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The Alone Alternative

The Alone Alternative
  • Author(s): Linda MacDonald
  • Location(s): London, Devon, Isles of Scilly
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2012

Former classmates Edward and Marianne, now fifty-five, have experienced a turbulent few years having lost contact with each other and suffered painful disruption to their home lives. Reunited again, this time through Twitter, they set about a search for...

The Boneyard

The Boneyard
  • Author(s): Mark Sennen
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When the partially clothed body of a woman is discovered on Dartmoor, all eyes are on one man. There wasn’t enough evidence to convict Kendwick of his suspected crimes in America, but DI Charlotte Savage is determined to bring...

The Bookshop Detective

The Bookshop Detective
  • Author(s): Jan Ellis
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When a ghost ship is spotted on the horizon one spring evening, bookseller Eleanor Mace decides to investigate the myths and legends of Combemouth, the Devon seaside town where she runs The Reading Room. As Eleanor digs deeper into...

The Flower Girls

The Flower Girls
  • Author(s): Alice Clark-Platts
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THREE CHILDREN WENT OUT TO PLAY. ONLY TWO CAME BACK. The Flower Girls. Laurel and Primrose. One convicted of murder, the other given a new identity. Now, nineteen years later, another child has gone missing. And the Flower Girls...

The Four

The Four
  • Author(s): Ellie Keel
  • Location(s): North Devon
  • Genre(s): Noir, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

We were always The Four. From our very first day at High Realms. The four scholarship pupils. Outsiders in a world of power and privilege. It would have made our lives a lot easier if Marta had simply pushed...

The Good Listener

The Good Listener
  • Author(s): Holly Watt
  • Location(s): Coryton, Exeter
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An anonymous call. A mother desperate for justice. The Good Listeners are there for anyone who needs to talk. When the phone rings, a Good Listener has no idea who could be at the other end. The woman cheating...

The Heron’s Cry

The Heron’s Cry
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): North Devon
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Two Rivers Book 2) North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. What he...

The Heron’s Cry

The Heron’s Cry
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): North Devon
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The number one Sunday Times bestselling series featuring Detective Matthew Venn, from author and creator of the Vera and Shetland series, Ann Cleeves – soon to be a major TV series. North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer...

The Horseman

The Horseman
  • Author(s): Tim Pears
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Pre-WW1

The West Country Trilogy #1 1911. In a forgotten valley on the Devon–Somerset border, the seasons unfold, marked only by the rituals of the farming calendar. Twelve-year-old Leopold Sercombe skips school to help his father, a carter. Skinny and...

The Indelible Stain

The Indelible Stain
  • Author(s): Wendy Percival
  • Location(s): Hartland
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

This is the second book in the Esme Quentin genealogy mystery series Esme Quentin’s arrival in north Devon is marred by the gruesome discovery of a fatally injured woman at the foot of Warren Cliff. Troubled by the woman’s...

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