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The Hopkins Conundrum

The Hopkins Conundrum
  • Author(s): Simon Edge
  • Location(s): North Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A highly original mix of commercial fiction, literary biography and satirical commentary. Tim Cleverley inherits a failing pub in Wales, which he plans to rescue by enlisting an American pulp novelist to concoct an entirely fabricated mystery about Gerard...

The Ladies of Llanfairpwll

The Ladies of Llanfairpwll
  • Author(s): L K Wilde
  • Location(s): Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, North Wales
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW1

Wales, 1915 Angharad Williams lives alone with her secrets and wants to keep it that way. But when her village hosts the formidable yet visionary Canadian, Madge Watt, Angharad is drawn into a movement that promises to change lives-...

The Lake Vyrnwy Killings

The Lake Vyrnwy Killings
  • Author(s): Simon McCleave
  • Location(s): Lake Vyrnwy
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A controlled gangland hit or a crime of passion? A crudely dismembered body part is found at Lake Vyrnwy but DI Ruth Hunter and DS Nick Evans have little to go on to identify the victim. When a local...

The Last Party

The Last Party
  • Author(s): Clare Mackintosh
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

On New Year’s Eve, Rhys Lloyd has a house full of guests. His lakeside holiday homes are a success, and he’s generously invited the village to drink champagne with their wealthy new neighbours. This will be the party to...

The Line Between Us

The Line Between Us
  • Author(s): Kate Dunn
  • Location(s): Welsh Borders
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1922-1940

Ifor is the gardener at Nanagalan, an ancient manor house situated in the Welsh Borders and Ella is the only daughter of the family who owns it. In 1939 Ifor enlists to fight and is one of a small...

The Man in Black

The Man in Black
  • Author(s): Dylan Rhys Jones
  • Location(s): North Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): present day

The true story of former criminal defence lawyer Dylan Rhys Jones’ experience of defending Rhyl serial killer Peter Moore, found guilty in 1996 of murdering four men and seriously assaulting many more, and referred to by the judge when...

The Missing Hours

The Missing Hours
  • Author(s): Emma Kavanagh
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

One moment, Selena Cole is at the playground with her children . . . the next, she has vanished without a trace. The body of Dominic Newell, a well-respected lawyer, is found on a remote mountain road, blood oozing...

The Pendragon’s Banner Trilogy

The Pendragon’s Banner Trilogy
  • Author(s): Helen Hollick
  • Location(s): United Kingdom, Gwynedd
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 450 AD

The first book in the Pendragon’s Banner Trilogy, The Kingmaking is a retelling of the Arthur legend – but a gritty, realistic one looking at the chaos and jostling for power after the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the...

The Poison Garden

The Poison Garden
  • Author(s): Alex Marwood
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Where Romy grew up, if someone died you never spoke of them again. Now twenty-two, she has recently escaped the toxic confines of the cult she was raised in. But Romy is young, pregnant and completely alone – and...

The Raven Heir

The Raven Heir
  • Author(s): Stephanie Burgis
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Children, Fantasy
  • Era(s): N/A

Cordelia and her triplets Rosalind and Giles have lived safely in the castle at the centre of the forest all their lives, protected by the spells their mother has woven. The only time Cordelia feels truly free is when...

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