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The Crooked Beat

The Crooked Beat
  • Author(s): Nick Quantrill
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1980s

When Joe Geraghty’s brother finds himself in financial trouble, it’s only natural that he turns to the Private Investigator for help. But when it relates to a missing consignment of smuggled cigarettes, it’s not so easily sorted. Drawn into...

The Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope £1)

The Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope £1)
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Three very different women come together at isolated Baikie’s Cottage on the North Pennines, to complete an environmental survey. Three women who each know the meaning of betrayal . . . Rachael, the team leader, is still reeling after...

The Dark Winter

The Dark Winter
  • Author(s): David Mark
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Hull, East Yorkshire. Two weeks before Christmas. Three bodies in the morgue. The victims – each a sole survivor of a past tragedy – killed in the manner they once cheated death. Somebody is playing God. And it falls...

The Darkest Secret

The Darkest Secret
  • Author(s): Alex Marwood
  • Location(s): Bournemouth
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

My goddaughter, Coco Jackson, disappeared from her family’s holiday home in Bournemouth on the night of Sunday/Monday August 29/30th, the bank holiday weekend just gone. Coco is three years old. When identical twin Coco goes missing during a family...

The Daughter

The Daughter
  • Author(s): T M Logan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You thought she was safe. You were wrong . . . Lauren can’t wait to see her daughter again, to pick her up from university at the end of her first term. But when she arrives at her hall...

The Day of the Triffids

The Day of the Triffids
  • Author(s): John Wyndham
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight, London, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Horror
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the only person who can see: everyone else, doctors and patients alike, have been...

The Dilemma

The Dilemma
  • Author(s): Julia Roberts
  • Location(s): Berkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 2018 - 2020

My child means everything to me. But saving his life means destroying my best friend’s family… I didn’t plan to fall pregnant, but when I found out, I was overjoyed. Even though I’d be going it alone, I swore...

The Exhibitionist

The Exhibitionist
  • Author(s): Charlotte Mendelson
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘It takes the most ferocious intelligence, skill, and a deep reservoir of sadness to write a novel as funny as this. I adored it’ – Meg Mason, author of Sorrow & Bliss ‘A devastating treat of a novel: funny,...

The Family Retreat

The Family Retreat
  • Author(s): Bev Thomas
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Rob decides the family needs to get away for the summer Jess is not convinced—won’t all the things they’re escaping be waiting for them on their return? But the kids are thrilled, and before long their idyllic little...

The Final Hours of Muriel Hinchcliffe M.B.E

The Final Hours of Muriel Hinchcliffe M.B.E
  • Author(s): Claire Parkin
  • Location(s): North London
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2019

Muriel, a former bestselling romantic novelist, and Ruth, a journalist, are best friends. Inseparable since they were little, they’ve shared everything; unable to be without each other, even after the most vicious of fights. Now fate has left them...

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