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Deadman’s Pool

Deadman’s Pool
  • Author(s): Kate Rhodes
  • Location(s): Isles of Scilly
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Book 8 of 8: DI Ben Kitto Book DI BEN KITTO RETURNS… A SACRED ISLAND Winter storms lash the Isles of Scilly, when DI Ben Kitto ferries the islands’ priest to St Helen’s. Father Michael intends to live as...

Dear Mr DJ

Dear Mr DJ
  • Author(s): Maggie Fogarty
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A radio phone in, a teenage diary and an old recipe book. Suddenly the summer of 1975 comes crashing into the 21st century, with vivid memories stirred and secrets uncovered. Revisiting her earlier years means that Debbie McKay faces...

Death Comes to St Ives

Death Comes to St Ives
  • Author(s): Jo Silva
  • Location(s): St Ives
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Amateur sleuth Donna Nightshade should really be used to being accused of murder by now – after all, she’s found herself the prime suspect in nearly every case she’s investigated in the past year! – but when St. Ives...

Demelza: A Novel of Cornwall 1788-1790 (Poldark Book 2)

Demelza: A Novel of Cornwall 1788-1790 (Poldark Book 2)
  • Author(s): Winston Graham
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 18th Century

Demelza is the second book in Winston Graham’s hugely popular Poldark series, which has become a television phenomenon starring Aidan Turner. Demelza Carne, the impoverished miner’s daughter Ross Poldark rescued from a fairground rabble, is now his wife. But...

Devil’s Table

Devil’s Table
  • Author(s): Kate Rhodes
  • Location(s): Isles of Scilly
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Isles of Scilly Mysteries: 5 A MISSING CHILD St Martin’s is shrouded in bitterly cold fog when Jade Minear and her twin brother, Ethan, are attacked in a field, late at night. Ethan manages to return home but...

Do Not Feed The Bear

Do Not Feed The Bear
  • Author(s): Rachel Elliott
  • Location(s): St Ives
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

A life-affirming novel about broken but loving families, people making mistakes but doing their best, grief and getting stuck – for readers of ELEANOR OLIPHANT, THE TROUBLE WITH GOATS AND SHEEP and WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT On her...

Dreams of a Little Cornish Cottage

Dreams of a Little Cornish Cottage
  • Author(s): Nancy Barone
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In her huge mansion overlooking Wyllow Cove, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Natalia Amore had everything she could possibly want. But her house is empty and Nat yearns for the cosiness and bustle of seaside living. In particular,...

Every Shade of Happy

Every Shade of Happy
  • Author(s): Phyllida Shrimpton
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The uplifting story of a man at the end of his life and a girl at the beginning of hers, who reach out across the generations to explore what it means to find happiness, and how to make your...

Eye of the Wind

Eye of the Wind
  • Author(s): Jane Jackson
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 18th Century

In 1794 Lord Roland Stratton left Cornwall for war-torn France to undertake a secret mission for the British government. When her father is felled by a stroke brought on by desperate financial problems, Melissa Tregonning has to try to...

Fairest Creatures

Fairest Creatures
  • Author(s): Karen Taylor
  • Location(s): Penzance
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2019

Looks to Die For A serial killer’s dark obsession with the preservation of beauty sees him return to stalk the streets of Penzance, Cornwall in the summer of 2019. It’s 23 years since his first victims went missing, setting...

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