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Rare Singles

Rare Singles
  • Author(s): Benjamin Myers
  • Location(s): Scarborough
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dinah has always lived in Scarborough. Trapped with her feckless husband and useless son, her one release comes at her town’s Northern Soul nights, where she gets to put on her best and lose herself in the classics. Dinah...

Bombshell

Bombshell
  • Author(s): Joanna Vaughan
  • Location(s): Scarborough
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Looking back at WW1

“Well that’s it. We’re at war! We’re at war with the blasted Hun! I hope you’re happy now, Clara!” It was the standard First World War tragedy. A young dad is killed at Ypres and never meets his newborn...

House of Secrets

House of Secrets
  • Author(s): Lynda Stacey
  • Location(s): Scarborough, Yorkshire
  • Era(s): 1942 - present day

A woman on the run, a broken man and a house with a shocking secret … Madeleine Frost has to get away. Her partner Liam has become increasingly controlling to the point that Maddie fears for her safety, and...

The Other Child

The Other Child
  • Author(s): Charlotte Link
  • Location(s): London, Scarborough
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern, 1970s, WW2

In the northern seaside town of Scarborough, a student is found cruelly murdered. For months, the investigators are in the dark, until they are faced with a copy-cat crime. The investigation continues apace, yet they are still struggling to...

Noblesse Oblige

Noblesse Oblige
  • Author(s): Lynne Connolly
  • Location(s): Scarborough
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Turn of the 18th Century

A Regency romance. When Marianne Noble, a lady’s companion, visits the fashionable northern spa of Scarborough with her employer, she meets a man who attracts her instantly. However, a lady only just the right side of thirty with no...

The Last Train to Scarborough

The Last Train to Scarborough
  • Author(s): Andrew Martin
  • Location(s): Scarborough
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

One night, in a private boarding house in Scarborough, a railwayman vanishes, leaving his belongings behind… It is the eve of the Great War, and Jim Stringer, railway detective, is uneasy about his next assignment. It’s not so much...

The Seafront Tea Rooms

The Seafront Tea Rooms
  • Author(s): Vanessa Greene
  • Location(s): Scarborough, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The Seafront Tea Rooms is a peaceful hideaway, away from the bustle of the seaside, and in this quiet place a group of women find exactly what they’ve been searching for. Charismatic journalist Charlotte is on a mission to scope out...

A Wake of Crows

A Wake of Crows
  • Author(s): Kate Evans
  • Location(s): Germany, Scarborough
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Donna Morris comes to the small seaside town of Scarborough, North Yorkshire, as part of her probationary year as a DC and also to be close to her wayward daughter. Within days of starting work with her new team,...

Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel

Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel
  • Author(s): Glenda Young
  • Location(s): Scarborough
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel is a fun, cosy crime / murder mystery set in Scarborough and published by Headline. It stars an acting troupe who arrive at Helen Dexter’s Seaview Hotel to rehearse a play they hope...

Deadly Dancing at the Seaview Hotel

Deadly Dancing at the Seaview Hotel
  • Author(s): Glenda Young
  • Location(s): Scarborough
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

4: Helen Dexter Cosy Crime Mystery ‘I loved Glenda’s book and her characters – perfect for all fans of dance, mystery and cosy escapism. Absolutely smashing!’ ANTON DU BEKE The fourth in the page-turning cosy crime series from Glenda...

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