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- Location(s): Eyam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 1660s
In a wholly original take on the Eyam story, Joanne Burn’s elegant prose, rich in authentic detail, results in a rewarding and timely read — SARAH BURTON, author of ‘The Strange Adventures of H’ Lyrically written, The Hemlock Cure...
- Location(s): Derbyshire, Eyam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1660s onwards
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘March’ and ‘People of the Book’. A young woman’s struggle to save her family and her soul during the extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly struck a small Derbyshire village. In 1666,...
- Location(s): The Peak District
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
A summer of endless rain in the Peak District leaves the officers of Derbyshire’s CID with a problem. They have discovered a man’s body lying in shallow water, but torrential rain has swollen the rivers and flooded the roads,...
- Location(s): The Peak District
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A SHOCKING DEATH – A lawyer is found dead in a Peak District cave, his face ribboned with scratches. A SINISTER MESSAGE – Amidst rumours of a local curse, DI Meg Dalton is convinced this is cold-blooded murder. There’s...
- Location(s): Glossop, The Peak District
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s and Modern
1980. On a hot summer’s day five friends stumble upon an abandoned cottage hidden deep in the English countryside. Isolated and run-down, it offers a retreat, somewhere they can escape from the world. But as the seasons change, tensions...
- Location(s): The Peak District, The Pennines
- Genre(s): Fiction, Horror
- Era(s): Modern
Cass is building a new life for herself and her young son Ben after the death of her soldier husband Pete, returning to the village where she lived as a child. But their idyllic new home is not what...
- Location(s): Nottingham, The Peak District
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
She says he’s perfect. I know he’s lying . . . He caught me watching, and our eyes met. That was when it hit me. There was something not quite right about my daughter’s new boyfriend . . ....
- Location(s): The Peak District, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 2015
How do you rescue someone who has already been found? Jen’s fifteen-year-old daughter goes missing for four agonizing days. When Lana is found, unharmed, in the middle of the desolate countryside, everyone thinks the worst is over. But Lana...
- Location(s): Derbyshire, The Peak District
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Present looking back to 1960s
In the Peak District village of Scardale, thirteen-year-old girls didn’t just run away. So when Alison Carter vanished in the winter of ’63, everyone knew it was a murder. Catherine Heathcote remembers the case well. A child herself when...
- Location(s): The Peak District
- Genre(s): Crime, Paranormal, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A DI Meg Dalton thriller, Book 2 She was racing towards the gorge. The place the locals knew as ‘Dead Girl’s Drop’… DI Meg Dalton is thrown headlong into her latest case when she finds a ten-year-old girl running...