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The Moonstone

The Moonstone
  • Author(s): Wilkie Collins
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Mid 1800s

The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which has been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her 18th birthday. That very night the stone is stolen. Suspicion then falls on a hunchbacked housemaid,...

The Murder Mystery

The Murder Mystery
  • Author(s): Alice Castle
  • Location(s): Dulwich
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Originally published as Death in Dulwich. Meet Beth Haldane: a historian with a taste for gardening, snug coffee shops… and solving mysteries? It’s a crisp spring day in Dulwich Village when Beth arrives at Wyatt’s School for her new...

The Mystery Of Yew Tree House

The Mystery Of Yew Tree House
  • Author(s): Lesley Thomson
  • Location(s): Bishopstone
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1940s and Present Day

1940. At Yew Tree House, recently widowed Adelaide Stride is raising her two daughters alone – but it’s not just the threat of German invasion that keeps her up at night. She is surrounded by enemies posing as allies...

The Other Hand

The Other Hand
  • Author(s): Chris Cleave
  • Location(s): England, Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

We don’t want to tell you too much about this book. It is a truly special story and we don’t want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this: It is extremely...

The Painter

The Painter
  • Author(s): Will Davenport
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 1600s, Modern

Beautifully evocative and suspensful double time-scheme narrative about Rembrandt, love and art. In January, 1662, the artist Rembrandt, bankrupted in the great tulip crash, accidentally stows away on a boat for Hull. To pay for his passage, he must...

The Penthouse

The Penthouse
  • Author(s): Catherine Cooper
  • Location(s): Las Vegas, London
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2004-8 / 2024

Beneath the glamour dark secrets lurk. World famous singer Enola had it all – fame, fortune, and a breathtaking penthouse view. Then she vanished without a trace, leaving the band’s careers in ruins. Fifteen years on, the remaining members...

The Pimlico Kid

The Pimlico Kid
  • Author(s): Barry Walsh
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

One boy. One street. One summer he will never forget. A powerful and poignant debut from a compelling and authentic voice in commercial fiction. It’s 1963. Billy Driscoll and his best mate, Peter ‘Rooksy’ Rooker, have the run of...

The Prisoner of the Riviera

The Prisoner of the Riviera
  • Author(s): Janice Law
  • Location(s): London, Monaco
  • Era(s): Post WW2

Francis is having dinner in London with his longtime lover, Arnold, when they find a man shot and wounded. Francis uses his wartime medical skills to keep the man alive. M. Joubert, who owns a casino in London, and...

The Quality of Mercy

The Quality of Mercy
  • Author(s): Barry Unsworth
  • Location(s): Durham
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1760s

This novel stands alone, but is a sequel to Sacred Hunger. The book picks up in the Spring of 1767 and interweaves several lives, in the coal fields and in Durham. It is the spring of 1767, two years...

The Quiet Ones

The Quiet Ones
  • Author(s): Betsy Reavley
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 21st century

Who am I? This is the question Josie asks herself when a mysterious letter arrives. Then a brutal killing turns her world upside down. In order to make sense of the present, Josie must revisit her dark past. Who...

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