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The Malice of Angels

The Malice of Angels
  • Author(s): Wendy Percival
  • 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

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...

The Merchant’s Partner

The Merchant’s Partner
  • Author(s): Michael Jecks
  • 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...

The Merchant’s House

The Merchant’s House
  • Author(s): Kate Ellis
  • 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...

The Millionaire Plan

The Millionaire Plan
  • Author(s): Karen King
  • 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...

The Missing Family

The Missing Family
  • Author(s): Tim Weaver
  • 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...

The Ordeal of Miss Lucy Jones

The Ordeal of Miss Lucy Jones
  • Author(s): Liz Shakespeare
  • 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...

The Postman Poet

The Postman Poet
  • Author(s): Liz Shakespeare
  • 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...

The Raging Storm

The Raging Storm
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): Devon, North Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The villages of Greystone and Morrisham are fictional. When Jem Rosco – sailor, adventurer and local legend – blows into town in the middle of an autumn gale, the residents of Greystone, Devon, are delighted to have a celebrity...

The Reluctant Gardener

The Reluctant Gardener
  • Author(s): Marek Z Turner
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Some gardens grow flowers. Some grow secrets. In the small Devon town of Ivybridge, recently widowed Reg Burridge shuffles through his quiet routines, he expects to experience grief, not fear. But when a small act of kindness spirals into...

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