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Murder by the Hidden Bay

Murder by the Hidden Bay
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Connemara
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

It’s a fairly common ruse. Leave something in the road and lie in wait. An unwitting person stops and they are robbed, assaulted, snatched, or what have you. And this is exactly what happens to hotel worker Aofie Gilpin...

Murder by the Minster

Murder by the Minster
  • Author(s): Helen Cox
  • Location(s): York
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

SET IN THE PICTURESQUE CITY OF YORK Meet Kitt Hartley: librarian, trilby-wearer, Lady Grey tea-drinker, taker of no nonsense… detective? It’s a perfectly normal day for Kitt Hartley at her job at the University of the Vale of York...

MURDER BY THE RIVER USK

MURDER BY THE RIVER USK
  • Author(s): Pippa McCathie
  • Location(s): South Wales, Newport, Usk
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

A cold case warms up when an archaeological dig uncovers the remains of a student who went missing a decade previously. It was a missing person case that bugged ex-inspector Fabia Havard long after she left the force. Now...

Murder Fortissimo

Murder Fortissimo
  • Author(s): Nicola Slade
  • Location(s): Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When newly retired headmistress, Harriet Quigley, needs a good rest and somewhere comfortable to recover from a hospital stay, she believes Firstone Grange will be the ideal place. Luxurious and perfectly run by a competent and understanding matron, it...

Murder in a safe Haven

Murder in a safe Haven
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Connemara
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

Irish detectives struggle to make sense of the evidence in this mystery that keeps you guessing. A relaxing sailing trip on his day off becomes anything but for DSI Mick Hays when a body is found at sea. The...

Murder in a Seaside Town

Murder in a Seaside Town
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Connemara
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

Who would think books are such a deadly business? The small west coast Irish town of Clifden is awoken from its slumber when a gun is fired during the night. The unfortunate recipient of its fare is Ann Sweeney,...

Murder in a Somerset Village

Murder in a Somerset Village
  • Author(s): Jon Harris
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

When an amateur sleuth’s pub colleague is bumped off, can she work out who called time at the bar? Since getting her life back on track after being wrongly accused of murder, Julia Ford is finally realizing her ambition...

Murder in a Welsh Town

Murder in a Welsh Town
  • Author(s): Pippa McCathie
  • Location(s): South Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

Plans for a town pantomime are thrown in the air after one of the actors is murdered. The victim is local gossip, nosy parker and aspiring manipulator, Ivor Gladwin. Reviled by many and ignored by more, the list of...

Murder in Aix

Murder in Aix
  • Author(s): Susan Kiernan-Lewis
  • Location(s): Aix-en-Provence
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

Life is good when you’re a thirty-something expat living in an area of Provence where people would kill to live. And do. When Maggie’s best friend is arrested for murder Maggie is determined to find the real culprit. Trouble...

Murder in an Irish Bog

Murder in an Irish Bog
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Connemara
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
  • Era(s): Current

Too late to find a missing man, are Irish detectives in time to catch his killer? It is only a passing comment in the post office in a remote part of Western Ireland that alerts police to the disappearance...

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