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- Location(s): Crediton
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Medieval
Paris, 1307: A Knight Templar weeps as he watches his friends, broken by torture, go to their deaths at the stake. Pope Clement has destroyed the Order, persuaded of corruption within it. All that remains is the desire for...
- Location(s): Lynmouth
- Genre(s): Children, Noir, Short Stories
- Era(s): N/A
Beautiful places hide dark secrets … Devon’s very own crime writer L.V Hay (The Other Twin, Do No Harm) brings forth three new short stories from her dark mind and poison pen: – For kidnapped Meg and her young son Danny, In...
- Location(s): Hartland
- Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
- Era(s): Present day
This is the third book in the Esme Quentin genealogy mystery series. Esme Quentin is reminded of a painful past when a journalist colleague of her late husband Tim, turns up unannounced asking about a story Tim reported on...
The Memory Be Green: An Oral History of a Devon Village
- Location(s): Devon
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
When she first moved to Littleham near Bideford, Liz Shakespeare decided to capture a vanishing way of life by recording the memories of elderly men and women who were born early in the twentieth century. Farmers, housewives and labourers...
- Location(s): Crediton
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): Medieval
As midwife and healer, Agatha Kyteler is regarded as a witch by her superstitious neighbours in the village of Wefford in Devonshire, yet she has no shortage of callers, from the humblest villein to the most elegant and wealthy...
- Location(s): Dartmouth, Dorset
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Detective Sergeant (and amateur archaeologist) Wesley Peterson hoped that a transfer from the lively but frantic pace of London to the bucolic river port of Tradmouth would have a positive effect on both his personal and professional lives. But...
- Location(s): Devon
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Love or money, what would you marry for? Once Amber Wynters would have said she’d only ever marry for love, but then her scheming, no good two-timing ex-fiancé, Rod breaks her heart, AND bankrupts her parents. There is no...
- Location(s): Dartmoor, London
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
One family… On a beautiful summer’s day, at a remote lake in the middle of Dartmoor, three members of the Fowler family take a dinghy out onto the water, leaving mother Sarah at the shore. Less than sixty seconds...
- Location(s): Torrington, Devon
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 19th century.
‘Burn ’em! Burn ’em!’ It is 1879, and a disorderly crowd of three thousand people are burning effigies of a local man and woman on Torrington Common in an unprecedented incident of Devon’s ‘rough music’. Lucy Jones, the free-spirited...
- Location(s): Devon
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 19th century
As a young boy, Edward Capern is desperate to read and write, but has to work an eighty-hour week in Barnstaple’s lace factory. As a man, he dreams of writing poetry and building a fairer society, but these aspirations...
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