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Settled Blood

Settled Blood
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): County Durham, Northumberland, The Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

When a young girl is found dead at the base of Hadrian’s Wall, it’s not long before Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels realises her death was no ordinary homicide. She was thrown from a great height and was probably...

Sugar And Snails

Sugar And Snails
  • Author(s): Anne Goodwin
  • Location(s): The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age
  • Era(s): 1960s, 1970s and 2000s

At fifteen, she made a life-changing decision. Thirty years on, it’s time to make another. When Diana escaped her misfit childhood, she thought she’d chosen the easier path. But the past lingers on, etched beneath her skin, and life...

The Art Fiasco

The Art Fiasco
  • Author(s): Fiona Veitch Smith
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Golden Age 1920s

It’s 1924 and Poppy Denby is heading up to Northumberland to celebrate her father’s sixtieth birthday. She stops off in Newcastle en route to visit her Aunt Dot, who has temporarily relocated from London to renovate a house she’s...

The Man on the Street

The Man on the Street
  • Author(s): Trevor Wood
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It started with a splash. Jimmy, a homeless veteran grappling with PTSD, did his best to pretend he hadn’t heard it – the sound of something heavy falling into the Tyne at the height of an argument between two...

The Moor

The Moor
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The circus is in town…   When a ten-year-old girl turns up on DCI Ryan’s doorstep to tell him she’s witnessed a murder, he has no idea he’s about to step into his most spellbinding case yet. The circus...

The Orphan’s Secret

The Orphan’s Secret
  • Author(s): Shirley Dickson
  • Location(s): South Shields, The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940 1954

The tear-jerking wartime tale of an orphaned baby who needs a home, and the woman who risks everything to provide it. England, 1941: Life has always been cruel to Ethel. Raised in an orphanage by a merciless mistress, she never knew...

The Other Side of Paradise

The Other Side of Paradise
  • Author(s): Vanessa Beaumont
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s-1960s

LONDON 1921 – Jean Buckman, a young and innocent American heiress arrives in England to find a society decimated by war but resolutely clinging to the status quo. She marries Edward Warre an engaging but complex man and the...

The Rock

The Rock
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): South Tyneside, The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

FROM THE SHADOWS INTO THE LIGHT…   When a fishing boat is wrecked off the treacherous North Sea coast and the body of a young woman washes up on the beach beside the iconic ‘Marsden Rock’, DCI Ryan cannot...

The Scandal (Stone and Oliver Book 3)

The Scandal (Stone and Oliver Book 3)
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When an young man is found stabbed to death in a side street in Newcastle city centre in the run up to Christmas, it looks like a botched robbery to DCI David Stone. But when DS Frankie Oliver arrives...

The Toffee Factory Girls

The Toffee Factory Girls
  • Author(s): Glenda Young
  • Location(s): Chester-le-Street
  • Genre(s): Romance, Cozy Mystery, Historical
  • Era(s): 1915

In 1915 three women start work at a toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street, Durham. Anne works for the enigmatic owner Mr Jack. She is highly efficient and whips Mr Jack’s disorganised office – and Mr Jack...

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