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TO CATCH A LIE

TO CATCH A LIE
  • Author(s): John Dean
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

A murder investigation leads DCI Jack Harris to Scotland, but is it just a fishing expedition? When a man’s body is found on the Langdon Estate in the North Pennines, DCI Jack Harris suspects the death is connected to...

The Book of Beginnings

The Book of Beginnings
  • Author(s): Sally Page
  • Location(s): London, Highgate
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jo Sorsby is hiding from her past when she agrees to run her uncle’s beloved stationery shop. Glimpsing the lives of her customers between the warm wooden shelves, as they scribble little notes and browse colourful notebooks, distracts her...

Find Me in the Stars: a Cevenoles Sagas novel

Find Me in the Stars: a Cevenoles Sagas novel
  • Author(s): Jules Larimore
  • Location(s): Cévennes (Cevennes), London, Rotterdam, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): late 17th century

Inspired by a true story, this refugee’s tale of sacrifice, separation, and abiding love unfolds in the rugged Cévennes Mountains of Languedoc, France, 1697 in a sweeping adventure during a time of religious divisiveness and Louis XIV’s oppressive rule....

The Muse of Freedom: a Cevenoles Sagas novel

The Muse of Freedom: a Cevenoles Sagas novel
  • Author(s): Jules Larimore
  • Location(s): Cévennes (Cevennes)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): late 17th century

IN THE MYSTERIOUS CÉVENNES MOUNTAINS OF LANGUEDOC, FRANCE, 1695, Jehan BonDurant, a young nobleman forcibly held in a Dominican prieuré as a child, comes of age only to inherit a near-derelict estate and his Huguenot family’s dangerous legacy of...

The Cheesemaker’s Daughter

The Cheesemaker’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Kristin Vuković
  • Location(s): Croatia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st century

In the throes of an unraveling marriage, New Yorker Marina Maržić returns to her native Croatian island where she helps her father with his struggling cheese factory, Sirana. Forced to confront her divided Croatian-American identity and her past as...

The Secret Keepers

The Secret Keepers
  • Author(s): Tilly Bagshawe
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s-Second World War

The beautiful bastide at Beaulieu-sur-Mer has always been an idyllic retreat for the Challant family, a place of glorious memories and sun-drenched summers. But the summer of 1928 changes everything. One humid, stormy night, a young local boy suffers...

Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly

Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly
  • Author(s): Joanna Glen
  • Location(s): United Kingdom, Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern day

On the tiny island of Rokesby, Addie helps her mother run a women’s retreat. Dreaming daily of escape, she consoles herself by swimming in the ocean that surrounds them. On the neighbouring island, joined to Rokesby by a bridge...

A Sicilian Affair

A Sicilian Affair
  • Author(s): Susan Lewis
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Domestic Noir
  • Era(s): Modern day

A fresh start where no-one knows her name is exactly what Catie is looking for from her Sicilian escape. When Catie meets handsome Giancarlo, she has stumbled across a love that could last forever… If only she can admit...

The Trial

The Trial
  • Author(s): Jo Spain
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to 2014

‘Jo Spain is a sublime storyteller . . . this is a book you won’t want to put down’ JANE CASEY 2014, Dublin: at St Edmunds, an elite college on the outskirts of the city, twenty-year-old medical student Theo...

A Poisoner’s Tale

A Poisoner’s Tale
  • Author(s): Cathryn Kemp
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 17th Century

Rome, 1656 In the shadowy backstreets of the Eternal City lies an apothecary – a place for women to take their heartbreaks and troubles. Herbs for childbirth. Tarot readings to tell their fortunes. An undetectable poison that can kill...

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