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Deceit in May

Deceit in May
  • Author(s): Roz Ryszka-Onions
  • Location(s): Bosham
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

When settling in the picturesque harbour of Bosham, Keira hopes to lay the ghosts of her past to rest. Expecting a quiet life in this sleepy village, which only comes alive in the tourist season, she soon finds herself...

Dog Days

Dog Days
  • Author(s): Ericka Waller
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

George is very angry. His wife has upped and died on him, and all he wants to do is sit in his underpants and shout at the cricket. The last thing he needs is his cake-baking neighbour Betty trying...

Double Blind

Double Blind
  • Author(s): Edward St Aubyn
  • Location(s): London, Antibes, California, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Double Blind follows three close friends and their circle through a year of extraordinary transformation. Set between London, Cap d’Antibes, Big Sur and a rewilded corner of Sussex, this thrilling, ambitious novel is as compelling about ecology, psychoanalysis, genetics...

Find Them Dead

Find Them Dead
  • Author(s): Peter James
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Roy Grace, creation of the award-winning author Peter James, unearths a powerful criminal network in Find Them Dead. Ending his secondment to London’s Met Police, Roy Grace gets a tip-off about a county lines drugs mastermind operating out of...

Force of Hate

Force of Hate
  • Author(s): Graham Bartlett
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a firebomb attack at a Brighton travellers’ site kills women and children, Chief Superintendent Jo Howe has strong reason to believe the new, dubiously elected, far-right council leader is behind the murders. Against the direct orders of her...

Guilty Party

Guilty Party
  • Author(s): Candy Denman
  • Location(s): Hastings
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): present

Curiosity about a strangled lawyer leads police doctor Callie Hughes along a bumpy road to the truth When a lawyer is found dead in his home, the circumstances are indeed strange, if not wholly suspicious. An act of auto-eroticisation...

Her Last Breath

Her Last Breath
  • Author(s): Alison Belsham
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Current day

The body count is rising…and the clock is ticking. When a young woman is attacked and left fighting to survive in hospital, the police are pulled into a race against time to save her life. But just 24 hours...

Her Perfect Revenge

Her Perfect Revenge
  • Author(s): Lesley Sanderson
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On the surface we were the perfect couple, but no one knows what we’ve been hiding… Just six hours ago, Alex and I were married. It was a beautiful wedding by the sea, on the beach we’ve always loved....

Here We Are

Here We Are
  • Author(s): Graham Swift
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1959

It is Brighton, 1959, and the theatre at the end of the pier is having its best summer season in years. Ronnie, a brilliant young magician, and Evie, his dazzling assistant, are top of the bill, drawing audiences each...

I Lift Up My Eyes

I Lift Up My Eyes
  • Author(s): Jane Bwye
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

A raw story of hope and love, which addresses real life emotions and hits compromise head on. “Do I do the right thing, or do I live while I still can?” Ann is faced with a dilemma as she...

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