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Secrets of the Mist

Secrets of the Mist
  • Author(s): Kate Ryder
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Romance, Mystery, Time Slip

Maddie is restless in London. She has friends, a job and a sort-of boyfriend, but something in her life is missing. Then she visits the ancient village of Walditch, deep in the Dorset countryside. Something stirs in her, and...

Summer in a Cornish Cove

Summer in a Cornish Cove
  • Author(s): Kate Ryder
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Oliver Foxley is an acclaimed movie star and global heartthrob. But under the glare of the spotlight his ‘perfect’ life – and marriage – is slowly starting to crumble. Cara Penhaligon is a struggling young Cornish artist, and widowed...

The Distant Dead – (The Detective’s Daughter #8)

The Distant Dead – (The Detective’s Daughter #8)
  • Author(s): Lesley Thomson
  • Location(s): London, Tewkesbury
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s & Contemporary Dual timeline

Cleaner-turned-detective Stella Darnell connects a murder in Tewkesbury Abbey to a decades-old mystery in wartime London. London, 1940 A woman lies dead in a bombed-out house. It looks like she’s another tragic casualty of the Blitz, until police pathologist...

The Frequency of Us

The Frequency of Us
  • Author(s): Keith Stuart
  • Location(s): Bath
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): World War II and the present

In Second World War Bath, young, naïve wireless engineer Will meets Austrian refugee Elsa Klein: she is sophisticated, witty and worldly, and at last his life seems to make sense . . . until, soon after, the newly married...

The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon

The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon
  • Author(s): Suzanne Goldring
  • Location(s): Florence, Cornwall, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WWII and 2019

Italy, 1943. A missing painting. A war-scarred city. A brave young girl on a black bicycle risking her life for the country she loved… When Sofia loses her adored father, famous painter Riccardo, she is broken-hearted. Desperate to bring...

The Italian Flame

The Italian Flame
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Dorset, Italian Riviera
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s / contemporary

Dorset, 1965: twenty-five-year-old aspiring artist Marilyn longs to escape to London, but her family relies on her wages from the hotel on the cliff. Then one day Marilyn meets Bruno, an intriguing Italian, and the two fall madly in...

The Lip

The Lip
  • Author(s): Charlie Carroll
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Away from the hotels and holiday lets, there is an unseen side of Cornwall, where the shifting uncertainties of the future breed resentment and mistrust. Melody Janie is hidden. She lives alone in a caravan in Bones Break: a...

The Man On Hackpen Hill

The Man On Hackpen Hill
  • Author(s): J S Monroe
  • Location(s): Wiltshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An original, intelligent and twisty thriller set in rural Wiltshire. A dead body in a crop circle sends a coded message. Can DI Silas Hart uncover the chilling truth before it’s too late? It isn’t unusual for crop circles...

The Steam Catcher

The Steam Catcher
  • Author(s): Jim O'Sullivan
  • Location(s): Europe, Gloucestershire, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): early twentieth century

GLOUCESTER, 1915. Haunted by his father’s madness, Tom Casey flees home after being falsely accused of murder. He survives the First World War and the Irish War for Independence. But survival demands a heavy price: the loss of his...

The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austen

The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austen
  • Author(s): Ada Bright, Cass Grafton
  • Location(s): Bath
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Present Day

It’s September, and the beautiful city of Bath is playing host to the annual Jane Austen Festival, a celebration of the famous author and her works. Rose Wallace, Bath resident and avid Jane Austen fan, can’t wait for her...

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