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- Location(s): Derby
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
A damaged detective. A case he’s trying to forget. A killer who won’t let him… Detective Inspector Damen Brook thinks he’s left his past behind him in London. But it seems a serial killer has followed him north… Brook’s...
- Location(s): The Peak District, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 2015
How do you rescue someone who has already been found? Jen’s fifteen-year-old daughter goes missing for four agonizing days. When Lana is found, unharmed, in the middle of the desolate countryside, everyone thinks the worst is over. But Lana...
- Location(s): Derbyshire
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modernn
When Detective Constable Connie Childs is dragged from her bed to the fire-wrecked property on Cross Farm Lane she knows as she steps from the car that this house contains death. Three bodies discovered – a family obliterated –...
- 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...
- Location(s): The Peak District
- Genre(s): Crime, Paranormal, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A DI Meg Dalton thriller, Book 2 She was racing towards the gorge. The place the locals knew as ‘Dead Girl’s Drop’… DI Meg Dalton is thrown headlong into her latest case when she finds a ten-year-old girl running...
- Location(s): Derbyshire
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
Grace put out her hand, almost touching the mirror. Her image did the same. ‘There’s another world in there.’ ‘We could float in and out of it.’ Deep in a Derbyshire valley live two girls, twins, so alike that...
- Location(s): The Peak District
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Victorian
Synopsis. Fatal Connections This compelling Victorian murder mystery is set against a background of the railways, quarries, canals and towns of the rugged Peak district. The story opens with a fatal rail accident in 1875. In the mayhem of...
- Location(s): Derbyshire
- Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Nineteenth Century
It is 1863. ELIZABETH ‘BESSIE’ GOODWIN, a young woman of conscience and spirit, lives with her grandfather, CAPTAIN FRANCIS GOODWIN, at Wigwell Grange in Derbyshire. In August Bessie is stabbed to death by GEORGE TOWNLEY, to whom she had...
- Location(s): Derbyshire
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Regency (19th century)
As a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, Benedict Frost had the respect of every man on board—and the adoration of the women in every port. When injury ends his naval career, the silver-tongued libertine can hardly stomach the boredom....
I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain
- Location(s): The Pennines, United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
One of Waterstones Best Books to Look Forward to in 2021 The Bookseller’s Book of the Month A Guardian 2021 Literary Highlight “I knew in every bone of my body, in every fibre of my being, that I had...
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