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- Location(s): North Pennines
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern day
A man is killed by being pushed over the edge of a quarry. There is no doubt about who the culprits are, so why can’t DCI Jack Harris lay a finger on them? Surly and abrasive, veteran detective Harris...
- Location(s): Northumberland
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Just before dawn in the hills near the Scottish border, a man murders a young woman. At the same time, a hot-air balloon crashes out of the sky. There’s just one survivor. She’s seen the killer’s face – but...
- Location(s): Northumberland
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
At dawn on a lonely stretch of road, a body is found hanging from an ancient gallows the morning after a country show. Hours earlier, DCI Kate Daniels had seen the victim alive. With her leave period imminent, she’s...
- Location(s): The North East (England), Northumberland
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘He was her child. The only one she’d ever have. It would kill her to learn that he was missing.’ Alex arrives home from holiday to find that her ten-year-old son Daniel has disappeared. It’s the first case together...
- Location(s): The North East (England)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A security van sets off for Durham prison, a disgraced Special Branch officer in the back. It never arrives. On route it is hijacked by armed men, the prisoner sprung. Suspended from duty on suspicion of aiding and abetting...
- Location(s): Northumberland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
From the bestselling author of Paw Tracks in the Moonlight comes a new adventure with Denis O’Connor and his beloved cat Toby Jug. When Denis receives a call to help an abused and starved racehorse called Lady May, he...
Harbour Street (Vera Stanhope #6)
- Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In Newcastle, Detective Joe Ashworth and his daughter Jessie travel home on the busy Metro. The train is stopped unexpectedly, and Jessie sees that one woman doesn’t leave with the other passengers: Margaret Krukowski has been fatally stabbed. A...
- Location(s): Lindisfarne (Holy Island)
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Detective Chief Inspector Ryan retreats to Holy Island seeking sanctuary when he is forced to take sabbatical leave from his duties as a homicide detective. A few days before Christmas, his peace is shattered and he is thrust back...
- Location(s): The North East (England), Barcelona, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across England, France and Spain. A girl grows up in the north of England amid scarcity, precarity and the toxic culture of heroin chic, believing...
- Location(s): Bucharest, Iasi, London, South Shields
- Genre(s): Political, Thriller
A big meaty tale and powerfully told – Ian Rankin Stelian Munteanu has had enough of fixing other people’s problems: all he wants to do is make the long-distance relationship with his wife Sofia work. But when a notorious...
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