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Strangers

Strangers
  • Author(s): C L Taylor
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Ursula, Gareth and Alice have never met before. Ursula thinks she killed the love of her life. Gareth’s been receiving strange postcards. And Alice is being stalked. None of them are used to relying on others – but when...

Taunting the Dead

Taunting the Dead
  • Author(s): Mel Sherratt
  • Location(s): Stoke on Trent
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Statistics say nine out of ten murders are committed by someone the victim knows. So when Steph Ryder is found dead with her head caved in, Detective Sergeant Allie Shenton begins investigations close to home, starting with the victim’s...

Tell Me Everything

Tell Me Everything
  • Author(s): Laura Kay
  • Location(s): Brighton, Joshua Tree, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): RomCom, Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Would you entrust your life choices to someone hell-bent on avoiding theirs? Natasha has everything under control, at least that’s what her clients think. As a therapist, she has all the answers but when it comes to her personal...

The Act of Roger Murgatroyd

The Act of Roger Murgatroyd
  • Author(s): Gilbert Adair
  • Location(s): Dartmoor
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

Boxing Day circa 1935. A snowed-in manor on the very edge of Dartmoor. A Christmas house-party. And overhead, in the attic, the dead body of Raymond Gentry, gossip columnist and blackmailer, shot through the heart. But the attic door...

The Aviary Gate

The Aviary Gate
  • Author(s): Katie Hickman
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Modern, 1599

Set in two time periods – the current day story of historical researcher, Elizabeth Staveley who finds a fragment of a manuscript in the Bodleian Library, suggesting that Celia, an English girl, may have been ship-wrecked at the end...

The Ballroom

The Ballroom
  • Author(s): Anna Hope
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1911

1911: Inside an asylum at the edge of the Yorkshire moors, where men and women are kept apart by high walls and barred windows, there is a ballroom vast and beautiful. For one bright evening every week they come...

The Barbecue at No.9

The Barbecue at No.9
  • Author(s): Jennie Godfrey
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1985

It’s the summer of 1985 and the residents of Delmont Close are preparing a neighbourhood barbecue to watch the biggest music event in history: Live Aid. A day like no other that will end having reached millions and changing...

The Beauty of Murder

The Beauty of Murder
  • Author(s): A K Benedict
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern and 17th Century

Stephen Killigan has been cold since the day he came to Cambridge as a junior lecturer. Something about the seven hundred years of history staining the stones of the university has given him a chill he can’t shake. When...

The Beekeeper’s Apprentice

The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
  • Author(s): Laurie R King
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1910s

‘The Beekeeper’s Apprentice’ is a brilliantly inventive novel that tells the story of Mary Russell, a young girl, who, in 1914, meets a retired beekeeper on the Sussex Downs. His name is Sherlock Holmes, and smug misogynist though he...

The Break Down

The Break Down
  • Author(s): B A Paris
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘A psychological page-turner’ – Good Housekeeping If you can’t trust yourself, who can you trust? It all started that night in the woods. Cass Anderson didn’t stop to help the woman in the car, and now she’s dead. Ever...

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