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The Butcher’s Block: A Dan Foster Mystery

The Butcher’s Block: A Dan Foster Mystery
  • Author(s): Lucienne Boyce
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1797

During a routine patrol, police arrest two men in possession of human body parts which are intended for sale to the dissecting rooms of a London teaching hospital. Bow Street Runner and amateur pugilist Dan Foster makes the grisly...

The Cactus

The Cactus
  • Author(s): Sarah Haywood
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

People aren’t sure what to make of Susan Green. Family and colleagues find her prickly and hard to understand – but Susan makes perfect sense to herself. Age 45, she thinks her life is perfect. She has a London...

The Café on Manor Lane

The Café on Manor Lane
  • Author(s): Amelia Kyazze
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s, 1970s and2011

The Café on Manor Lane A stranger can change your life in a moment of kindness 1952: Bella is a young French Jew in post-war London, having lost everything in WWII. When she meets Adebayo, a doctor from Nigeria,...

The Candle Man

The Candle Man
  • Author(s): Alex Scarrow
  • Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean, Whitechapel
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1912 looking back to 1880s

Jack the Ripper’s London…an eerily quiet dining room on the Titanic…and a series of murders that covers two decades. 1912. Locked in an eerily quiet dining room on the Titanic, a mysterious man tells a young girl his life...

The Cardinal’s Court

The Cardinal’s Court
  • Author(s): Cora Harrison
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 16th century

‘To shoot a man on the spur of the moment in the presence of the king and his court, not to mention the cardinal and his household, that took a boldness … Or utter despair.’ HAMPTON COURT, 1522. Lawyer...

The Case of Miss Elliott: (The Teahouse Detective 2)

The Case of Miss Elliott: (The Teahouse Detective 2)
  • Author(s): Baroness Orczy
  • Location(s): London, England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Every crime has its perpetrator, and every puzzle its solution. In the corner of the ABC teashop on Norfolk Street, Polly Burton of the Evening Observer sets down her morning paper, filled with news of the latest outrages, and...

The Catch

The Catch
  • Author(s): Mick Herron
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

If life in the Intelligence Service has taught John Bachelor anything, it’s to keep his head down. Especially now, when he’s living rent-free in a dead spook’s flat. So he’s not delighted to be woken at dawn by a...

The Chateau

The Chateau
  • Author(s): Karen Aldous
  • Location(s): Lake Geneva, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary, going back

Can young hearts ease a restless spirit? On the shores of stunning Lake Geneva, Gina Remy is celebrating her brother’s wedding – when the figure of a woman appears hovering above the water, beckoning to her. Ghostly visitations do...

The Child

The Child
  • Author(s): Fiona Barton
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

As an old house is demolished in a gentrifying section of London, a workman discovers human remains, buried for years. For journalist Kate Waters, it’s a story that deserves attention. She cobbles together a piece for her newspaper, but...

The Christmas Holiday

The Christmas Holiday
  • Author(s): Maxine Morrey
  • Location(s): Florida, India, London, Malaysia (Malaya), Scotland
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As winter comes to London, journalist Mia Walker is desperately hoping for her big break as a travel writer, dreaming of exotic locations and sun-soaked beaches. When she’s invited to write a romantic travel piece that ends in a...

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