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- Location(s): County Durham, Northumberland, The Pennines
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When a young girl is found dead at the base of Hadrian’s Wall, it’s not long before Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels realises her death was no ordinary homicide. She was thrown from a great height and was probably...
- Location(s): Derbyshire, Eyam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1660s onwards
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘March’ and ‘People of the Book’. A young woman’s struggle to save her family and her soul during the extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly struck a small Derbyshire village. In 1666,...
- Location(s): Glossop, The Peak District
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s and Modern
1980. On a hot summer’s day five friends stumble upon an abandoned cottage hidden deep in the English countryside. Isolated and run-down, it offers a retreat, somewhere they can escape from the world. But as the seasons change, tensions...
- Location(s): Derbyshire
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
2004: In Bampton, Derbyshire, Lena Fisher is arrested for suffocating her husband, Andrew. Spring 2016: A year after Lena’s release from prison, Andrew is found murdered in a disused mortuary. Who was the man Lena killed twelve years ago...
- Location(s): The Peak District
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
A summer of endless rain in the Peak District leaves the officers of Derbyshire’s CID with a problem. They have discovered a man’s body lying in shallow water, but torrential rain has swollen the rivers and flooded the roads,...
- Location(s): Nottingham, The Peak District
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
She says he’s perfect. I know he’s lying . . . He caught me watching, and our eyes met. That was when it hit me. There was something not quite right about my daughter’s new boyfriend . . ....
- Location(s): The Peak District
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A SHOCKING DEATH – A lawyer is found dead in a Peak District cave, his face ribboned with scratches. A SINISTER MESSAGE – Amidst rumours of a local curse, DI Meg Dalton is convinced this is cold-blooded murder. There’s...
- Location(s): Eyam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 1660s
In a wholly original take on the Eyam story, Joanne Burn’s elegant prose, rich in authentic detail, results in a rewarding and timely read — SARAH BURTON, author of ‘The Strange Adventures of H’ Lyrically written, The Hemlock Cure...
- Location(s): The Pennines
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2010
In summer 2010 Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way. The challenging 256-mile route is usually approached from south to north, from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm, the other side of the Scottish border. He...
- Location(s): The Peak District, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 2015
How do you rescue someone who has already been found? Jen’s fifteen-year-old daughter goes missing for four agonizing days. When Lana is found, unharmed, in the middle of the desolate countryside, everyone thinks the worst is over. But Lana...
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