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Dead Hill

Dead Hill
  • Author(s): John Dean
  • 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...

Dead Woman Walking

Dead Woman Walking
  • Author(s): Sharon Bolton
  • 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...

Gallows Drop

Gallows Drop
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • 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...

The Lost (Stone & Oliver 1)

The Lost (Stone & Oliver 1)
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • 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...

The Silent Room

The Silent Room
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • 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...

Toby Jug

Toby Jug
  • Author(s): Denis O'Connor
  • 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)

Harbour Street (Vera Stanhope #6)
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • 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...

Holy Island

Holy Island
  • Author(s): L J Ross
  • 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...

Milk Teeth

Milk Teeth
  • Author(s): Jessica Andrews
  • 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...

Resilience

Resilience
  • Author(s): Bogdan Hrib, Marina Sofia (Translator)
  • 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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