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A Place of Birds

A Place of Birds
  • Author(s): Jane Jackson
  • Location(s): Falmouth, Shanghai
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 19th Century

In Victorian Cornwall nineteen-year-old Susanna Elliot rebels against her strict Quaker background. Alienated from her family and community, rejected by the doctor she admires, and refused permission to take her dead brother’s place in the family business, she flees...

A Place of Execution

A Place of Execution
  • Author(s): Val McDermid
  • Location(s): Derbyshire, The Peak District
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present looking back to 1960s

In the Peak District village of Scardale, thirteen-year-old girls didn’t just run away. So when Alison Carter vanished in the winter of ’63, everyone knew it was a murder. Catherine Heathcote remembers the case well. A child herself when...

A Police Doctor Investigates

A Police Doctor Investigates
  • Author(s): Candy Denman
  • Location(s): Hastings
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): present

A MUST FOR FANS OF PATRICIA CORNWELL AND KATHY REICHS A Police Doctor Investigates – the Sussex murder mysteries Books 1-3 The first three standalone titles in a great series following part-time English GP and police medical examiner Callie...

A Pretty Folly

A Pretty Folly
  • Author(s): Charlie Garratt
  • Location(s): Kenilworth
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime
  • Era(s): pre-Second World War

A grisly murder case lands in Inspector James Given’s lap. A young girl’s body is found in the crypt of a prestigious school. Part-mummified, it is hard to discover how long she’s lain there. But why wasn’t she reported...

A Question of Us

A Question of Us
  • Author(s): Mary Jayne Baker
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): RomCom

Two best friends. Eight pub quizzes. One shot at love… There are some people who seem like they have all the answers in life. Clarrie Midwinter isn’t one of them. At the age of 26, tomboy Clarrie is still...

A Quiet Contagion

A Quiet Contagion
  • Author(s): Jane Jesmond
  • Location(s): Coventry
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary / 1957

Six decades. Seven people. One unspeakable secret. 1957. A catastrophe occurs at the pharmaceutical lab in Coventry where sixteen-year-old Wilf is working for the summer. A catastrophe that needs to be covered up at all costs.2017. Phiney is shocked...

A Quiet Life in the Country

A Quiet Life in the Country
  • Author(s): T E Kinsey
  • Location(s): Gloucestershire
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

Lady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante, is an expert in martial arts. The year is 1908 and they’ve just moved from London to the country, hoping for a...

A Ration Book Christmas

A Ration Book Christmas
  • Author(s): Jean Fullerton
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

With Christmas approaching, the Brogan family of London’s East End are braving the horrors of the Blitz. With the men away fighting for King and Country and the ever-present dangers of the German Luftwaffe’s nightly reign of death and...

A Room with a View

A Room with a View
  • Author(s): E M Forster
  • Location(s): Florence, Surrey
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

An Edwardian social comedy, set in Florence and Surrey, UK. Lucy Honeychurch, a charming young Englishwoman, faints into the arms of fellow British traveller as she witnesses a murder in a Florentine Piazza. Her attraction to this man leads...

A Rose Petal Summer

A Rose Petal Summer
  • Author(s): Katie Fforde
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, London, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The brand new heart-warming romance from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Country Escape and A Secret Garden. IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO FALL IN LOVE…Caro Swanson has taken a job in a remote part of Scotland. She’s...

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