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Crooked Heart

Crooked Heart
  • Author(s): Lissa Evans
  • Location(s): London, St Albans
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

When Noel Bostock – aged ten, no family – is evacuated from London to escape the Blitz, he ends up living in St Albans with Vera Sedge – thirty-six and drowning in debts and dependents. Always desperate for money,...

The Forgotten Garden

The Forgotten Garden
  • Author(s): Kate Morton
  • Location(s): Brisbane, Cornwall, London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1913-2005

A well crafted and multi layered novel – it spans three generations and almost a whole century, going back and forth over time as Nell’s abandonment is explored.From the wilds of Cornwall, the slums of London, to the suburbs...

Being Someone

Being Someone
  • Author(s): Adrian Harvey
  • Location(s): India, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Turn of the 20th century

Two stories interweave. The story of an elephant in Southern India and turn of the 21st London where a romance between a Londoner and a New Yorker is burgeoning. It is deft the way these two stories intertwine. The...

Rivers of London

Rivers of London
  • Author(s): Ben Aaronovitch
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (and as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns...

Murder on the Downs

Murder on the Downs
  • Author(s): Julie Wassmer
  • Location(s): Whitstable
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Discover the Whitstable Pearl mysteries: a combination of seafood, murder, and a multi-tasking heroine on the coast of Kent . . . A controversial new property development is planned in Whitstable which will encroach upon the green open space...

Ghostwritten

Ghostwritten
  • Author(s): Isabel Wolff
  • Location(s): Java, St Mawes
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

Jenni is a ghost writer. It’s a job that suits her well. Still haunted by a childhood tragedy, she finds it easier to take refuge in the memories of others than to dwell on her own. Klara was a...

A Body At Lavender Cottage (Kate Palmer #6)

A Body At Lavender Cottage (Kate Palmer #6)
  • Author(s): Dee MacDonald
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nurse Kate Palmer is Cornwall’s answer to Miss Marple! But when a body turns up in her own garden can Kate solve the crime? Or is the murder a bit too close to home? Kate Palmer is stunned when...

A Body At The Altar (Kate Palmer book #4)

A Body At The Altar (Kate Palmer book #4)
  • Author(s): Dee MacDonald
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jilted grooms, sudden deaths, broken hearts and threatening letters. All in a day’s work for super sleuth Kate Palmer! Nurse Kate Palmer thought the pretty Cornish village of Tinworthy would be the perfect place for a peaceful retirement. She...

A Body On The Beach

A Body On The Beach
  • Author(s): Dee MacDonald
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nurse Kate Palmer is Cornwall’s answer to Miss Marple… but when she finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time can she prove her innocence and solve her most puzzling case yet? Kate Palmer thought the pretty Cornish...

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol
  • Author(s): Charles Dickens
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Victorian

Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, miserable, bitter old man with no friends. One cold Christmas Eve, three ghosts take him on a scary journey to show him the error of his nasty ways. By visiting his past, present and...

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