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Borderlands

Borderlands
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When the gods made man, they made a weapon… After uncovering a fresh wave of corruption within the ranks of Northumbria CID, Detective Chief Inspector Ryan was looking forward to an uneventful summer. But, when a young woman is...

Cousins

Cousins
  • Author(s): Salley Vickers
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How much can love ask of us? Brilliant and mercurial Will Tye suffers a life changing accident. The terrible event ripples through three generations of the complex and eccentric Tye family, bringing to light old tragedies and dangerous secrets....

Cragside

Cragside
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Are you afraid of the dark..? After his climactic battle with notorious serial killer The Hacker, DCI Ryan is spending the summer with his fiancée within the grounds of Cragside, a spectacular Bavarian-style mansion surrounded by acres of woodland....

Dark Skies

Dark Skies
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): Kielder
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1981 and 2016

Beware what lies beneath… One fateful, starry night, three friends embark on a secret camping trip but only two return home. Thirty years later, the body of a teenage boy rises from the depths of England’s biggest reservoir and...

Her Sister’s Killer

Her Sister’s Killer
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): Northumberland, The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Stone and Oliver #5 What brings people together often throws them apart, especially when it involves family. Newly promoted Inspector Frankie Oliver has been consumed by rooting out her sister’s killer and bringing them to justice. But when new...

Hidden Depths (Vera Stanhope #3)

Hidden Depths (Vera Stanhope #3)
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): Northumberland, The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A hot summer on the Northumberland coast and Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son strangled, laid out in a bath of water and covered with wild flowers. This stylized murder scene has Inspector...

In A Dark, Dark Wood

In A Dark, Dark Wood
  • Author(s): Ruth Ware
  • Location(s): Kielder
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Nora hasn’t seen Clare for ten years. Not since the day Nora walked out of her old life and never looked back. Until, out of the blue, an invitation to Clare’s hen party arrives. A weekend in a remote...

Jackdaw Summer

Jackdaw Summer
  • Author(s): David Almond
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

A long hot summer – A wild boy – An abandoned baby – An act of violence Every summer Liam and Max roam the wild countryside of Northumberland – but this year things are different. One hot summer’s day...

Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly

Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly
  • Author(s): Joanna Glen
  • Location(s): Northumberland, Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern day

On the tiny island of Rokesby, Addie helps her mother run a women’s retreat. Dreaming daily of escape, she consoles herself by swimming in the ocean that surrounds them. On the neighbouring island, joined to Rokesby by a bridge...

Seven Bridges

Seven Bridges
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Horror, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ryan’s most explosive case yet… It’s been five months since a killer walked free and DCI Ryan is preparing to leave Newcastle to hunt him down – this time, for good. But Ryan’s plans are scuppered when events take...

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