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The Putney Bridge Killer

The Putney Bridge Killer
  • Author(s): Biba Pearce
  • Location(s): London, Putney, Surrey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A brutal murder. A deadly secret. A killer who’s done this before . . . DCI Rob Miller is called to a murder scene in the early hours of the morning. A young woman’s body has been discovered under...

The Pyramid Murders

The Pyramid Murders
  • Author(s): Fiona Veitch Smith
  • Location(s): Egypt, London, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

1930: Miss Clara Vale, chemistry major turned detective, is taking a night off from sleuthing to attend the launch party of a new exhibition at the Hancock Museum in Newcastle. But when the piece de resistance, a rare ornate...

The Queen’s Fool

The Queen’s Fool
  • Author(s): Ally Sherrick
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Tudor

A fantastic Tudor adventure from Historical Association Young Quills Award-winning author Ally Sherrick. ‘A compulsive read … I love Ally’s writing, she really has a way of making history come alive!’ CELIA REES Cat Sparrow is on the road....

The Queen’s Fool

The Queen’s Fool
  • Author(s): Philippa Gregory
  • Location(s): London, Calais
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1500s

A young woman caught in the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half sister, Elizabeth, must find her true destiny amid treason, poisonous rivalries, loss of faith, and unrequited love. It is winter, 1553. Pursued by the Inquisition, Hannah...

The Quiet at the End of the World

The Quiet at the End of the World
  • Author(s): Lauren James
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Future

How far would you go to save those you love? Lowrie and Shen are the youngest people on the planet after a virus caused global infertility. Closeted in a pocket of London and doted upon by a small, ageing...

The Raiders and the Cross

The Raiders and the Cross
  • Author(s): Patrick Larsimont
  • Location(s): London, Malta, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

Jox may have survived the Battle of Britain, but this war isn’t over yet… Winter, 1940 Enemy raiders are bombing Britain’s cities relentlessly. Casualties are high and morale is at an all-time low. Jox McNabb and the rest of...

The Rapunzel Act

The Rapunzel Act
  • Author(s): Abi Silver
  • Location(s): East London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Breakfast TV host and nation’s darling, Rosie Harper, is found brutally murdered at home, suspicion falls on her spouse, formerly international football star, Danny walks on water Mallard, now living out of the public eye as trans woman,...

The Rest is Silence

The Rest is Silence
  • Author(s): Kevin Scully
  • Location(s): New South Wales, Bethnal Green, Dorset
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s to 2000s

A monastery is dying.Brother Columba and his frail Abbot face the task of having to leave the rural sanctuary that has been home to an order of monks since its foundation to live in a care home in inner-city...

The Rest of You

The Rest of You
  • Author(s): Maame Blue
  • Location(s): Ghana, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern / 1990s

On the cusp of thirty, Ghanaian Londoner Whitney Appiah was born with a special gift. The massage therapist can physically sense where her clients’ trauma lies and heal them. But Whitney has no idea that she too is suffering....

The Revenge Killer

The Revenge Killer
  • Author(s): B L Pearce
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A brutal stabbing puts DCI Rob Miller on the trail of a serial revenge killer in this gritty, suspenseful thriller from Amazon bestselling author B.L. Pearce. The body of a man is found in a residential home in west...

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