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The Silent Patient

The Silent Patient
  • Author(s): Alex Michaelides
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alicia Berenson writes a diary as a release, an outlet – and to prove to her beloved husband that everything is fine. She can’t bear the thought of worrying Gabriel, or causing him pain. Until, late one evening, Alicia...

1980 (The Red Riding Quartet)

1980 (The Red Riding Quartet)
  • Author(s): David Peace
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1980s

Fiction set in Yorkshire. Nineteen Eighty is set against an evolving backdrop of power, corruption and lies. The nightmare continues during the winter of 1980 when the Ripper murders his thirteenth victim and the whole of Yorkshire is terrorised....

A Crime Through Time (Miss Darcy investigates)

A Crime Through Time (Miss Darcy investigates)
  • Author(s): Amelia Blackwell
  • Location(s): Derbyshire, Plymouth
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery

The gripping debut from Amelia Blackwell, A Crime Through Time is the start of a quirky series where Jane Austen, time travel and crime collide. Pemberley, 1799. When Miss Georgiana Darcy attempts to escape an unwanted marriage proposal, she...

A Good Enough Mother

A Good Enough Mother
  • Author(s): Bev Thomas
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dr Ruth Hartland is the director of a highly respected trauma therapy unit. She is confident, capable and excellent at her job. But she is finding it hard to maintain. Increasingly preoccupied by her son Tom’s disappearance, Ruth is...

A Song in the Morning

A Song in the Morning
  • Author(s): Gerald Seymour
  • Location(s): England, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The catalyst is the arrest of a British agent, James Curwen (aka Jeez Carew), in Johannesburg. After Jeez is sentenced to hang, along with four young blacks, he is effectively abandoned by the politically wary English government. Service with...

A Thatched Roof (2 Allways Trilogy)

A Thatched Roof (2 Allways Trilogy)
  • Author(s): Beverley Nicols
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

While the ostensible topics are houses and people, it is Nichols’ love of gardening, and the villagers who either encourage him or thwart him in its pursuit, that remains the lively theme through all the books. — Valerie Easton...

A Week in December

A Week in December
  • Author(s): Sebastian Faulks
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Several characters and their lives in one parallel week in December, in the lead up to Christmas, and how their paths cross. Essentially love is all around, in all its facets.

Absolute Friends

Absolute Friends
  • Author(s): John le Carré
  • Location(s): Bavaria, Berlin, England, Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s, 2000s

In previous novels, le Carré has delighted in taking us on a mystery tour. This time, the mystery is located in character more than plot. The absolute friends of the title are Ted Mundy and his East German friend,...

Against the Tide

Against the Tide
  • Author(s): Theresa Tomlinson
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Various

Theresa Tomlinson has established herself as a talented writer of historical fiction, particularly when pinpointing her home territory on the NE coast of England. Here in one volume are three of her most gripping novels in which she describes...

Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer

Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer
  • Author(s): M C Beaton
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The team of bells at St. Ethelred church is the pride and glory of the idyllic Cotswolds village of Thirk Magna, together with the most dedicated bell ringers in the whole of England: the twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin....

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