
  • Author(s): Isabel Wolff
  • 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)

A Body At Lavender Cottage (Kate Palmer #6)
  • Author(s): Dee MacDonald
  • 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)

A Body At The Altar (Kate Palmer book #4)
  • Author(s): Dee MacDonald
  • 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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