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The Stranger Diaries

The Stranger Diaries
  • Author(s): Elly Griffiths
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

A gripping contemporary Gothic thriller from the bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway mysteries: Susan Hill meets Gone Girl and Disclaimer. Clare Cassidy is no stranger to tales of murder. As a literature teacher specialising in the Gothic...

Body Heat

Body Heat
  • Author(s): Candy Denman
  • Location(s): Hastings
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present

When police doctor Callie Hughes is called to a crime scene, pronouncing death isn’t difficult. More difficult will be determining the age and sex of the victim. The charred body found inside a burned-out car is so badly damaged,...

Dead Pretty

Dead Pretty
  • Author(s): Candy Denman
  • Location(s): Hastings
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present

It is not unusual for Callie Hughes to see a dead body. As a part-time police doctor, she has seen more than most. And it was hardly unusual for her to be called in to a reported drugs overdose....

A Shot in the Dark

A Shot in the Dark
  • Author(s): Lynne Truss
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After the notorious ‘Middle Street Massacre’ of 1951, when the majority of Brighton’s criminals wiped one another out in a vicious battle as the local police force enjoyed a brief stop en route for an ice cream, Inspector Steine...

The Brighton Mermaid

The Brighton Mermaid
  • Author(s): Dorothy Koomson
  • Location(s): Brighton, England
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1993 and present day

Brighton Beach, 1993 Teenagers Nell and Jude find the body of a young woman and when no one comes to claim her, she becomes known as the Brighton Mermaid. Nell is still struggling to move on when, three weeks...

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Cherry Radford
  • Location(s): Beachy Head, Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

After the break-up of her marriage, Imogen escapes to her aunt’s converted lighthouse on Beachy Head. Writing for a tedious online magazine but hoping to start a novel, she wants to be alone until she finds an entrancing flamenco...

Before I Found You

Before I Found You
  • Author(s): Daisy White
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1960's

Do you love gripping mysteries? Then discover Ruby Baker, a young woman with a talent for uncovering the truth. A child found alone on the beach, shouting into the waves. A mother who served ten years for a crime...

Before I Left

Before I Left
  • Author(s): Daisy White
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1960's

A LONG HOT SUMMER, A CITY BY THE SEA, AND A SERIAL KILLER ON THE LOOSE. Nineteen-year-old runaway Ruby Baker and pregnant best friend Mary escape domestic violence in London to find a new home in Brighton. They join...

No Bodies

No Bodies
  • Author(s): Robert Crouch
  • Location(s): Sussex Downs
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present

Why would environmental health officer, Kent Fisher, show any interest in finding Daphne Witherington, the missing wife of a longstanding family friend? The police believe she ran off with Colin Miller, a rather dubious caterer, and Kent has problems...

The Chalky Sea

The Chalky Sea
  • Author(s): Clare Flynn
  • Location(s): Eastbourne
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): World War 2

Two troubled people struggle to find their way in a turbulent world. In July 1940, Gwen Collingwood drops her husband at the railway station, knowing she may never see him again. Two days later her humdrum world is torn...

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