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The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • Author(s): Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Location(s): Dartmoor
  • Genre(s): Fiction

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world’s greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast “with blazing eyes and dripping jaws” which...

The House of the Wicked

The House of the Wicked
  • Author(s): D M Mitchell
  • Location(s): Porthgarrow
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

1880: Stephen Denning is an artist arriving in Porthgarrow. It is an isolated Cornish fishing community, largely untouched by the modern, developing Victorian world, hanging onto its old traditions, superstitions and beliefs – a community that lives with a...

The House on Bellevue Gardens

The House on Bellevue Gardens
  • Author(s): Rachel Hore
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Rosa has arrived in London from Poland to look for her younger brother Mikhail. He is supposed to be staying with their English father, but when she visits the house she finds it’s locked up and there’s no sign...

The House With The Lilac Shutters

The House With The Lilac Shutters
  • Author(s): Gabrielle Barnby
  • Location(s): England, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Irma Lagrasse has taught piano to three generations of villagers, whilst slowly twisting the knife of vengeance; Nico knows a secret; and M. Lenoir has discovered a suppressed and dangerous passion. Revolving around the Café Rose, opposite The House...

The Houseshare

The Houseshare
  • Author(s): Carla Kovach
  • Location(s): Birmingham
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Behind closed doors is a secret someone is willing to kill for. I walk into the bright, open living room of my new apartment, and I know this is the fresh start I’ve been dreaming about. As I double...

The Huntingfield Paintress

The Huntingfield Paintress
  • Author(s): Pamela Holmes
  • Location(s): Huntingfield
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

Plucky and headstrong Mildred Holland revelled in the eight years she and her husband, the vicar William Holland, spent travelling 1840s Europe, finding inspiration in recording beautiful artistic treasures and collecting exotic artifacts. But William’s new posting in a...

The Italian Teacher

The Italian Teacher
  • Author(s): Tom Rachman
  • Location(s): Rome, London, New York City (NYC), The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1955

Rome, 1955 The artists are gathering together for a photograph. In one of Rome’s historic villas, a party glitters with socialites and patrons. Bear Bavinsky, creator of vast, masculine, meaty canvases, is their god. He is at the centre...

The Last 10 Seconds

The Last 10 Seconds
  • Author(s): Simon Kernick
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Sean Egan, undercover cop and DI Tina Boyd are the main protagonists. Egan’s job is to infiltrate a top London gang and Boyd’s job is to bring a serial killer to justice.

The Last Devil To Die

The Last Devil To Die
  • Author(s): Richard Osman
  • Location(s): Kent, South East England
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY RICHARD OSMAN Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting...

The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome

The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome
  • Author(s): Roland Chambers
  • Location(s): England, Russia
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): First half of the 20th Century

Arthur Ransome is best known for the twelve immortal ”Swallows and Amazons” books he wrote on his return from Russia in 1928. From his prose he appears a genial and gentle Englishman, who, like his protagonists, pursued benign maritime...

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