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Darkness, Darkness

Darkness, Darkness
  • Author(s): John Harvey
  • Location(s): England, Nottinghamshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern and 1980s/90s

Thirty years ago, the British Miners’ Strike threatened to tear england apart, turning neighbor against neighbor, husband against wife, father against son―enmities which still smolder. Charlie Resnick, recently promoted to Detective Inspector and ambivalent, at best, about some of...

Date with Death

Date with Death
  • Author(s): Julia Chapman
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Current

Samson O’Brien has been dismissed from the police force, and returns to his hometown of Bruncliffe in the Yorkshire Dales to set up the Dales Detective Agency while he fights to clear his name. However, the people of Bruncliffe...

Date with Malice

Date with Malice
  • Author(s): Julia Chapman
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Current

When Mrs Shepherd arrives at the Dales Detective Agency on a December morning, quite convinced that someone is trying to kill her, Samson O’Brien dismisses her fears as the ramblings of a confused elderly lady. But after a series...

Date with Mystery

Date with Mystery
  • Author(s): Julia Chapman
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Current

The Dales Detective Agency’s latest assignment appears to be an open and shut case. Hired by a local solicitor to find a death certificate for a young woman who died over twenty years ago, Samson O’Brien is about to...

Date with Poison

Date with Poison
  • Author(s): Julia Chapman
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Current

Spring is in the air in Bruncliffe but not everyone is filled with the joys of the season. Samson O’Brien of the Dales Detective Agency is being questioned by the police about a murder, with the truth about his...

Daughter

Daughter
  • Author(s): Jane Shemilt
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When a teenage girl goes missing her mother discovers she doesn’t know her daughter as well as she thought in Jane Shemilt’s haunting debut novel, Daughter. THE NIGHT OF THE DISAPPEARANCE She used to tell me everything. They have a...

Daughter of the House

Daughter of the House
  • Author(s): Victoria Cornwall
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Victorian

The daughter of the house is often overlooked … Evelyn Pendragon is spirited but lonely, and largely ignored by her parents whose attentions are taken up with her brother, Nicholas: the expected heir to the family’s Cornish estate and...

Daughter of the Stones

Daughter of the Stones
  • Author(s): Alexandra Walsh
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary / Iron Age

When Caitlin King’s father collapses on the eve of the summer solstice, she’s drawn back into the tangled web of her already fragile family – and strange visions begin to haunt her. Visions of another life, another time and...

Daughters of Night

Daughters of Night
  • Author(s): Laura Shepherd-Robinson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Later 18th Century

From the brothels and gin-shops of Covent Garden to the elegant townhouses of Mayfair, Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s Daughters of Night follows Caroline Corsham, as she seeks justice for a murdered woman whom London society would rather forget . . ....

Day One

Day One
  • Author(s): Abigail Dean
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Stonesmere will never be the same again… A village hall, a primary school play, a beautiful Lake District town. Into this idyllic scene steps a lone gunman whose actions set off a train of events that will have devastating...

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