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Mistress of My Fate

Mistress of My Fate
  • Author(s): Hallie Rubenhold
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1780s

22 October 1789: I shall never forget that day. I shall never forget the decision I made. I was seventeen and so ill prepared for life that I hardly knew how to dress myself, let alone how to board...

Moon Lord

Moon Lord
  • Author(s): J P Reedman
  • Location(s): Salisbury
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1900BC

Many Sun-Turnings have passed since the Ardhu the Stone Lord inherited the kingship of Prydn. His illegitimate son Mordraed seeks his father’s hall on the Great Plain, and a place among the famed warriors of Kham-el-Ard, but his appearance...

Mud, Muck and Dead Things

Mud, Muck and Dead Things
  • Author(s): Ann Granger
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Lucas Burton hates the countryside. To him it’s nothing but mud, muck and dead things. And he’s right. When he turns up at a deserted farm in the middle of nowhere hoping to conduct a business deal he stumbles...

Murder at Christmas: You Solve the Crime

Murder at Christmas: You Solve the Crime
  • Author(s): G B Rubin
  • Location(s): England, Kent, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

The year is 1932. You are Dr Kinn Tenor, a Scotland Yard pathologist with a sideline in private detection when the boys in blue are stumped. You’re celebrated in the newspapers, but you tend to get the official police’s...

Murder At St Saviour’s (Flora Steele #5)

Murder At St Saviour’s (Flora Steele #5)
  • Author(s): Merryn Allingham
  • Location(s): Sussex, Dorset
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s

Bookshop owner and amateur detective Flora Steele teams up with handsome crime writer Jack Carrington to unravel a curious murder in the village of Abbeymead! Sussex, 1956: When Flora and her partner-in-crime-solving, Jack, arrive at the charming church of...

Murder at the Maples

Murder at the Maples
  • Author(s): Joanne Phillips
  • Location(s): Shropshire
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A cosy mystery set in North Shropshire: Flora Lively is a likeable and interesting character trying against all the odds to keep Shakers Removals going – it’s the business she’s inherited from her Dad. And what is going on...

Murder makes an Entree

Murder makes an Entree
  • Author(s): Amy Myers
  • Location(s): Broadstairs
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Victorian era

Only a dinner of first-class excellence can tempt the Prince of Wales to endure the ordeal of being the president of the Society of Literary Lionisers. And he ensures this by insisting that the year’s highlight, the banquet at...

Mutiny (4)

Mutiny (4)
  • Author(s): Julian Stockwin
  • Location(s): England, Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1797

It is 1797 and Thomas Kydd is now master’s mate on Achilles, a 64-gun ship-of-the-line, on his way back from the Caribbean. After a dangerous rescue mission to Venice Kydd sails for England, but his joy at returning home...

My Criminal World

My Criminal World
  • Author(s): Henry Sutton
  • Location(s): Great Yarmouth
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A clever, witty crime novel in the vein of Kate Atkinson’s celebrated Jackson Brodie series. In awe of his wife, hounded by his agent and ignored by his editor, mild mannered crime novelist David Slavitt finds his life is...

My Husband’s Killer

My Husband’s Killer
  • Author(s): Laura Marshall
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast, South East England
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Three couples. One murder. A holiday to die for . . . We arrived at a villa on the Amalfi Coast, ready to enjoy a sun-soaked weekend with our oldest friends – and one new face. By the end...

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