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ONE STEP AHEAD

ONE STEP AHEAD
  • Author(s): Denver Murphy
  • Location(s): Nottingham
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): present

An embittered and disillusioned policeman takes revenge on society in this unputdownable serial killer thriller. Retired from the force, Detective Superintendent Jeffrey Brandt goes native. He stabs a woman but holds back from killing her. Frustrated that no one...

One Summer’s Night

One Summer’s Night
  • Author(s): Kiley Dunbar
  • Location(s): Stratford-upon-Avon
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kelsey Anderson is stuck in a rut so big, she ll need a 4-wheel drive to get out. She s just been made redundant from her dead-end job, and boyfriend Fran is so busy climbing up the career ladder...

OUT FOR REVENGE

OUT FOR REVENGE
  • Author(s): Tony Bassett
  • Location(s): Birmingham, West Midlands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Following the death of a local thug, a simmering gang war quickly reaches boiling point… When notorious gangland boss Tadeusz Filipowski is released from prison, several people start looking over their shoulder. A volatile character, not shy of picking...

Precious Bane

Precious Bane
  • Author(s): Mary Webb
  • Location(s): Shropshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th century

Born at the time of Waterloo in the wild country of Shropshire, Prudence Sarn is a wild, passionate girl, cursed with a hare lip — her ‘precious bane’. Cursed for it, too, by the superstitious people amongst whom she...

Rainbow Milk

Rainbow Milk
  • Author(s): Paul Mendez
  • Location(s): Wolverhampton, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s & 2000s

Rainbow Milk is an intersectional coming-of-age story, following nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy as he grapples with his racial and sexual identities against the backdrop of a Jehovah’s Witness upbringing and the legacies of the Windrush generation. In the Black Country...

Red Hollow

Red Hollow
  • Author(s): Natalie Marlow
  • Location(s): Warwickshire
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Warwickshire, 1934 Deep in a hamlet in the Warwickshire countryside, Red Hollow Hall is a male-only sanatorium run by the charismatic psychiatrist Dr Moon. However, all is not well, and Dr Moon’s patients are leaving Red Hollow in droves....

Red is the Colour

Red is the Colour
  • Author(s): Mark L Fowler
  • Location(s): Stoke on Trent
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2002 looking back to 1972

It is the summer of 2002. The corpse of a 15 year old boy, who has been missing for thirty years, is discovered in Stoke-on-Trent. The city is on the cusp of change and Chief Superintendent Berkins wants the...

Reservoir 13

Reservoir 13
  • Author(s): Jon McGregor
  • Location(s): The Peak District
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as...

RING OF CLAY

RING OF CLAY
  • Author(s): Margaret Kaine
  • Location(s): Staffordshire
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1950/1960

An unforgettable story of love, loss and a secret waiting to be told. RING OF CLAY is a compelling regional saga, and won the Romantic Novelists’ Association New Writer’s Award, and the Society of Authors’ Sagittarius Prize.

Riverflow

Riverflow
  • Author(s): Alison Layland
  • Location(s): Shropshire, Ceredigion, Welsh Borders
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Cli-fi
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“No longer the benign friend of summer, the Severn was a restless dragon slithering its way past” After a beloved family member is drowned in a devastating flood, all Bede and Elin Sherwell want is peace to pursue their...

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