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A Deadly Thaw

A Deadly Thaw
  • Author(s): Sarah Ward
  • Location(s): Derbyshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

2004: In Bampton, Derbyshire, Lena Fisher is arrested for suffocating her husband, Andrew. Spring 2016: A year after Lena’s release from prison, Andrew is found murdered in a disused mortuary. Who was the man Lena killed twelve years ago...

A Fatal Waltz

A Fatal Waltz
  • Author(s): Tasha Alexander
  • Location(s): England, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 1800s

Lady Emily Ashton is on a shooting weekend at the country estate of Lord Fortescue. Still engaged to Colin Hargreaves she comes face to face with a past amour (as it happens an Austrian Countess). Fortescue is found murdered...

A Foreign Country

A Foreign Country
  • Author(s): Charles Cumming
  • Location(s): England, France, North Africa
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Late 1970s onwards

Amelia Levene is about to become Head of SIS (MI6), but goes missing. Thomas Kell, an MI6 officer, has been forced out in disgrace following an incident in Afghanistan – he is asked however, in secret, to find out...

A Ghost Among Us

A Ghost Among Us
  • Author(s): Debora ElizaBeth Hill
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Three young women rent a lovely house in Hampstead but discover that they have a “lodger” who is Sir Jerome Kennington, who was murdered. They embark on the quest to help him find his murderer, thereby releasing his soul....

A Mysterious Affair of Style (Evadne Mount 2)

A Mysterious Affair of Style (Evadne Mount 2)
  • Author(s): Gilbert Adair
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1940s

London 1946. An actress is murdered, not just on camera but in full view of a crowded film set. Only six people had an opportunity to administer the poison yet not one of them had a conceivable motive. As...

A Poisoned Season

A Poisoned Season
  • Author(s): Tasha Alexander
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Mid 1800s

This mystery is about the descendants of the French monarchy: items are being stolen from the legacy of Marie Antoinette: Emily is receiving anonymous poems written in Greek: David Francis has been murdered….

A Proper Charlie

A Proper Charlie
  • Author(s): Louise Wise
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance

She’s losing her job. She’s losing her boyfriend. She can only afford to eat spaghetti hoops on toast. She’s called Charlie… or Charlotte, or ginger, ginge, Duracell, carrot. Yet with all these odds against her, she pushes forward to...

A Sister’s Shame

A Sister’s Shame
  • Author(s): Carol Rivers
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

They’d give up everything to dance on stage, but could they lose each other? London’s East End, 1934. Eighteen-year-old twins Marie and Vesta Haskins work at the local shoe factory to bring in a few pennies for the family,...

A Slow Fire Burning

A Slow Fire Burning
  • Author(s): Paula Hawkins
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘What is wrong with you?’ Laura has spent most of her life being judged. She’s seen as hot-tempered, troubled, a loner. Some even call her dangerous. Miriam knows that just because Laura is witnessed leaving the scene of a...

A Very Big House in the Country

A Very Big House in the Country
  • Author(s): Claire Sandy
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For one long hot summer in Devon, three families are sharing one very big house in the country. The Herreras: made up of two tired parents, three grumbling children and one promiscuous dog; the Littles: he’s loaded (despite two...

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