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Empty Vessels

Empty Vessels
  • Author(s): Marina Pascoe
  • Location(s): Falmouth
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

Meet Inspector George Bartlett and Constable Archibald Boase in their first investigation together. In the closing months of 1921, Bartlett and Boase have a missing girl on their Falmouth patch. Before long they find themselves drawn into a murder...

The Levelling Sea

The Levelling Sea
  • Author(s): Philip Marsden
  • Location(s): Falmouth
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

The story of Britain’s colourful maritime past seen through the changing fortunes of the Cornish port of Falmouth. Within the space of few years, during the 1560s and 1570s, a maritime revolution took place in England that would contribute...

The Perfect Lie

The Perfect Lie
  • Author(s): Emily Barr
  • Location(s): Falmouth, London, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A girl flees to Venice to escape her dangerous past in this electrifying novel of intrigue, psychological tension and suspense… For Lucy Riddick, Venice has always been the dream destination. A dream inspired by the pretty picture pinned to...

A Place of Birds

A Place of Birds
  • Author(s): Jane Jackson
  • Location(s): Falmouth, Shanghai
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 19th Century

In Victorian Cornwall nineteen-year-old Susanna Elliot rebels against her strict Quaker background. Alienated from her family and community, rejected by the doctor she admires, and refused permission to take her dead brother’s place in the family business, she flees...

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