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Five Down

Five Down
  • Author(s): Tom Sibson
  • Location(s): York
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Now

Following a horrific murder in a sleepy suburb of York, a local journalist receives a cryptic clue from someone claiming to be the killer. The clue hints at where the next murder will take place. Teaming up with the...

Fake Alibi

Fake Alibi
  • Author(s): Leigh Russell
  • Location(s): York
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A wheelchair-using woman is strangled and her son, Eddy, is arrested. When his alibi falls apart, the police are satisfied that he is guilty. Only Geraldine doubts whether Eddy is cunning enough to kill his mother and cover his...

Please Don’t Stop the Music

Please Don’t Stop the Music
  • Author(s): Jane Lovering
  • Location(s): North York Moors, York
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Romantic Novel of the Year in 2012 How much can you hide? Jemima Hutton is determined to build a successful new life and keep her past a dark secret. Trouble is, her jewellery business looks set to fail –...

The Memory of Midnight

The Memory of Midnight
  • Author(s): Pamela Hartshorne
  • Location(s): York
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

One hot day in Elizabethan York, young Nell Appleby is trapped in a wooden chest, and a horror of the stifling dark – and of the man who trapped her – dogs her for the rest of her life....

The Son-in-Law

The Son-in-Law
  • Author(s): Charity Norman
  • Location(s): York, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

On a sharp winter’s morning, a man turns his back on prison. Joseph Scott has served his term. He’s lost almost everything: his career as a teacher, his wife, the future he’d envisaged. All he has left are his...

Behind The Scenes At The Museum

Behind The Scenes At The Museum
  • Author(s): Kate Atkinson
  • Location(s): York
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): End 19th Century going forward

Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress and a D-cup that he wasn’t married. Bunty had never wanted...

Christmas Shambles in York

Christmas Shambles in York
  • Author(s): Susan Willis
  • Location(s): York
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2021

Barbara is wandering through The Shambles in York when she literally bumps into Clive. A chance meeting on her staycation turns out to be her first holiday romance. But Clive is eighteen years younger. Barbara’s friends and family think...

Clive’s Christmas Crusades

Clive’s Christmas Crusades
  • Author(s): Susan Willis
  • Location(s): York
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery
  • Era(s): 2021

Twenty-nine-year-old, Clive and his partner, Barbara have lived together for a year now. Clive works as a tour leader on trips around his beloved York City. When he finishes one of his favourite, murder-mystery trails, he pockets his tips...

Deep Cover

Deep Cover
  • Author(s): Leigh Russell
  • Location(s): York
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(A DI Geraldine Steel Thriller Book 16) When a sex worker dies in suspicious circumstances in York, Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel struggles to remain focused on the murder investigation. She is distracted by her worries about her colleague and...

Falling Apart

Falling Apart
  • Author(s): Jane Lovering
  • Location(s): York
  • Genre(s): Paranormal
  • Era(s): Alt-universe/present day

Second in series In the mean streets of York, the stakes just got higher – and even pointier. Jessica Grant liaises with Otherworlders for York Council so she knows that falling in love with a vampire takes a leap...

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