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Dennis Bisskit and the Man from Paris with the Very Large Head

Dennis Bisskit and the Man from Paris with the Very Large Head
  • Author(s): Stephen Ainley
  • Location(s): Birmingham, Dudley
  • Genre(s): Humour, Crime
  • Era(s): 1969

Set in Dudley and Birminghay in 1969, Dennis Bisskit and best friend, Stinky Blackshaw, have recently left the army and begun a new career as Dudley’s finest (and only) private investigators. Full of the laughter and hilarious situations that...

God’s Country

God’s Country
  • Author(s): Kerry Hadley-Pryce
  • Location(s): The Black Country
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

‘‘I was born in the Black Country and have lived there most of my life. I’ve always felt that it, and the texture of its part-industrial, part-rural landscape provokes a unique sensation of place, and I try to emulate...

The Crossbow Stalker

The Crossbow Stalker
  • Author(s): Tony Bassett
  • Location(s): The Midlands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

Midlands police chase a serial killer who inflicts death by the new urban weapon of choice. Given the targets seem enveloped in love affairs and deceitful liaisons, Chief Inspector Gavin Roscoe suspects a motive of jealousy and revenge. But...

The Dennis Bisskit Adventures

The Dennis Bisskit Adventures
  • Author(s): Stephen Ainley
  • Location(s): Dudley, West Midlands
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): 1950s and 60s.

The hilarious, fictional adventures of young, Dennis Bisskit. Growing up in Dudley in the 1950s and 60s. Schooldays , his first jobs at a department story and hotel, and finally as a young adult in the army. Fun of...

The Lantern’s Dance

The Lantern’s Dance
  • Author(s): Laurie R King
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), Nimes, Paris, The Midlands
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

‘Deftly interlacing present and past, King offers further fascinating insights into Holmes’s family while also delivering an intriguing mystery’- Washington Post September, 1925. After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes look forward to spending time...

The Scarlet Forest A Tale of Robin Hood 2nd edition

The Scarlet Forest A Tale of Robin Hood 2nd edition
  • Author(s): A E Chandler
  • Location(s): Sherwood Forest
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 13th century

You are invited underneath the great greenwood tree to hear how a young man became a hero, and a hero became a legend. When Robin takes a shortcut through Sherwood Forest, the path he chooses leads not to Nottingham’s...

Woman of a Certain Rage

Woman of a Certain Rage
  • Author(s): Georgie Hall
  • Location(s): Stratford-upon-Avon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A smart and funny novel about love, life and a second shot at freedom for rebellious women of a certain age. Eliza is angry. Very angry, and very, very hot. Late for work and dodging traffic, she’s still reeling...

Hamnet

Hamnet
  • Author(s): Maggie O'Farrell
  • Location(s): Stratford-upon-Avon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1596

TWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART. On a summer’s day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet,...

Human Remains

Human Remains
  • Author(s): Jo Callaghan
  • Location(s): Warwickshire
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

DCS Kat Frank and AIDE Lock are back in a cutting-edge new thriller. The truth will always come out, but at what cost?  Fresh from successfully closing their first live case, the Future Policing Unit are called in to investigate...

Invisible Victim

Invisible Victim
  • Author(s): Mel Sherratt
  • Location(s): Stoke on Trent
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“Let me out! Please!’ I shouted, banging on the door. How had I got here? What day was it? I couldn’t remember anything. But I knew I had become the fifth woman to be abducted.” As my eyes adjust...

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