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Tall Dark and Kilted

Tall Dark and Kilted
  • Author(s): Lizzie Lamb
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, London, Wester Ross
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Notting Hill Meets Monarch of the Glen Fliss Bagshawe longs for a passport out of Pimlico where she works as a holistic therapist. After attending a party in Notting Hill she loses her job and with it her dream...

The Perfect Girl

The Perfect Girl
  • Author(s): Gilly Macmillan
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Literary suspense at its finest’ Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Baby To everyone who knows her now, Zoe Maisey – child genius, musical sensation – is perfect. Yet several years ago Zoe caused the death of three teenagers....

Burnt Paper Sky

Burnt Paper Sky
  • Author(s): Gilly Macmillan
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

In her enthralling debut, Gilly Macmillan explores a mother’s search for her missing son, weaving a taut psychological thriller as gripping and skilful as The Girl on the Train and I Let You Go. Will also appeal to fans of The...

The Missing

The Missing
  • Author(s): C L Taylor
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘The Missing has a delicious sense of foreboding from the first page, luring us into the heart of a family with terrible secrets and making us wait, with pounding hearts for the final, agonizing twist. Loved it’ Fiona Barton,...

Bone by Bone

Bone by Bone
  • Author(s): Sanjida Kay
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Laura loves her daughter more than anything in the world. But nine-year-old Autumn is being bullied. Laura feels helpless. When Autumn fails to return home from school one day, Laura goes looking for her. She finds a crowd of...

Daughter

Daughter
  • Author(s): Jane Shemilt
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When a teenage girl goes missing her mother discovers she doesn’t know her daughter as well as she thought in Jane Shemilt’s haunting debut novel, Daughter. THE NIGHT OF THE DISAPPEARANCE She used to tell me everything. They have a...

Eye Contact

Eye Contact
  • Author(s): Fergus McNeill
  • Location(s): The West Country, Bristol
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

If you look him in the eye, you’re dead. From the outside, Robert Naysmith is a successful businessman, handsome and charming. But for years he’s been playing a deadly game. He doesn’t choose his victims. Each is selected at...

Cousins

Cousins
  • Author(s): Salley Vickers
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How much can love ask of us? Brilliant and mercurial Will Tye suffers a life changing accident. The terrible event ripples through three generations of the complex and eccentric Tye family, bringing to light old tragedies and dangerous secrets....

Stasi Wolf

Stasi Wolf
  • Author(s): David Young
  • Location(s): Berlin, Halle-neustadt, Oberhof
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1970s

East Germany, 1975. Karin Müller, sidelined from the murder squad in Berlin, jumps at the chance to be sent south to Halle-Neustadt, where a pair of infant twins have gone missing. But Müller soon finds her problems have followed...

Remember Death

Remember Death
  • Author(s): Ankush Saikia
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay), Delhi, Luknow, Manali
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detective Arjun Arora is summoned to Mumbai to track down an airhostess who has allegedly killed a bar dancer and vanished with a large sum of money. The search for Agnes Pereira leads Arjun on a nationwide hunt. But...

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