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The Accidental Assassin

The Accidental Assassin
  • Author(s): Jan Toms
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight
  • Genre(s): Humour, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The Isle of Wight is the most unlikely place for gang warfare but when Victor Green falls from a tree he lands on Tommy Hewson, gangster, known in the underworlds as Gruesome. Members of Tommy’s gang, the Pretty Boys...

The House Party

The House Party
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

At the intimate house-warming party for her glorious ‘grand design’, Kathleen confides in her best friend Beth that she is terrified of one of their close friends, but daren’t reveal which one. The guests are a tight-knit group, but...

The Machine

The Machine
  • Author(s): James Smythe
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Near Future

Haunting memories defined him. The machine took them away. She vowed to rebuild him. From the author of The Testimony comes a Frankenstein for the twenty-first century. Beth lives alone on a desolate housing estate near the sea. She...

The Second Sleep

The Second Sleep
  • Author(s): Robert Harris
  • Location(s): Hampshire, Berkshire, Dorset, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 15th century

1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts – coins, fragments of glass, human bones – which the old parson...

On Gallows Hill

On Gallows Hill
  • Author(s): Harriet J Kent
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 18th Century

Michal Morey was born on the Isle of Wight in the late 17th century. Employed as a woodcutter and married to Beth, they live in a run down cottage on the edge of Pan Wood. Michal was renowned for...

The Bed I Made

The Bed I Made
  • Author(s): Lucie Whitehouse
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

I haven’t given up on you and I’m not going to. It’s time to stop playing hard to get now. When Kate meets a dark, enigmatic man in a Soho bar, she doesn’t hesitate long before going home with...

The Day of the Triffids

The Day of the Triffids
  • Author(s): John Wyndham
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight, London, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Horror
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the only person who can see: everyone else, doctors and patients alike, have been...

Vengeance in Mind

Vengeance in Mind
  • Author(s): N J Cooper
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sir Dan Blackwater, well known businessman and philanthropist is found dead one morning in his home on the Isle of Wight. Pinned to the kitchen table with butcher’s knives, he has been castrated in what looks like a gruesome...

A Deadly Wake, a DI Andy Horton Mystery (15)

A Deadly Wake, a DI Andy Horton Mystery (15)
  • Author(s): Pauline Rowson
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As DI Andy Horton follows the trail of a man found dead in a log cabin on the Isle of Wight, he uncovers some startling revelations into his own mother’s past and the truth behind her disappearance over thirty...

A KILLING COAST

A KILLING COAST
  • Author(s): Pauline Rowson
  • Location(s): Portsmouth, Isle of Wight
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a body is found floating in the sea off Portsmouth harbour, Detective Inspector Andy Horton initially judges it to be an accidental death. Soon though, to his dismay, he discovers he’s got it very wrong. Accused of being...

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