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The Storm (The Lady of the Pier #3)

The Storm (The Lady of the Pier #3)
  • Author(s): Effrosyni Moschoudi
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Historical, Paranormal, Romance
  • Era(s): 1940s & 1980s

When Sofia falls in love, a mourning spirit begins to haunt her… The Storm is the concluding part of the trilogy where the two stories of Sofia and Laura merge into one and redemption seems finally possible… BRIGHTON 1988...

The Summer Before the War

The Summer Before the War
  • Author(s): Helen Simonson
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

East Sussex, 1914. It is the end of England’s brief Edwardian summer, and everyone agrees that the weather has never been so beautiful. Hugh Grange, down from his medical studies, is visiting his Aunt Agatha, who lives with her...

The Sussex Pond Murder

The Sussex Pond Murder
  • Author(s): Richard Sorapure
  • Location(s): Sussex
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1983

The Sussex Pond Murder centres upon the mysterious death of Michelle Gagneux, a French teacher at St Wilfrid’s Prep School for boys, who is found lifeless in the school pond in the winter of 1983. The story follows Michael...

The Tattoo Thief

The Tattoo Thief
  • Author(s): Alison Belsham
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Creepy and compulsive, this is Belsham’s first excursion into crime and it announces the arrival of a fine new voice’ Daily Mail A policeman on his first murder case A tattoo artist with a deadly secret And a twisted...

The Taxidermist’s Daughter

The Taxidermist’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Kate Mosse
  • Location(s): West Sussex
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1900s

Strange goings on in Bosham – near Chichester. Crows, ghosts, weird lady, an even weirder man – the taxidermist, an annual rite at the church, a tumbledown house, a body in the water. Who was the perpetrator? What is...

Tom Horton-The Invisible Spy

Tom Horton-The Invisible Spy
  • Author(s): Ian Davies
  • Location(s): Sussex, Venice
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1980s

Tom Horton is The Invisible Spy in this fantasy adventure set in the 1980s. Tom is a man with a secret. Not being restricted by the constraints of gravity is just one of the secrets he has to keep....

Travels With My Aunt

Travels With My Aunt
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): Paris, Brighton, Istanbul (Constantinople), Paraguay
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother’s funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and...

Unfinished Business

Unfinished Business
  • Author(s): Thomas Hocknell
  • Location(s): Arkansas, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present

The Life Assistance Agency finds itself at a loss after returning from Europe. Leading member Ben is determined to stay away from anything involving Angels, when the phone rings to invite them to write the biography of a self-deluded...

Vital Signs

Vital Signs
  • Author(s): Candy Denman
  • Location(s): Hastings
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): present

A forensic physician fuels political uproar when she sticks to her findings When bodies of immigrants begin to wash up on a Hastings beach, no one would envy police doctor Callie Hughes’ sad job of checking for vital signs...

We Were Sisters

We Were Sisters
  • Author(s): Wendy Clarke
  • Location(s): Sussex Downs
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kelly is struggling after the birth of her third child. One day, she finds a locket in her baby’s pushchair. It was the one her foster-sister Freya had been wearing when she died. The find brings back haunting memories...

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