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Thou shalt Kill

Thou shalt Kill
  • Author(s): John Dean
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): present

When a man is discovered murdered by crucifixion, an evangelical religious group falls under suspicion A dead body nailed to a shed unsettles even hardened detective Jack Harris. Despite being told that boundary feuds in allotments can easily come...

TO CATCH A LIE

TO CATCH A LIE
  • Author(s): John Dean
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

A murder investigation leads DCI Jack Harris to Scotland, but is it just a fishing expedition? When a man’s body is found on the Langdon Estate in the North Pennines, DCI Jack Harris suspects the death is connected to...

To Die Alone

To Die Alone
  • Author(s): John Dean
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): present

Murder, animal cruelty, and vigilante justice drag DCI Jack Harris out of his quiet rural idyll. When the hunt for a missing man turns up a body deep in a forest in northern England, it is difficult to establish...

To Honour the Dead

To Honour the Dead
  • Author(s): John Dean
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): present

Are the defacing of a town’s war memorial and the death of a WWII veteran connected? DCI Jack Harris investigates. The small town of Levton Bridge is beset by a spate of vandalism against its war memorials. Uniformed police...

When We Were Young

When We Were Young
  • Author(s): Dawn Goodwin
  • Location(s): Northumberland, North of England
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 1992 and the Present Day

Four best friends. One of them is dead. Are their secrets safe? Uni friends Stacey, Paula, Bev and Valentina used to be inseparable until one weekend before graduation when nothing was ever the same again. Thirty years later, reunited...

Where Have They Gone?

Where Have They Gone?
  • Author(s): Susan Willis
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 2025

What would you do if your elderly parents vanished without a trace? Would you assume they’d simply wandered off? Or would you start to suspect something far more sinister? When retired couple Violet and Lawrence Braithwaite disappear from their...

You Can Run

You Can Run
  • Author(s): Trevor Wood
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set in fictional Coldburn, Northumberland. It wasn’t her dad they were after. It was her. Ruby Winter is surprised when her reclusive father invites a stranger into their house. She eavesdrops on their conversation and is alarmed when she...

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